Sunday Signal #23

Microsoft 'Builds' Hype, Meta Crosses Every Language Barrier & Anthropic's Massive $450M Funding Announcement

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💎 5 News Nuggets

Rajesh Jha (Executive Vice President) / Microsoft Build 2023

  • 🔗 Link: Microsoft's Build 2023 was all about AI. Windows 11 gets an AI assistant, Copilot, with the addition of plug-ins. Developers can enjoy an AI chatbot in Windows Terminal. Plus, Bing is now the default search engine in OpenAI's ChatGPT.

  • 🔗 Link: OpenAI stresses the need to start strategising the governance of superintelligence. Within the next 10 years, AI systems will go beyond expert skill levels in almost all domains.

  • 🔗 Link: ChatGPT is now available in 11 more countries including parts of Europe, South Korea and New Zealand. This coincides with Sam Altman’s European expansion where he’s meeting with various heads of state, including Macron, Sanchez, and Sunak.

  • 🔗 Link: OpenAI wants to crowd-source AI regulation. They are offering 10, $100,000 grants to develop a democratic process to determine the rules that govern AI systems within legal boundaries.

  • 🔗 Link: NVIDIA stock exploded into the stratosphere. A large part of its growth has been fuelled by the rising demand for AI chips, which are used to power ChatGPT and other AI services.

🎨 4 Cool Creations

Language Map / MetaAI

  • 🔗 Link: Meta announce a multilingual speech recognition model. It can identify more than 4000 spoken languages (40x more than any previous technology).

  • 🔗 Link: Google releases Product Studio to help digital entrepreneurs spice up their product images. It’s rolling out in the next few months (US only).

  • 🔗 Link: Mindsera is the world’s first AI-powered journal. The app provides feedback on your notes, draws graphs and pictures when needed and retrieves relevant sources when necessary.

  • 🔗 Link: An AI-powered YouTube summary generator. With an intuitive UI, it allows users to generate YouTube text summaries in seconds.

💡 3 Startup Spotlights

Salesforce partnership announcement / Salesforce

  • 🔗 Link: Anthropic raised $450M in Series C funding through Spark Capital with participation from investors: Google, Salesforce & Zoom. They’re looking to raise over $5 billion in the next 5 years, so expect more crazy announcements on future Sunday Signals!

  • 🔗 Link: BuilderAI raised $250M in Series D funding led by the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA). BuilderAI allows teams to build apps in a modular fashion and claims that the funding will be used to integrate human conversation in the process.

  • 🔗 Link: AI-robot startup Figure raised $70M led by Parkway Venture Capital, with participation from other investors including Aliya Capital and Bold Ventures.

🐥 2 Top Tweets

Adobe Photoshop / YouTube

  • 🔗 Link: Photoshop releases Generative Fill in beta mode. The new feature allows users to select parts of an image and generate entirely different images using AI. This is a real game changer for photographers and digital artists.

  • 🔗 Link: All S&P 500 gains this year? Thanks to AI. Nvidia's 167% rise pushes it close to a $1T market cap. Without AI stocks, S&P 500 would've dropped 2%. Giants like Google, Microsoft, and Meta are pivoting to an AI-centric model.

🍿 1 Media Marvel

Airchat Logo / Website

  • 🔗 Link: Naval Ravikant releases a social media app. Airchat focuses on chitchat, banter and easy laughter. In typical Naval fashion to gain access you must join the waitlist, and verify your identity through Twitter. What’s your prediction—brilliant or bust?

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