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The AI Surf
September 10, 2024
Get ready for this week’s AI-packed edition! From groundbreaking AI innovations to must-have tools, we’ve got you covered. Stay ahead of the curve with key updates, trending tools, free courses, and a spotlight on Safe Superintelligence’s $1B raise. Dive in and power up your AI game! 🌟
In This Issue
💣 Big News: Stay updated with Someone Somewhere’s adidas deal, ChatGPT’s new features, Google DeepMind’s breakthrough with AlphaProteo, Finally’s $200M raise, and what to expect at the Apple Event 2024!
💥 Weekly Spotlight: Safe Superintelligence (SSI) raises $1 billion to develop safe, superintelligent AI systems. Backed by top investors, this startup is set to revolutionize AI development.
🔥 Hot AI Tools: Check out 10 trending tools like AutoCut for video editing, Runway for generative AI, and Powerly AI for instant interactive video creation.
📒 AI Guides and Resources: Dive into 12 free AI courses, covering everything from Prompt Engineering to AI in Marketing—perfect for leveling up your skills.
🎀 Prompt of the Week: Optimize your time management! Submit your daily schedule, and we’ll give you personalized tips to boost productivity.
📸 Image of the Week: A tender, heartwarming scene with a tiny, adorable cow nestled in a human hand—created with Leonardo. ai.
🚀 That’s a Wrap: Follow us on LinkedIn and Quora for more AI insights. Until next time!
💣Big News
Top AI Updates and Releases
🧵 Someone Somewhere, a Mexican startup, leveraged AI and artisan skills to secure a deal with adidas, creating sustainable jobs and forming global partnerships with top brands like Apple.
🤖 ChatGPT, now used by over 92% of Fortune 500 companies, introduced GPT-4o with voice and vision features. OpenAI also launched SearchGPT and hit 1 million paid business users, despite facing internal shifts and legal challenges.
🧬 Google DeepMind launched AlphaProteo, an AI system that designs custom proteins to target diseases, showing promise in blocking viruses like COVID and accelerating cancer research.
💰 Finally, a Miami-based AI bookkeeping startup, raised $200M in equity and debt to boost its AI-driven financial solutions.
📱 Apple Event 2024: Set for September 9, expect iPhone 16, Apple Watch updates, AirPods, and potentially new Macs. Live streaming available on Apple's website.
💥Weekly Spotlight
Safe Superintelligence Raises $1 Billion
Image credit: Jack Guez | AFP via Getty Images
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), co-founded by OpenAI’s Former Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1 billion in funding to develop AI systems that surpass human intelligence while focusing on safety.
The details:
SSI, founded in June 2024, is currently valued at $5 billion.
The startup has 10 employees and plans to use the funds to acquire computing power and hire top AI talent.
Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global.
The company is committed to building a small, highly trusted team of researchers based in Palo Alto, California, and Tel Aviv, Israel.
Why it matters: SSI is set to play a crucial role in developing safe AI that surpasses human capabilities. The startup aims to ensure AI aligns with human values, preventing potential dangers as AI continues to evolve rapidly.
🔥Hot AI Tools
10 Trending and Featured AI Tools
AutoCut for working on video editing with AI-enhanced tools
Wondershare Filmora for polishing video with AI tools.
Runway for experimenting with generative AI.
Veed.io for enhancing the video creation with AI-powered editing, automatic subtitles, and collaborative tools.
Synthesia for using digital avatars.
Fliki for social media videos.
Visla for turning a script into a video.
Opus Clip for repurposing long-form to short-form video.
InVideo for converting text and images into professional videos.
Powerly AI for interactive videos in seconds.
📒AI Guides and Resources
12 Free AI Courses
1. Prompt Engineering Specialization
2. Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT
3. Generative AI Courses
4. Intro to Artificial Intelligence (AI)
5. AI For Everyone
6. Prompt Engineering for Developers
7. IBM AI Engineering
8. Intro to Generative AI by Google
9. Machine Learning by Stanford
10. Deep Learning
11. AI For Business
12. AI in Marketing
🎀Prompt of the Week
Time Optimization Management
[I find it challenging to manage my time effectively. Can you analyze my daily schedule and provide actionable tips and strategies to optimize my time management? My current schedule includes [insert details about your daily schedule]📸Image of the Week
Image of the Week
(Tool: Leonardo.ai)A tender scene featuring a small, adorable cow, no larger than a housecat, gently cradled in a human's cupped hand, conveying a sense of nurturing and care, with the cow's soft, fluffy fur a warm beige color, and its large brown eyes looking trustingly upwards, its tiny nostrils flared as if sniffing the air, the human's hand a gentle, pale skin tone with a few faint freckles, the fingers wrapped delicately around the cow's body, with a subtle hint of a smile playing on the human's lips, the overall atmosphere warm, serene, and heartwarming.
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