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This week's edition of Unlocking Alpha: ??Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's Vision for AI ?? OpenAI's Canvas ?? Harvard Business Review on AI & Brand Management ?? HubSpot's State of Marketing Report ?? Geoffrey Hinton https://lnkd.in/gKZ5fKPN

We’re thrilled to see our CEO, Steven Wolfe Pereira ??, featured in the?Fortune Brainstorm Tech?member profile! ?? At Alpha & Co., we’re proud to stand at the forefront of the AI era, working with leaders and organizations to navigate challenges, seize opportunities, and create lasting impact. Together, we’re unlocking Alpha. #AI #Leadership #Innovation #FortuneBrainstormTech #UnlockingAlpha

<Spotlight> on Clara Shih Head of Business AI at Meta Meta has hired Clara Shih to lead a new “Business AI” group. This new group will develop?AI tools?for the 200 million businesses that use its apps. Clara will be responsible for developing and monetizing tools within Meta's AI portfolio that are catered specifically to these businesses. The products will be made with Meta's open-source large language model "Llama" and be offered to the millions of businesses advertising and creating content on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. Meta has recently pushed more AI-generated content into its social media feeds, including a carousel on Facebook of AI-generated photos, and AI chatbots imitating content creators on Instagram. Clara was most recently the CEO of Salesforce AI. In this role, she oversaw artificial intelligence efforts across the company, including product, go-to-market, growth, adoption, and ecosystem for Einstein GPT, the world's #1 AI for CRM. Einstein GPT delivers over 1 trillion predictions and generative automations every week across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, Industry Clouds, Mulesoft, Tableau, and Slack. Previously, Clara led Salesforce Service Cloud, the world’s #1 customer service, contact center, digital service, bots, and field service solution. A digital pioneer, Clara has been named one of Fortune’s “40 under 40” and “Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs,” Fast Company’s “Most Influential People in Technology,” and a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum. Clara is a member of the Starbucks board of directors and serves as Executive Chair of Hearsay Systems, a privately held digital software firm she founded in 2009. She graduated #1 in computer science at Stanford University, where she also received an M.S. in computer science. She also holds an M.S. in internet studies from Oxford University, where she studied as a U.S. Marshall Scholar. #AI #Alpha #Spotlight

Introducing the <Alpha Book Club> Each month we will choose a book to help executives become more AI ready. This month we highlight the new book by the award-winning marketing executive Shiv Singh, "Marketing with AI". Marketing with AI For Dummies?is your introduction to the revolution that’s occurring in the marketing industry, thanks to artificial intelligence tools that can create text, images, audio, video, websites, and beyond. This book captures how AI will change marketing, helping new and experienced marketers tackle AI marketing plans, content, creative assets, and localized campaigns. You’ll also learn to manage SEO and customer personalization with powerful new technologies. - Peek at the inner workings of AI marketing tools to see how you can best leverage their capabilities - Identify customers, create content, customize outreach, and personalize customer experience with AI - Consider how your team, department, or organization can be retooled to thrive in an AI-enabled world - Learn from valuable case studies that show how large organizations are using AI in their campaigns This easy-to-understand Dummies guide is perfect for marketers at all levels, as well as those who only wear a marketing hat occasionally. Whatever your professional background,?Marketing with AI For Dummies?will usher you into the future of marketing. #AI #Alpha #AlphaBookClub https://bit.ly/4fqqUvv

Y Combinator just rebooted its interview series, "How To Build The Future" - and who better to start with than the firm's former CEO and now OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. An important watch. #AI https://lnkd.in/gzrgfcP3

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OpenAI has added another prestigious domain to its portfolio with the acquisition of Chat.com. As reported in TechCrunch, Chat.com now redirects to ChatGPT, OpenAI’s advanced AI chatbot, signaling the domain’s integration with OpenAI’s suite of digital assets. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed the acquisition in a statement. Originally registered in September 1996, Chat.com has been a coveted domain name for decades. Last year, it was reported that HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah purchased Chat.com for a record-breaking $15.5 million, making it one of the top two publicly disclosed domain sales of all time. https://lnkd.in/eRxhFjBy In March, Shah revealed that he had sold Chat.com to an undisclosed buyer, and late today, he confirmed on X that OpenAI was that buyer. Shah’s post implied that the sale was completed in OpenAI shares. Interestingly, the domain’s ownership records haven’t changed since last year’s sale, suggesting that OpenAI’s use of Chat.com may be a redirection rather than a full brand shift. When asked, OpenAI declined to disclose the amount it paid for the domain.

In this week's Unlocking Alpha: ??Perplexity debuts election hub; ?? OpenAI's ChatGPT with Search ?? 25%+ of Google’s code is by AI ??Gen AI Shopping Carts ?? May Habib CEO @ Writer https://bit.ly/3UBHmAS

Spotlight on <Janet Balis> Managing Director and Partner @ Boston Consulting Group (BCG) One of the most accomplished executives at the intersection of technology, media and marketing, Janet recently joined Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as a Managing Director and Partner. An expert in understanding how the marketing and advertising ecosystem connect across brands, agencies, media companies, and technology platforms, Janet has a keen perspective on how to transform leaning into a future of #AI across areas including go-to-market, operating model design, and advanced advertising. She most recently served as a nine-year partner at EY where she led their CMO practice, focusing on marketing transformation, including operating model design, marketing effectiveness and efficiency, data and technology strategy, and the talent agenda. Previously, she led EY's global consulting business for the Media and Entertainment industry. Prior to joining EY, she served in leadership roles across the media industry, including serving as a Partner at Betaworks Ventures leading their Innovation Lab, Publisher of The Huffington Post, and the EVP of Media Sales and Marketing for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. She also spent over eight years at Time Warner. Janet holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Columbia University. Janet was named in 2024 as a Top 25 Consultant in Sales and Marketing by Consulting Report, and has been a Woman to Watch by MULTICHANNEL NEWS, a Women of Excellence Award recipient by the National Association of Female Executives (NAFE), an Ad Age Women to Watch, and a Crain's New York Business Top 40 Under 40. She currently serves on the global board of directors for the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) and the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Emmy's), and she has previously served on the board of Public Radio Exchange (PRX) and as an advisor to the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative. She co-chairs YPO’s Gotham chapter in New York City. -- Alpha & Co.'s Spotlight Series shines a light on the leaders across technology, business, capital, culture and policy who are shaping the landscape of the AI era.

OpenAI announced today that ChatGPT can now search the web for up-to-date answers to a user’s queries. Previously, ChatGPT mostly depended on its training data, last updated in October 2023 for GPT-4, with limited web capabilities. Now, ChatGPT can automatically fetch current information for recent topics, including sports, stock updates, or daily news, enhancing responses with multimedia results when applicable. Users may still initiate a manual search, but the chatbot will primarily assess when a web search is beneficial. This feature is currently available for ChatGPT’s paying users. OpenAI plans to extend free access to this feature in the future, even to logged-out users. Upcoming enhancements will integrate search with ChatGPT’s voice capabilities and Canvas, an interactive tool for coding and writing, though these aren’t included in the initial release. As all applications begin to be reinvented for the #AI era, ChatGPT Search will be a formidable challenger to Google’s 90% market share in online search. Are you ready? For more info: https://lnkd.in/g4gxgU64