10 AI-powered tools you need to know in addition to ChatGPT and Dall-E.

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There’s no denying that artificial intelligence is having a moment.

But while Dall-E and ChatGPT have captured the public consciousness, they’re hardly the only ones tapping into the technology.

A slew of other lesser-known AI-based tools can help you with everything from programming to identifying and transcribing key sections in calls.?

“I call this moment the Cambrian explosion of AI applications,” said Insight Partners ’ managing director George Mathew , referring to the explosion of AI-powered applications happening at the moment.

Here are a few on our radar, in alphabetical order:

CommonSim-1

CommonSim-1 uses generative AI to produce 3D models and videos from a single image or description in text. The technology was developed by Common Sense Machines , a company spun out of an MIT professor’s lab, and accurately models the world for enterprise use cases, said Rudina Seseri , founder and managing partner of AI-focused VC firm Glasswing Ventures .

CoPilot

CoPilot is based on technology built by OpenAI – the same lab behind ChatGPT and Dall-E – and was rolled out by Microsoft and GitHub last summer. The AI-powered programmer is aimed at professional coders, and essentially spits out lines of computer code, making the process faster. An enterprise-version of the tool called GitHub Copilot for Business was rolled out in December 2022.

“The adoption has been astonishing,” said Glasswing’s Seseri. “It was made generally available in June 2022 and added 400,000 subscribers in one month.”

Deepdub

The Tel Aviv-based startup was recommended by Insight Partners’ Mathew, and uses AI to automate the process of dubbing audio and video to make it less manual, producing results in weeks as opposed to months. It’s closed $20 million in Series A funding so far.

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The San Francisco-based startup was recommended by independent investor Allie K. Miller , and simplifies audio and video editing – and is used by my colleagues and I at LinkedIn too. The desktop app is cloud-based and works on both Windows and Mac, and recently raised $50 million in a Series C round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund.

EmailTriager

Developers are starting to build a cottage industry of apps using OpenAI, pointed out Mathew, and EmailTriager is one of them built on top of ChatGPT. It’s an email assistant that can automatically craft email replies and place the drafts in your inbox.

Grain

The Tiger Global Management -backed app is geared at enabling sales teams to close more deals by helping them record, transcribe and identify key moments from video calls. It recently completed its first acquisition of the work collaboration software PingPong as well.?

HyperWrite (OthersideAI) ?

Another recommendation by Miller, the web-based plug-in uses AI to pick up on your writing style and give more accurate autocomplete suggestions. It comes in three different price tiers and can be used across blogs, emails and marketing copy – and even has templates.

Mem

While there’s no dearth of note-taking and organizing apps out there, Mem has managed to stand out with its AI-powered software that can parse through different notes, summarize them, and format them too. It’s raised $29 million to date, backed by a who’s who of investors including Andreessen Horowitz , Harry Stebbings and OpenAI’s Startup Fund.

Otter.ai ?

One of the more established transcription players out there, the Mountain View-based company uses AI to convert speech to text by integrating its software with meeting apps like Zoom and Google Meet. It last raised $50 million in funding in a Series B round nearly two years ago by investors including Spectrum Equity , Horizons Ventures , Draper Associates and Notable Capital .

Scribe ?

How many times do you wish there was an easier way to record your computer screen to break down a process? Scribe's software allows people to do just that – generating a step-by-step written guide of a process on their screens to make it easily shareable with others. The startup’s CEO Jennifer Smith shared that it launched one new feature a week on average in 2022, and it has the backing of big-name investors like Tiger Global.

TechTok?

Catch up on the tech headlines you may have missed this week and what our members are saying about them on LinkedIn.

• LinkedIn’s parent company Microsoft is considering investing as much as $10 billion in OpenAI, multiple news outlets reported this week. Microsoft will reportedly get 75% of OpenAI’s profits until it recoups its investment; it would then take a 49% stake in the startup.
• ICYMI, Instagram is getting (yet another) makeover. Starting next month, the Meta-owned social media giant is going to put the Compose button (the + sign) back in the center of the navigation bar, and move its Reels button to the right. Instagram is also removing the Shop tab from the bar.?
• Recently laid off Twitter employees have started to receive severance agreements – and they are not happy. The separation agreements include one month of severance pay, while Twitter leadership had previously said they would provide at least two months, and Twitter CEO Elon Musk had himself signaled that three months of pay would be offered.?
• A new aggregator called Comprehensive.io? is laying out salary ranges for jobs listed by 700 tech firms and startups. The website has been created by the brains behind the redundancy-tracker layoffs.fyi — and draws from salaries listed in New York and California, which recently rolled out new salary transparency laws.
• Apple is seeking to replace Broadcom chips in its devices by 2025 with a custom chip it plans to produce in-house that would power cellular, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth functionality. The move follows Apple’s removal of most Intel processors from its Mac computers and the development of an in-house cellular modem chip.
• Electric vehicle maker Rivian has seen several of its top executives leave the company, amid a challenging time for the start-up. The company missed its 2022 manufacturing target of 25,000 vehicles, thanks in part to supply chain snarls that are plaguing the industry.

Movers and Shakers

Here’s keeping tabs on key executives on the move and other big pivots in the tech industry. Please send me personnel moves within emerging tech.

• The Center for Democracy & Technology has hired Nathalie Maréchal, PhD as co-director of its Privacy & Data Project.?
• Okta ’s chief revenue officer Steve Rowland is leaving the access management software provider, The Information reports.Scheduling provider Calendly has hired Jessica Gilmartin , previously head of revenue marketing at Asana , as its chief marketing officer.?
• Chicago-based venture capital firm Jump Capital has promoted Saaya Nath and Tarun Gupta to the role of partner.
• Stamford-based venture capital and growth equity firm Oak HC/FT has promoted Eliza Adams , Tess Munsie and Stephen H. Dierks to vice president of health care, vice president of fintech and director and head of talent of fintech respectively.?

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ICYMI

Here are other top stories of the week from beyond LinkedIn in the broader world of tech.?

• A ransomware attack against San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) exposed highly sensitive and personal data after Vice Society, a well-known threat group, leaked the records late last week.?
• Biotech company BioNTech is set to buy UK-based AI startup InstaDeep in its largest acquisition to date. The acquisition follows a multiyear partnership between the two to apply AI and machine learning to develop immunotherapies for cancer and infectious diseases.
• Alphabet’s health care unit Verily Life Sciences has announced it will lay off 15% of its workforce, affecting more than 200 employees. Verily CEO Stephen Gillett told employees in a memo sent Wednesday that the cuts were part of a broader effort to "simplify" the company and reduce the number of ongoing projects.

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