July 15 Update - Unveiling the Extraordinary Breakthroughs and Innovations Shaping Our Future!"

Welcome to our AI-filled newsletter! Get ready for a mind-expanding journey through the world of artificial intelligence.

In this edition, we'll explore the thrilling AI chip revolution, where challengers join forces with Nvidia to dominate the AI landscape. We'll also unveil the latest innovations, from Stability AI's sketch-to-image magic to Shopify's AI "Sidekick" revolutionizing e-commerce.

Hold on tight as Sapphire Ventures plans to invest over $1 billion in enterprise AI startups, propelling us into a future where data predicts outcomes and transforms industries.

But let's not forget the creative side! Typeface and SpeedyBrand are here, utilizing generative AI to help brands create on-brand content and SEO-optimized masterpieces.

And for the AI adventurers among us, the Anthropic Hackathon awaits, where human brilliance and AI prowess collide in an epic showdown of innovation.

So, buckle up and prepare for a thrilling AI odyssey. Together, we'll embrace the future and unlock the limitless potential of artificial intelligence!

Elon Musk's New AI Company, xAI, Aims?at Understanding The Universe

The Next Challengers Joining Nvidia in the AI Chip Revolution

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company controls more than 80% of the increasingly lucrative business of doing the behind-the-scenes number-crunching that is driving the AI wave, according to analyst estimates.

Stability AI releases sketch-to-image

Shopify unveils its AI ‘Sidekick’

Sapphire Ventures plans to invest over $1B in enterprise AI startups

Sapphire co-founder and CEO Nino Marakovic says that Sapphire will focus primarily on business-to-business software companies that “make AI easily accessible” by “leveraging data to better predict outcomes.” Beyond this, the firm will back AI and machine learning startups improving business incomes for specific verticals, like manufacturing and healthcare.

KPMG Plans $2 Billion Investment in AI and Cloud Services

Typeface, which is building generative AI for brands, raises $100M at a $1B valuation

The Typeface platform consists of three key components, The first being a content hub where users can upload assets and guidelines for “on-brand” text and image generation. The second, called Blend, uses AI to train and personalize content to a brand’s voice and style. As for the third, Flow, it provides templates and workflows designed to integrate into existing apps and systems.

SpeedyBrand uses generative AI to create SEO-optimized content

SpeedyBrand’s platform, powered by generative AI, can create custom SEO-optimized content — including websites and social media posts — for brands. Brands first choose a topic. Then they have the platform generate text and suggest images that might be appropriate for the type of content they’re generating.

The Next Token of Progress: 4 Unlocks on the Generative AI Horizon

To better understand the near-term technological breakthroughs for LLMs and prepare founders and operators for what’s around the bend, we spoke to some of the leading generative AI researchers who are actively building and training some of the largest and most cutting edge models: Dario Amodei, CEO of?Anthropic; Aidan Gomez, CEO of?Cohere; Noam Shazeer, CEO of?Character.AI; and Yoav Shoham of?AI21 Labs. These conversations identified 4 key innovations on the horizon:?steering, memory, “arms and legs,”?and?multimodality.?In this piece, we discuss how these key innovations will evolve over the next 6 to 12 months and how founders curious about integrating AI into their own businesses might leverage these new advances.?

Speed x AI

The AI revolution just ratcheted up the speed bar for startups. You think you’re moving fast enough. You’re not.

Marc Andreessen: Future of the Internet, Technology, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast?#386

Anthropic Hackathon

San Francisco, Sat, July 29 · 10:00am?—Sun, July 30 · 4:00pm