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👀 ICYMI: New stuff we’ve launched at https://lnkd.in/drvpTpN2 3 Tutorials: 1/ Create tailored Terms of Service for your product or service using Claude. 2/ Building a brand style guide that drives business growth. 3/ Automatically respond to Google Business reviews with Zapier and AI. 3 Blog Posts: 1/ Using AI for sales forecasting 2/ 4 ways AI can make amazing audio content 3/ Crafting brand stories that stick ps: you can listen to our blogs on the Elevenlabs’ Reader app too.

I spoke with Dan Shipper about how he uses AI in work and life. Dan's the co-founder and CEO of Every Inc. (100k paid subs). He's also behind popular AI tools like: - Lex (AI writing app) - Sparkle (AI file organizer) - Spiral (custom prompt builder) Here are 4 ways Dan uses AI for creative writing and idea generation: 1. AI as an intellectual reading partner "I get way more out of my reading by having ChatGPT listen to me as I read, or just asking a question as I go." Use cases: - understand opinions and counterarguments - enable voice-assisted reading with ChatGPT - visualize learning with DALL-E - Simplify complex passages 2. AI to refine your taste "ChatGPT is great at naming things you've felt but never been able to articulate." Use cases: - build a creative target - ask ChatGPT to explore your taste - customize AI for better decision-making 3. AI to synthesize ideas "I'll ask Claude, 'What's my thesis?' I don't expect it to write the thesis for me, but it can take all these fragments and tell me what it sees. From there, I refine and rewrite." Use cases: - build a project knowledge base - refine big ideas 4. AI for output "Spiral gets me 80% of the way there for things like generating social posts or summarising podcasts. I spend my energy on the final polish, not the initial grunt work." Use cases: - writing with Lex - automating repetitive tasks with Spiral - better digital organization with Sparkle Read the full post here: https://lnkd.in/eV9KpgcP #ai #artificialintelligence #chatgpt

Microsoft's giving Copilot a proper glow-up, adding voice and vision to its consumer version Boss-man Mustafa Suleyman says it'll be your new best mate, always there Oh, and the new design for the app got a whiff of Pi about it—almost like they used the same designer... Oh wait, they did!

OpenAI launched 4 key upgrades for developers at their SF chapter of Dev Day The biggest update is a new Realtime API that allows developers to create voice interactions like Advanced Voice mode Others include prompt caching, fine-tuning on images and model distillation OpenAI has also officially announced raising $6.6B at a $157B valuation (biggest venture round ever!!)

a couple AI news you may have missed: 1/ Zapier announced new AI features to automate your work at ZapConnect ‘24 2/ California’s governor Gavin Newsom vetoed SB 1047 - The controversial AI safety bill More info ⤵️

NotebookLM, A side project from Google is becoming everyone’s favourite AI app It recently launched a feature to create audio podcasts from the text content you add to it These podcasts are gripping, with realistic voices and banter—not just more of the text-to-speech bore Besides “Audio Overviews”, NotebookLM also gives a great UX to “chat with your documents” Tutorials to use it at work are coming

Meta AI gets more useful—with voice, images and more. Zuckerberg announced a ton of impressive upgrades to Meta’s AI products and models at Meta Connect—including four new Llama models, AI features for creators, and voice and image capabilities in Meta AI. What does this mean? First off, you can now use voice to chat with AI at Meta on Messenger, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram DMs, and it'll respond out loud. We get the option to choose from different voices, including celebrities like Awkwafina, John Cena, and Kristen Bell. Plus, Meta AI can understand photos we share in chats. These features are powered by two new Llama 3.2 models that are multimodal (i.e., they can understand images). Alongside these, there are two lightweight text-only Llamas that can run locally on small devices like mobiles. To quickly list other upgrades: - Auto-dubbed Reels: Reels can now be auto-dubbed with lip-sync between English and Spanish, breaking language barriers for content creators. - AI Creator Avatars: Creators can use Meta's free AI Studio to generate realistic video avatars of themselves to interact with fans. - AI-Generated Chat Themes: You can now create personalized chat themes using AI in Messenger and Instagram DMs. - Expanded AI Tools for Businesses: Businesses can build AI assistants to chat with customers, offer support, and facilitate sales directly within WhatsApp and Messenger. - Meta AI-Generated Content in Feeds: You might start seeing AI-generated images personalized for you in your Facebook and Instagram feeds. Why should you care? Zuckerberg shared that Meta now has over 500 million monthly active users engaging with Meta AI. He's literally making frontier-level models free to use in Meta’s products and shaping the vision of how AI integrates into daily life—especially with their work on the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. And let's not forget the new Orion AR glasses prototype from Meta, which is bonkers. It's a full-fledged AR headset that brings us closer to the future of true augmented reality. Zuckerberg has been working on this for almost a decade, and while it's not yet a consumer product, the technology is advancing rapidly. We'd say OpenAI and Google need to watch out in the consumer race for AI.

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OpenAI released their much anticipated Advanced Voice mode for ChatGPT It has a new look and 5 new voices But what’s OpenAI without some content for an HBO show: A day after the release, CTO Mira Murati and two other top execs are leaving the company To top it off, OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit company is probably nearby, with Sam Altman getting 7% equity