Welcome humans, here’s your 3-minute recap (without the fluff):
Amazon's AI "Rufus" helps shoppers find and buy more products
Google Bard gains image generation and multilingual skills
Google Maps uses AI for personalized place recommendations
New tools, funding updates & job postings
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🗞️ News
Amazon’s AI to make you buy more stuff
Amazon’s AI chatbot, Rufus, is being tested with select customers. Rufus can answer questions about products on Amazon, compare items, and provide suggestions and recommendations.
It is trained on Amazon's product listings and reviews as well as external web information. The goal is to help users shop and buy more products from Amazon.
Bard’s image generation
Google has updated Bard with image generation abilities using Google's Imagen 2 model, and an improved version of their Gemini Pro language model that supports over 40 languages.
These updates allow Bard to generate images from text descriptions and more closely match ChatGPT's performance.
AI in Google Maps
Google Maps is introducing a new AI feature that will provide personalized recommendations for places to discover based on your search queries. The AI analyzes over 250 million locations and user contributions to pull up suggestions that match what you're looking for.
The goal is for the AI to be able to generate recommendations for even very niche searches.
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📚 Resources
The state of startups in 7 charts (link)
Want to close more deals? AI can help you (link)
5 interesting startup deals you may have missed in January (link)
IBM says generative AI can help automate business actions (link)
The White House weighs in on the AI copyright debate for the first time (link)
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💰 Funding
LightBeam AI securing $17.8M in funding to fortify its AI-driven data privacy and security platform (link)
Podcastle raising $13.5M in Series A funding for its AI-driven podcasting platform (link)
💼 Job Board
Senior Engineering Manager at Dropbox (Remote)
Territory Account Manager at BlackBerry (US)
🤖 Prompt Tutorial
5 Ways to Future-Proof
Give me 5 unique ways to give Quality assurance for [product].
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That’s all.
Stay curious, leaders!
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