{{first_name | Leader}}, welcome back. Today’s updates:
Turn playbooks into visual guides so teams stay on-brand without your help*
OpenAI models land natively on AWS
Clay confirms $100M at a $3.1B valuation
OpenAI debuts two open-weight “Reasoning” models
Practical tools + must-read resources. Dive in ⬇️
IN PARTNERSHIP
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NEWS UPDATES
OpenAI Models Land Natively on AWS
Customers can now tap GPT-4o and Embeddings directly inside Amazon Bedrock—no cross-cloud tunnels required. Bedrock’s governance layer keeps prompts, logs, and keys in your existing AWS account while billing rolls into the same invoice.
If most of your data already lives on S3 and Redshift, you can deploy GPT pipelines without moving a byte to Azure. Ask your FinOps lead to price Bedrock tokens against your current stack before Q4 budget lock.
Clay Confirms $100M at $3.1B Valuation
Clay’s browser plugin already scrapes 50M contact records daily and enriches Salesforce in real time. Fresh capital will fund deeper AI scoring that predicts deal size and churn risk.
RevOps leaders can test the plug-in on one segment; if Clay’s auto-enrichment shortens SDR ramp time, you’ll recoup license cost in a single quarter.
OpenAI Debuts Two Open-Weight “Reasoning” Models
The new Reazer-8B and Reazer-70B checkpoints sit under an Apache-style license and outperform Llama-3 on code generation and chain-of-thought tasks. Early benchmarks show a 20 % cost drop per solved coding challenge.
Put one on a secured GPU box and run a weekend hack: if Reazer beats your current fine-tune, you’ll save on proprietary API calls and keep data fully on-prem.
BEST LINKS
Productivity Tools
🌍 Doctranslate – Converts PDFs, slides, and contracts into 100+ languages while keeping original formatting.
🌲 Pinecone – Serverless vector database for lightning-fast semantic search across billions of embeddings.
🤝 Humanlinker – Pulls prospect data, drafts personalised outreach, and builds auto meeting briefs for sales teams.
📁 Assembly – Combines docs, tasks, and threaded updates so projects live in one searchable workspace.
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Useful Resources
Learn HubSpot’s take on “Marketing Without the Cringe” for Gen Z (link)
Document ClickUp’s Sales Docs template keeps reps on-message (link)
Create step-by-step content with Microsoft Copilot Tutorials (link)
Explore ZDNET’s deep dive on Google’s Data-Stack Agents (link)
Debug Zapier’s guide to Claude Code for faster scripts (link)
STRATEGIC AI DECISION
As CEO, your first action after GPT-4o hits AWS?
MARKET
💰 Funding
Saphyre raised $70M to automate pre-trade finance workflows.
Lumana raised $40M to bring AI to enterprise video security.
💼 Who’s Hiring in AI
🐦 Bill Gates Masterclass
Bill Gates literally dropped a 90-min masterclass on building relentless focus from scratch
— #Aadit Sheth (#@aaditsh)
1:31 PM • Aug 5, 2025
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