Text-to-Music is Here 🔊

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First up, we have some major funding news from the AI hardware company, raised from not any VC but Hyundai and Samsung. Meta AI opensourced yet another generative AI model but for music this time. We’ll also dive into Google supercharging its search generative experiment, new Vicuna models, Google Women Founders Fund for AI, and generative AI magic in Jupyter Notebook.

This issue covers:

• Latest Developments 🌍

• Tools of the Trade ⚒️

• Hot Takes 🔥

• AI Meme of the Day 🤡

Read time: 3 mins

Latest Developments 🌍

AI Hardware Warming Up 💰

Tenstorrent, an AI hardware company raised $100M in a strategic financing up-round from Hyundai and Samsung. The money will be used to accelerate AI product development, foster the design and development of AI chiplets, and streamline the ML software roadmap.

Generative AI for Audio 🔊

Meta AI released AudioCraft, a generative AI framework that can turn your text into high-quality music. Whether you're a musician seeking novel compositions, a game developer on a budget needing lifelike sound effects, or a small business owner jazzing up social media posts, AudioCraft has you covered.

Below attached audio is generated using AudioCraft with the text prompt, “Pop dance track with catchy melodies, tropical percussions, and upbeat rhythms, perfect for the beach”.

Google Levels up its Generative AI game 🎇

Google's AI-enhanced Search Generative Experiment (SGE) can now pull up images or videos that match your search—whether it's tiny birds of prey or marble stain removals, there's a visual guide ready. Plus, to keep you informed, SGE now shows publication dates for suggested links. You can take these upgraded features for a spin yourself via Search Labs.

Vicuna gets an Upgrade 🦙

Vicuna v1.5 series is out now with the upgraded 4K and 16K context lengths, based on Llama 2, and boosted performance across various metrics. Vicuna is one of the most popular chat LLMs with over 2 million plus downloads on HuggingFace last month.

Google Fund for AI Startups by Women 👩‍💻

Google for Startups is launching the Women Founders Fund in the Asia Pacific region, providing equity-free funding of $100k to 6 women-led AI startups in India, Japan, and Korea, along with mentorship and technical support, to address the underrepresentation of women in AI research and development.

Jupyter Notebook meets Generative AI 🪄

Jupyter AI is a powerful open-source AI assistant that can generate and explain code, fix errors, summarize content, interact with local files, and create entire notebooks using powerful magic commands and a chat interface, keeping up-to-date with the latest AI advancements through LangChain support.

Tools of the Trade ⚒️

• HyperWrite Personal Assistant: AI assistant for everyday tasks, on any website, for web browsing, research, automation, and more.

• Socra: Plan, track, and navigate your goals with personal AI coach that provides tailored guidance and keeps you motivated.

• Coach by Wonderway: AI coach for sales team providing personalized feedback, sees who’s following the playbook, and audits sales calls.

• Storyboard Hero: Create full concepts, scripts, and storyboards much faster with AI, you can request hand-drawn images as well.

• Pitchyouridea: Pitch your business idea to AI experts who will give feedback and help you create your pitch deck.

Hot Takes 🔥

• Sure, Data is the new oil, but you still need regular oil change. ~ Bojan Tunguz

• Free trillion dollar startup idea: Airbnb but for GPUs. ~Aaron Levie

Meme of the Day 🤡

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