6 Free AI Courses via NVIDIA, WhatsApp Add GenAI, and Better Developer Copilots

Tools and news from around the artificial intelligence world.

Morning y’all!

We’re half-way through the week and a lot’s cooking! I hope you’re finding time to rest in-between your work! Take it easy; AI won’t kill us today, so, we can be a bit more calm about it all. Keke!

The GitHubs survey on AI software development shouldn’t surprise you, like this:

Developers are some of the laziest folks on the planet (not a dig at all) and are always finding ways to get their done in a more economical way. Long-live productivity hacks.

Apparently WhatsApp's has a new “Imagine“ AI image generator that does what you think it does. I couldn’t actually get this to work for me but maybe it’ll work for you?

Zed AI is bringing LLMs right into your code editor via Anthropic.

MolyPix is yet-another-image-generator but with some easy controls for editing them.

Vercel has released their new chat UI for building UI components. They call it V0.

Arvind and Sayash have a few thoughts on how AI companies are finally focusing on building great products instead of (pseudo) gods. The key challenges are ensuring cost-effectiveness, improving reliability, safeguarding privacy, enhancing safety and security, and refining user interfaces. Not a terrible take.

The Washington Post has published its first story using a new AI tool called “Haystacker” that allows journalists to find newsworthy topics, trends, and patterns for their articles and more. The name feels a bit weird tbh.

NVIDIA has released 6 more free online courses that you can take to learn more about this world of AI. A great rundown and list here.

Google has released a handful of new AI features recently but one of the better ones is smart screenshots, making them searchable. Useful.

Meta is using LLMs to optimize everything including — gasp — advertising. Here’s how their doing that.

I couldn’t actually find the official report in their Walmart’s prospectus and earnings material, but, apparently they are using LLMs to more accurately improve their wide catalog creating a 100X improvement in “headcount” requirement to do the same if done by humans. Look out blue collar jobs.

On-demand vision datasets rendered from 3D scenes? Cool.

Genie is an advanced AI-powered software engineering model that automates the software development process. Apparently it does really well on benchmarks.

And that’s it folks! Have a great rest of your day.

※\(^o^)/※

— Summer