Google's New AlphaChip, The Largest Venture Raise, and Rotating Stages

Artificial intelligence news and tools for your morning walk.

Morning y’all!

It’s Friday and we made it to the end of the week, the last Friday and weekend of September! Now we’re getting close to the final quarter of the year and I hope you’ve gotten everything you wanted done!

I might see a movie this weekend. What about you?

• An AI product designer at your fingertips?

• Real-time voice and video API for AI.

• AI is hammering sites, enough to take them down?

• A simple AI assistant with multiple integrations.

• Google’s new AI chip, called AlphaChip.

• Using AI to discover new geoglyphs. Archaeologists rejoice.

• AI Avatars via Meta. These things are becoming less impressive every time I see them. Perhaps I’m too hypersensitive to it all now.

• Oh, and here’s an interview with “Boz” who designed Orion.

• A generalist “twin” for productivity. Agents are all around us.

• $6.5b is the largest venture raise, ever. OpenAI of course. That for-profit status tho. Tricky dealings. Not everyone is happy.

• They stole my voice via AI.

• A rendering service for architects using AI.

• LLM observability for developers.

And whoever thought a rotating keynote stage would be a good idea was not smart:

And Hollywood-grade lip syncing? It’s getting close:

And a wireframe to app via AI? That’s possible too:

Have a great weekend folks!

※\(^o^)/※

— Summer