Arguments for AI Existential Concern, Become a Tennis God, and More Flux
Apps, tools, and thoughts that you should think about re: artificial intelligence.
Morning y’all!
I’m a bit late to this newsletter today but that’s because I was exercising (and then I took a very long nap)! Investing in yourself is more important (***GASP***) that writing a daily newsletter and so that’s that.
Hope everyone is having a good week! Ping me if you need anything or see anything I should check out, of course.
Everyone is losing their mind about Flux and some calling it the new king of image AI generation, beating all the incumbents in terms of results. I will say that they are, indeed, impressive and I’ve been pleasantly surprised by my own tests.
Klarna’s AI chatbot using OpenAI has shown some pretty good upticks in efficiency with customer service tasks. Here’s a deep-dive on how good it might actually be.
Folks are having issues about AI in politics, especially whether or not VP Harris has used AI to forge the size of crowds. Trump, of course, is taking advantage of this but what’s really true? It’s honestly hard to know at this point but there are plenty of tools that can “fact check” AI-generated images.
Elise AI just raised $75m in funding and hopes to own the entire real estate and housing market with its platform.
Profound just raised $3.5m to help small businesses optimize their SEO.
Well, the title says it all: 14% of computer shipments globally were “AI-capable” and I have to imagine most of those were Apple-based since the new ones come with an NPU, besides just a CPU and GPU. I’m running a high-end one myself:
This thing flies! And with 128GB of memory, I can practically do anything. 🥰
Polymet is supposed to help you get to something useful, like a prototype, really fast. I didn’t appreciate their lowfi homepage but if you jump in you can see their workflow.
Google has let loose their Gemini Live, a mobile conversational tool with advanced voice capabilities. This, of course, is beating out ChatGPT’s voice mode since it’s still in limited alpha phase, as they call it.
With Match Point AI, a groundbreaking tennis simulation tool, makes it possible to give players epic-level skills. I think you still have to practice a lot though.
Streamline your coding workflow with a bit of AI. Isn’t that what this newsletter is all about anyways? I like the interface — a bit old skool.
Decover is a legal research assistant. There' are a lot of these coming into play now.
Hedy is an AI tool that provides real-time insights and recommendations so you don’t look stupid in meetings. Or something like that.
Opera One and their new iOS version has enhanced AI assistant tech that they call “Aria” and outside of what I’ve tested, I really just like the name since it’s really pretty.
An AI Toolkit, mostly Stable Diffusion-related, but has some neat things you might want to poke around at.
Omni Engineer is an AI coding framework that’s the spiritual successor to Claude Engineer. Enhance your development workflows!
Trellis is an AI-powered workflow for unstructured data. Useful for financial documents and anything that a dat and ops team might need.
Here are 10 arguments for existential AI dread (or how it’ll kill us all). The key takeaways are here and written from each perspective. Not terrible actually but I’m not too scared since I hope my time caring about all of this will be long gone by the time our overlords take over.
That’s it folks! Have a great day!
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— Summer
