AI Hardware to Stop School Shootings, Life Coaches, and NVIDIA Becomes the King

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Jun 19, 2024

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Morning y’all!

We’re halfway through the week and I’m already ready for it to be over! Sometimes the smallest issues can become much larger than you want them to be — need to keep these things in (mental) check!

Hope you have a good one; better than me! Let’s try to keep it in perspective! A handful of links and apps for you to check out this morning!

x⸑x

— Summer

Ship your AI SaaS in days, not weeks. Or, at least faster than what you normally could? LOL. Take a look at it.

AI Life Coach for you so you can maximize your… life? I do like the GitHub-like view.

Vinod Khosla on what one should build in AI:

Khosla discusses Apple's partnership with OpenAI and the integration of AI into their products, expressing excitement about the validation of OpenAI as a leading AI company. He also touches upon the potential of Apple creating an "app store" for AI and the importance of human-machine interface.
Khosla believes that both small and big models have their place in AI, with small models excelling in responsive interfacing but not substituting human-level intelligence. He also emphasizes the importance of usage and data over revenue in the development of AI models and shares his investment strategy in AI startups.
Khosla discusses the potential for deflationary trends in various industries due to the increasing use of AI and expresses his concerns about societal issues, including inequality and ethnic strife. Throughout the conversation, Khosla maintains his passion for AI and its potential impact on businesses and society.

Vinod has been party to some of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley, so, most folks trust what he has to say.

It’s not SaaS any more, it’s RaaS — Results as a Service. Is this just word salad or is there something legitimately new here?

One could argue that AI agents and RaaS generally are really just SaaS. And one would be right. Just like Software as a Service is really still software, Results as a Service is really still SaaS. What changes is what’s being purchased. With SaaS, you’re purchasing access to software. With RaaS, you’re paying for an actual result.

Sounds like word salad. But, so many folks are talking about it so I thought I’d drop it in here for you too.

Apparently the researchers over at University of Cincinnati have released a new AI system that can predict anxiety levels based on picture ratings and psychological variables. Who would have thought?

The Leap is a user-friendly platform for selling digital products. Engage with your audience, convert followers into customers, and create binge-able learning products effortlessly with the help of AI.

Drip is an AI-powered self-reflection and journaling tool. Explore your inner thoughts and feelings, transforming them into actionable steps for personal growth.

Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock announced his plans for a new AI hardware project in partnership with NASA to prevent school shootings using image scanners.

Can NVIDIA just please slow down? The valuation is now over $3.34T! Following the growth and arch of a major AI player in the public markets is really wild.

Hedra shared a preview of its Character-1 model that can generate unlimited length videos with a taking head avatar that can talk, sing, rap, and more.

Kona is an AI-powered leadership coach for managers, helping them navigate difficult conversations, improve performance, and optimize meetings. It offers valuable insights and guidance, all conveniently integrated with Slack.

The history of AI art goes way back into the 1960’s:

One step in that direction was provided by the reactive machines of Inventors like the cybernetician Gordon Pasks, whose MusiColour machine in the 1950s used sound input from a human performer to control lights.
Jean Tinguely's 'painting machines' were kinetic sculptures that allowed a user to choose the color and position of a pen and the length of time for the machine to work. The robot would then create an original abstract artwork, but the user had little control over the results.

Sounds a lot like generative AI.

Computer vision made easy?

Japan is going light on AI regulation:

Japan is looking to lure AI investment away from Europe and elsewhere by becoming the "most AI-friendly country in the world," with a regulation-light approach.
While the European Union recently passed the AI Act, billed as the world's first comprehensive law governing the use of artificial intelligence, the Japanese government's AI Strategic Council, which is leading the debate in Japan, is focusing on industry-led oversight.

This isn’t abnormal as (nation-state) jurisdictions can oftentimes offer incentives to effectively pull talent from other areas of the world. Japan isn’t a terrible place to live either, especially with the depressed currency (yen) in the recent years.

Genspark is a Palo Alto, Calif. and Singapore-based AI-powered search engine, raised $20 million in seed funding. Lanchi Ventures led the round and was joined by angel investors.

Free mindmap generator where you can create, organize, and visualize your ideas.

TikTok launched Symphony, a new suite of AI features that allows brands to create more content on the platform. Sounds. Like. Fun.

Meta’s FAIR group (Fundamental AI Research) shared a handful of new open source models, including ones for multimodal language tasks, text-to-music, and detecting synthetic speech among other things.

And this is for you cat lovers out there: