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In today’s newsletter:

🎭 Synthesia Unveils Emotionally Expressive AI Avatars: A Leap Towards Lifelike Video Interactions in Business

💼 Elon Musk's xAI Nears $6B Funding, With X Platform as a Shareholder

💰 OpenAI-Related Venture Fund Raises $15 Million to Support AI Startups

🤖 Meta AI's Lackluster Performance Despite Free Access Across Platforms

❓️ Misc:

Top AI certifications in 2024 for your tech career (link)

Employers calling for help (link)

AI skills report 2024 (link)

📊 Funding:

Mentee Robotics raised $17M for its humanoid robot, MenteeBot (link)

Vidyard raised $15M for personalized AI avatars (they have a lot to do to beat Synthesia. More on that later… (link)

💰Jobs in AI:

AI Prompt Creator : Dice · United States · Remote · Contract · Entry-level (Apply here)

AI & Data Science Intern: Refonte Learning · United States · Remote · Internship (Apply here)

Jr. AI Program Analyst: Talentify.io · United States · Remote · Full-time · Entry level (Apply here)

TOGETHER WITH SANA

Europe’s leading AI conference is back

On May 15, 400 humans will gather in Stockholm to explore the impact of artificial intelligence across disciplines. 

Sessions include:

The state of AI in 2024 — Technology analyst Benedict Evans

Reimagining medicine with AI — Stanford professor and insitro founder, Daphne Koller 

AI’s biggest unsolved problems — Isomorphic Labs Chief AI Officer Max Jaderberg and Carnegie Mellon professor Tuomas Sandholm

The UI for AGI — Nothing CEO Carl Pei, The Browser Company CEO Josh Miller, and Spotify Co-President, CPO, and CTO Gustav Söderström

Applying machine learning to cancer diagnosis — MIT professor Regina Barzilay

And more.

Physical seats are limited. If you can't make it to Stockholm, join the waitlist anyway and you’ll receive the recordings for free.

Synthesia’s AI Avatars

Revolutionizing Enterprise Video Content

Synthesia is elevating the AI landscape with its latest release, introducing video avatars that boast enhanced emotional expression and improved natural human movements. Tailored specifically for business applications such as training and marketing, Synthesia's new Expressive Avatars aims to set a new standard in creating realistic, human-like generative video content. This update reflects the company's focused strategy on perfecting a niche aspect of generative AI, differentiating itself in a market bustling with broad-spectrum AI solutions. These are—probably—the best AI avatars around. Take a look 👇️ 

Technological Breakthroughs and User Engagement

The technology behind Synthesia's Expressive Avatars represents a significant leap forward. These avatars are created using advanced, large, pre-trained models that capture the nuances of human expression more accurately than ever before. This method generates responses that mimic real human interactions, moving away from the disjointed and robotic outputs typical of earlier AI video tools. Integrating multimodal distributions enhances the avatars' ability to deliver speech and reactions that feel spontaneous and authentic, akin to natural human behavior.

TOGETHER WITH BRIGHTDATA

Tired of getting blocked and rate-limited when trying to scrape web data for your AI project?

This Fireship video demos how they use Bright Data's Scraping Browser together with Playwright and ChatGPT to do some pretty advanced web scraping from Amazon. This process could easily be applied to a wide variety of AI web scraping projects.
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The Scraping Browser includes powerful unlocking tools like proxy rotation and cooling, CAPTCHA solving, browser fingerprinting, automatic retries, and more — so you can easily get the data you need.
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​Try it for free here — and see why companies like Microsoft and McDonald's are using Bright Data to collect the data they need.

💼 Musk's xAI Set to Secure $6 Billion

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is close to finalizing a significant $6 billion funding round, valuing it at $18 billion. The investment reflects growing confidence in xAI, which integrates data from Musk’s various enterprises, like Tesla and SpaceX, to enhance its AI models. The social network X (formerly Twitter), another Musk venture, has already integrated xAI’s services, emphasizing synergies across Musk's companies. This move signals Musk's ambitious plans to expand his influence in AI, directly competing with industry leader OpenAI.

💰 OpenAI Startup Fund Secures $15M for Early-Stage AI Ventures

The OpenAI Startup Fund has discreetly raised $15 million through a special-purpose vehicle, adding to its investment pool to support emerging AI-focused businesses in various sectors. Managed by Ian Hathaway, the fund's latest financing involves two anonymous investors. This development follows a previous $10 million tranche and is part of ongoing efforts to nurture startups like Harvey, Ambiance Healthcare, and Figure AI, despite previous scrutiny over management and investment strategies.

🤖 Meta AI: Free but Unexceptional in the AI Chatbot Arena

Meta AI, powered by the new Llama 3 model, is integrated across Meta's platforms, including Instagram and Facebook, offering free AI chatbot services. Despite its broad accessibility and no cost, the service struggles to stand out in terms of functionality, often providing basic search result regurgitations without excelling in any specific area. Mark Zuckerberg has high hopes for its future usage, although its current form doesn't justify its own existence beyond being a freely accessible tool. As an example to how poor responses can be…. take a look at its response to a request for marketing help 👇️ 

Not great…

You said yes!!

This place looks nice—any guesses?

• DeepL: Your gateway to global business. Learn how AI-driven technology can slash marketing translation times by 90%, save up to €2.8 million, and streamline your operations. (link)*

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• Pika: Generate beautiful screenshots and images with free screenshot editor or automate using API. (link)

• Originality.AI: AI content detector built for marketers and digital writers. (link)

• scale.jobs: Hire a Human Career Assistant for your Job Hunt. (link)

• Dittto.ai: Fix your hero copy with an AI trained on top SaaS websites. (link)

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Why Use It:

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