OpenAI and Figure collaborate to bring humanoid robots to life
Figure just made a big splash by announcing they've got $675 million to play with
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Here’s what happened this week:
AI replaces 700 customer service reps
Mistral reveals Large and a new le ChatGPT competitor
OpenAI and Figure collaborate to bring humanoid robots to life
Let's dive in.
AI replaces 700 customer service reps
Klarna, a big name in fintech, just shared how its AI chatbot, powered by OpenAI, rocked customer service by handling 2.3 million chats last month.
Highlights:
Big Profits: Klarna thinks this chatbot will bring in an extra $40 million in profit next year.
Doing the Work: This chatbot did as much work as 700 people would have done.
Quick Help: It now takes only 2 minutes to solve problems, down from 11 minutes. This bot works all day, every day, and can chat in more than 35 languages.
No More Hiring: After letting go of 700 workers in 2022, Klarna said it's only adding engineers from now on, thanks to AI.
Why it's important: Klarna's success story shows us the future of customer service, full of AI helpers. While this is great for businesses and can make customers happier, it also means a lot of jobs as we know them are changing big time. AI is opening new doors, but it's also shaking up the job market.
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Mistral reveals Large, a new la ChatGPT competitor
The French AI company Mistral just launched its big project, the Mistral Large model, and shared news about a fresh chatbot and a big deal with Microsoft.
Highlights:
Impressive Skills: Mistral Large is really smart and can speak many languages. It's almost as good as GPT-4, which is a big deal.
Affordable: Using Mistral Large costs less than using GPT-4T, at $8 for a million tokens.
Chatbot Debut: They've also started testing their own chatbot called ‘Le Chat’.
Teaming Up with Microsoft: Microsoft is joining forces with Mistral to bring Mistral's technology to Azure users and help them grow.
Why it's important: Mistral AI is stepping up to play with the big names in AI. With its powerful new model and support from Microsoft, Mistral is quickly becoming a company to watch in the AI space.
OpenAI and Figure collaborate to bring humanoid robots to life
Figure just made a big splash by announcing they've got $675 million to play with and are teaming up with OpenAI to make their humanoid robots even smarter.
Highlights:
AI-Powered Robots: OpenAI's fancy AI tech will make Figure's robots understand what people tell them better.
Speeding Things Up: This money is going to help get these robots working in places like BMW's car factories faster.
Smart Robots: Figure showed off a robot that can do tasks all by itself, unlike others that need a human controlling them from somewhere else.
Why it's important: Putting top-notch AI into humanoid robots is a game-changer. And since the person who helps run OpenAI's tech stuff hinted that ChatGPT's future could be in robots, this partnership might just show us where all this AI and robot stuff is headed.
Other interesting news this week:
Google's Genie makes prompt-to-games
Apple cancels car project to focus on AI
Elon Musk sues OpenAI for abandoning founding mission
Top-5 AI tools this week
AdsGency AI - Boost ad performance with AI-driven optimization and creative content generation (link)
Ideogram - Helps you create stunning, photorealistic images from text (link)
Hook Generator GPT - Use AI to help with Twitter thread creation (link)
BidBuilder - Create winning Upwork proposals in minutes (link)
Dart - Project management with AI roadmap planning, report generation, automatic task execution, and more (link)
AI images
Countries as Pokemon Cards (source)
AI video
Sora’s demo "too many cooks in the kitchen" (source)
AI meme
Homer AI Robot
Mistral’s le big model
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Weekly Midjourney Prompt
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