Issue No.3 | 🤖 ChatGPT Stars in South Park ⭐️

Issue No.3

Welcome back, FLY Flock!

Happy Hump Day 🐪

The week is flying by and so is progress in the field of AI. As your trusted guides through the latest and greatest advancements, we've collected the top stories and highlights from the past few week that are shaping the AI industry.

This Wednesday edition brings you the biggest funding rounds, new open-source tools ready for you to get your hands on, controversies blowing up online, and milestones being reached. We'll navigate you through the noise so you can soar ahead of the curve.

The coffee is hot and the news is fresh, so settle in for your weekly dose of AI news and insights. We're soaring high, so let's take off into this week’s issue of FLY News!

🔊The Top 5 Stories:

1. 🤖 Salesforce BETS BIG on AI: Einstein GPT + AI in Slack + $250 million Venture Fund 💥

• Salesforce is gearing up to release its own ChatGPT-powered AI, Einstein GPT, to boost its sales, service, coding and marketing offerings. Regarding Einstein GPT, the chatbot will be the world’s first generative AI CRM technology, which delivers AI-created content across every sales, service, marketing, commerce, coding and IT interaction, at hyperscale. (Full Story)

• It doesn’t stop there, Salesforce also announced that it will be adding ChatGPT to Slack as part of their OpenAI Partnership to help users summarize conversation threads and handle other queries (Full Story)

• The company also just launched a $250 million venture fund to invest in startups pioneering 'responsible' generative AI. The new fund announced its first four bets which include:

  • Anthropic, an AI safety research company, hoping to spark advancements that are as trustworthy as they are transformative

  • Cohere AI, provides access to large language models (LLM) and natural language processing (NLP) tools through one API. Its platform can be used to generate or analyze text to do things like write copy, moderate content, classify data, and extract information

  • Hearth AI, an AI platform intended to provide semantic network search. The company’s platform offers a follow-up workflow and relationship network enabling consumers to maintain warm relationships.

  • You.com, is the first web search that combines advanced conversational AI with community-built apps, YouChat, offering a unique and interactive experience with each query. It is able to serve up charts, images, videos, tables, graphs, text or code embedded in its responses to user queries.

    (Full Story)

⬇️ Meet Einstein GPT ⬇️

2. Brex Introduces Major AI Tools for Finance Teams!💰

Brex, the FinTech company that offers business cards and cash management accounts, is empowering CFOs & Finance Teams like never before with their latest AI-powered tools. They're teaming up with OpenAI and Scale AI to launch advanced machine learning (ML) & natural language processing (NLP) technology features that provide real-time insights into spending and instantly answer critical money questions - all through a simple chat interface.

Full Story

3. Citadel Negotiating Enterprise-Wide ChatGPT License

In an interview Tuesday in Palm Beach, Florida with Bloomberg, Billionaire Ken Griffin CEO of Citadel and Citadel Securities announced that the company is in the process of negotiating an enterprise-wide license to unleash OpenAI's internet-trained language model on their own data and teams. While other financial firms have clamped down on the AI amid concerns, Griffin is betting big on AI & sees huge potential in automating 'an enormous amount' of the firms' work 'in a highly efficient way.'

Whether crafting code, translating software or analyzing info, ChatGPT could be a game changer—or create chaos—in the hypercompetitive world of hedge funds and high-speed trading. The race is on to wield AI's latest wonder, but will OpenAI's baby prove a prodigy or reckless gamble for Wall Street's heaviest hitters?

Full Story

4. Candidly AI student debt Superman 🦸‍♂️ raises $20.5M Series B to help consumers ‘crush debt’

Candidly, a company that helps financial institutions and employers embed student debt and savings optimization products into employee benefits, secures $20.5 million in new funding to pick up student debt relief where new U.S. policies leave off.

Full Story

5. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Copilot, brings next-generation AI to CRM & ERP 📊

Microsoft is releasing an AI copilot to lighten workloads & boost sales and service. Dubbed Dynamics 365 Copilot, the software giant's next-gen AI assistant generates proposals, summarizes calls and tackles other tedious tasks—all with a few natural language prompts.

With Copilot's machine learning magic now in preview for Dynamics 365 and Viva Sales, Microsoft promises to boost productivity for busy business pros. But in unleashing an automated assistant into the enterprise, the tech titan is also taking off into uncharted territory—with no guarantee of a smooth flight

Full Story

🚨 BONUS: 🤖 ChatGPT Stars in South Park ⭐️

ChatGPT continues its takeover of pop culture at breakneck speed. Forget TIME magazine covers—now OpenAI's Chatbot is set to center stage in its own South Park episode. In a promo video for Wednesday's episode, 'Deep Learning,' it seems ChatGPT will serve as Clyde's dating coach for a desperate Stan.

As ChatGPT's fame skyrockets from tech phenom to mainstream celeb at record pace, its appearance on the notorious animated show promises an irreverent debut into the halls of comedy fame—for better or for worse. One thing's for sure: after this, ChatGPT will never be the same.

The episode airs tonight March 8, at 10:00p ET on Comedy Central.

🛠️ Top 5 Tools of the Week:

1. ChatSpot.ai ---> Awesome new AI tool from HubSpot creator helping you with Sales/CRM, Research, Reporting & Marketing

2. RoomGPT.io ---> Take a picture of your room and see how your room looks in different themes. 100% free – remodel your room with AI today

3. Tldv.io ---> Forget notetaking during Google/Zoom Meetings and let tldview record + do the work! An AI tool that will make your meetings 10X more productive.

4. SlideGPT --> Meet the ChatGPT for slides that will let you create presentations 10X faster saving hours of work and precious mental energy.

5. Sumly.ai  --> Get your favorite podcast summary at your fingertips. Summly AI uses AI to provide concise and accurate summaries with key pointers and action items.

6. 🚨BONUS: SuperMeme.AI --> Generate memes from simple text descriptions using AI in seconds!

🎙️Top AI Podcast/Video Recommendation:

What was OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman’s first company?

Here he pitches Robert Scoble, an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author who rose to minor geek celebrity during his tenure at Microsoft.

This is an historic Silicon Valley pitch video done not on stage or in a meeting room but straight from a Mexican restaurant booth. Sam would go on to run YCombinator in between.

📲 Top Demo of the Week:

The top demo of the past week comes from Uizard.io which is leveraging artificial intelligence to create an Uizard Autodesigner, a generative Text to Design AI. Autodesigner will help bring your vision to life in seconds; simply enter a few simple phrases and let AI bring your app vision to life in a matter of seconds for web or mobile interfaces.

Uizard will release the Autodesigner product later this month but you can sign up for the early access waitlist here: https://uizard.io/autodesigner/

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