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AI: Friendly, Hot, and Easily Accessible
Innovations in chat models, hardware design, and the top startups in the field.
Jordan Wade
May 02, 2023
In this week's edition, we cover the emergence of a new AI chat model as competition for ChatGPT, a list of the top 75 promising early-stage AI companies, and the integration of AI in hardware design, which promises to lower the barriers to entry for hardware design.
Hugging Face, the AI startup, just keeps going. They have released an alternative to ChatGPT called HuggingChat. It's not very good yet, but with these AI models, it takes a little time for them to learn and get smarter. What it does do is open up more competition in the AI space, which in my opinion, is a good thing.
Check out the article about it on TechCrunch.
NFX, a venture firm exclusively focused on pre-seed and seed-stage startups, has just released a list of the top 75 early-stage AI companies. One of these could be the next Google, Amazon, or Facebook, or maybe just bought by one of those companies.
Read the list on NFX.
Flux, a browser-based electronics design tool, has just integrated AI into their design software. Imagine wanting to create a medical device that measures heart rate and temperature. With AI, it can suggest what hardware components you need to make it work. This lowers the barrier to entry for hardware design.
Learn more on Flux's website.
🌎 Around the Web
This week we have an image generator, an AI-based service to validate side business ideas, a tool to easily convert any text into an interactive quiz, and an AI-powered financial decision-making tool.
https://leonardo.ai/ - an image generator
https://www.checkmyidea-ia.com/ - validate your side business idea before launch with our AI-based service
https://quizgecko.com/ - quickly convert any text, document, or URL into an interactive quiz with ease
https://wallet.ai/ - artificial intelligence for daily financial decisions
🛠️ The Best Open Source Tools
If you are interested in going deep on learning LLMs (Large Language Models). Here's a curated list of resources to learn everything about LLMs.
🎧 Listen Up!
This week I’ve got to recommend Hard Fork again. I’m regularly consuming all their AI episodes.
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Until next time, take it easy đź‘‹
— Jordan Wade