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Microsoft's Aurora AI is poised to revolutionize weather forecasting, potentially saving lives and resources. Meanwhile, the AI-driven data center boom is reshaping infrastructure and economies. But not all is rosy: Google's AI search overviews are facing criticism, and OpenAI's CEO admits the company still doesn't fully understand how its AI models work. Let’s explore…

What are on FIRE 🔥

• ⚡ Aurora: AI Boosts Weather Forecasting

• 🌐 Data Center Boom Fueled by AI

• 🌟 AI Highlights

• 📈 AI Stock Daily

• 💸 Daily AI Fundraising

• 📚 AI Sources From AI Fire

• 📚 AI Sources From AI Fire

• ⚡ 9 AI Quick Hits

• 📊 AI Chart

• ✏️ AI Tutorials: Create Your Own AI Videos in Seconds

• 🎯 A Prompt to Re-work Hooks for Your Post

• 🖼️ AI-Generated Images

• 💼 4 AI Jobs

AI RESEARCH

⚡ Aurora: AI Boosts Weather Forecasting

Microsoft's Aurora AI model is set to redefine weather forecasting with its advanced capabilities.

Key Takeaways:

• 1.3 billion parameters foundation model.

• Outperforms traditional models with ~5,000x speed-up.

• Uses diverse atmospheric data for accuracy.

• Fine-tuned on short and long-lead time forecasting.

• Trained on over a million hours of weather simulations.

• Achieves 94% accuracy compared to GraphCast.

• Predicts air-pollution levels accurately.

Why it matters: Aurora's advanced predictive capabilities and efficiency mark a breakthrough in weather and climate forecasting, highlighting AI's potential to provide critical insights for managing and mitigating the effects of extreme weather events.

AI RESEARCH

🌐 Data Center Boom Fueled by AI

AI excitement and the push for advanced semiconductor manufacturing are driving a massive data center construction boom in the US.

Key Takeaways:

• Data centers are leased before they're built.

• US aims to boost semiconductor production.

• Global economic decoupling influences this trend.

• Data center investment is at an all-time high.

• Electricity prices and global energy consumption will skyrocket.

Why it matters: This unprecedented data center boom underscores the profound impact of AI on infrastructure and the economy. It highlights the urgency for sustainable energy practices and the strategic shift towards self-sufficiency in semiconductor manufacturing, which will shape future technological advancements and economic policies.

TODAY IN AI

AI HIGHLIGHTS

🤖 Google's new AI search overviews are criticized for inaccuracies and spreading misinformation, with experts suggesting collaboration with companies like Perplexity to improve reliability.

🤝 NVIDIA's new NIM microservices enhance performance and reduce costs for generative AI models, now deployable on Hugging Face with just a few clicks. This partnership enables faster token generation, translating to higher revenue and lower TCO for enterprises.

🤯 The new GPT-4o is going to absolutely change design!

🤔 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits the company doesn't fully understand how its AI models work, despite their growing power and influence. The issue of AI interpretability remains a challenge for the entire industry.

🤝 The rise of AI will paradoxically increase the value of trustworthy personal relationships. Building strong networks through face-to-face interactions will become crucial, while social media's role in establishing trust may decline.

🌟 All ChatGPT Free users can now use browse, vision, data analysis, file uploads, and GPTs.

🔎 Amazon's AI "Private Investigator" scans products for defects, enhancing the customer experience, reducing waste, and advancing the company's sustainability goals.

🤖 Zoom CEO envisions a future where AI clones replace us in online meetings, freeing us to focus on more meaningful work. The company aims to integrate AI deeply into its platform, transforming it into a comprehensive collaboration tool.

AI STOCK

DAILY AI FUNDRAISING

Storyblok raises $80M to enhance its AI-powered headless CMS, expanding in Europe and the U.S., and launching new automation tools like the AI-driven Ideation Room.

GetWhy, a market research AI platform that extracts insights from video interviews, raises $34.5M from PeakSpan Capital to enhance its AI capabilities and expand its clientele, including Nestlé, McDonald's, Nike, and L'Oréal.

AI SOURCES FROM AI FIRE

NEW EMPOWERED AI TOOLS

1. 🎨 ToonCrafter is a tool that creates animations from still-frame images.

2. 🔈 ElevenLabs generates sound effects from any text prompt.

3. 📸 Doly captures products with your phone to create instant 3D videos.

4. 🗨️ Speller AI enhances your speaking skills as your copilot.

5. 💰 Keeper is an AI-powered tool for effortless tax filing.

AI QUICK HITS

1. ⚠️ ChatGPT Down for Several Hours: What You Need to Know (Read more)

2. 🚀 WWDC 2024: Apple and OpenAI Partnership to Transform Your iPhone (Read more)

3. 🔄 How A.I. Made Mark Zuckerberg a Silicon Valley Star Again (Read more)

4. 🔓 Hacker Unleashes Jailbroken "Godmode" Version of ChatGPT (Read more)

5. ✉️ I Used AI to Improve My Professional Emails — It Worked! (Read more)

6. 🕵️ DOJ Won't Release Biden-Hur Interview Due to AI Deepfake Threat (Read more)

7. 🚨 AI Fakes and Misinformation Target Young Voters on TikTok (Read more)

8. 💼 JPMorgan's 'Moneyball' AI Tool Revolutionizes Portfolio Management (Read more)

9. 🏆 AMD just won the AI arms race (Read more)

AI FUNNY

AI CHARTS

Battle of the giants - Elo rating for the past year for the top 5 players - OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and Mistral.

AI TUTORIAL

Create Your Own AI Videos in Seconds

1. Go to Krea AI

2. Add Keyframe images to set how the video should look at certain points in time.

3. Add Text prompts to describe how the video should look during specific time ranges.

4. You can change the length of the video and move Keyframes and Text prompts along the timeline.

5. Change the settings to create videos with different sizes, more or less movement, or to make looping videos.

6. Video creation happens in two steps. First, a low-resolution preview is made. Then, the video is enhanced.

7. Click generate to start the video.

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AI PROMPT

A Prompt to Re-work Hooks for Your Post

Here's a social media post I plan to send: [Insert the post].
My customers are: [Insert customer information].
My product/service is about: [Insert product/service information].
I want to guide customers to take action by [Insert your desired action].
Please rewrite the first line to grab attention. The opening line should not be a question, should be 5-7 words long, create an information gap, and spark curiosity.
Can you suggest 10 new opening lines that meet these criteria?
Below are some examples of great hooks.
[Insert some examples]

AI-GENERATED IMAGES

prompt: 3D text "your text" made of [element description], on a light [color] background, in vibrant colors, in the style of a cartoon, with simple shapes, in a flat design, as digital art, bright color scheme

AI JOBS

• Adept AI: Product Designer (Link)

• Luma AI: Senior Distributed Systems Engineer (Link)

• Meta AI: Technical Program Manager, AI Research (Link)

• Scale AI: Account Executive, Automotive (Link)

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