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Capital invests in coffee, engineers, and GPUs. In return, it produces code that acts like labor. This will expand current software markets and create new ones where “per seat” pricing limited growth. It’s like a modern version of E=MC^2.
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AI REPORT
📉 Is The Hype Surrounding Generative AI Declining?
Source: Deloitte
Despite increased funding, Deloitte finds excitement for Generative AI is on the decline.
Key takeaways:
67% of organizations are ramping up their GenAI investment.
Interest decreases among senior executives and boards are 11% and 8%.
41% find it difficult to measure GenAI's impact; consistent reporting is done by only 16%.
Persistent enthusiasm for GenAI in essential business areas asserts Costi Perricos.
Significant challenges include data management and risk management.
Why it matters: The decline is happening because organizations now need to prove the value of their GenAI projects as they move past the early testing phase. The drop in excitement, despite more investments, shows a growing need for clearer results and measurable impact from GenAI projects.
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AI HIGHLIGHTS
🛡️ McAfee’s AI deepfake detector will tell you if that video’s a fake, priced at $9.99/year after a free trial.
💰 California draft bill proposes $300M+ partnership with Google, allocating $40M annually for AI innovation and supporting newsrooms over 5 years.
🛠️ Perplexity AI plans Q4 ad launch with 2M+ app downloads and 230M monthly queries, despite plagiarism allegations.
🤖 Google appoints Noam Shazeer, ex-Character.AI founder, as Gemini co-lead alongside Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals, integrating AI into Search and Pixel products.
✨ A new prompt gallery has just been launched in Google AI Studio. Users can test features like handling long content, using images, videos, and audio together, and creating organized outputs.
DAILY AI FUNDRAISING
Story, a technology startup that uses blockchain to prevent copyright theft by AI, raised $80 million in a round led valuing the firm at $2.25 billion.
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AI QUICK HITS
🚗 BeyondMath uses AI to design more aerodynamic F1 cars (Link)
📜 MIT defines open-source AI for the first time (Link)
🖼️ Adobe introduces ‘Magic Fixup’ AI for photo editing (Link)
⚡ Groq releases faster, cheaper API for OpenAI’s Whisper model (Link)
🤖 Disney AI brings robots to life (Link)
🎙️ ElevenLabs Impact Program aims to help 1 million reclaim their voice (Link)
AI CHART
Alchemy to AI: In the past, scientists were focused on alchemy, trying to turn lead into gold.
AI as Modern Transmutation: Now, AI is doing a new kind of "transmutation". Instead of changing elements, AI is turning money and resources into labor. When companies spend on things like coffee, engineers, and computer hardware, AI helps turn these into code and software that can do work, acting like human labor.
Traditionally, software has been used to digitize manual processes. For example:
Email digitized traditional mail.
Zendesk transformed old-style support tickets into digital formats.
PeopleSoft and Workday turned HR files into digital records.
What is the key point: The main shift now is that the "users" of these digital systems don’t have to be human anymore. AI can take over tasks that humans used to do, like fetching files or managing records, which could reduce the need for human workers in these roles. This change could greatly impact how businesses run and manage their teams.
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