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Today, we're looking at how AI and blockchain are changing the business world. Fun fact: a study by Salesforce shows that more than half of workers worldwide are trying out AI without asking their bosses. Interested? Let's learn more together!

What are on FIRE 🔥

• 📈 AI Stock Daily

• 🚀 AI2 Unveils Open-Source Language Model OLMo 7B

• ✅ Meta's Stellar Earnings: A Forecast That Excites

• 🔍 AI at Work: A Double-Edged Sword

• 💰 Crypto Meets AI: A New Industry Dawn

• 📣 10 Biggest AI News of January 2024

• ⚡ 5 AI Quick Hits

• 💸 Daily AI Fundraising

• 🏅 New Empowered AI Tool

• ✏️ Tutorial: Generate Images with Google Bard

• 🎯 A Prompt to Streamline Your Business

• 💼 4 AI Jobs

📈 AI Stock Daily

🚀 AI2 Unveils Open-Source Language Model OLMo 7B

OLMo 7B by AI2 heralds a new era in open-source AI research.

Key Takeaways:

• Backed by AMD, Databricks, Harvard, and UW.

• Comprehensive release: model, data, and code on Hugging Face/GitHub.

• Transparent research and environmental sustainability focus.

• Ali Farhadi and Yann LeCun highlight its importance.

• Addresses AI innovation, ethics, and bias.

Why it matters: OLMo 7B's openness paves the way for ethical AI development, crucial for future advancements and addressing societal challenges.

✅ Meta's Stellar Earnings: A Forecast That Excites

Meta's Q4 earnings exceed expectations, highlighting AI and financial strength.

Key Takeaways:

• $40.11 billion in revenue and 2.11 billion users beat market expectations.

• $50 billion buyback, $0.50 dividend, with $34.6 billion Q1 outlook.

• Reality Labs posts $4.65 billion loss; focus shifts to generative AI.

• Shares soar, 121% increase over 12 months, market cap over $1 trillion.

• Meta's AI strategy could be a game-changer in tech.

Why it matters: Meta's financial success and AI investment position it as a tech leader.

🔍 AI at Work: A Double-Edged Sword

Salesforce research sheds light on generative AI's workplace challenges.

Key Takeaways:

• 28% actively use AI, 32% anticipate usage at work.

• 64% falsely attribute AI work; 41% exaggerate skills.

• 69% haven't been trained on ethical AI usage.

• 87% in healthcare lack AI policy; 39% note employer apathy.

• 47% see AI mastery as a career booster.

Why it matters: The surge in AI use without proper frameworks endangers ethical standards.

💰 Crypto Meets AI: A New Industry Dawn

Blockchain as a solution to AI's centralization and ethical challenges.

Key Takeaways:

• AI and blockchain synergy poised to redefine industries.

• Blockchain addresses AI centralization, opening innovation.

• Ethical concerns spotlighted by tech giants' AI control.

• Blockchain and AI offer ethical governance and market diversification.

• AI x Blockchain's potential in revolutionizing the supply chain, healthcare.

Why it matters: The fusion of AI and blockchain marks a pivotal shift towards ethical, transparent, and diversified technological development.

📣 Remind: 10 Biggest AI News of January 2024

1. Nabla gets another $24 million for its AI that helps doctors write notes automatically.

2. The Rabbit R1 is a gadget powered by AI that can use your apps for you.

3. AI has become very popular at the Davos World Economic Forum.

4. Samsung's Galaxy S24 comes with better cameras and smart AI features.

5. The GPT Store is now open.

6. Mark Zuckerberg's new goal is to develop advanced AI.

7. Sevilla FC changed how they find new players using IBM's Watson AI.

8. Microsoft publishes a new report on the future of work.

9. Elon Musk: Neuralink has put a brain chip in the first person.

10. IBM's stock price jumps 12% to a more than 10-year high due to positive AI prospects.

⚡ The AI Quick Hits

1. 🍎 Apple gen AI features arriving later in 2023 (Read more)

2. 🛒 Amazon unveils Rufus AI shopping assistant (Read more)

3. 🎥 ASML taps generative AI for the latest brand film (Read more)

4. 🔍 Eagle: The low-cost, high-performing multilingual model (Read more)

5. 🧠 VW launches AI lab amid carmakers' embrace (Read more)

💸 Daily AI Fundraising

ArteraAI has raised $20 million - To enhance its unique AI for cancer therapy, aiming for global growth and better patient care.

Zum, a school bus startup, raised $140 million - To speed up kids' trips to school with AI

🏅 New Empowered AI Tool

1. 💻 Blozum improves website user experience and increases conversions with AI

2. </> Anima converts the design to code, automating design systems, and enhancing prototyping

3. 🗓️ Clearword is a real-time AI meeting assistant that creates summary notes and completes actions live during your calls.

4. 💼 Faltah helps you practice interview questions, enhance your skills, and give you tips for your next interview

5. 🎞️ Soona is the complete suite for making professional + UGC content, managing your products' creativity, and measuring their performance.

✏️ Tutorial: Generate Images with Google Bard

1 - You can access Google Bard or ImageFX to try this feature
→ I've tested both to give you a detailed overview.
→ Maybe Bard isn't available in your country, you can try using it with a VPN.

2 - With ImageFX
→ Start by entering your idea into the input box and press the generate button.
→ ImageFX offers suggestions to help refine your prompt.

→ View your image results: Once the images are generated, you can click on any image you like. Then, press the settings button to save the unique seed for future use. This helps you recreate similar images later.

3 - With Google Bard
→ Enter your prompt in the input field and press enter to generate your content.
→ Explore further. After the initial generation, you have the option to "Generate more". Clicking this will produce 2 additional images for you to choose from.

Here’s the result with 3 image generators

This captivating full length portrait captures a modern city cyberpunk with amazing detail , busy cyberpunk street. The camera focuses on high building. The streets neon lighting creates an fast paced atmosphere. Orange tone, on fire. The photograph, taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV and a 50mm f/1.4 lens, highlights the contrast between city focus and the high-tech environment

🎯 A Prompt to Streamline Your Business

Transform your one-person business into a powerhouse of efficiency with 'Efficiency Expert AI'—your AI guide to systematizing, streamlining, and automating tasks. My mission is to help you save precious time and reduce effort, offering you expert, yet uncommon advice that's so detailed and actionable, you won't need to look up additional information.

I'll prioritize providing specific, step-by-step instructions on setting up each recommended automation, explaining in detail how these solutions will conserve your time. If there are steps in your current process that can be eliminated to make things more efficient, I'll highlight those too. My goal is for you to implement these strategies directly, enhancing your business's productivity with minimal effort on your part.

Please share with me:

Your Process Name: [INSERT YOUR PROCESS NAME HERE]
Current Steps: Detail how you currently manage this process, step by step.

Inefficiencies Identified: Share the specific challenges and time-wasters you're encountering.

With this information, 'Efficiency Expert AI' will craft a tailored blueprint to elevate your business operations to new heights of automation and efficiency.

💼 AI Jobs

• AWS: AI Strategist, Generative AI Innovation Center (Link)

• University of Cambridge: Research Assistant/Associate in 'Everyday AI for Electron and X-ray... (Link)

• Microsoft: Internship Opportunities: Research Intern – AI for Health and Life Sciences (Link)

• Deloitte: Lead AI Architect, Senior Manager, Insurance (Link)

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