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💼 LinkedIn Launches Its First AI Agent
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Jane Lee
October 29, 2024
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LinkedIn launches its first "AI agent" focused on recruiters, helping them find top talent. Get ready, LinkedIn’s AI might just drop your next job offer in your inbox!
What are on FIRE 🔥
AI INSIGHTS
🚀 Python Dominates GitHub: Octoverse 2024 Reveals AI Growth
AI hasn’t replaced developers; it’s actually boosting their work. More developers are joining GitHub globally, building AI models into applications and contributing to open-source projects, many for the first time.
Key takeaways:
Python has overtaken JavaScript on GitHub, driven by AI and data science.",
Global developer growth on GitHub has surged, with India projected to surpass the U.S. by 2028.
Generative AI projects grew by 98% year-over-year, reflecting strong interest worldwide.
GitHub Copilot usage doubled among students and educators, fostering new skills in coding.
Increased contributions are seen from regions like Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
Why it matters: As developer roles and tech tools change, 3 main trends stand out. First, AI models are now essential in development, helping with fixes, suggestions, and simple prompts, which is useful for beginners and experts alike. Second, the developer community on GitHub is growing fast, bringing more diverse talent and making coding easier to start. Finally, what it means to be a developer is changing; areas like data science, machine learning, and IT support are expanding who we consider developers today.
TODAY IN AI
AI HIGHLIGHTS
🤖 LinkedIn launches its first AI agent to help recruiters automate tasks like writing job descriptions plus sourcing candidates while targeting enterprise customers.
Our POV: What used to take recruiters days now takes only minutes. The AI remembers your hiring preferences and gets smarter with every use. Big companies like AMD, Canva, and Siemens are already using it to improve hiring. The future of hiring isn’t about replacing people, it’s about giving them AI tools to work faster. LinkedIn just made that possible.
🛡️ Protect AI's huntr program discovers 34 vulnerabilities in open-source AI tools while offering comprehensive security insights through their database.
🔧 OpenAI partners with Broadcom and TSMC to develop custom AI inference chips while moving away from fully in-house production plans.
🤝 GitHub integrates Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude models into its coding assistant while maintaining OpenAI as default provider.
💰 OpenAI's CFO, Sarah Friar, shared that 75% of the company's income comes from people who pay for ChatGPT. About 5–6% of free users choose to upgrade to a paid plan, and ChatGPT has around 250 million active users each week.
🚀 A new model, ‘red_panda’ shot to the top of the Text-to-Image Arena Leaderboard, beating big names like Flux, Ideogram, and Midjourney.
DAILY AI FUNDRAISING
Brightwave Inc. raised $15M in Series A funding, led by Decibel Partners, bringing its total to $21M. Its AI platform quickly analyzes extensive financial data, offering investment insights to hedge funds, banks, and more.
PRESENTED BY CONVERGENCE AI
Meet your own personal AI Agent, for everything…Proxy
Imagine if you had a digital clone to do your tasks for you. Well, meet Proxy…
Last week, Convergence, the London based AI start-up revealed Proxy to the world, the first general AI Agent.
Users are asking things like “Book my trip to Paris and find a restaurant suitable for an interview” or “Order a grocery delivery for me with a custom weekly meal plan”.
You can train it how you choose, so all Proxy’s are different, and personalised to how you teach it. The more you teach it, the more it learns about your personal work flows and begins to automate them.
AI SOURCES FROM AI FIRE
NEW EMPOWERED AI TOOLS
📦 APIPark is your open source AI gateway & API developer portal
↩️ Chat2DB Local writes SQL & analyze data with AI
💭 ReadKidz is one-stop multimedia children's stories creation platform
💫 SwarmStack is AI Agent for product planning and recommendations
🎬 Upsolve AI is customer-facing analytics as a service
AI QUICK HITS
📚 Google's new AI course teaches better prompt writing (Link)
🐷 AI translates pig sounds to boost their happiness (Link)
🎶 Universal Music partners with ethical AI firm Klay (Link)
📖 Open Book: Finally an “official” definition of open source AI (Link)
🎙️ SAG-AFTRA teams with Ethovox to build digital voice replicas (Link)
🔎 Now you can search through your chat history on ChatGPT web (Link)
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AI CHART
Open-source AI models are gaining traction, with startups emerging to build on them. But how solid is this market?
About the Meta's Role:
Much of open-source AI’s success hinges on Meta’s decision to release models publicly. Without Meta, high-quality options are scarce, with the best alternatives coming from Chinese labs like Qwen. These come with legal risks for US and EU businesses, as disputes are settled in Chinese courts.
Can Open-Source Succeed Without Meta?
Few other options are as open as Meta’s; fully open licenses like MIT are mainly limited to smaller, less powerful models. So, what if Meta stops open-sourcing advanced models? The high end of open-source AI might falter, leaving the market fragile and heavily reliant on Meta’s choices.
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