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In today’s edition:

• Microsoft's Copilot Turbocharges Finance in Excel and Outlook

• Microsoft Joins Forces with Mistral AI for a New Wave in Open-Source AI

• Adobe's New Tool Turns You Into a DJ, Letting You Craft Custom Beats with Ease

• Meta Unveils Llama 3 Chatbot Upgrade - Launching in July

• Figure AI Raises $675M for Humanoid Robot Development with Bezos and OpenAI Backing

• Google's Genie AI Turns Any Image into a Playable Game

Microsoft's Copilot Turbocharges Finance in Excel and Outlook

Hold your financial reports; Microsoft just launched Copilot. It's the Excel and Outlook game-changer, streamlining tasks like variance analysis and collections.

Finance bros tested it, reporting major time savings. Copilot dives into SAP and Microsoft Dynamics 365 for data, with more features promised. Japanese ad agency Dentsu is already on board.

Microsoft's finance team helped fine-tune this genius, making tedious reconciliations a breeze. It's not mandatory for finance teams, but if adopted, it might just fast-track your company's book closings.

Adobe's New Tool Turns You Into a DJ, Letting You Craft Custom Beats with Ease

Hold onto your headphones, folks, because Adobe just unleashed the musical wizardry of Project Music GenAI Control! It's not just an AI tool; it's your digital maestro.

Picture this: you type in a vibe, like "powerful rock" or "happy dance," and watch as it crafts a custom track just for you. But here's the real kicker – it's not a one-way street.

This tool lets you dive into the nitty-gritty details, adjust tempo, remix sections, and sculpt the audio like a sonic Michelangelo. Forget pre-made tunes; with Adobe, you're the maestro of your own melody!

Microsoft Joins Forces with Mistral AI for a New Wave in Open-Source AI

Guess what? Microsoft just shook hands with Mistral AI, the cool French kid on the AI block, giving OpenAI a run for its money. They're teaming up, making Mistral's fancy AI models available on Microsoft's Azure cloud.

Mistral's models are like the open-source rebels of the AI world. And get this – Mistral dropped a new model, Mistral Large, claiming it's a genius in five languages with mind-blowing reasoning skills.

Microsoft threw some cash into Mistral's hat, but shhh, we don't know how much. Meanwhile, Brad Smith from Microsoft is out there talking about AI Access Principles and flexing $5.6 billion in European data center investments. Crazy times, right?

Meta Unveils Llama 3 Chatbot Upgrade - Launching in July

Meta's unveiling Llama 3 in July! It's not just any AI language model; it's the snazzy upgrade that tackles your trickiest questions.

Have you heard Google hit a pause on image generation? Llama 3 ain't holding back. It's all fair game, from pranks to shutting down a car engine.

Meta's even getting a tone and safety trainer on board. Buckle up for some serious AI antics

Figure AI Raises $675M for Humanoid Robot Development with Bezos and OpenAI Backing

Figure AI, the humanoid robot startup, just scored big with a $675 million funding round, boasting a $2.6 billion valuation. Notable investors include Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI.

Founded in 2022, Figure AI aims to deploy its human-like robot, Figure 01, in sectors facing labor shortages, such as manufacturing and warehousing. The company envisions its robot performing everyday tasks autonomously, with a recent video showcasing its abilities.

As part of the deal, Figure is teaming up with OpenAI to develop advanced AI models for humanoid robots, while using Microsoft's Azure cloud services for infrastructure.

Google's Genie AI Turns Any Image into a Playable Game

Google DeepMind's Genie AI model is set to revolutionize gaming by transforming any image into a playable video game.

With an 11 billion-parameter architecture, Genie autonomously trained on 200,000+ hours of video footage, creating playable environments from a single image prompt. Unlike traditional methods, Genie streamlines game development, requiring only one image for a fully functional, user-responsive game environment.

The breakthrough extends to animating text-to-image frames and brings sketches or photos to life, offering immersive gaming experiences and potential applications in training generalist AI agents.

LLM Of The Week

Researchers are shaking things up in the world of language models with the introduction of 1-bit Large Language Models (LLMs). Meet BitNet b1.58, a variant where every parameter is {-1, 0, 1}.

It matches the performance of full-precision Transformer LLMs but with major cost-effectiveness – think lower latency, memory usage, and energy consumption.

This 1.58-bit LLM not only sets a new training standard but also paves the way for high-performance, budget-friendly language models and potential specialized hardware design.

Best Prompt of the Week 🎨

Today's Goal: Try new things 🧪

How to brainstorm ideas for a coding challenge?

Prompt: I want you to act as a brainstorming assistant and suggest [number] ideas for a coding challenge on [topic] that will test the problem-solving skills of junior developers.