Your weekly briefing on all things AI

It’s no secret that AI business adoption is booming. Entrepreneurs and Big Tech alike are racing to package these new technologies in ways that deliver ROI to business owners (despite their high costs to develop and operate). The emergence of AI Agents, particularly agents native to the tools businesses are already using, will further accelerate the rate at which AI augments the costs of human labor and creates incremental value.

Let’s dive in:

> Microsoft & Salesforce Compete For Top AI Agent Effectiveness

> Christopher Nolan’s Inception Just Became A Little Less Fiction

> Robot AI Startup Physical Intelligence raises $400M from Bezos & OpenAI

> LinkedIn Released an AI Agent Hiring Assistant

> Prompt Tip: Leverage ChatGPT’s Memory for Self Reflection

Major CRMs Push AI Agents - Making AI Adoption Easier

As Bryan Goode, the Corporate VP of Microsoft, recently phrased it,  “Every line of business system that exists today is going to get reimagined as an agent that sits on top of a copilot.”

CRMs (customer relationship managers) are a great place to start for Gen AI because they are typically the treasure troves of business data, and a lot of text-heavy actions occur there. Over the last year, generative AI made it possible for people to massively increase their output with the right prompting. Imagine the productivity boosts when these tasks can occur autonomously and proactively.

Goode’s statement was made right as Microsoft announced 10 new autonomous agents and a copilot builder being made available for Dynamics365 this month. It’s no coincidence that last Tuesday Salesforce made their own announcement promoting Agentforce and Agent Builder, their competing new autonomous agent tools. Shots were most definitely fired at Microsoft’s “Clippy 2.0” 📎(venturebeat.com)

More Stories

• Amazon’s CEO on their latest earnings call hints at “agentic Alexa.” Bloomberg anticipates a 2025 release date. (techcrunch.com)

• Google reported a 12% ad revenue increase, thanks to AI-generated search summaries. (investors.com)

• Qualcomm & Alphabet team up to create in-car AI assistants. (technologymagazine.com)

• Amazon reported a 19% increase in cloud revenue, boosted by AI services. (ft.com)

• Microsoft attributes a 16% sales growth to its expanding AI product suite. (apnews.com)

• Apple is buying photo-editing app Pixelmator to integrate AI into their Photos app. (techcrunch.com)

Real Estate

Fraudsters filed fake documents to prevent the sale of a $137.5 million mansion. With 28% of title insurance companies reporting impersonation fraud in 2023, experts urge homeowners to adopt stronger security measures against these rising threats. (knews.kathimerini.com)

Healthcare

Zoom is used for about 36% of all telehealth visits in the U.S., making it the most popular video-conferencing platform, according to industry intelligence group Definitive Healthcare. They’ve recently announced a partnership with Suki to offer doctors on its platform an AI scribe that can take notes about their consultations with patients. (techcrunch.com)

Finance and Banking

Perplexity AI has launched a new stock market research tool that simplifies financial analysis. Merging AI-powered insights with reliable financial data offers investors an innovative way to navigate the complexities of the market and explore curiosities. (zdnet.com)

Technology

REMspace has made it possible for two people to exchange messages in separate lucid dreams using specialized equipment. In a recent study, participants' brain waves and polysomnographic data were tracked remotely while they slept at home, and during lucid dreams, a server transmitted a word to one via earbuds, which was then confirmed by another upon awakening. This breakthrough opens doors to future uses in mental health therapy and immersive experiences, expanding sleep’s untapped potential. (businesswire.com)

Retail and E-commerce

Microsoft and Rezolve AI (AI built specifically for commerce) have teamed up to integrate Rezolve’s Brain Suite into Microsoft Azure, offering retailers worldwide access to next-level tools for seamless shopping, personalized engagement and scalable growth, all available globally via Azure Marketplace. (news.microsoft.com)

Media and Entertainment

ElevenLabs has unveiled Voice Design, a groundbreaking AI tool that crafts unique voices from just a text prompt. This feature lets users specify age, accent, and tone to create their dream voice in seconds. With an API on the way, Voice Design is set to transform voice generation for creators. (linkedin.com)

LinkedIn Hiring Agent is Finally Here:

It was an obvious next step for one of the largest professional networks in the world to add AI-driven hiring assistance capabilities, and so far, the reviews have been positive!

More Tools:

• Boardy: A networking agent to help you connect with real people.

• Strella: AI-driven interviews and real-time analysis, providing human insights on a large scale.

• Pixyer AI: Effortlessly generate high-quality, realistic product images with just a few clicks.

• PersonaForce: Quickly create buyer personas, engage for insights, and design campaigns for better results and higher ROI.

• Gala AI: Unlock your viral potential by testing diverse hooks at the start of your video.

• Duonut: Conduct conversational surveys with real-time follow-ups and response summaries to boost customer success and revenue.

• BrowserCopilot AI: Acts as your AI companion, understanding your work context on any website and providing support when you need it.

• Elon Musk's xAI is in talks to raise funds at a potential $45B valuation, with interest from Middle Eastern investors. (ft.com)

• Perplexity secures $500M to grow AI-powered search, reaching a $9B valuation. (reuters.com)

• Physical Intelligence raises $400M to build universal robotics software, with backing from Jeff Bezos and OpenAI. (reuters.com)

• Lightmatter secures $400M to advance AI-driven photonic data centers. (techcrunch.com)

• Procurement startup Zip is valued at $2.2B following a $190M funding round. (pymnts.com)

• Terray Therapeutics raises $120M for AI-enhanced small-molecule drug development. (siliconangle.com)

• Socket receives $40M to enhance software security scanning. (techcrunch.com)

• Interface.ai brings in $30M to assist banks with customer inquiries. (techcrunch.com)

• Ex-SpaceX engineers at Freeform raise $14M to expand their innovative metal 3D printing method. (techcrunch.com)

• Dottxt secures $11.9M to guide AI models in generating responses. (techcrunch.com)

• Eric Schmidt’s SandboxAQ seeks a $5B valuation for its ambitious AI and quantum technology project. (techcrunch.com)

_. Prompting Tip _.

What Can ChatGPT Tell You About Yourself?

Curious about what ChatGPT knows about you? If you regularly use ChatGPT and have its memory feature enabled, try asking it:

“From all of our interactions, what is one thing that you can tell me about myself that I may not know about myself?”

This intriguing prompt, shared by Tom Morgan on X, may reveal surprising insights about your character and work style. Such interactions highlight the growing potential of AI beyond mere assistance, as users discover fascinating aspects of themselves and new applications for these technologies.