Would you trust a personal AI chatbot

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In today’s update:

📰 News: Inflection raises $1.3B for Pi Chatbot.

🛠️ Tools: Simplify your work with spreadsheets.

🧠 Learn: Short courses on Generative AI.

🎲 Misc: First fully AI generated drug enters human trials!

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Inflection raises $1.3B for AI Chatbot

Just yesterday, we reported on this week's bustling investment activity in AI startups. However, it appears that the excitement isn't over yet.

A month ago, Inflection launched their new chatbot, Pi, that rivals ChatGPT and outperforms all top LLM models. Since then, the company was “overwhelmed with offers“ and raised the 4th largest funding round ever for AI startups yesterday!

Why it matters: Pi aims to be your personal AI rather than a work focused bot like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. Its designed to be kind and supportive, and to help you navigate your personal life.

In our tests, Pi mimics human-like emotions making the conversation much more natural and intelligent than chatGPT. Once you get past the eerie-feeling of chatbot’s fake empathy, it’s more fun and helpful.

New Tools
Leverage AI to grow

• Working with Spreadsheets: ChatCSV let’s you chat with any csv document, enabling you to easily analyze the data and ask follow up questions (link)

• A better knowledge base: Knibble is an AI-powered knowledge assistant that helps you to access your information easily. You can build a chatbot over your personal or work documents, including files and web pages, and collaborate with your team. (link)

• Write SEO optimized content: BlogSeo help you create high-quality and search-engine friendly blog articles using AI. This tool also helps you with keyword research, helping you write your content faster. (link)

Learn

• Build your own Discord/Slack bot using Supabase and GPT (link)

• Get started with Generative AI with short ~1 hour courses (link)

Misc
From the corners of the Internet

• The first fully AI-generated drug enters phase II clinical trials in human patients to treat a chronic lung disease - CNBC

• Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads - MIT Technology Review

• An Interview with Marc Andreessen about AI and How You Change the World - Stratechery

• Google announces the first machine ‘unlearning’ challenge, to help remove the influence of a specific subset of training example for an AI model - Google

• Humans vs AI: Who’s a better tutor? Take a look at a new research paper benchmarking ChatGPT, GPT-4, and Human Tutors on programming education - Arxiv 

• Microsoft brings new AI-powered shopping tools to Bing and Edge - Techcrunch