Code Llama 🦙

Plus: Weekly funding roundup 🌪️

August 25, 2023

Hey there,

It's been nine months since the launch of ChatGPT, and in its wake, every tech company seemed to morph into an AI company.

However, recent figures from Microsoft and ChatGPT suggest that the demand for AI is already shrinking. Dive deeper here.

In today’s edition:

đź“° News: Meta’s AI to help you write code

🛠️ Tools: Spreadsheets with python, sql and AI integration

🎲 Misc: Thoughts to Speech?

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 Big Tech

Meta’s AI to help you write code

Meta unveiled a new AI model, Code Llama, to help you generate and discuss code using simple text prompts!

Code Llama:

  • Generates and Debugs Code: Code Llama creates code strings from prompts and fixes existing ones

  • Versatile Compatibility: The model is available in different versions like Code Llama-Python and Code Llama-Instruct, tailored to specific tasks.

  • Vast Input Acceptance: Capable of accommodating around 100,000 tokens of input code, aka it has higher working memory.

  • Powerful Performance: The 7 billion parameter model can fit on a single consumer GPU!

Code Llama is the #1 AI model for coding, outperforming all publicly available AI models. Plus, it is fully open-source, meaning you could use it for personal and commercial use without any special license.

But on the flip side, there might be issues with security of the generated code and copyrights when using the output of this model.

Leverage AI Tools

  • Personalized emails: ScaleMail can save you hours in email-outreach campaigns. Get 4x increase in reply rates through AI-generated, personalized emails that incorporate LinkedIn and company website information

  • Spreadsheets: Quadratic is a unique approach to spreadsheets, adding Python, SQL and AI capabilities, speeding up your data analysis.

  • Social media content: Trendup: Make Viral Content with just 5 clicks for TikToks, Instagram Reels, and YouTube shorts using AI-generated content.

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Funding Friday

Top funding rounds this week

  • Lex: $2.5 million (seed) to build a new AI-powered writing platform .

  • Beamer: $20 million (series a) to build no-code platform for measuring customer engagement.

  • Genesis Therapeutics: $200 million (series b) for AI-powered drug discovery.

  • Wand: $4.2 million (seed) to build AI-powered creative tool for artists.

  • Ideogram: $22.3 million (seed) to build text-to-image platform.

  • Hugging Face: $235 million (series d) to expand AI hosting platform.

  • Modular: $100 million (series a) to create and optimize AI models

  • Ikigai: $25 million (series a) to bring generative AI to tabular data

  • Kombai: $4.5 million (seed) to simplify UI coding with AI

  • Mendaera: $24 million (series a) to build AI powered robotics for healthcare

 Today in Tech

  • Sneaky: OpenAI now tries to hide that ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted books, including J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (link)

  • Wake up call: The New York Times, CNN, Reuters, and other outlets block OpenAI's GPTBot web crawler from accessing their content (link)

  • Break free from algorithms: European users of social media, including Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok and Snapchat, can now decline “personalized” content feed based on their relevance/clicks after the new law goes into effect (link)

  • In-painting: MidJourney Adds Image In-painting— Game Changer or Catch-Up Play? (link)