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Remember when Crypto was all the hype in 2016? Every week was packed with new product launches, though most we sh*tcoins. 2023 feels the same with AI, but with real product launches that are actually useful.

In today’s edition:

• MS Office is getting an AI upgrade.

• New AI can generate videos from text!

Before we begin, can you guess correctly if this picture was taken by a human or created by an AI?

Reading time is 4 minutes. Let’s go!

The Main Thing
You should know

Office 365 gets an AI upgrade

Microsoft is bringing the incredible power of GPT-4 to your office apps. A new AI assistant called Copilot, was launched last week.

Copilot might be the most useful AI assistant so far! It’s powered by -

1. GPT-4: Conversational and Reasoning skills from GPT-4 enable you to talk with the chatbot in plain natural english.

2. Access to Company’s data - Copilot can access your company's knowledge base to search and give relevant answers.

Microsoft's Office 365 is deeply integrated into corporate world, from Office apps to Sharepoint and teams. Copilot scans your documents, emails and meeting transcripts to provide relevant suggestions.

Business Chat: A chatbot style assistant that acts like an interface to all your work, and brings all relevant information together.
Example - say you have a customer interaction spread across email, teams meeting, presentation etc. Here’s a screenshot of how Copilot can save your time.

Tech Roundup
Stay Informed

Runway: Generate videos from simple text prompt!

Runway launched a new AI model that lets you create videos from text!
Need an Aerial drone footage of a mountain range? Done

Thinking of a late afternoon sun peeking through the window of a New York City apartment? Done.

The AI goes one step further to transfer the style of any image to every frame of your video. Example, you can mix a dance video with a picture of Spiderman to create a video of Spiderman dancing! Dumb, but you can imagine the possibilities.

MidJourney: Text to Image AI goes next level!

MidJourney released newer version of the "text to image" model, and the images are hyper real!
Here are some examples -

Input: street style photo of a woman selling pho at a Vietnamese street market, sunset.

Input: Living Room, Eames Lounge Chair, Wood, Leather, Steel,….Mid-Century Modern, Iconic

Around the Internet
Juicy quick bites

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• 📉 Baidu: Chinese search engine Baidu's stock fell 10% after a botched Chatbot launch

• 👜 Microsoft: building a new crypto-wallet within Edge browser

  
  

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Human or AI? Answer is AI