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Salesforce Launches ChatGPT for Slack, EinsteinGPT, and a $250 M Investment Fund in One Day
03-08-2023
⚡ Today’s Highlights
📰 News: Salesforce had one heck of a day
💰 Funding: SOCi Inc., Overhaul, Assured Allies, and Plus One Robotics
🦾 Tools: AI-powered mindmaps and productivity tools and an AI that can find a moment in a YouTube video without much context
📅 Events: The Women in Data Science (WiDS) central conference is today and Convergence Conference ends today!
📰 Today's Top Stories
(5 min read) (Source: Salesforce)
TLDR: Salesforce Ventures, the global investment arm of Salesforce, has launched a $250 million generative AI fund aimed at developing responsible generative AI and strengthening the startup ecosystem. The fund will initially invest in four companies, including Anthropic, Cohere, Hearth.AI, and You.com.
Anthropic will partner with Salesforce to bring its conversational AI assistant Claude to more businesses in a responsible and ethical way. Cohere is working with Salesforce to enable businesses to build products and promote the broad adoption of natural language processing technology. Hearth AI is developing a new category of next-gen products focused on agency relationship management. Finally, You.com will offer a suite of generative AI apps and products for business users.
(8 min read) (Source: Salesforce)
TLDR: Salesforce has launched Einstein GPT, a generative AI CRM technology. It will use AI-created content across sales, service, marketing, commerce, and IT interactions. Einstein GPT combines OpenAI's enterprise-grade ChatGPT technology with Salesforce's private AI models allowing customers to generate content that adapts to changing customer needs in real-time.
(5 min read) (Source: Salesforce)
TLDR: Salesforce and OpenAI have also launched the ChatGPT app for Slack, integrating ChatGPT’s AI technology to deliver conversation summaries, research tools, and writing assistance directly in Slack. The app combines knowledge in Slack with ChatGPT's intelligence, providing customers with a conversational interface to get instant conversation summaries, research tools, and writing assistance to quickly draft messages.
(6 min read) (Source: Microsoft)
TLDR: Microsoft has launched Florence, a new multi-modal computer vision AI model that can understand both language and images and perform a diverse set of tasks. Multimodal models, which can handle several input and output modalities such as language and images, are considered to be the most capable AI systems. These models tend to perform better and be more computationally efficient than their unimodal counterparts, as they have contextual information from various modalities.
Microsoft has added Florence to its Vision APIs in Azure Cognitive Services, where it can perform automatic captioning, background removal, image retrieval, and video summarization. It can also segment objects in a photo, generate up to 10,000 tags per image, and paste objects onto another background. Microsoft has implemented Florence across its platforms and services, and it is expected to be used for various applications in the future, such as defect detection in manufacturing and enabling self-checkout in retail stores.
💰 Funding Alerts
SOCi Inc. is a marketing platform for multi-location brands that has raised $120 million in a funding round led by JMI Equity, with participation from Vertical Venture Partners, Blossom Street Ventures, and Renew Group Private Limited. The company plans to further invest in its new line of AI marketing products called “Genius” and expand into new markets, including manufactured goods. Genius uses advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning models to transform its platform into a marketing partner that makes intelligent and impactful decisions while automating time-consuming marketing tasks at scale.
Overhaul, a software-based supply-chain visibility and risk management solution for leading brands, has raised $73 million in new growth capital, led by Edison Partners and including strategic investors eGateway Capital, StepStone Group, and TRM Ventures. The funding includes $38M in equity and $35M in non-dilutive debt and will be used to expand globally, enhance products, and fund the acquisition of security services provider SensiGuard. Overhaul's platform uses AI and machine learning to build and train models that detect risks in transit, alerting security operations teams and law enforcement when needed.
Assured Allies, an insurtech company, has raised $42.5 million in a Series B funding round led by FinTLV Ventures (Gil Arazi, Managing Partner) and Harel Insurance, with participation from other new and existing investors. Assured Allies uses machine learning and predictive analytics combined with the science of aging to provide successful aging programs that reduce the risk of disability and offer next-generation retirement products to make long-term care insurance accessible and financially sustainable. The funding will support the expansion of the company's carrier and partner network.
Plus One Robotics has raised $50 million in Series C funding led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Top Tier Capital Partners, Tyche Partners, and ROBO Global Ventures. The company provides AI vision software and solutions for robotic parcel handling, which combine computer vision, AI, and supervised autonomy. The new funds will be used to increase capacity, scale deployment, and expand sales and marketing efforts in North America and internationally.
🦾 Trending Tools
Whimsical AI for Mind Maps is a powerful tool that brings AI-powered suggestions directly into the early stages of ideation. This public beta release allows users to generate ideas, conduct research, and avoid mental blocks during brainstorming without leaving the board. With a single click, users can access AI-generated suggestions to get informed faster than ever before.
TimeTo is an AI-powered automation platform that optimizes team productivity by customizing workflows and integrating with team tools and calendars. With prioritized focused time, intelligent scheduling, and dynamic optimizations, TimeTo increases team focus and productivity. The platform provides actionable data to help teams adopt sustainable habits and can be customized with off-the-shelf automation or built with expressive APIs. Join the TimeTo waitlist for early beta access and a lifelong discount upon release.
Atlas is an AI-powered ‘search engine’ designed to quickly find any content on YouTube. Integrating OpenAI’s Whisper, it is capable of locating specific points in a video where certain topics are discussed, even if the searched keywords are never explicitly mentioned. Whether it’s information on basketball, a random city in California, or fashion tips, Atlas can help you find the exact moments in videos where your interests are discussed.
Olvy Changelog enables users to create and distribute engaging release notes with the help of AI. By utilizing OpenAI API, the tool allows users to write changelogs with AI, pass context by selecting issues, and edit the generated release notes. The software automatically converts the notes into multiple languages and provides options for notifying users via email or in-app widgets. Additionally, users can collect feedback on their changelog widget and webpage. With advanced theming support and customizable CSS, Olvy Changelog ensures that your release notes match your brand's aesthetics.
👀 More Reading
🌎 Fresh Content
1. Sam Harris had an interesting conversation with Stuart Russell, a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley and Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI, and Gary Marcus, a scientist, best-selling author, and entrepreneur. They discussed the recent developments in AI and the potential long-term risks of artificial general intelligence as well as numerous other interesting topics related to AI as it stands today. (Making Sense with Sam Harris)
2. There’s a very interesting discussion happening over on Reddit around an article written by Sushantvohra that claims middle managers in large corporations are at the highest risk of being replaced, not lower-level employees. Check out the full discussion here. (Reddit)
3. sentdex went over some of the new AI photo and video editing tools on HuggingFace such as ControlNet, the revolutionary tool for Stable Diffusion that allows users to generate AI images from a doodle and a prompt. The tool is a ton of fun to use so be sure to give it a try here! (YouTube)
4. Baking Bad, featuring Megamind in the role of Jesse Pinkman. (Twitter)
🧠 Resources
Looking to start your Prompt Engineering career? Explore the fundamentals of prompt engineering and discover how to launch your career in this thrilling area here.
📅 Upcoming Events
Presenting the second edition of Convergence Conference (TODAY March 7-8, 2023 / Virtual), explore the new frontiers of machine learning including novel applications, tools and processes! This free two-day virtual event features 25+ talks, panels and workshops by leading data scientists who share cutting-edge ML techniques to solve complex problems in the real world.
The Women in Data Science (WiDS) central conference (TODAY March 8, 2023 / Stanford, CA, USA) is a technical conference featuring outstanding women discussing their exceptional work in data science and related fields, in a wide variety of domains. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. You’ll want to be in the room to experience the energy of this unique conference, connecting with attendees from industry, academia, non-profits, and government and learning from the sessions. Come to be inspired by and learn from outstanding speakers and panellists on topics ranging from, amongst others, algorithm design to data ethics, algorithmic bias to visualization, sustainability to healthcare, and outer space.
Don’t miss the 18th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) (March 13-16, 2023 / Stockholm, Sweden + Virtual). Researchers from across the world present their best work to HRI to exchange ideas about theory, technology, data, and science furthering the state-of-the-art in the field. The conference theme for HRI 2023 is “HRI for all” and will focus on key HRI theories, methods, designs, studies, and technical advances that aim to understand and promote inclusion and diversity in HRI.
The 3rd Annual European Chatbot & Conversational AI Summit (March 15-16, 2023 / In-Person at Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh, Scotland + Virtual) is a two days conference and exhibition designed to host industry executives, and adopters of Conversational AI, Chatbots, Virtual assistant, voice technology and Conversation design. The summit will reflect the latest tendencies and recent application changes in the Conversational AI space in the European market.
Microsoft will be hosting a virtual event titled "The Future of Work: Reinventing Productivity with AI" (March 16, 2023 / Virtual). The event will be hosted by CEO Satya Nadella and CVP Jared Spataro, and will focus on how AI will revolutionize the way people and organizations work. While Microsoft has not disclosed any specific announcements, it is speculated that the event will primarily focus on Office.
Data Innovation Summit ANZ (March 16, 2023 / Crown Conference Centre, Melbourne, Australia) is the largest and the most influential annual Data and AI event represented across several regions, bringing together the most innovative minds, enterprise practitioners, technology providers, start-up innovators and academics, working with Data Science, Big Data, ML, AI, Data Management, Data Engineering, IoT and Analytics, in one place to discuss ways to accelerate AI-driven Transformation throughout companies, industries and public organizations.
💼 Jobs
Samsung Research America Internship: 2023 AI Research - Internship
Mountain View, CA, USA
$48 - $70 /hour
Lanham, MD, USA OR Remote
$118,000 - $125,000 USD
Austin, TX, USA (Remote or Hybrid available)
$185,000 - $220,000 USD
Cover Whale: Senior AI/ML Engineer (On-Site)
New York, NY, USA
$147,000 - $160,000 USD
Fable: Sr. Machine Learning Engineer - Generative Modeling (Remote)
Remote
$120,000 - $180,000 USD
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