Spotify Debuts Their New AI DJ

02-23-2023

February 23, 2023

⚡ Today’s Highlights

  • 📰 News: Spotify is debuting their new AI DJ

  • 💰 Funding: An AI-powered PowerPoint alternative

  • 🦾 Tools: AI that can create high-quality product descriptions in an instant

  • 📅 Events: The Data Analytics Career Summit is tomorrow!

📰 Today's Top Stories

(4 min read) (Source: Spotify)

TLDR: Music streaming giant Spotify has unveiled a new feature called "DJ," which is an AI-powered personalized guide that curates a stream of music tailored to a user's taste. The feature uses Spotify's personalization technology and generative AI through OpenAI to recommend music based on a user's listening habits and provide insightful facts about the music, artists, or genres. 

It constantly updates its lineup based on a user's feedback, and users can change the music by tapping the DJ button. Additionally, the feature uses a dynamic AI voice platform from Spotify's Sonantic acquisition to create a realistic voice that brings the DJ to life. Currently in beta, the DJ feature is set to transform the listening experience on Spotify. It scans the latest releases to find new music that users will love or takes them back to nostalgic playlists from the past.

(5 min read) (Source: Samsung)

TLDR: Samsung Electronics has announced updates to Bixby, which aim to improve the user experience, performance, and capabilities of the intelligent assistant and platform. These updates enhance Bixby's language recognition and provide users with greater control over their mobile experience. YoungJip Kim, the Executive Vice President and Head of Artificial Intelligence Team in Mobile eXperience Business, explained that the company's goal is to create a more intelligent and proactive interface that gives people greater control over their mobile experience. 

The updated Bixby provides a more personalized experience with enhanced language recognition, on-device AI support, and new scenarios. Users can customize their Bixby Text Call voice and record different sentences for Bixby to create an AI-generated copy of their voice and tone. Additionally, the updated Bixby can convert English messages typed by users into audio and communicate them directly to the caller. By integrating on-device AI with native applications, Samsung was able to expand Bixby's language offerings and capabilities, including advanced AI-based voice dictation.

(2 min read) (Source: Medium - Artifact Team)

TLDR: Artifact, the personalized news app developed by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, is now available for download on iOS and Android. The app, which launched last month with a waitlist, aims to use artificial intelligence to curate news stories from top outlets. 

Among its features, Artifact enables users to connect their contacts and see articles that are popular in their network, view stats on their reading history, and allows users to train its AI on their preferences, making for a more personalized news experience.

(2 min read) (Source: Reuters)

TLDR: Fudan University's MOSS chatbot platform, described as a conversational language model, went viral on Chinese social media after its announcement earlier this week. The platform was touted as the first Chinese rival to OpenAI's ChatGPT. However, MOSS crashed hours after its launch due to a sudden surge of traffic and was no longer open to the public by the next day. The team behind MOSS apologized for the crash and clarified that MOSS is still an immature model that has a long way to go before reaching ChatGPT's level.

The Fudan University team explained that insufficient computing resources and engineering experience led to the crash, and they expressed their heartfelt apologies to everyone. While MOSS generated much interest, the team acknowledged that it still had much to improve, and they downplayed the comparison to ChatGPT. Despite the setback, the development of MOSS shows China's growing interest in developing chatbot platforms that utilize artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technology.

💰 Funding Alerts

  1. Tome AI, an alternative to PowerPoint that uses GPT-3 and DALL-E 2 to generate presentations from typed descriptions, has raised $43 million in Series B funding, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing its total value to $300 million. Other investors include Coatue, Greylock, Stability.ai CEO Emad Mostaque, and past Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Lightspeed partner Michael Mignano joins Tome as Board Member.  The funding will be used to hire top talent in machine learning, engineering, design, and product, and to develop a cutting-edge, multi-year roadmap that equips creators with collaborative AI through every phase of creation. Additionally, the funds will be used to integrate with workplace tools to augment intelligent integrations.

  2. Metomic has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round to develop its next-generation data security solution for protecting sensitive data in the new era of collaborative software-as-a-service (SaaS). Evolution Equity Partners (Yuval Ben-Itzhak, Partner) led the funding round, with participation from Resonance and Connect Ventures. The investment will be used for U.S. expansion efforts, research and development initiatives, and to double down on Metomic's AI technology to enable safer, more compliant data sharing across SaaS ecosystems.

  3. HireLogic, a company that provides a hiring platform that uses AI to provide objective candidate insights, has raised $6M in Series A funding, led by Joseph P. Landy, former Partner and Co-CEO of Warburg Pincus, with participation from existing investors. The funds will be used to advance the platform's capabilities, expand its market presence, and meet growing customer demand.

  4. Electra Vehicles, a company that provides AI-based cloud and onboard software solutions to electric vehicles, has received $21M (approximately €19.7M) in funding from a group of investors led by Damiano Coletti, Partner at VC United Ventures. The funds will be used to scale operations, develop software solutions for range, lifetime, and safety concerns in the electrification industry, expand operations in European markets, and grow the technical and sales teams.

  5. Source.ag, an AI provider for greenhouse growers, has raised $23 million in Series A funding led by Astanor Ventures (Arnout Dijkhuizen, Investment Principal), with investments from Acre Venture Partners and greenhouse operators in the Netherlands. The company uses AI models to simulate plant biology, standardize data gathering and optimize photosynthesis. With the new funding, Source.ag plans to expand its AI to support more crop types and farming methods, and launch two new products in 2023, Source Cultivate and Source Control, which enable growers to simulate full seasons of crop growth.

🦾 Trending Tools

  • Prime AI has introduced a new technology for eCommerce called Automated Product Description, which is a unique image analysis tool capable of identifying more than 20 crucial product features such as category, color, sleeve length, neck type, and others. This tool utilizes natural language processing and artificial intelligence to generate comprehensive and distinct product descriptions in more than 50 languages, all within seconds.

  • Fathom leverages AI to automatically record, transcribe, and condense your Zoom conversations, allowing you to concentrate on the dialogue. You can conveniently share significant portions of the call with your colleagues through email and Slack. Additionally, you can automate the process of entering data after the call into your CRM, Google Docs, or Notion.

  • MagicSlides App - GPT for Slides is a GPT-powered tool that helps you develop presentation content and visuals in a professional, straightforward, and simple way.

🌎 Popular Content

2. Futurama is set to return this year and what better way to celebrate than to imagine it as a dark 80’s movie? (Twitter) 

3. Ben should have more carefully considered the facts and applied logic before going to the beach that makes you old. (Twitter) 

4. A prompt for creating new prompts? This is a prompt engineer's dream! (YouTube)

5. Two Minute Papers conducted some interesting tests on DeepMind’s new AI that can simulate 10 years of learning in seconds. (YouTube)

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🧠 Resources

 📅 Upcoming Events

  1. The Data Analytics Career Summit (TOMORROW February 24, 2023 / Virtual) seeks to help individuals break into and move up in the data & analytics fields. The focus of this event will be on helping individuals navigate the many career paths available, such as data analytics, data science and data engineering. Data will also be shared on the current jobs market and the latest survey of individuals in the field. Additional content will focus on best practices for career management, navigation of education options and advice/inspirational stories from real professionals in the field. Registration is now open.

  2. Join industry leaders at Subsurface LIVE 2023 (March 1-2, 2023 / San Fransico, New York, London) as we explore the latest open-source innovations in the open data lakehouse ecosystem and share real-world use cases. Hear firsthand from technology leaders at companies such as Apple, Uber, Bloomberg, AWS, and Microsoft about their experiences architecting and building modern cloud data lakes. Learn how to innovate with open-source technologies such as Apache Arrow, Apache Iceberg, Nessie, Delta Lake, Airflow, Dagster, Apache Superset, Apache Druid, Apache Ranger, and more.

  3. All Things IIoT Day (March 2nd, 2023 / Virtual) is an event that will bring together experts from around the world to share insights on IIoT technologies applied to manufacturing, smart cities/buildings/infrastructure, energy, and ICS cybersecurity. Over 115 subject matter experts will share insights with 21,000+ expected attendees on digital transformation journeys, focusing on trends, challenges, best practices, case studies, and creating compelling business models for transitioning to IIoT technologies. The content is targeted to CxOs, executives, and technology-oriented executives.

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