In today’s newsletter: Google’s Bard, Altman’s suggestive selfie, the VC race to resource potential OpenAI competitors, 40 AI tools for makers, and more.

Things continue to heat up the world of AI.

Yesterday, Google unveiled Bard (its response to ChatGPT), Quora announced Poe, and today, Microsoft’s got a news event scheduled for 10AM PT that’s widely rumored to be about Bing’s integration of ChatGPT. Oh, and ICYMI: Sam Altman tweeted a cute selfie with Satya Nadella.

The race to find viable OpenAI competitors: According to a report by Bloomberg, “less than three months into 2023, AI companies have raised or are in talks to raise upwards of $700 million cumulatively — not including OpenAI’s Microsoft backing.”

Startups on the receiving end of recent cash injections include Stability AI (powering DreamStudio), Anthropic (powering one of the three bots behind Poe), and AI21 Labs (makers of Ask RGB).

Hundreds of AI-powered products launching daily: And that’s probably a conservative estimate. A handful of recent AI applications and OpenAI integrations include:

🧠 ConversAI: NLP integrations and “smart tone detection” for messaging platforms like Twitter or Gmail to enable users to respond to messages more efficiently.

💬 Ask Quran: A ChatGPT-style interface allowing users to ask questions and receive references and verses from the Quran.

⚡AI for Sheets by Cargo: An OpenAI add-on sales teams and marketers can use to automate messaging prospects.

🤗 NLP inside your database: An database integration with Open AI’s GPT-3 and pre-trained models from Hugging Face to deliver additional insights to existing data.

Opportunities for AI are limitless: We rounded up 40 AI apps, tools, and resources makers can use to optimize each stage of the product development lifecycle.

Bookmark it for easy access to 40+ tools and ideas (or investment opportunities..?) to start streamlining your product ideation, development, launching, and scaling processes with AI.

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