Now let's get on to last week's top headlines:
🤖OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever + AI researcher quit, sparking safety concerns.
💰 Squarespace is being acquired by Permira for $6.6 billion.
⚡ Tesla laid off its entire Supercharger team, putting its future into question.
📹 TikTok is testing a new AI-powered search functionality.
🧵 Threads is booting up a fact-checking program like Twitter’s community notes.
🤖 OpenAI has agreed a deal with Reddit to train AI on the social platform.
🐦 Twitter is officially X after the company finally changed its URL.
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🧑💻 Jijo Sunny, Aleesha John
AFFiNE, a Miro meets Notion tool, stands apart for its open-source and local-first approach. What’s under the hood of AFFiNE could potentially offer users the same exact features as Notion or Miro, but with customization and flexibility.
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🧑💻Jiachen He📍Singapore 💰Seed
Snaplet generates realistic seed data using AI to understand your database schema. Snaplet was founded by Peter Pistorius, who was also on the co-founding team of RedwoodJS with former GitHub founder Tom Preston-Werner.
Read more | Snaplet
🧑💻 Peter Pistorius📍Berlin 💰Pre-seed
Equals had its biggest release since its initial launch. There are three main parts to the update: a redesigned query experience, even more flexible spreadsheets, and more dashboard features.
Read more | Equals
🧑💻 Bobby Pinero, Ben McRedmond 📍SF 💰Series A 🏆GKA 2023 Best in Data
Plenty is a wealth management platform for couples. It's designed to help modern couples discuss, manage, and invest their money together. Plenty was started by a husband-wife duo in fintech (formerly Stripe and Even [acquired]).
Read more | Plenty
🧑💻 Emily Luk, Channing Allen 📍SF 💰Seed
OpenAI launched its latest model, GPT-4o. What really stood out was the voice handling. Users can ask the model a question and mid-answer, interrupt it to divert the conversation or correct it. OpenAI stressed how much more human-like this model is by showcasing its emotional reasoning capabilities. Read more | GPT-4o
Google launched a bunch of stuff including its answer to OpenAI's Sora. Veo outshines Sora by generating minute-long, 1080p videos from a single prompt. It can produce various visual styles, like landscape shots and time lapses, and allows for editing existing footage. Read more | Veo
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Maker Stacks is our newsletter where we interview founders and find out what products they use in their stacks.
This week: Kwindla Hultman Kramer.
Kwindla is a founder of Daily, which develops infrastructure and SDKs for video and audio, with customers like ByteDance and Accenture. A former Harvard and MIT grad, Kwindla has been interested in large-scale networked systems and real-time video since his working as a grad student with Mitchel Resnick (founder of Scratch) at MIT Media Lab. Prior to founding his first company, Kwindla worked to advocate for the building of free and open-source software (in the early 2000s when doing so was controversial).
Among Kwindla’s stack, you’ll find LLM tools, video editing software, and more.