Sign Up | Advertise | Tools | View Online | | | Good morning AI junkies! | The weekend is upon us, but the AI train isn’t slowing down. | Time to catch a ride. | | In today’s rundown: | 📱 Meta talks AI's impact on Facebook & Instagram algorithms 🛍️ AI powered shopping released within Bing 🚀 Character AI's growth has been insane (too good to be true?) 🛠️ 6 New AI tools and 3 quick hits
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| | | | META | |  | Source: Meta |
| Meta is giving a sneak peek into its AI's content-curation magic for Facebook and Instagram with 22 'system cards.' | These handy guides spill the beans on how Meta ranks content using its algorithm, user customization, and the factors or 'signals' that influence AI predictions. | Plus, the expansion of the "Why Am I Seeing This?" feature lets users see previous activity that may have informed Meta’s machine learning models. | Transparency: unlocked. |
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| | BING | |  | Source: Bing |
| Microsoft's newly released shopping tools in Bing and Edge employ AI to simplify your entire online shopping journey, from inspiration to purchase. | Offering AI-generated buying guides and summarized reviews, these tools aim to eradicate shoppers from becoming overwhelmed. Price Match even monitors item costs post-purchase, potentially saving shoppers big bucks. | Microsoft's turning shopping stress into joy. |
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| | CHARACTER AI | |  | Source: Twitter @zackhargett |
| There’s only one word to describe Character AI’s growth to date: insane. | Check out these stats: 280 million web visits last month, growing 60% month-over-month, and a nearly 30-minute average session duration. | Of note: a 30-minute average session duration is longer than YouTube’s 20-minute average. This almost sounds a little too good to be true. |
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| | | | | Funding, funding, and more funding. Lots of people are throwing lots of cash at AI startups. Inflection received a $1.3B investment to create personal AI for everyone, Runway raised $141M to build the future of creativity, and Typeface pulled in $100M to build generative AI for brands. |
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| | | In the words of Playground founder Suhail Doshi, Playground with mixed image editing is “a new way to combine real and synthetic images to create stunning works of art & photorealistic images bound only by your imagination.” |
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| | | It only took Light Years Beyond four months to be acquired for nearly $234 million. Meituan announced that it will acquire Light Years Beyond for $233.7 million in cash. It’s a big step forward for the company that wants to be known as the “OpenAI for China.” |
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