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Marketing News
Do you think your email open rates are good? You might be reading false data. Apple’s “Protect Mail Activity” actually sends false signals for open rates (Link).
How fast should your SaaS be growing? Three years for the first $1M with growth by subscribers is normal (Link). This is 2023 data but still interesting.
“I am going to build a product…. where do I start?” Here is an article on exercises to see if your product idea will work (Link).
Are you thinking of building an AI application? This report shows the most popular apps and their overall growth rates (Link).
What is the future of the ad industry with AI answering our questions? (Link)
AI News
Anthropic’s Claude-3 - Hiaku's latest performance numbers are impressive (Link).
European Parliament just passed the landmark Artificial Intelligence Act. This bans AI’s use of biometrics identification systems by law enforcement, facial recognition, social scoring, and the ability to exploit user vulnerabilities. Infrastructure, education, and employment apps will have strict rules (Link).
Pinterest launched an AI tool that lets users filter search results by body type. The filter starts with “a visual cue to select between four body type ranges.” It’s only available in the U.S. for women’s fashion and wedding-related items, but it will expand to men’s fashion later this year (Link).
AI for cancer - Researchers developed an AI-driven tool for near real-time cancer surveillance and improved cancer treatments and diagnoses (Link).
Apple is quietly working on its AI. This paper shows development of an MM1 model that might compete with LLMs like GPT-4 and Gemini (Link). That said, Apple is also in talks to use Google’s Gemini (Link).
Nvidia’s new chip is 30x faster (Link).
What is in the mind of Sam Altman (OpenAI)? (Link)
AI-Powered Creativity
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Cool Tools
Twitter Bookmarks - Categorize your Twitter/X bookmarks using an AI manager. It’s still funny that they don’t call it X (Link).
HealthKeys - HealthKey’s AI-powered Summaries transform 100s of medical records into a simple patient outline (Link).
Claude 3 prompt library (Link).
xAI, a company founded by Elon Musk, released their free LLM, GROK-1 (Link).
aiCarousels - Craft visually engaging carousels for social media (Link).
Which Test Won?
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