Weekly Magic AI - Anthropic Claude 2, Elon Musk’s xAI, Google’s NotebookLM

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Top AI news of the week and Magic AI tool of the week

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Top AI news of the week

🤖 Anthropic releases Claude 2

Anthropic, an America-based AI company, announced the release of the new text-generating AI model Claude 2. Claude 2 is available on the web (U.S. and U.K.) and via a paid API (limited access) as beta. The new model can summarise, write, code and answer questions about particular topics. Anthropic claims that Claude 2 has a significantly better performance than Claude 1.3. Claude 2 is a serious competitor for ChatGPT.

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🌍 Elon Musk reveals his new AI company xAI

Elon Musk announced the formation of his new AI company xAI. The central goal of xAI is to “understand the true nature of the universe”. The Team has experience at DeepMind, Google Research, OpenAI, Tesla, Microsoft Research and the University of Toronto. We’ll keep you informed about further developments.

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📘 Google’s NotebookLM

NotebookLM is an AI-based notebook. The AI model is trained with your documents. You can then search over your documents with natural language and create summaries, for example. NotebookLM acts as your personal assistant. Google originally introduced the notebook under the name Tailwind at Google I/O. Now the project is entering the test phase under the new name NotebookLM. Initially, the test phase will only include users from the USA. You can register via a waiting list if you are interested.

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Magic AI tool of the week

GTP Web App Generator is an experiment by the company Wasp. You describe the web app you want to create in plain English. The GPT Web App Generator generates a complete code base for the web app within a few minutes. The Wasp team is currently focusing on the following tech stack: React + react-query, NodeJS + ExpressJS and Prisma. You can then download the codebase and run it locally.


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