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In today’s AI Report:
🥊Meet MANG, the New Venture Capital Bully?
📦Amazon’s New Tailored Shopping Assistant
🎙Summarize Podcasts With Google Bard
🛠5 Trending Tools
💰Venture Capital Updates
💼Who’s Hiring?
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VENTURE CAPITAL LANDSCAPE
🥊Meet MANG, the New Venture Capital Bully?
Image Source: Vincent West/File Photo/REUTERS
Meet the newest and most aggressive venture capitalists in AI startups: Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, and Google (MANG).
Key Details:
MANG’s total capital raised in 2023 surpassed $25 billion, or 8% of the total venture capital raised in North America.
$23 billion worth of investments were concentrated in data and AI systems, with notable investments in these companies:
Before OpenAI’s ChatGPT captivated Silicon Valley, mobility startups like Waymo, Cruise, Rivian, and Uber dominated funding rounds.
Now, Large Language Models (LLMs) provide the largest number of customers in computing, and cloud providers offer a solid business model to drive revenue.
Why It’s Important:
Experts view MANG as a modern-day tollbooth. When drivers pass a tollbooth, they pay a fee to the government. When customers use a premium chatbot, they pay a fee to MANG.
For example, when Amazon (i.e., MANG) hosts Anthropic (i.e., AI Model) on AWS Bedrock, Anthropic users pay a small fee to AWS Bedrock through Anthropic to cover infrastructure costs.
Combined operating profits for MANG totaled $276 billion in 2023. MANG leverages these operating profits to develop bigger, better tollbooths.
🚨@mdgarratt believes this is illegal. He labels it “round-tripping:” when one company invests in another company to generate sales, then buys back the assets later.
He argues Amazon invests in Anthropic only to have Anthropic spend the money on AWS Bedrock.
🩺 PULSE CHECK
Are MANG companies engaging in round-tripping?
AMAZON
📦Amazon’s New Tailored Shopping Assistant
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Amazon recently announced Rufus, a new personal shopping assistant tailored to help users discover and shop for products.
Key Details:
Rufus is a conversational chatbot that answers questions like “What’s the main difference between trail and road running shoes?” or “Compare drip and pour-over coffee makers.”
Rufus utilizes Amazon’s product catalog, customer reviews, and Q&As from across the internet to answer queries.
Amazon is currently testing this feature with a small subset of users in the U.S. but plans to roll it out nationwide in the coming weeks.
Why It’s Important:
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy stated: “Rufus meaningfully improves how easy it is for customers to find and discover the best products to meet their needs.”
This new feature enhances the shopping experience with personalized assistance, expert knowledge, and a conversational interface.
AI TIPS
🎙Summarize Podcasts With Google Bard
Google recently added upgrades to Bard, making it great for summarizing long-form content from YouTube.
Here’s How You Can Use It:
Head to Bard. It’s free for all Chrome users.
Enter the prompt: “Write a detailed summary of this video [Insert Link]. Summarize using bullet points. Include timestamps to the relevant themes and sections, adding important quotes.”
You’re all set!
Now, you can generate detailed summaries of any video or podcast in seconds.
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💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES
SEMRON secures $7.9M to build industry-first 3D AI semiconductor chips.
Coris raises $3.7M to identify an AI-driven paradigm shift in SMB risk management.
Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih believes AI is a “moving target,” but her aim is steady.
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