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🤖 Meta’s New Speech and Text Translator

PLUS: 40% of the Workforce Requires AI Reskilling

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In today’s AI Report:

  • 🔊Meta’s New Speech and Text Translator

  • 💥40% of the Workforce Requires AI Reskilling

  • 🛠5 Trending Tools

  • 💰Venture Capital Updates

  • 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

META

🔊Meta’s New Speech and Text Translator

Meta recently introduced SeamlessM4T, the first all-in-one multimodal and multilingual AI translation model, allowing people to communicate and understand information in any language.

Key Details:
  • Speech recognition for nearly 100 languages

  • Speech-to-text translation for nearly 100 input languages and 36 (including English) output languages

  • Text-to-text translation for nearly 100 languages

  • Text-to-speech translation, supporting nearly 100 input languages and 35 (including English) output languages

Why It’s Important:
  • This AI model is Meta’s latest step in their ongoing effort to build an AI-powered tool that helps connect people across languages.

  • SeamlessM4T can promote healthy cross-cultural norms, social customs, and linguistic nuances.

IBM

💥40% of the Workforce Requires AI Reskilling

An IBM study titled: “Augmented work for an automated, AI-driven world” revealed that generative AI models like Google Bard wouldn’t replace jobs but augment them.

Key Details:
  • The company surveyed 3,000 C-level executives and 21,000 workers, discovering that 87% of executives expect AI to enhance their roles.

  • The study also concluded that 40% of the global workforce must reskill in the next three years.

  • IBM reported that leveraging AI models boosted revenue by 15% when supplementing low-level tasks.

  • IBM concluded, “AI won’t replace humans—but people who use AI will replace people who don’t.”

Why It’s Important:
  • This report unveiled a recent paradigm shift in desired skills. Over the past decade, STEM skills have been prioritized in the hiring process.

  • Now, companies emphasize people skills like team management, effective communication, and adaptability.

  • This shift in desired skills results from open-source AI models allowing employees to achieve more technical tasks with less training.

🛠TRENDING TOOLS

🚀B2B Rocket revolutionizes your sales process by autonomously navigating the entire sales lifecycle, from lead to conversion.

🗃Research Studio delivers rapid, AI-powered research analysis for UX, Marketing, and Product people.

📝Reword helps your team collaborate ethically with AI so you can write outstanding articles for your readers.

👏Klap transforms your YouTube content into digestible short videos for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.

🎧Trint transforms audio and video files into text in 30+ languages. Tell stories faster by transcribing, translating, and editing in a single workflow.

💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES

  • DP Technology, a Chinese AI firm, secures $100M in the latest funding round to enhance science-based platforms.

  • Prins AI raised $22M in Series A+ funding round.

  • Intel agrees to drop the $5.4B Tower Semiconductor acquisition.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

  • Salesforce (San Francisco, CA): Ethical AI Principal

  • Bowery Farming (New York, NY): VP, Data, and AI

  • Scandit (Remote, Italy): Senior C++ Engineer, Computer Vision Algorithms

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