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šŸ¤– New Search Engine Turns the Web Into a Database

PLUS: Stanford Publishes 2024 Index AI Report, Adobe Research Generates AI-Powered Sounds for Videos

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In todayā€™s Daily Report:

  • šŸ”New Search Engine Turns the Web Into a Database

  • šŸŒ²Stanford Publishes 2024 Index AI Report

  • šŸ”ŠAdobe Research Generates AI-Powered Sounds for Videos

  • šŸ› Trending Tools

  • šŸ’°Funding Frontlines

  • šŸ’¼Whoā€™s Hiring?

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šŸ—žRECENT NEWS

AI STARTUPS

šŸ”New Search Engine Turns the Web Into a Database

Image Source: Exa/ā€œIntroducing ā€˜Websetsā€™: A Breakthrough Toward Perfect Web Searchā€/Screenshot

Exa just unveiled ā€œWebsets,ā€ a new search engine that turns the chaotic web into a structured database.

Key Details:
  • ā€œWebsetsā€ is powered by the worldā€™s first Web-Scale Embedding-Based Search Engine, which is an AI system trained to organize the whole web by meaning.

  • Hereā€™s a concise breakdown of how ā€œWebsetsā€ works:

    1. Crawling The Web: It crawls the web, extracting information from billions of web pages.

    2. AI Processing: The extracted information is processed by an AI system that identifies content relevant to your search (e.g., names, emails, or job titles).

    3. Database Creation: The AI system organizes the content relevant to your search into a structured database.

  • For example, you could ask ā€œWebsetsā€ to find USC Marshall School of Business alumni working at a startup in Silicon Valley.

Why Itā€™s Important:
  • ā€œSince I was a kid, I dreamt of what itā€™d be like to have the whole worldā€™s data at my fingertips,ā€ said Exa CEO Will Bryk.

  • Itā€™s essentially a search engine that transforms search results into a detailed Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

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AI TRENDS

šŸŒ²Stanford Publishes 2024 Index AI Report

Image Source: Canvaā€™s AI Image Generators/Magic Media

Stanford University (ā€œStanfordā€) published their 2024 Index AI Report to provide unbiased, rigorously vetted, and broadly sourced data on the latest AI developments.

Key Details:
  • Hereā€™re the top three takeaways:

    1. 66% of people anticipate that AI will significantly impact their lives within the next few years. However, 52% of people express feeling more concerned than excited about AI.

    2. The training costs of AI models have reached unprecedented levels. For example, OpenAIā€™s GPT-4 required $78 million of computing power to train, while Googleā€™s Gemini Ultra required $191 million to operate.

    3. Generative AI (GenAI) investments have skyrocketed, nearly octupling since 2022 to $25.2 billion. Major players include OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, and Inflection AI.

Why Itā€™s Important:
  • Peopleā€™s mixed feelings toward AI highlight the urgent need for transparent and ethical AI development to build trust and mitigate fear.

  • Tech Giants will likely commit upwards of $600 billion in Capital Expenditures (CapEx) for AI infrastructure this year, underscoring the glaring short-term mismatch between investments in GenAI and the technologyā€™s current revenue.

AI RESEARCH

šŸ”ŠAdobe Research Generates AI-Powered Sounds for Videos

Image Source: Adobe Research/ā€œVideo-Guided Sound Generation with Multimodal Controlsā€/Screenshot

Sound designers often create sound effects from various sources that may not resemble the original video. For example, they use crinkling paper for a warm fire, a coconut shell for horse hooves, or a celery stick snapping for breaking bones. So, what if you could streamline this process?

Adobe Research developed ā€œMultiFoley,ā€ a tool that generates high-quality sound effects for videos through text prompts or reference audio.

ā€œMultiFoleyā€ can create clean sounds (e.g., skateboard wheels spinning without wind noise) or whimsical sounds (e.g., making a lionā€™s roar sound like a catā€™s meow).

Hereā€™s a concise breakdown of how ā€œMultiFoleyā€ works:

  1. User Input: Users provide a video with a text prompt like ā€œa squeaky door opening in a haunted house.ā€

  2. Video Analysis: It analyzes the video, extracting visual elements like object movements or lighting conditions.

  3. Sound Synthesis: It accesses a vast dataset of sound effects to generate sounds that match the video.

  4. Sound Manipulation: The generated sounds are further refined to match the overall visual elements of the video.

  5. User Output: It creates high-quality sound effects that seamlessly integrate with the video to enhance the viewing experience.

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šŸ”®Browse our always Up-To-Date AI Tools Database.

šŸ’°FUNDING FRONTLINES

  • Lica lands a $4M Seed Round to build an AI tool for product presentations.

  • Cadenza creates a $50M Early Stage AI Venture Fund focused on enterprise use cases.

  • Tenstorrent raises a $693M Series D to build workstations to run, test, and deploy AI models.

šŸ’¼WHOā€™S HIRING?

  • Leidos (Remote): LLM Research Scientist Intern, Summer 2025

  • Sabre Corp. (Dallas, TX): Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025

  • Mind Company (San Francisco, CA): Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025

  • T-Mobile (Atlanta, GA): Software Engineer Intern, Digital Orders, Summer 2025

  • NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA): Research Scientist, Autonomous Vehicles, New College Grad 2025

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