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Today’s Menu 🥠

• Copilot’s Free AI Agent

• Major Upgrades With AutoGen v0.4

• Crafting Molecular Structures With Microsoft 

• Everything Else You Need To Know

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Fast Snacks 🥡

Keras Creator’s New AI Startup Aims for True AGI
François Chollet, creator of Keras, and Zapier's Mike Knoop are building Ndea—a groundbreaking lab merging deep learning with program synthesis to chase Artificial General Intelligence and accelerate scientific discovery.

AI Avatar Video Platform Synthesia Raises $180 Million Round
The funding underscores the rising demand for synthetic media in marketing, eLearning, and entertainment. By combining state-of-the-art AI with user-friendly tools, Synthesia aims to drastically reduce video production time and costs.

Base44
Empowers non-technical people to turn ideas into fully functional products. Simply describe your vision—web apps, tools, games— and Base44 has everything built in (data, storage, user management, integrations) to it into a working product.

ChatGPT’s New Sidekick
Microsoft’s Free AI Copilot Takes On Office Hustle

Microsoft just made your office grind a whole lot easier (and maybe a bit pricier).

They’re rolling out Copilot Chat—a free AI assistant built to tackle tedious tasks like summarizing Word docs, sprucing up PowerPoints, and analyzing Excel spreadsheets. The premium Microsoft 365 Copilot offers tighter integration with Office apps and your company data for $30 a month. Plus, their pay-per-message pricing shakes up how businesses can deploy AI agents—think HR wizards or customer service dynamos.

Whether you go for free, premium, or somewhere in between, Microsoft’s goal is clear: let the robots handle the heavy lifting while you focus on the big ideas.

Agent Makeover
Microsoft AutoGen v0.4 Gets Smarter and Sleeker

Microsoft just rolled out AutoGen v0.4, giving AI agents a major upgrade. 

This new version brings asynchronous messaging (agents can now juggle tasks like champs), cross-language interoperability (Python and .NET are besties), and improved debugging tools (because even AI needs help figuring stuff out sometimes). Developers also get modular components and observability features to monitor and manage agents better. Bonus: the revamped AutoGen Studio simplifies building and testing these agents with a low-code interface.

While Microsoft is leading the pack, they’ve got some competition nipping at their heels from Salesforce, AWS, and others. Let the AI agent arms race continue.

Together with Magic Patterns
Discover Imaginative Designs

Magic Patterns helps you generate modern CSS backgrounds, shapes, and patterns with just a few clicks. It offers quick, visual tools that save time and inspire creative web designs.

Test Your Skill
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Molecular Makeover
Microsoft’s AI Invents Materials From Thin Air (Almost)

Microsoft Research has debuted MatterGen and MatterSim, AI tools that create and test materials from scratch like digital alchemists.

MatterGen crafts molecular structures, while MatterSim stress-tests them under extreme conditions. This isn’t just theoretical—these tools helped create an entirely new material whose properties matched predictions 80% of the time. With open-source code and integration into Azure Quantum Elements, these tools could shake up industries, from battery tech to advanced electronics.

It’s all part of Microsoft’s larger 'AI for Science' play, and it’s like science fiction and chemistry had a very productive baby.

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Everything Else You Need To Know 📈

Luma AI’s Ray2 Makes Dreams Look Realer Than Ever: Luma AI’s Ray2 is here to spark your storytelling with lifelike, fast-rendered generative videos. From Antarctic explosions to giraffe surfing, this AI's mission is turning imagination into reality.

OpenAI’s Deal with Axios: OpenAI’s new partnership with Axios includes funding for newsroom expansion in exchange for content access for ChatGPT. On the surface, it seems like AI lending journalism a helping hand, but critics argue it’s more like a bear hug—too tight, too controlling.

Coding With Human-Like Intuition: Ndea’s new approach merges advanced deep learning with intuitive code generation, bridging the gap between symbolic logic and data-driven AI. This methodology aims to mimic human cognition, enabling AI to produce more flexible and robust programs.

Toolbox
5 Trending AI Tools

Persana: Access 700M+ contacts and 300M+ companies along with 75+ data provider and transform your revenue with digital workers. Voice agents supercharge sales and marketing teams with 24/7 pipeline generation.

Roundups: Use AI to research products and generate guides that influence buying decisions. Publish and share your Roundups and earn commissions when readers click through and make purchases.

Doctor Droid: This tool is an AI Agent that troubleshoots production issues by interacting with your tool stack & understanding your company's context.

OpenLIT 2.0: Allow for LLM experimentation, prompt management, secure API key handling, and protection against prompt injection. It also offers OpenTelemetry-native observability for the GenAI stack.

Gigasheet: Designed to simplify big data management and analysis using a familiar spreadsheet interface. From data upload to automated workflows and collaborative analysis, Gigasheet enhances efficiency and productivity in data-intensive tasks.

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