The Next Frontier in AI - Llamas? 🍭

Today’s Menu 🥠

• ElevenLabs Is Getting Freaky…Fast

• OpenAI's o3 - Smarter Than Your Mom

• Spit On That Thang - Llama 4 Style

• Everything Else You Need To Know

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Fast Snacks 🥡

Arizona Launches Online Charter School Powered Entirely by AI
Arizona has unveiled a groundbreaking online charter school where artificial intelligence is the sole instructor.

ASUS Introduces Copilot Plus with Intel Core Ultra 9 Processor
ASUS has launched its Copilot Plus mini PC. Aimed at professionals and enthusiasts for a wide range of applications, from gaming to content creation.

AI-Powered Daily Planner for Optimal Productivity
BeforeSunset AI is an intelligent daily planner that transforms your thoughts into actionable tasks, helping you plan smarter and accomplish more.

Speedy Speeches
ElevenLabs’ Flash Makes AI Talk Freaky Fast 🏃🏻

ElevenLabs just dropped 'Flash,' a text-to-speech model so quick, it can transform text into speech in just 75 milliseconds.

It’s perfect for real-time applications like chatbots and conversational AI that need to sound snappy. While the voices may not be as expressive as the slower Turbo models, most users won’t notice in fast-paced settings. Flash comes in two flavors: v2 for English only, and v2.5 if you’ve got multilingual needs (32 languages!).

Bonus: both are available through ElevenLabs' platform or API for easy integration. Ready to give your AI a voice on-the-go?

Reasoning Revolution
OpenAI's o3 Model Outsmarts Humans 🦾

OpenAI just teased 'o3,' a cutting-edge reasoning model that's flexing some serious brainpower.

This model crushed tough coding and math benchmarks, even outperforming OpenAI's top scientist in programming. Bonus: it can explain its answers instead of leaving you scratching your head at a black box result. But don’t get too excited—it’s not ready for public release yet. Researchers can request early access, while OpenAI irons out safety protocols.

Oh, and fun fact: they skipped 'o2' to avoid awkward trademark drama with a British telecom company. Classic AI drama, right?

Together with NewOaks AI
Human-Like AI Calls That Convert ☎️

NewOaks AI is a platform focused on human-like AI phone calls designed to deliver natural conversational experiences, aiming to streamline communication for businesses. This technology aims to automate outreach, follow-ups, and customer interactions while maintaining a professional and human tone.

Test Your Skill
Snack Quiz: Choose The Real Image 🔍

Llama Drama
Meta’s Llama 4 aims to outthink and outtalk rivals 🦙

Meta is cooking up something big with its Llama 4 updates, set to roll out throughout 2025.

Advanced reasoning and voice interaction, because typing is apparently so 2020. Llama, already boasting 650 million downloads and partnerships galore, is quickly shaping up to be a major AI contender. Meta's voice-first vision could make AI interaction as casual as chatting with a friend over coffee.

With jaw-dropping compute requirements and some rocky EU relations, Zuckerberg’s approach signals he’s in it to win it, even as OpenAI stalks nearby.

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Everything Else You Need To Know 📈

Top 10 Features from Tesla's 2024 Holiday Update: Tesla’s 2024 Holiday Update is packed with new features. Key upgrades include the Tesla app for Apple Watch, enhanced route planning with weather forecasts, and saving dash cam clips directly to your phone. Not to mention, a bit of humor with a new "fart on contact" feature.

Google Expands Gemini’s Research Mode to 40 Languages: Google is significantly enhancing its Gemini AI model by expanding its in-depth research mode to 40 languages. This extension allows users worldwide to access more comprehensive AI-driven insights across different linguistic and cultural contexts.

AI Startups Pull in Billions, Musk Grabs Spotlight Again: Across 2024, 49 U.S. AI startups scored at least $100M each, spanning robotics, generative AI, coding platforms, and hardware. In Q3 alone, AI startups scooped up $19 billion—28% of all venture funding. Notable jaw-droppers included Elon Musk’s xAI (a casual $6B round) and OpenAI’s industry-record $6.6B raise.

Ex-Twitch CEO Pivots to AI with Stealthy Startup: Emmett Shear, the former CEO of Twitch, has quietly launched a new AI startup called Stem AI, with a mission to align AI with human behavior and ethics. Partnering with Hipmunk founder Adam Goldstein and scoring hefty backing from a16z, Stem AI remains in stealth mode, but Shear’s social media musings on AI safety and runaway tech hint at a focus on solving big alignment challenges.

Gemini Faces a Promotion Dilemma: A federal ruling says Google can’t strong-arm device makers and browsers into giving it top billing—think Gemini without the VIP treatment. While Google pushes back against tougher penalties, like selling its Chrome browser or sharing more data, its proposed compromises could give rivals a shot at claiming the spotlight.

Toolbox
5 Trending AI Tools

RevFX: RevFX is an AI-driven platform that empowers businesses to define and build custom signals, scores, and metrics, enhancing revenue operations (RevOps) and sales workflows.

Eapy: Eapy allows creators to visually organize their ideas, share their inspiration and workflow with others, and co-create original music with our proprietary, 100% copyright-free AI music models.

Saturn AI: A platform for wealth management that automates investment research and streamlines operations. Saturn AI empowers investment advisors to work more efficiently, navigate complex regulatory landscapes, and deliver personalized, high-value services to their clients. 

Zebracat: It transforms text into videos and automates video production, making it simple for marketers, business owners, and content creators to produce high quality professional videos.

Paage: Users can manage and share links while integrating e-commerce functionality, making it easy for businesses to promote products and services directly through social media and other digital channels.

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