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In today's edition:

• DALL-E, a key piece to groundbreaking medical treatments

• Six startups that could rival OpenAI

• The hottest launches, headline roundup, and who's hiring

It's a Tuesday; no time to waste.

DALL-E, the digital health genie

DALL-E and its ilk may be best known for creating cute pictures of teddy bears riding skateboards, but the art generator also has the potential to change the world of medicine.

For those not in the know: DALL-E is a tool that conjures up images based on written descriptions, kind of like a digital genie.

Scientists at the University of Washington plan to use the technology to rapidly design new proteins that could lead to groundbreaking medical treatments. Using the same techniques that DALL-E uses to generate art, scientists are creating blueprints for new proteins.

Now, you might be thinking, "What are proteins and why should I care?"

Proteins are like the unsung heroes of our bodies, performing tasks like aiding in digestion and transporting oxygen. By rapidly prototyping new proteins that don't occur naturally, researchers can improve our ability to fight diseases like cancer and do things that our bodies wouldn't have been able to do on their own.

Using AI to design these proteins is a game-changer, allowing to more quickly and successfully build these complex molecules.

(The New York Times)

Who are OpenAI's rivals?

Six OpenAI competitors have raised a collective $1.3 billion in funding over the past few years to create their own custom language-learning models.

Their recipe? Troves of data and millions of dollars in computing expenses.

• Adept.ai - a browser extension that can surf the web and perform tasks on its own

• AI21 Labs - an NLP startup with a developer tool and two writing products

• Anthropic - safety-first models free of negative traits like bias and toxicity

• Character - custom chatbots with famous personalities (try their Elon Musk bot)

• Cohere - API integrations for summarizing documents, copywriting, and search

• Inflection - created by LinkedIn and DeepMind co-founders and raised $225 million 😲

(The Information) [Paywall]

🔥Hottest Launches

• ActivSight - provides real-time surgical insights in the operating room (link)

• SynthesysX - a Chrome extension that generates unique variations of images (link)

• Teacherbot - generates lesson plans, quizzes, and essays from a simple prompt (link)

• Pebblely - creates Instagram-worthy product photos with the click of a button (link)

• Xethub - lets remote ML application developers collaborate on data-centric apps (link)

• Kardow - manages a professional blog with no setup or coding required (link)

• Rizz - an AI-powered iOS keyboard that helps you generate ideas (link)

• WriteMyPRD - a GPT-3 writing tool for product managers (link)

• Fini - supercharges customer support workflows (link)

🤠 Headline Roundup

• Microsoft is in talks to invest $10 billion in OpenAI at a $29 billion valuation (Semafor)

• Critics say readers don't want to listen to Apple's new AI-narrated audiobooks (BI)

• Building AI software? Consider an IP protection strategy (RT)

• BlackBerry doubles down on automotive with a new AI platform (AIMagazine)

• Japan plans to use AI to fight fake news from foreign adversaries (Nikkei)

• Researchers develop AI to monitor a globally important glacier (University of Leeds)

• MassAITC plans to pilot projects for in-home care using AI (UMASS)

• Meta vows to reduce discrimination with its AI ad-targeting tech (Engadget)

• GPT-3 passes a prep multistate bar exam, but fails the real one (The Techtualist)

• How the AI epoch will impact Apple, Amazon, Meta, Google, and Microsoft (Stratechery)

• How ChatGPT integrated in Microsoft Office could change the workplace (VentureBeat)

• A sketchy ChatGPT app is topping the App Store and charging $8 per week (MacRumors)

Meme of the day

💼 Hiring Corner

• Anthropic is hiring a Research Scientist

• Character is hiring a Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure

That's a wrap for today. Stay curious and see you tomorrow! If you want more bite-sized content, be sure to follow me on Twitter (@jeremykuoo).