- Not So Artificial
- Posts
- 🎧 AI Is In Your Ears, 🛒 Your Cart, and Now Your 🏆 Nobel Prize
🎧 AI Is In Your Ears, 🛒 Your Cart, and Now Your 🏆 Nobel Prize
Your daily dose of artificial intelligence and tech innovations
Not So Artificial Newsletter
October 11, 2024
In partnership with
In partnership with
🎧 HEAR ME OUT: ByteDance's AI Earbuds Are More Than Just Music Players
TikTok's parent company ByteDance is stepping into the AI wearables game, and it's not just another pair of earbuds – it's your personal AI assistant that sits right in your ear. Priced at $170 (a steal compared to some premium audio gear), these open-ear devices are launching in China on October 17, coming in four sleek colors: purple, silver, black, and white.
Why it matters: These aren't your average earbuds. They're designed to be your gateway to ByteDance's generative AI chatbot, no phone-waking required. Think of it as having a knowledgeable friend always ready to chat – except this friend lives in your earbuds.
By the numbers:
Price point: $170
Launch date: October 17, 2024
Color options: 4
Markets: Currently China-only
Between the lines: This move signals ByteDance's ambition to expand beyond social media and into the AI hardware space, potentially creating an ecosystem where their AI is literally at your beck and call.
💼 STARTUP SPOTLIGHT: Writer's $1.9B AI Ambitions
Writer, the AI text generator for corporate clients, is making waves:
Trained a new model for just $700K using synthetic data
Now fundraising at a $1.9B valuation
Aiming to compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere in the enterprise market
Writer RAG tool: build production-ready RAG apps in minutes
RAG in just a few lines of code? We’ve launched a predefined RAG tool on our developer platform, making it easy to bring your data into a Knowledge Graph and interact with it with AI. With a single API call, writer LLMs will intelligently call the RAG tool to chat with your data.
Integrated into Writer’s full-stack platform, it eliminates the need for complex vendor RAG setups, making it quick to build scalable, highly accurate AI workflows just by passing a graph ID of your data as a parameter to your RAG tool.
🧬 NOBEL NEWS: AI Makes History in Chemistry
Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper are now Nobel laureates! Their AI creation, AlphaFold, which predicts protein shapes, just earned them the Chemistry Prize. Talk about a calculated victory! 🏆
🤖 AMAZON'S AI AUTOMATION ACCELERATION
Amazon's going full throttle on AI integration:
New warehouse: 10x more robots
EV fleet: AI cameras showing drivers which boxes to grab
Website: AI shopping guides for hundreds of categories
Future plans: AI agents that shop for you (because apparently, 1-Click wasn't fast enough)
💰 OPENAI'S OPEN BOOKS
Some interesting numbers from OpenAI's internal docs:
Expected 2026 losses: $14B
Projected total losses by 2028: ~$44B
Profitability target: 2029 (when revenue hits $100B)
Becoming a public benefit corporation to prevent a Microsoft takeover
👥 ZOOM'S DIGITAL DOUBLES
Zoom is working on AI avatars that can impersonate you in video messages. Finally, a way to be in two meetings at once!
🔍 QUICK BYTES
Amazon's AI Shopping Guides: New feature helps customers find products matching specific needs. Because sometimes "customers who bought this also bought that" just doesn't cut it.
Google's Imagen 3: New AI image generator creates ultra-realistic images with sharper details and brighter colors. Your Instagram feed is about to get a lot more interesting.
If you're frustrated by one-sided reporting, our 5-minute newsletter is the missing piece. We sift through 100+ sources to bring you comprehensive, unbiased news—free from political agendas. Stay informed with factual coverage on the topics that matter.
💻 Mastery tools of the day
Thanks for Reading.