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Friday Roundup
AI News from this week
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Hello and welcome back to the newsletter dedicated to breaking down the intersection of Marketing and AI in 5 minutes or less.
Here's what you’ll get today:
Weekly Roundup of AI news for marketers
1 Poll
2 Twitter Threads
Top Stories for Marketers: Friday Roundup
OpenAI releases updates to ChatGPT, including defaulting GPT-4 for Plus users.
Meta open-sources AudioCraft: a text-to-audio AI tool that allows you to generate any sound imaginable. This will have a huge impact on music, films, games, and more.
McKinsey’s State of AI in 2023 — Marketing & Sales are still the most commonly reported business functions using generative AI tools.
Goldman Sachs Research estimates AI investment could approach $100 billion in the U.S. and $200 billion globally by 2025.
Generative AI apps were pulled from Apple’s China App Store ahead of upcoming AI regulation in the country.
Meta is gearing up to roll out AI-powered chatbots with different personas as early as next month, including one that advises users on travel plans in the style of a surfer and another that speaks like Abraham Lincoln.
News Corp using AI to produce 3,000 local news stories a week, and is hiring for “Data Journalists”. Will Journalists all become editors?
Poll:
Twitter Threads
Cracking growth in a startup is hard.
But it doesn’t need to be.
Here’s the exact playbook we’ve deployed to grow @beehiiv from $0 to $4m in ARR in 22 months 🧵🪡
— EJ from beehiiv 🐝 (@ej_beehiiv)
7:10 PM • Aug 3, 2023
AI video has started to produce mindblowing results. (PT25)
Here are the best AI videos this week:
— Nathan Lands (@NathanLands)
12:44 PM • Aug 4, 2023
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