AI meets CRISPR

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AI’s next frontier could be inside your own cells. Stanford researchers just unveiled a breakthrough model that’s doing in minutes what traditionally took scientists an entire year. It could fast-track cures for diseases that have so far eluded modern medicine.

Today’s Insights

• Today in AI: A Gemini surprise, xAI’s war chest, and ‘Friend’ or foe

• Tutorial: Turning research into reports with AI

• A model that understands entire genomes

• Everything else you should know today

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• AI-Generated Images: Black Cat Adventures

TODAY IN AI

1. Experimental Gemini model hints at what’s next: A new model has jumped to the top of the lmarena leaderboard (formerly the Lmsys Arena). Gemini-Exp-1114 has OpenAI’s o1 preview model beat and is currently tied with the latest version of GPT-4o. It’s only available to developers for now. But it’s another sign that Gemini 2 could be coming soon, with some speculating that Exp could be a scaled-down version of the long-hyped model.

2. Elon Musk’s xAI raises another $6B for war chest of Nvidia chips: Nvidia’s state-of-the-art GPUs are notoriously pricey — and Elon Musk’s xAI needs a lot of them: 100,000, to be exact. The startup looks set to secure $6B in new funding, with the majority coming from countries in the Middle East. That would put its new valuation at $50B, making it one of the most valuable AI companies around.

3. The Friend AI necklace is off to a polarizing start: If you visit the webpage for the buzzy startup Friend, you’ll get matched with one of its chatbots, who might send you an intense message like: “Just got mugged at gunpoint.” Founder Avi Schiffmann says it flips the usual script of going to a chatbot for help, adding that the provocative conversation-starters will make for more entertaining interactions. But some X users reported that their chatbots were unusually hostile — and eventually blocked them altogether.

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THE AI ACADEMY

How to turn your browser tabs into research reports

• Open NotebookLM and create a new notebook.

• Copy the URLs of articles or web pages you’re browsing.

• Select 'Add sources', click on 'Website', and paste your URLs.

• Now use a clear prompt to create the first brief.

Sample Prompt: “Create a report on [insert topic] mentioning key features and strategies to [insert relevant details]".

• Use the Audio Overview feature to turn your brief into a summary audio.

• Download the audio for easy listening on the go.

• You can also use NotebookLM to turn your sources into FAQs, summaries, and briefing documents, etc.

FROM THE FRONTIER

Meet Evo: The AI that’s cracking our genetic code

A landmark advancement in 21st-century science, CRISPR-Cas9 revolutionized our ability to edit genetic code. Now, researchers at Stanford and the nonprofit ARC Institute have developed an AI companion called Evo that uses CRISPR to discover new gene editing strategies, potentially unlocking novel treatments for everything from HIV to cancer to vision loss.

While other models have made big strides in understanding our biological makeup (like AlphaFold, whose inventors took the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year), Evo has a much larger context window than its peers. That means it can analyze entire genomes, not just parts of them.

Because it’s so good at understanding the big picture, it can do in minutes what used to take six months to a year, like identifying which genes are vital to an organism’s survival — a crucial step for disease research.

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

✍️ Prompt Precision: Anthropic is rolling out new developer tools, including a Prompt Improver that automatically refines your prompts, leading to a 30% jump in accuracy.

💪 Biometric Buddy: TechCrunch spotted a preview build of Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington’s new Thrive AI health assistant. It’s a bit like ChatGPT, but with health-related prompts like: “Can you analyze my sleep patterns?”

🧠 Mind-Bending: Tech blogger Robert Scoble previewed Orbit, a new VR interface that can “control your brain from outside your brain,” inducing different sensations, like the feeling of a wave flowing through your body.

🗺️ Geography Buff: NASA and Microsoft unveiled a platform called Earth Copilot that will let you ask about global geospatial trends, like crop health, air quality, and the impact of hurricanes.

🔮 Trend Spotter: Singaporean AI platform Palette can generate brand ideas based on dozens of trends and 61 billion data points — with partners like Pepsi, Kellogg, and Pringles.

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AI-GENERATED IMAGES

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