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Not every AI startup wants to change the world — some just want to make it work better. Cohere's new North platform shows how staying focused on practical fixes can be more valuable than chasing moonshots like AGI.

Today’s Insights

• Today in AI: Cohere’s AI strategy, Grok on the go, and AI special effects

• Tutorial: How to create an email manager with AI

• A model with encyclopedic memory

• Everything else you should know today

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

TODAY IN AI

1. Cohere’s bold bet on enterprise: Copilot and Vertex AI might have the name recognition, but Canadian startup Cohere says its new AI workspace, North, punches well above its weight. With a $5.5B valuation, Cohere decided early on to stay out of the AGI race, focusing instead on practical AI tools. Co-founder Nick Frosst, an Alphabet alum, told CNBC that was the right call: While his clients constantly request better HR, payroll, and fraud detection tools, “no one has ever asked me about achieving AGI.”

2. Grok on the go: xAI’s Grok just got an iOS app, letting you use the chatbot without an X account. A standalone site is coming soon, too. Not to mention, a new “unhinged mode” will spew “objectionable, inappropriate, and offensive content, much like an amateur stand-up comic,” according to a recently updated FAQ page. Elon Musk has pitched Grok as a bad boy willing to chat about subjects other chatbots won’t touch.

3. Adobe’s new special effects tool cuts through the haze: Video models like Gen-3 and Sora are good at rendering solid objects but still can’t grasp transparent elements like smoke and mist. So Adobe researchers built TransPixar, a model that can generate things like wispy clouds, fantastical portals, and shattered glass. Only available as a demo for now, it could one day make SFX accessible to a larger share of creators.

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THE AI ACADEMY

How to create an email manager with AI

• Go to the Gemini website and create an account.

• Click on ‘Create new gem’ in the panel on the left.

• Give your gem a name.

• Give your gem instructions, such as: organize my emails by category, and click save.

• Your gem will now be able to connect to your inbox and organize your emails.

Pro tip: You can give your gem more specific instructions, such as "Categorize each email into invoices and receipts, questions that need a response, newsletters, and everything else"

FROM THE FRONTIER

New model draws from a trillion facts to boost accuracy

Good thing they don’t let AI compete on Jeopardy. Despite having only a few dozen employees, Silicon Valley startup Diffbot quietly built one of the web’s largest knowledge indexes by autonomously scraping websites and organizing their contents. Its database of over a trillion factoids gives it a unique edge in AI development.

The details:

• The startup just revealed a new model built off of Meta’s open-source Llama 3.3, but with a key difference: It has encyclopedic memory

• While most models predict the next line in a string of text, Diffbot’s LLM can seek out specific facts from its vast dataset in real time

• This method leads to far fewer hallucinations — it’s like recalling past experiences instead of generating something entirely new — making it the “world’s most factually grounded” model to date

What it means: Using as few as 1B parameters, the approach could prove more accurate and efficient compared to traditional methods, offering a worthy alternative as the industry runs up against energy and data restraints.

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

🎧 Daily Dose: Alphabet rolled out an experimental Daily Listen feature that lets you convert your Discovery feed into a five-minute, AI-generated podcast.

🦾 Better Together: In other Alphabet news, the search giant is bringing together its AI Studio and Gemini Developer API under the DeepMind umbrella to speed up the company’s “research to developer pipeline.”

📅 Save the Date: Apple is reportedly working on its own Partiful rival called Invites that would allow users to create and share invites to events like weddings and birthday parties.

🗣️ Speech Switcher: The open-source VLC video player will soon be able to translate videos across more than 100 languages with AI-generated subtitles — no internet connection needed.

🌴 Trip Tips: AI search engine Perplexity will now surface guest reviews, images, and other information when users search for hotels on the platform, courtesy of Tripadvisor.

🧑‍⚖️ High Stakes: The Supreme Court will hear arguments over TikTok’s ban today as high-profile entrepreneurs, including Shark Tank host Kevin O’Leary, propose buying the social media platform’s US division. TikTok has threatened to shut down on Jan. 19 if the court refuses to act.

💰 Funding: Asset management giant Blackstone is investing $300M in a startup called DDN that builds AI-powered analytics and storage systems. And Innovaccer, which develops AI data apps for the healthcare industry, raised $275M in a Series F funding round, putting its valuation at $3.45B.

PRODUCTIVITY

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PROMPT OF THE DAY

Finding Gratitude

Prompt: Act as my gratitude coach. Start by asking me to list 3 things I'm grateful for and why. After each response, encourage me to think of more things, delving deeper into why I appreciate these aspects of my life. Keep the dialogue going until I say so, helping me to continuously recognize and articulate the positive elements around me. This exercise aims to retrain my focus towards gratitude, enhancing my overall sense of happiness and contentment.

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