Perplexity's meteoric rise 🌠

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Some startups follow the blueprint, but Perplexity decided to write its own. Just two years in, it’s become the name to beat in AI search by going against the grain. And: Learn how to use ChatGPT for presentations.

Today’s Insights

• Today in AI: Project Jarvis, Nvidia’s rise, and OpenAI enters the ‘chat’

• Tutorial: Creating presentations with ChatGPT

• Perplexity closes in on fourth round of the year

• Everything else you should know today

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• AI-Generated Images: Cat [dot] com

TODAY IN AI

1. Search giant’s web-surfing AI agent is real — and coming soon: Just days after OpenAI accidentally leaked a full version of o1, Alphabet has let a preview version of Project Jarvis slip on the Chrome store. While users couldn’t actually use the agent, they did get a glimpse of all it has to offer, including the ability to browse the web, do your shopping, and book your flights. It’s expected to release sometime in December.

2. Nvidia is now the largest company on earth: The Silicon Valley-based chip giant whizzed past Apple to become the most valuable firm by market capitalization this week. The shift proves AI is now a key part of the global economy — with Nvidia as one of its biggest beneficiaries thanks to its early investment in AI-capable chips. And it shows no sign of slowing down, expecting to nearly double its revenue in fiscal year 2025.

3. You can now access ChatGPT via a simpler web address: Whoever first registered chat[dot]com back in 1996 was onto something. HubSpot co-founder Dharmesh Shah paid a pretty penny for the domain last year, and now it’s in the hands of another familiar face: OpenAI. If you type the address in the search bar, it’ll automatically take you to ChatGPT. On X, Sam Altman got straight to the point by posting a link to the new address.

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How to use ChatGPT for presentations

FROM THE FRONTIER

Perplexity triples valuation in less than six months

Perplexity is celebrating its second birthday with a bang. The startup looks set to close a new $500M funding round — its fourth this year — which would make it one of the most valuable AI companies around.

Part of the company’s success: Zigging where other companies zag. Whereas most chatbots refused to answer questions about the election, Perplexity leaned into it with a hub for voter information. And despite facing some heat over content usage from major publishers like Forbes and Wired, it’s been cooking up revenue-sharing partnerships to smooth things over.

Competitors are coming from all sides: OpenAI just released a GPT-powered search platform, and Meta has its own rival in the works. But it’s going to take a lot to topple the current champion. Perplexity gets about 100M queries per week, and that figure is expected to only climb higher in the coming months.

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

🔍 Small But Mighty: AMD is getting in on the LLM game with a new open-source, 1B parameter model called OLMo, which outperforms similar-sized compact LLMs like MobiLlama.

🪖 Digital Battlefield: SF-based Scale is the latest AI startup to build a custom AI model for the US military and intelligence agencies, following similar announcements from Meta and OpenAI.

🚘 Extra Mile: In a challenge to Uber’s autonomous vehicle initiatives, Lyft is partnering with three robotaxi companies to deploy self-driving cars in Atlanta starting next year.

🤖 Web Workhorse: Microsoft released an open-source AI agent called Magnetic-One that can surf the web, locate files, and write its own code.

🦷 Filling the Gaps: Researchers found that GPT-4o-mini scores a passing grade on Japan’s National Dental Examination, concluding that AI models could one day be used to help dentists in the field.

PRODUCTIVITY

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