The AI-Powered Consumer, Self-Hosted AI Starter Kit, and a RAG Step-by-Step Tutorial

Tools and industry news from the world of artificial intelligence.

Morning y’all!

I hope Tuesday was as good of a day as any and that you’re remembering that we’re almost halfway through this week and then… the holidays will show up again. If that’s you’re thing. ツ

• The rise of the AI-powered consumer.

• Reddit rolls out AI search.

• Linkedin folks explain how their using AI in marketing and content creation.

• How WhatsApp changed the world (for business).

• Raised $40m seed for audio AGI.

• Use AI with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides.

• Marc andreessen on AI and Tech (video below):

• AI helps researchers find oil on old maps.

• Transformed unstructured data into tables.

• Cognitive health using AI. Automated clinical summarization.

• A year guide of AI, Creativity, and Society.

• Melinda Gates donates $150m, some of it towards AI.

• Self-hosted AI Starter Kit with RAG agents, open source.

• Cool weather visualization using Unreal Engine 5 (video below):

• Open source financial large language model.

• AI and RAG tutorials, step-by-step.

• AI is making learning better for students. 10 ways how.

• a16z and their 50 big ideas for 2025.

• AI assistant to guide users to use your app.

• Language learning app raises $78m. Wow.

• The fastest path to production AI via Cake.

• This guy built an AI legal team with multiple agents. Tutorial and open source.

• Amazon is going to start selling new cars while GM blows away robotaxis.

• Google’s Year in Search 2024.

• Turn memories into a physical book.

• Yelp releases new AI-powered discovery and Target has an AI gift finder.

• And how one person is using AI to run their life.

And that’s it friends! The end of today’s zero bullshit AI newsletter.

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— Summer