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Perplexity is reportedly looking to fundraise at an $8B valuation
AI search engine Perplexity is in fundraising talks and hopes to raise around $500 million at an $8 billion valuation, according to the Wall Street Journal.
If a deal happens with those terms, it would more than double Perplexity’s valuation from its $3 billion valuation when it raised from SoftBank over the summer. The WSJ reports that the company currently receives about 15 million queries a day and brings in around $50 million in annualized revenue.
Claude: Everything you need to know about Anthropic’s AI
Anthropic, the AI vendor second in size only to OpenAI, has a powerful family of generative AI models called Claude. These models can perform a range of tasks, from captioning images and writing emails to solving math and coding challenges.
Claude models
Claude models are named after literary works of art: Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus. The latest are:
Claude 3 Haiku, a lightweight model.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet, a midrange model.
Claude 3 Opus, Anthropic’s flagship model.
Counterintuitively, Claude 3.5 Sonnet — the “midrange” model — is the most capable Claude model at the moment. That’s almost certain to change once the next version of Opus, Claude 3.5 Opus, is released.
ZenMic for AI Podcasts You Can Fine-Tune
How amazing is AI? I went to zenmic.com by and typed two words: Yoga Nidra. It instantly generated a transcript of a 5-minute realistic voice podcast with a male and a female voice discussing the yogic practice. The discussion was editable!
I edited the transcript to include a mention of my book, ‘Smart Sleep.’ It generated the customized audio podcast in 30 seconds. Here it is: https://zenmic.com/podcast/v4aw
This is how good AI is. And this is not a paid post. It’s simply a love for the magic of AI.
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