You.com: "Genius" AI Mode for multi-step questions

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In this edition, we dive into the tech highlights. You.com just launched the "Genius" AI Mode for multi-step questions. Reddit is buzzing with talks of a potential $5 billion valuation for its upcoming IPO. Meanwhile, in the candid realm of Product Hunt, someone confesses to breaking a 145-day streak. Join us for a quick journey through the latest in tech and community vibes! 🦈

Big Little News

Big Tech:

  • Google and Hugging Face collaborate to boost open AI app creation using Google Cloud.

Startups:

Details

🗣️ Google and Hugging Face’s collaboration is expected to double the size of HF's AI repository, enables the HF users on Google Cloud to leverage Vertex AI (ML and MLOps platform) for training, tuning, and deploying their models to develop new generative AI applications using Kubernetes (managed service that runs Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud).The collaboration has been just announce, but services are not available yet.

🗣️ You.com launched "Genius" AI Mode, simplifying complex queries with quick, accurate answers and visual aids, capable of executing Python, generating art, and visualizing data.

Multi-Step Query: “Vancouver Online Grocery Shopping Industry Survey” at You.com

Big Little Money

Big Chunk

Moderate Amount

  • $5M (Seed)- Prompt Security - Platform for enterprise generative AI security

  • €2.2 (Pre-Seed) - SendAI - Platform for document processing infrastructure

Details:

💰 Reddit, The news of Reddit being valued at $5 billion is considered reasonable, especially in the context of the company's potential initial public offering (IPO) and the current regulatory environment.This news comes at a time when there is heightened regulatory scrutiny, which is impacting the M&A landscape.

💰 Prompt Security, raised $5 million in seed funding to develop a unified platform for enterprise generative AI security. The company's tools are designed to inspect semantic data, looking at each prompt and the model's response to it, in order to protect against various kinds of threats.

💰 SendAI, Dutch startup Send AI has raised $2.39 million from Google's AI fund. The company, initially founded as Autopilot in 2021, is focused on automatically reading documents and extracting key information. Send AI's technology is designed to streamline the processing and analysis of documents, particularly complex ones such as low-quality scans, photographed paperwork, and lengthy PDFs.

Big Little New Products

🔝 Top 3 on Product Hunt

👏 Products with Brilliant Ideas

Startup Enlightenments:

💡GPT Analytics is a smart move, especially with the increasing number of GPTs entering the scene. Now is the opportune moment for the emergence of tools tailored for GPTs. This analytics tool may enable GPT Creators to strategize and plan SEO effectively for their GPTs.

Big Little Voices from Community

Highest upvoted reply:

“I think that product hunt is a totally waste of time in the majority of the cases. If the target audience of your product is not other founders/single developers, then you are better off spending your time promoting your product somewhere else.”

Highest upvoted reply:

“If you think B2C is stressful try B2B that relies on all the same algos except now add 6 months to your sales cycle and the need to foster relationships before closing. DTC sales is as easy as things get. The grass isn’t always greener.”

"They said I needed a Plan B. So, I pivoted from astronaut to stand-up comedian. Because laughter is the best zero-gravity experience."

- Anonymous