📣 Hello! Welcome to our Sunday digest, featuring the most exciting AI news from the 36th week of 2024.

MAIN NEWS

💲 Ilya Sutskever's startup, Safe Superintelligence Inc., has raised a $1 billion investment at a $5 billion valuation. Ilya launched SSI a little over two months ago to create a safe superintelligence for humanity.

DEEP TECH

🧠 Is Organoid Intelligence the New Era of AI? Startup FinalSpark is building the first biocomputer based on a lab-grown "mini-brain."

🧠 A Robot Brain. Startup Skild AI has created an AI model of a "general-purpose brain" that can be slotted into various robots.

SAVE THIS — IT'S HELPFUL

🔖 tl;dv is an AI service for recording and transcribing video calls on Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams.

🎵 How to Add Audio to Videos. ElevenLabs has launched a library of AI-generated sound effects for any occasion.

TO READ

📚 Harari's New Book: "Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI" will be released on September 10, 2024.

💯 TIME100 AI List of the World’s Most Influential People in AI. CEO, founders, innovators, thinkers, and architects have gotten in.

👩‍⚕️ How AI is Helping Detect Autism. One in 100 children in the world have autism spectrum disorder. Learn about AI systems that enable early-stage diagnosis.

TO WATCH

💪 Elon Musk showed the Cortex AI supercomputer — one of the world's most powerful AI training clusters. It is nearing completion at Giga Texas, Tesla's headquarters.

TO LISTEN

🎙️ Who Reinvented Radio? The Black Eyed Peas frontman launched an interactive platform with AI hosts and listener feedback.

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