Today in the world of AI ..

TL;DR

• Meta's Ray-Bans Now Have Improved AI in Public Beta

• AI virtual assistant Rabbit R1 starts shipping at $199

• Nvidia acquires AI workload management startup Run:ai for $700M, sources say

• Eric Schmidt-backed Augment, a GitHub Copilot rival, launches out of stealth with $252M

• Google’s next-gen AI model Gemini outperforms GPT-4

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AI highlights on X

• NVDA’s Jensen is not backing down on hardware development accelerating the hyper growth in AI

https://x.com/gdb/status/1783234941842518414

• Perplexity AI raises Series B1 already (Series B was done in January ‘24)

  

  https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1782782211399279076

• Meta AI makes it into devices, first being Meta Ray-Bans

  

  https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1782806362805903621

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