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 Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

The AI race just got a new dark horse contender, and they are somehow competing with the top dogs at a fraction of the size and cost.

Writer's new model is topping leaderboards and turning heads, and with new expert tool capabilities, AI agents have just taken another big step forward. Let's get into it…

In today’s issue:

• New model tops tool-calling leaderboard

• Zoom launches new AI platform features

• Add Claude Artifacts to your Cursor projects

• 6 new AI tools & Tools on sale

• New AI Job Opportunities

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

WRITER

🛠️ New model tops tool-calling leaderboard

The Rundown: AI startup Writer just introduced Palmyra X 004, an LLM that sets a new standard for action capabilities and function calling in enterprise AI — beating out top models from OpenAI and Anthropic.

The details:

• Palmyra X 004 outperforms OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google models on Berkeley's Tool Calling Leaderboard, leading by nearly 20% accuracy.

• The model offers a 128k context window, supports over 30 languages, and handles multimodal inputs (text, images, audio).

• Palmyra can interact with external tools via tool calling, enabling it to perform tasks like updating databases, sending emails, triggering workflows, and more.

• The 150B parameter model was trained on synthetic data, which the company said significantly reduced costs compared to the top AI labs.

Why it matters: As companies race to integrate AI, models that can take concrete actions rather than just provide information are in high demand. Palmyra X 004's impressive skills could give Writer a new edge in the enterprise AI market and also serve as an example that not all top models require massive computing resources.

ZOOM

🗣️ Zoom launches new AI platform features

The Rundown: Zoom just unveiled a suite of new AI-driven innovations to its platform at its Zoomtopia 2024 event, including AI companion 2.0, a custom AI add-on plan, personalized avatars, and more.

The details:

• Companion 2.0 is an AI assistant that works across Zoom Workplace, offering expanded context, web access, and the ability to take agentic-type actions.

• Zoom Tasks is a new AI-powered feature to help detect, recommend, and complete tasks based on conversations across Zoom Workplace.

• Custom AI avatars will become available in Zoom Clips in 2025, with the ability to create video content from text scripts.

• Zoom founder Eric Yuan previously said that AI avatars will eventually be capable of attending Zoom meetings and making decisions on a user’s behalf.

Why it matters: Zoom says it wants to overhaul work in the digital age, and these announcements point to a new AI-driven world of interconnected tools and workflows. While avatars attending meetings and acting on your behalf might sound wild now, the work landscape is about to be turned upside down as AI continues to grow and scale.

AI TRAINING

🤖 Add Claude Artifacts to your Cursor projects

The Rundown: With this AI tool trick, developers can incorporate Claude-generated Artifacts into Cursor projects to significantly speed up development workflows.

Step-by-step:

1. Generate your desired component or code snippet using Claude AI.

2. Set up a new Next.js project in Cursor using “npx create-next-app@latest”.

3. Use Composer (Cmd+I or Ctrl+I) to incorporate the Claude artifact. Type “@codebase” for context.

4. Review changes and use AI chat (Cmd+L or Ctrl+L) to fix any issues.

5. Test your integration with “npm run dev.”

Pro tip: Use Cursor's AI capabilities to resolve integration issues quickly. Simply highlight problematic code and ask the AI for a fix!

Prompt of today

Prompts:

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Tools showcase

• ⚙️ OpenAI Gradio - A Python package making it easy for developers to create apps powered by OpenAI’s API

• 😇 Godmode - AI agents to understand and contact customers

• 🧠 Miro Innovation Workspace - AI-powered collaboration platform to help teams move faster from idea to outcome

• 📢 Adsby 2.0 - Quick, actionable insights on Google Ads using AI

• 🗣️ Wispr Flow - Write 3x faster using your voice

• 🤳 Cooraft - Turn a selfie into professional portrait videos

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Tools on sale

• 🏷️83%Off Notch: Draft, sign, and manage all your contracts with this Notion-like document editor

• 🏷️90%Off Quickads: Use AI to analyze winning social ads and generate image or video content in a few clicks

• 🏷️80%Off Octolens: Promote your business to high-intent prospects by tracking brand mentions and keywords on social media

• 🏷️75%Off Tethered: Launch your own ecommerce site in minutes

• 🏷️96%Off Email Sequences: Improve deliverability for your cold email outreach with this all-in-one toolkit

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New AI Job Opportunities

• 📊 Twelve Labs - Data Analyst

• 🤖 Mistral AI - Machine Learning Engineer

• 🛡️ Palantir Technologies - Physical Security Specialist

• 📱 Weights & Biases - Social Media Manager

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AI around the world

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Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper were co-awarded a Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on AlphaFold, an AI system that can predict and design protein structures.

Amazon introduced AI Shopping Guides for over 100 product types, leveraging generative AI to streamline product research and offer tailored recommendations within its U.S. app and mobile website.

Chinese startup MiniMax’s Hailuo AI launched a new image-to-video feature, alongside new style controls and enhanced processing and control.

Meta expanded Meta AI to six new countries, including the EU, and is rolling it out internationally in Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses — though the EU will be excluded from multimodal capabilities due to regulatory issues.

Stripe announced expanding its partnership with NVIDIA, enabling global access to NVIDIA’s AI cloud services and leveraging the chipmaker’s platform for improved fraud detection.

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