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Big topics to discuss with friends and colleagues

• Salesforce Previews Slack AI to Boost Workplace Productivity Salesforce has announced new AI enhancements for Slack aimed at improving teamwork and individual productivity. The new Slack AI features will include:

  • Channel Recaps: Summaries of channel activities to enable informed decisions.

  • Thread Summaries: Condensed overviews of long discussions to help experts quickly catch up.

  • Search Answers: Querying Slack's database for concise and relevant information about projects or topics.

  The Slack AI pilot will launch this winter and aims to make teamwork and collaboration smarter. I imagine that many Slack plugins and 3rd party tools won’t be happy with this development!

• Anthropic announces Claude Pro

  OpenAI’s rival, and it’s by many treated as a second to ChatGPT LLM model, are getting premium tier. Anthropic is going Pro with Claude, allowing access to Claude 2 model, with priority, new features and much higher limits to sent messages. Claude 2 make waves in the tech world as the biggest context window model commercially available. If you fancy a change from ChatGPT, you know where to go! Monthly price for Claude 2 is $20 (US) or £18 (UK).

• Intuit Releases AI Financial Assistant

  Intuit has launched an AI-driven financial assistant designed to help small businesses and individual consumers. The assistant aims to automate various financial tasks, from budgeting to tax preparation, making financial management more accessible and efficient.

• HubSpot Unveils New AI and Sales Tools

  HubSpot has introduced a range of new AI-powered tools aimed at helping businesses scale. These tools focus on automating sales processes and customer relationship management, allowing businesses to grow more efficiently.

• Falcon 180B: A New Leader in Open LLMs

  Falcon 180B is emerging as a new leader in the field of open Large Language Models (LLMs). The platform promises to offer more advanced features and capabilities compared to existing LLMs, aiming to set a new standard in the industry.

• Zoom Unveils Zoom AI Companion

  Zoom has announced a new AI companion designed to enhance the virtual meeting experience. The AI companion will offer features like real-time transcription, automated meeting summaries, and more, aiming to make virtual interactions more productive. This is also a bummer for many tools that provided similar services through their Zoom-integration.