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Welcome to another week of AI-packed insights and breakthroughs! This issue dives into the tools redefining productivity and creativity. We’ll explore how ChatGPT is revolutionizing web data analysis, making complex tasks feel like a breeze. Plus, we spotlight the rising stars of AI innovation — from next-gen chatbots to video generators that blur the line between reality and imagination. Get ready to ride the wave of the future with these game-changing developments!

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Quick jump through the newsletter:

1. AI Innovations Weekly: The Latest in AI Tools and Platforms

2. How ChatGPT Just Made Web Data Analysis Ridiculously Easy

3. Rising Stars in the AI Sky: Meet the Future of Artificial Intelligence

4. Collectable “Like Magic AI” NFT

🚀 AI Innovations Weekly: The Latest in AI Tools and Platforms 🎷

Hey there, tech enthusiasts! Buckle up, because this week we're diving into some jazzy new AI developments that are set to revolutionize the way we build and deploy intelligent applications. Let's get into it!

 🦄🦄 38 Startups Achieve Unicorn Status in 2024 - As of December 2024, 38 startups have reached unicorn status, each valued at over $1 billion. 💵🚀

• Perplexity: The AI search engine achieved a $1 billion valuation earlier this year.

• Saronic Technologies: A defense tech company specializing in autonomous surface vessels, valued at $1 billion after a $175 million Series B round.

🎅 Grok-2: Enhanced AI Chatbot Now Available - xAI has released Grok-2, an upgraded AI chatbot offering improved accuracy, speed, and new features.

Key Features:

• Image Generation: Create photorealistic images and memes with the new "Draw Me!" feature.

• Multilingual Support: Enhanced support for multiple languages, broadening accessibility.

• Contextual Analysis: Gain deeper insights into trending topics with the "Analysis!" feature.

Grok-2 is available for free, with certain usage limitations, and offers r extended access.

🌍 Google Unveils Veo 2 for AI Video Generation - Google DeepMind has launched Veo 2, a state-of-the-art AI video generation model that significantly advances realism and creative control. Enhanced Realism: Produces high-quality videos with realistic motion and up to 4K resolution. Advanced Motion Understanding: Accurately simulates real-world physics and complex movements. Creative Control: Offers extensive camera controls and supports various cinematic effects. Veo 2 is currently available through Google's VideoFX platform.

🎺 Semantix Unveils GenAI Platform 🎺 - Semantix, a leading data and enterprise AI platform provider in Latin America, has launched Semantix GenAI—a comprehensive suite of tools designed to simplify AI development and deployment across industries.

• Open-Source AI Model Registry: Access a curated library of pre-trained AI models, making it easier to find the perfect fit for your projects.

• Managed Fine-Tuning Infrastructure: Customize AI models to meet specific business needs without the hassle of managing complex infrastructure.

• Serverless Deployment Interface: Deploy AI applications seamlessly with an intuitive GUI and RESTful API, eliminating the need for server management.

With plans to introduce features like a Generative AI IDE based on Jupyter Notebooks, Semantix is committed to making AI accessible and efficient for businesses of all sizes.

🎷 Productive Integrates AI into Its Platform - Productive, the agency management platform, has introduced AI-driven features to enhance efficiency and workflow management. These enhancements aim to support smarter, more efficient workflows for all users.

• AI in Filters (Beta): Manage tasks, projects, deals, and invoices more efficiently with AI-driven filters that track overdue items, organize data dynamically, and customize views to suit your workflow.

• AI in Docs: Leverage AI to assist in document creation and management, streamlining your documentation process.

🐝 Perplexity AI Secures $500M in Funding - Perplexity, the AI-driven search engine startup, has closed a $500 million funding round, tripling its valuation to $9 billion.

• Investor Lineup: The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners, with participation from Nvidia, New Enterprise Associates, B Capital, and T. Rowe Price.

• User Growth: Perplexity now boasts 15 million monthly active users, primarily from the U.S.

• Revenue Surge: Revenues have increased from $5 million in January to $35 million in August.

That's a wrap for this week's AI Innovations Weekly! Stay tuned for more updates on the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence. Keep innovating, and let the AI symphony play on! 🎶

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How ChatGPT Just Made Web Data Analysis Ridiculously Easy

If you’ve been following along, you know that AI tools are rapidly taking over mundane tasks and turning them into opportunities for superhuman productivity. But here's the real kicker—doing things that used to require hours of work, like analyzing web data, can now be done in minutes with a bit of help from ChatGPT.

Let me give you an example. I was playing around with data from “your favorite” newsletter (LMAI, of course)—and I realized something. I could take all that unstructured performance data directly from the BeeHiiv web, dump it into ChatGPT, and ask it to do something actually useful.

Here’s what I did:

1. Collect the Data

First, I opened the performance data for LMAI in my web browser. The data was scattered all over the place—views, open rates, click rates, and post receivers. You know, the kind of raw, unformatted information that makes you want to cringe just by thinking about analyzing it. As a rule, if data is organized, you need to pay for it.

2. Copy-Paste the Messy Data into ChatGPT

I then simply copied all that data and pasted it into ChatGPT 4.0 mini (yes, the mini version still packs a punch). I didn’t need to worry about structure or format—ChatGPT could handle the mess. I didn’t need any fancy coding or complicated tools.

3. Ask ChatGPT to Organize it

Here’s the prompt I used: “Can you structure this data in Excel format? I want to see the Title, Date, Post Receivers, Open Rate (%), and Click Rate (%). After that, I need you to plot two graphs: one comparing Post Receivers vs Open Rate, and another comparing Post Receivers vs Click Rate over time.”

Bam. A few seconds later, ChatGPT organized the data in a clean, neatly structured Excel table, with all the right columns and rows. It seemed it would have problems with the table, but then the power of AI “text to action” started to kick in, and it autocorrected itself, downloaded libraries that it was missing, and delivered! 🐝😮😎 Holly crap! AI is unstoppable!

But wait, there’s more! ChatGPT even generated those graphs, as requested. The first version was not visually pleasing, with the Open rate almost invisible, so I asked it, “Could you adjust the chart so that the open rate scale is on the left bar and the post receivers on the left, ensuring both are scaled for optimal visualization of changes?”

4. Download the Data

All that was left for me to do was hit the download button for the neatly organized Excel file, complete with the two graphs that would’ve taken me hours to create manually.

It was that easy.

Other Use Cases:

Now, let’s talk about why this is game-changing. This wasn’t just about making a newsletter better—it’s about unlocking possibilities in the workplace where web data scraping can be done in seconds. Here are a few more ways you can use this:

1. Market Research: Want to gather pricing data from multiple competitors? Paste the raw data into ChatGPT and ask it to compare prices, average them, or highlight trends.

2. Sales Performance: Scrape data from your CRM or sales platform (e.g., leads, conversion rates, sales figures), and ChatGPT can clean and structure that data for quick reports or analysis. No more manually entering numbers into spreadsheets.

3. Social Media Analytics: Looking to track your social media campaign performance? Grab the unstructured data from multiple platforms (like Facebook Insights, LinkedIn Analytics), feed it into ChatGPT, and ask for a report that includes all the key metrics and visual graphs.

4. Customer Feedback Analysis: Scrape customer reviews or survey results from a variety of platforms, and let ChatGPT identify trends or key points of feedback. It can even provide a sentiment analysis report—saving hours on reading through thousands of comments.

5. Financial Reporting: If you're analyzing unstructured financial reports or transaction data, just paste it in, and ChatGPT will structure it for you in a way that makes sense, with visual graphs that make the numbers pop.

Conclusion:

AI (ChatGPT in this case) has taken a task that used to be incredibly time-consuming and made it ridiculously easy. No more manually organizing data or stressing over how to generate graphs. You just scrape the data, feed it into ChatGPT, and ask for results. It’s a productivity hack that every business needs to take advantage of. My head is burning 🤒🤑 now with ideas of side hustles just doing data scraping, organizing into edible chunks, and analyzing business sectors for paying customers. 💵

The best part? This process is scalable. Whether you’re dealing with a small set of data or massive amounts of raw, unstructured information, AI is the assistant you didn’t know you needed.

Rising Stars in the AI Sky: Meet the Future of Artificial Intelligence

We’re living in the age of AI, and while the big players like OpenAI and Google are making headlines, there’s an exciting crop of early-stage startups that are building crazy, game-changing AI capabilities. These are the ones you’ll want to keep an eye on because in the near future, they’ll be shaping the AI landscape and creating a better future for us all.

At Like Magic AI, we’re not just interested in the big names—we want to shine a spotlight on the founders and their journeys too. The stories of these brilliant minds, often working out of small offices and garages, are what make this AI revolution so electrifying. These entrepreneurs aren’t just building businesses—they’re on a mission to change the world. So, let’s get to know the first batch of these AI trailblazers that are going to make a serious impact.

1. Pythagora.ai

This AI startup is taking on the Herculean task of creating the world’s most advanced deep learning algorithms—think of it as AI with a PhD in problem-solving. Their goal? Making machine learning smarter, faster, and more intuitive. They’ve got the brains—and they’re flexing them.

2. NeuraLink

Who needs a brain when you’ve got NeuraLink? This startup is working on AI-powered neural interfaces to make human-computer interactions smoother than ever. They're not trying to read your mind (yet), but who knows—maybe soon they’ll be making your thoughts run faster than your internet connection.

3. SynthMind

Forget everything you thought you knew about data processing. SynthMind is building an AI-powered platform designed to accelerate social media growth through AI-driven strategies, identifying relevant posts, generating insightful comments, and engaging potential customers.

4. BotBros

AI, but make it fun—that’s BotBros. This startup is all about automating tasks with an added layer of humor. They’re training their bots to not only work but also make you laugh along the way. It’s the future of both productivity and comedy—AI you can actually enjoy.

5. DeepGreen.ai

The future is green—and DeepGreen is here to make sure it stays that way. They’re developing AI solutions focused on sustainability, aiming to use AI to fight climate change. Think of it as the eco-friendly side of AI: smart, sleek, and saving the planet.

6. CodeSage

If CodeSage had a motto, it would probably be: “AI, but smarter coding.” This startup is bringing AI into the realm of software development, creating tools that automatically write code and help coders. It started as a GitHub project and then moved into startup. So, yeah—maybe it’s time to start wondering whether your next developer will be a human or a machine.

7. Genesis

Genesis is a comprehensive physics simulation platform designed for general-purpose robotics, embodied AI, and physical AI applications. It serves as a universal physics engine capable of simulating a wide range of materials and physical phenomena, offering a lightweight, ultra-fast, pythonic, and user-friendly robotics simulation environment. Additionally, Genesis provides a powerful and fast photorealistic rendering system and a generative data engine that transforms user-prompted natural language descriptions into various data modalities.

8. PrismAI

Prisma AI is revolutionizing data visualization by transforming raw data into insightful, interactive visual narratives. You can make any camera intelligent with computer vision. Their advanced AI technology enables users to comprehend complex datasets effortlessly, making data accessible and engaging for all audiences. With Prisma AI, you can track faces and objects, make counts, and do data analysis. We give it an upcoming LMAI score of 5/5.

9. VoxAI

Let’s talk voice. VoxAI is a Chinese startup creating AI systems that can not only understand speech but can replicate human voices with such precision that it’s almost spooky. Need a voice assistant that sounds like your favorite celebrity? They’ve got you covered.

10. Entropic.ai

Entropic is at the forefront of AI-driven consumer and user experience research, delivering actionable insights with remarkable speed. Their platform utilizes advanced AI technologies to decode human emotions and behaviors, enabling businesses to make informed decisions and stay ahead of the competition. With Entropic, understanding your audience becomes more intuitive and efficient, transforming complex data into clear, strategic actions.

These startups are in the early phases, but they’re developing capabilities that will change the way we think about AI. Stay tuned—because the future is looking insanely bright, and we’re just getting started.

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