NASA’s snake robot is designed to search out life on a Saturn moon, Disney launches Hulu on Disney+

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NASA’s snake robot is designed to search out life in the icy oceans of a Saturn moon. - Link

Disney launches Hulu on Disney+, after testing the integration in beta in 2023; Disney+ users that do not subscribe to Hulu can still search for Hulu shows. - Link

A look at Databricks' new open source model DBRX, which cost ~$10M to develop over several months and, Databricks says, outshines Llama 2, Mixtral, and Grok. - Link

Productivity platform Airtable launches Airtable AI, adding AI summaries, categorization, and translation via GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and Anthropic's Claude. - Link

Google rolls out Gemini to some Google Messages beta users with RCS enabled on select Pixel and Galaxy devices, letting users chat to Gemini over RCS. - Link

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Daytona is an open-source dev environments manager that automates project setup with one command. - Link

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E1920: Sunny and Jason discuss the resignation of the CEO of Stability AI, a report from a16z on AI and Enterprises, and Sunny demos three AI tools: Gatekeep AI, Deepgram API Playground, and the Claude model Haiku from Anthropic. - Watch

E1919: David Weisburd, Mamoon Hamid, Thomas Scriven, and Jason discuss the growth of India's startup ecosystem, investment strategies, including the role of sovereign wealth funds, and the evolution of the tech industry dynamics. They also touch on future perspectives on mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs within the tech sector. - Watch

E1918: Microsoft has acquired Inflection AI and integrated technologies from other companies like Suno and Cohere, marking a significant move in consolidating AI technologies and potentially avoiding regulatory scrutiny usually associated with mergers and acquisitions. The episode also covers Apple's acquisitions in AI, Suno's new model capabilities, including song production, and discussions on fair use of internet-scraped data. - Watch

E1917: Jamie Rhode from Screendoor discusses optimizing early-stage fund structures, the significance of GP market fit, and strategies for effective portfolio construction. She also covers the unique aspects of seed-stage investing, Screendoor's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and the characteristics of high-performing general partners. - Watch

E1916: Arvind Jain from Glean talks about improving work productivity with AI, focusing on privacy and competing with existing tools. He also discusses the effects of AI on businesses and the future of AI development. - Watch

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