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+# Always online models from Perplexity
+
+[Perplexity has launched two new AI models](https://blog.perplexity.ai/blog/introducing-pplx-online-llms?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=always-online-models-from-perplexity) - pplx-7b-online and pplx-70b-online. These publicly available models will provide helpful, accurate and up-to-date responses, addressing key limitations around freshness and hallucinations.
+
+## What’s going on here?
+
+Perplexity’s new models access timely information from the internet to give useful, factual responses - things offline models struggle with.
+
+![](https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/3c83fffc-1b36-4de3-b37b-33a186728fa6/image.png?t=1701341033)
+
+## What does this mean?
+
+The models build on existing open-source models like Mistral-7B and Llama-70B base models. Then these models are layered (fine-tuning) with current web information to answer questions needing recent data better than offline models. The goal fo these models is to give helpful, non-hallucinated responses.
+
+Perplexity evaluated the models for freshness, accuracy and usefulness and they think the models are well-suited for real-world uses like answering consumer questions where up-to-date info is key. As part of the launch, Perplexity has opened up access to the models through its public API and Perplexity Labs playground.
+
+## Why should I care?
+
+Consumer products like ChatGPT are adding search to the products. Search results reduce hallucination and people care about real-time info.
+
+But figuring out the search when building with most models is tiresome. PPLX’s new online models API come with their SEO expertise built in for you. No need for that extra search API.

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+# Daily Digest: It's Birthday Season
+
+### PLUS: How to find exploding AI trends.
+
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+Daily Digest #296
+
+Hello folks, here’s what we have today;
+
+###### **PICKS**
+
+1. I wrote another post today after yesterday’s was so well received! This time:[Jumping on exploding AI trends](https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/p/jumping-exploding-ai-trends)- when big platforms launch, what are the opportunities lurking around them that founders can jump on? p.s. yesterday’s post is here:[Why do AI Wrappers get a bad (w)rap?](https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/p/ai-wrappers-get-bad-wrap)
+
+2. [Sam Altman is officially back as OpenAI’s CEO](https://openai.com/blog/sam-altman-returns-as-ceo-openai-has-a-new-initial-board?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-it-s-birthday-season). The rest of the team is also back to building beyond the\*\*1st year of ChatGPT.**Yup, this little bad boy came out in the world a year ago. Feels like ages ago.[The Verge has an interview](https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23982046/sam-altman-interview-openai-ceo-rehired?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-it-s-birthday-season)with Sam with straight and no-sugar-coated questions. It’s practical and emotional at the same time. In the interview,**Sam confirms the Q \* leak**and says**Microsoft got an observer seat.\*\*Hold on folks, OpenAI ain’t done yet.🍿[Our Summary](https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/p/sam-altmans-letter-firerehire-openai)(also below)
+
+3. Introducing[PPLX Online LLMs.](https://blog.perplexity.ai/blog/introducing-pplx-online-llms?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-it-s-birthday-season)Perplexity has launched two new AI models -**pplx-7b-online and pplx-70b-online.**These publicly available will models provide helpful, accurate and**up-to-date responses**, addressing key limitations around freshness and hallucinations.🍿[Our Summary](https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/p/always-online-models-perplexity)(also below)
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+
+###### **NEWS**
+
+- \*\*[Stability AI explores sale](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-29/stability-ai-has-explored-sale-as-investor-urges-ceo-to-resign?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-it-s-birthday-season#xj4y7vzkg)\*\***as investor urges CEO to resign.**
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+###### **QUICK BITES**
+
+Sam Altman is officially back as OpenAI’s CEO. The rest of the team is also back to building beyond the 1st year of ChatGPT. Yup, this little bad boy came out in the world a year ago. Feels like ages ago.
+
+**What’s going on here?**
+
+Sam Altman is back as Open AI’s CEO and has a message for everyone.
+
+![](https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/71f691c4-8086-4758-8d3a-0a7fe11b04e1/image.png?t=1701340052)
+
+**What does this mean?**
+
+Sam’s written a touchy-feely letter for his team. Bret’s version (Chair of the new board) is more straight to the point. Though, the wording in both letters is carefully chosen.
+
+The highlights you need to know:
+
+- Mira Murati (CTO) and Greg Brockman (Director) are also back with 3 researchers who left the same night. Ilya’s (Chief Scientist, ex?) work at OpenAI is under discussion. He’s not making it back to the board.
+
+- Microsoft is getting a non-voting observer seat on the board. The cleanest option for Satya without regulator trouble. Enough mentions of the word “diverse” while talking about selecting new board members.
+
+- Greg and Sam are partners in running the company. Soon, the org chart will reflect that. The governance structure of the company will also improve.
+
+- No single employee or customer has left Open AI.
+
+**Why should I care?**
+
+The Verge has an interview with Sam with straight and no-sugar-coated questions. It’s practical and emotional at the same time. In the interview, Sam confirms the Q \* leak and says there’s rapid progress in general. Hold on folks, OpenAI ain’t done yet.
+
+[*Share this story*](https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/p/sam-altmans-letter-firerehire-openai)
+
+###### **QUICK BITES**
+
+[Perplexity has launched two new AI models](https://blog.perplexity.ai/blog/introducing-pplx-online-llms?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=daily-digest-it-s-birthday-season)- pplx-7b-online and pplx-70b-online. These publicly available models will provide helpful, accurate and up-to-date responses, addressing key limitations around freshness and hallucinations.
+
+**What is going on here?**
+
+Perplexity’s new models access timely information from the internet to give useful, factual responses - things offline models struggle with.
+
+![](https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/1160c56a-a5f1-4325-aaf5-b804fb6c6139/image.png?t=1701341926)
+
+**What does this mean?**
+
+The models build on existing open-source models like Mistral-7B and Llama-70B base models. Then these models are layered (fine-tuning) with current web information to answer questions needing recent data better than offline models. The goal fo these models is to give helpful, non-hallucinated responses.
+
+Perplexity evaluated the models for freshness, accuracy and usefulness and they think the models are well-suited for real-world uses like answering consumer questions where up-to-date info is key. As part of the launch, Perplexity has opened up access to the models through its public API and Perplexity Labs playground.
+
+**Why should I care?**
+
+Consumer products like ChatGPT are adding search to the products. Search results reduce hallucination and people care about real-time info.
+
+But figuring out the search when building with most models is tiresome. PPLX’s new online models API come with their SEO expertise built in for you. No need for that extra search API.
+
+*Share this story:*
+
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+# Jumping on exploding AI trends
+
+![Author](https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/user/profile_picture/fc858b4d-39e3-4be1-abf4-2b55504e21a2/thumb_uJ4UYake_400x400.jpg)
+
+[Ben Tossell](https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/authors/fc858b4d-39e3-4be1-abf4-2b55504e21a2)\
+November 30, 2023
+
+In AI we see some MONSTER funding rounds. Two Series A’s were recently announced; [Pika](https://www.pika.art/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=jumping-on-exploding-ai-trends) and [Together AI](https://together.ai/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=jumping-on-exploding-ai-trends), $55M and $102.5M, respectively. (disclaimer; I'm an investor in Pika)
+
+**Pika is a text-to-video platform** that is currently run on Discord (like Midjourney is).
+
+Fun Fact Midjourney accounts for 13% of ALL Discord invite traffic ~16 Million members (!!), Pika is #2 with *just* 500k users (+ growing fast).
+
+![](https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/69eb4f30-2249-4657-974e-1a05fdd04e40/Top_AI_Discord_Apps.jpeg?t=1701331032)
+
+[source: Olivia Moore via similarweb](https://x.com/omooretweets/status/1729967114650562711?s=20\&utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=jumping-on-exploding-ai-trends)
+
+**Together AI is a cloud platform for building and running generative AI**. Think API calls, fine-tuning, GPU clusters and custom models.
+
+Their dataset RedPyjama was downloaded 1.2 Million times last month.
+
+#### **How to think about opportunities here**
+
+Well, if we think about big platforms created in the past - let’s use Airbnb as an example - there have been a ton of businesses that have made $Millions off the back of that. One is [Airdna](https://airdna.co/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=jumping-on-exploding-ai-trends) - they provide data around the short-term rental market and have made ~$10-30m per year in the last few years. Another business type making multi-millions per year from Airbnb? Property management software.
+
+This is a perfect ancillary business. Because of Airbnb, these types of ideas make business sense for a subset of hosts (who have money and want to make more).
+
+If we look at something like [Stripe Atlas](https://stripe.com/atlas?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=jumping-on-exploding-ai-trends) - which provides a business setup in a box - which had 20k customers as of 2021, ~$10M revenue (we can assume around 30k customers as of today - $15M). [Firstbase](https://firstbase.io/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=jumping-on-exploding-ai-trends), a similar product has served 22k customers at $399, or roughly $9M (before any add-ons).
+
+These are services that automate a bunch of manual, confusing stuff every business needs to do (filings, documents, bank accounts etc)
+
+They are two very different examples.
+
+But both give us similar ways to think about opportunities around these AI platforms.
+
+### Opportunities
+
+#### Ideas around Pika
+
+A new wave of text-to-video experts will emerge. I’m awful at being creative, I’d happily pay someone to make AI videos for me. You could do this in multiple ways;
+
+- (reverse) job board for finding a text-to-video creator - ie you pay to access the list of experts and reach out to them (e.g. [railsdevs](https://railsdevs.com/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=jumping-on-exploding-ai-trends) does this for rails developers). Charge $100/mo to access the list.
+
+- Productised service - effectively I pay a monthly subscription to get a number (or unlimited) video requests, an expert on the other side writes the prompt, sends the video, tweaks the prompt based on my feedback and on and on. You could charge up to $5k/mo for this kind of service easily.
+
+Jumping on these things early could mean the platform itself would recommend you as a partner to potential customers, in the early days at least (for example: Shopify themes)
+
+![](https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/90989a66-b6cf-4230-8e53-ae5f3e493112/Screenshot_2023-11-30_at_07.38.23.png?t=1701331032)
+
+<small>search volume for ‘ai video’</small>
+
+#### Ideas around Together.ai
+
+If Together’s mission is for all types of companies to have their own AI products, then there’s a gap between available engineering resources at many different businesses and doing it yourself (of which there are plenty of tools also). People like ‘Do-it-for-me’.
+
+Set up a service in the way Stripe Atlas does - get a bunch of information upfront, help companies deploy their own AI chatbots, train on their data and offer support afterwards for a monthly/yearly fee. Large parts of this process could be automated and potentially use outsourced talent for engineering-heavy parts.
+
+Sell the setup for $500. There are easily 10k businesses out there thinking about having this or wanting it in the near term.
+
+[Chatbase](https://www.chatbase.co/?utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=jumping-on-exploding-ai-trends) lets you set up your own ‘ChatGPT’ using your data, it makes $1M annual recurring revenue, with a solo-founder. The market is there.
+
+The same thinking could be applied to many exploding platforms.
+
+please [let me know](https://x.com/bentossell/status/1730161600529645893?s=20\&utm_source=bensbites\&utm_medium=referral\&utm_campaign=jumping-on-exploding-ai-trends) what you think of these kinds of posts! love it / meh / no
+
+and let me know what else you’d like me to write about