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Spotify using AI to clone podcasters

Plus: Software Packaging Is A Nightmare

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September 26, 2023

In Today’s Edition

  • The rise of offline apps

  • Dual Threat CEOs that Build and Invest

  • When it’s over: thoughts on selling your company

  • Amazon to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic

  • You can now prompt ChatGPT with pictures and voice commands

  • Software Packaging Is A Nightmare

  • Japan pharma startup developing world-first drug to grow new teeth

🚀Startups Nuts

Sales of “dumb phones” are on the rise, the count of apps in Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store are down 25%. As the appetite for tangible experiences grows, companies are popping up that help facilitate IRL interactions in order to get people away from their phones.

While a tad bit controversial, being a dual-threat CEO can be really handy. Understanding deals, talking with entrepreneurs, and seeing what is happening through deal flow is actually really beneficial for a CEO who is usually too in the mix of their own company.

Going through an exit, whether positive or negative, is an emotional experience. You’re selling something you’ve likely poured years into, and it’ll never be the same again. Deciding when, and for how much, often comes down to trusting your gut.

🏭Business Nuts

Spotify has unveiled a new AI-powered feature that translates podcasts into multiple languages using the same voices as those in the show. The feature uses OpenAI's new voice generation technology, which only needs a few seconds of audio to replicate a voice. Voice-translated episodes from select creators are now available on Spotify. A list of all the translated shows currently available can be viewed on Spotify's Voice Translation hub, which is linked to in the article.

Amazon has agreed to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, an AI startup. It will initially invest $1.25 billion with the option to increase its investment up to a total of $4 billion. Google, which is also an investor in Anthropic, plans to raise its investment by up to $5 billion over the next two years. Anthropic will use AWS as a primary cloud provider for mission-critical workloads as part of the deal. It will provide AWS customers with early access to unique features for model customization and fine-tuning capabilities.

📱Tech Nuts

OpenAI is rolling out a version of ChatGPT that allows users to prompt the AI by speaking aloud or uploading a picture. It will be available for paying customers in the next two weeks and for everyone else soon after. The image search feature will include a drawing tool to help make queries more clear. Users will be able to prompt the bot to refine answers.

The most common methods for distributing software packages and creating environments to run them in are Share Everything and Share Nothing. Share Everything is the classic model for software environments, but it can be extremely limiting. The Share Nothing approach is more likely to produce consistently working software, but it can lead to a ton of bloat. This article looks at these methods of distributing software packages and lays out an ideal build system approach.

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🎁Miscellaneous

A team of scientists led by a Japanese pharmaceutical startup has developed a drug that stimulates the growth of new teeth. It aims to put the drug on the market by around 2030. The drug inhibits the protein that suppresses the growth of teeth. Clinical trials for the drug are expected to begin in around July 2024. A trial for children between two and six years old born without some or all permanent teeth is planned for 2025.

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The world's first recorded financial bubble was the Dutch Tulip Mania in the 17th century, when tulip bulbs were traded at incredibly high prices.

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