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Tuesday’s top story: French start-up, Mistral, has added new features to its chatbot, Le Chat, which rival ChatGPT’s.

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🌤️ This Morning on AI Tool Report

1. 😼 Mistral’s ‘Le Chat’ better than ChatGPT?

2. 💰 How to invest in the next big tech name with Ryse

3. 📦 Perplexity’s one-click checkout

4. 📰 How to get key takeaways from newsletters, in minutes, with Meco 

5. 💪 How to build a strong online presence using ChatGPT

6.  ➿Real-voice chatbots?

7. 💡 Google gives $22M for AI research

Read Time: 5 minutes

FACT OF THE DAY

🤔 OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, quit Stanford University at 19 and started his first company—Loopt—a location-based social networking app that allowed users to see where their friends were and what they were doing, which he sold for $43.4M, making him a multi-millionaire before he turned 30.

STOCK MARKETS

🚗 AI and tech stocks bounced back after a turbulent session on Friday. Tesla was the out-performer on the day, rising close to 6%. This comes after news dropped that President-elect Donald Trump would seek to create a federal framework for self-driving cars. Learn more.

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FEATURES

😼 Mistral’s ‘Le Chat’ better than ChatGPT?

Our Report: Paris-based AI start-up, Mistral, has released a slew of new capabilities—in beta—for its chatbot, ‘Le Chat’ (which means “the cat” in French) to transform it into an all-encompassing work assistant, as it takes on key rival, OpenAI.

🔑 Key Points: 

• Like ChatGPT, Le Chat can now search the web and deliver search results with citations, generate high-quality images (powered by Black Forest Labs), and summarize complex PDFs and large images to provide insights.

• It also has a design tool that can create and edit documents, presentations, code, web pages, and data visualizations, via text and voice-based commands, similar to ChatGPT’s ‘Canvas’ tool.

• But most excitingly, it can automate repetitive, multi-step workflows—like payment processing or reporting—on behalf of the user, which ChatGPT can’t do (although this agentic functionality is, reportedly, coming next year).

🤔 Why you should care: Mistral (co-founded by former Meta and DeepMind engineers) has a mission to develop highly competitive models while “ideally making $$ in the process,” which is tricky—as it is for most AI startups—due to high costs, but Mistral is confident that it can achieve this because it’s refusing to chase AI “at all costs,” instead preferring to “place frontier AI” in customers hands, so they “get to decide what to do with advanced AI capabilities,” which has allowed them to be “quite frugal” with their capital.

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TOGETHER WITH RYSE

Missed Out on Shark Tank’s Big Victories? Don’t Miss RYSE

The hit show Shark Tank has introduced the world to some of the most successful brands:

• Bombas – raised $200M in follow-on funding

• Scrub Daddy – over $300M in transactions

• Ring – valued at $7M on Shark Tank, later acquired by Amazon for $1.2B, after all the Sharks passed!

Currently, Dragon’s Den is proving to be another launchpad for promising brands, and RYSE Smart Shades secured not just one, but two deals from the Dragons.

Now, you can invest, alongside the Dragons, in a brand that may become the next household name.

With their breakthrough smart shade technology and distribution already in 127 Best-Buy stores, RYSE is poised to become the next big thing in tech!

This is your shot to invest early in a smart home company with big momentum.

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E-COMMERCE

📦 Perplexity’s one-click checkout

Our Report: AI search startup, Perplexity, has unveiled a new shopping feature, for its US Pro subscribers, which allows them to view AI-generated product recommendations within the search results, and buy a product without having to visit a retailer's website or leave the search engine.

🔑 Key Points:

• The product recommendations display for shopping-related queries and are visual cards that include an overview, pricing, and the pros and cons of a product, which users can expand to reveal more detail and reviews.

• For a one-click checkout, users can store their shipping and payment information so all they need to do is press “Buy with Pro” and it will automatically buy the product (tax is auto-calculated) with no shipping costs.

• The product recommendations are powered by integrations with specific sellers, via Perplexity’s merchant program, and for products not integrated, users will be directed to the retailer's website.

🤔 Why you should care: Perplexity has stated that the product recommendations aren’t sponsored, so they remain unbiased, which will help people believe that the results the AI engine is serving can be trusted, but this could all change if they begin taking ad revenue from sellers to get a preferential spot in the search results, and could even trigger regulatory intervention.

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TOGETHER WITH MECO

Daily AI audio news roundups based on your newsletters

Meco, the #1 app for reading newsletters, just released an AI feature that gives the key takeaways from your newsletters in record time.

Just tell Meco your favorite newsletters and they’ll curate a daily 5-10 minute personalized audio briefing — ideal for quick, on-the-go listening, even when you're short on time.

⚡📲The app is packed with loads more features to supercharge your reading:

• Connect your inboxes (Gmail/Outlook) to declutter them & consolidate newsletters

• Offline reading, custom themes, highlight text, and bookmark links for later

• Get AI text summaries for newsletters to get the key details in seconds

Over 40k readers enjoy reading their newsletters with superpowers!

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Tuesday’s Prompt: How to build a strong online presence using ChatGPT

Type this prompt into ChatGPT:

Results: After typing this prompt, you will get ideas on how to build a strong online presence on platforms like LinkedIn.

P.S. Use the Prompt Engineer GPT by AI Tool report to 10x your prompts.

How IBM Attracts Top Talent with AI

• During its recruitment process, IBM was drowning in applicants and needed a way to stand out and attract the right talent.

• They used AI-powered visual tools that extracted brand colors, generated layouts, and resized content to transform job descriptions into infographics.

• As a result, instead of taking 8 hours, job postings now take just 30 minutes, costs are down by 75%, and the quality of applicants is up.

Subscribe to The AI Report for the full story and more premium insights and tactics!

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VOICE CHATBOTS

➿ Real-voice chatbots?

• AI voice cloning start-up, ElevenLabs, has launched a feature so users can build conversational chatbots and customize things like the tone of voice and response length, which gives it an edge over OpenAI.

• Agents can be built from scratch or a pre-made template, and users can choose the agent's primary language, first message, and system prompt to determine the agent’s persona.

• Users can add their own knowledge base to train it, define what items the agent needs to remember—like a customer’s name—and what counts as a success or failure conversation.

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RESEARCH FUNDING

💡 Google gives $22M for AI research

• Following in Amazon’s footsteps—which launched an AI research $110M grants and credits scheme, last week—Google has launched a similar $22M funding/credits initiative to help AI scientists and researchers.

• The initiative comes from Google’s 19-year-old philanthropic arm, Google.org, and stands out from other big tech initiatives because it focuses on non-equity funding for global academic and not-for-profit institutions.

• Providing this infrastructure and capital will undoubtedly help Google lock future customers—who need significant compute for their groundbreaking projects, which Google can provide—into its ecosystem.

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