The Most Useful New AI Features and Tools to Try

Which of these sound most exciting to you? A new ability for Claude to use a browser window to be able to do tasks for you? The ability for ChatGPT to effectively switch in and out of temporary mode as suits you? A new voice model that not only can faithfully transcribe what you actually say, but even clean it up and get at your intent, a new video model from Google with massively more controllability for actually generating videos that you can use for real things, or a totally different video model that takes you less time to generate the video than it does to watch it. These are just some of the new features, models, and tools that released this week. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Harbor, Blitsy, and HyperAgent. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. To learn more about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. And lastly, if you listen to today's episode and think to yourself, man, I wanna use all those features, but I feel behind. I need to catch up in my AI skills. The next cohort of super intelligent training programs, which are incubated over here at AIDB, are coming up in September. You can find a link to them on the AI Daily Brief website, or you can just go to training.bsuper.ai. Kicking off, confirmation that Hugging Face is being sold and that, yes, it is to NVIDIA. The information broke the story late on Wednesday night following the earnings call with their sources saying that NVIDIA has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12,900,000,000. Now rumors of the deal only started emerging over the weekend. And while, of course, this could have all been going on before anyone externally knew, it seems like it might have been a pretty speedy negotiation. Much of the reporting focused on the strong valuation multiple. Hugging Face only has a 150,000,000 in annualized revenue, meaning that Nvidia is technically paying around 80 times revenue as a price. As a point of reference, SpaceX's $60,000,000,000 acquisition of Cursor was around 15 times revenue. Still, as I said the other day when I talked about the potential of this deal, NVIDIA is very much not buying Hugging Face for their revenue. Instead, the deal seems to confirm that NVIDIA is acquiring their way into a full stack open business model. Hugging Face is the premier distribution channel for open models. NVIDIA's $6,000,000,000 licensing deal with Poolside announced last week allowed them to hire about a 100 veteran AI researchers to staff up their team, and other investments like their strategic partnership with Perplexity give them solid harnesses as well as an app player play. What's more, over the course of …