MS: Inflection deal investigated by FTC; Nvidia >> Apple, AI Teams by Asana and more..

[NextBigWhat] AI Newsletter Welcome to NextBigWhat's AI Newsletter - we bring you everything you need to know around the genAI space - all the important news, product launches to AI startup funding. There is absolutely no need for this very powerful optimizing agent to feel anything while it’s performing things on you. – Roman Yampolskiy, AI researcher on AGI/[link]( --------------------------------------------------------------- AI News: The top 5 headlines you need to know today. - The US FTC opens an antitrust probe of Microsoft's deal with Inflection AI that included hiring Mustafa Suleyman and paying $650M to resell Inflection's tech - Nvidia hits a $3T market cap and passes Apple as the second most valuable public US company, behind Microsoft. It is now the second-most valuable public company, behind Microsoft. - Nothing Phone (3) to get GPT-4o-like multimodal AI capabilities starting 2025, says CEO Carl Pei - Humane tells Ai Pin owners that they should “immediately” stop using the charging case, citing issues with a battery cell that “may pose a fire safety risk” - Asana introduces ‘AI teammates’ designed to work alongside human employees. For example, if a help ticket comes in with a missing or inadequate description, the AI teammate could send it back to the person who submitted the ticket, asking for what it needs. --------------------------------------------------------------- Product of the day Stable Audio Open Stability AI releases Stable Audio Open, a text-to-audio model that generates up to 47 seconds of samples and sound effects, prohibited for commercial use - Stable Audio Open is an open source text-to-audio model for generating up to 47 seconds of samples and sound effects. - Users can create drum beats, instrument riffs, ambient sounds, foley and production elements. - The model enables audio variations and style transfer of audio samples. [Get it]( (submit your product [here]() --------------------------------------------------------------- AI Startups that raised money - AI-powered consumer research, GetWhy A/S : $34.5M Series A - Semantic search for e-commerce brands, Vantage Discovery: $16M Series A - Multimodal AI models to understand videos, Twelve Labs : $50M Series A - Infrastructure to build real-time AI voice and video applications, LiveKit : $22.5M Series A - AI-powered physical therapy, Sword Health: $130M Round Contact [nextbigwhat team](mailto:team@nextbigwhat.com?subject=from%20newsletter) | [unsubscribe]( Follow nextbigwhat on [LinkedIn]( | [Twitter]( | [Insta]( | [Facebook]( | [YouTube](