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February 21, 2025 | Read Online

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What we’ll cover today:

📖 Spotify’s AI Audiobooks – Robots are narrating books!

🚀 OpenAI’s 400M Users – Growing fast! Can anyone compete?

💼 $2B AI Hiring Startup – 21-year-olds just disrupted recruiting!

⚡ AI Tools – Automate social, law, data & docs!

📚 Must-Watch AI Hacks – AI for content, consulting & workflow!

Spotify Joins Forces with ElevenLabs 🎧

Source : Findaway Voices

Spotify, the music and podcast giant, has teamed up with ElevenLabs to bring AI-narrated audiobooks to its platform, making storytelling smarter.

🚨 Breaking News:
Spotify now allows authors to upload audiobooks narrated by ElevenLabs’ AI, expanding its collection with 29 languages available for narration.

⚡ Wire Simplified –

Spotify is adding more AI-generated audiobooks thanks to a partnership with ElevenLabs.
Authors can create an AI-narrated book and upload it via Findaway Voices, Spotify’s audiobook distribution service.
AI-narrated books will have labels so listeners know they’re machine-generated.
The move follows Spotify’s previous partnership with Google Play Books on AI narration.
Some industry experts worry AI voices may reduce the quality of audiobooks.

✔️ Straight to the Point:
Spotify is betting big on AI narration, but the publishing world is split—will AI voices improve storytelling or ruin the magic?

🫱 DIVE DEEPER

🎙️ Should Spotify add a feature to let listeners choose between human and AI narration?

🟢 Yes, let me decide!

🔴 No, just stick to one.

OpenAI Hits 400 Million Weekly Users 🚀

Source : baha

OpenAI, the AI powerhouse behind ChatGPT, now boasts 400 million weekly users—up from 300M just two months ago!

🚨 Breaking News:
With 2 million enterprise customers and surging API traffic, OpenAI is proving that AI tools are going mainstream, fast.

⚡ Wire Simplified –

OpenAI’s ChatGPT now serves 400M users weekly, growing by 100M in just two months.
2M businesses now pay for OpenAI’s enterprise services.
Developer API traffic has doubled in the last six months.
OpenAI’s growth comes as China’s DeepSeek launches a competing AI assistant.
The company remains secretive about how many users pay for premium subscriptions.

✔️ Straight to the Point:
ChatGPT’s growth is unstoppable, but competition is heating up—can OpenAI maintain its lead, or will DeepSeek and others catch up?

🫱 DIVE DEEPER

💰 Will OpenAI keep dominating AI, or will new players like DeepSeek take over?

🟢 OpenAI is miles ahead!

🔴 AI competition will shake things up.

AI Hiring Startup Mercor Raises $100M, Hits $2B Valuation 💰

Source : Mercor

Mercor, an AI-powered hiring platform founded by three 21-year-olds, just secured $100M in funding, skyrocketing its valuation to $2 billion.

🚨 Breaking News:
With backing from big investors like Peter Thiel and Jack Dorsey, Mercor aims to make AI-driven hiring the future of work.

⚡ Wire Simplified –

Mercor, founded in 2023, automates hiring with AI, matching job seekers to companies.
The startup’s revenue is booming, hitting a $75M annual run rate.
Its AI claims to remove hiring bias, but skeptics question if AI can truly be neutral.
The company has expanded beyond tech hiring, now placing consultants, bankers, and even doctors.
Some fear AI-driven hiring could replace human recruiters, while others say it makes hiring more efficient.

✔️ Straight to the Point:
Mercor is shaking up hiring with AI, but is it fixing recruitment—or just making it harder for humans to compete with machines?

🫱 DIVE DEEPER

🤖 Will AI hiring platforms like Mercor eventually replace recruiters?

🟢 Yes, AI can match people better.

🔴 No, recruiters add real value.

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The ultimate benchmark is how well these models do on real world tasks that humans have to do today!

That is at best around 30% right now. We will however move rapidly to 70-80% by the end of the year!

The current top models on real world tasks are

- Sonnet 3.5

- GPT-4o

- o3-mini-high

- R1

The better the model is at coding and tool use, the better the model is at performing real world tasks

Bindu Reddy

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The progress in AI is down to three basic resources; (1) people (experts), (2) data, and (3) infrastructure. Arguably, at this point the US is only ahead in (3). Also, at this point the Chinese open source models are ahead. Not only DeepSeek but also Qwen. This is a fact.

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If you could only use AI for ONE thing, what would it be?

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Market Mix - 400M users weekly!

Spotify Joins Forces with ElevenLabs 🎧

🎙️ Should Spotify add a feature to let listeners choose between human and AI narration?

OpenAI Hits 400 Million Weekly Users 🚀

💰 Will OpenAI keep dominating AI, or will new players like DeepSeek take over?

AI Hiring Startup Mercor Raises $100M, Hits $2B Valuation 💰

🤖 Will AI hiring platforms like Mercor eventually replace recruiters?

What’s Your Favorite AI Superpower? 🦸‍♂️🤖

What do you think about today’s edition?

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