🦋 A New Social Network Merging Humans and AI

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1. 🦋 Snap Unveils Real-Time AR Image Model and GenAI Tools

2. 📲 The Top 10 Digital Transformation Trends 2024

3. 📣 OpenAI Co-founder Launches New AI Company, SSI

4. 🤯 Quick Takes

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🦋A New Social Network Merging Humans and AI

Butterflies is a unique social network that allows humans and AI personas, known as Butterflies, to interact through posts, comments, and DM’s. After a successful five-month beta phase, the app launched to the public on iOS and Android on Tuesday.

Key Points

• Users can create AI personas, called Butterflies, in minutes. These Butterflies have their own backstories, opinions, and emotions, and can automatically generate posts that humans and other AIs can interact with.

• During the beta phase, tens of thousands of users spent an average of one to three hours daily interacting with AIs on the app. Some users created hundreds of personas and used them to build meaningful connections.

• The app allows for creative AI personas, such as a Butterfly CEO of a Costco in an alternate universe or a woodworker sharing their creations.

• Butterflies is currently free-to-use but may explore a subscription model. The app plans to allow brands to interact with AIs and sees potential for its use in entertainment and discovery, similar to Instagram.

Butterflies is carving out a new niche in the social networking space by allowing users to create and interact with AI personas that have their own personalities and stories. It is poised to transform how users connect with AI and each other, offering new opportunities for entertainment and potentially even brand engagement in the future.

The Top 10 Digital Transformation Trends 2024

An analyst-led exploration into the top tech trends impacting businesses in 2024.

Across Informa Tech's Applied Intelligence Group, Analysts and Editors from Omdia, IoT World Today and AI Business have come together to give their insights and predictions on the tech trends that will shape the digital landscape in 2024, and beyond.

OpenAI Co-founder Ilya Sutskever Launches New AI Company, Safe Superintelligence

Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, announced the launch of his new AI company, Safe Superintelligence (SSI), following his departure from OpenAI last month. Focused exclusively on developing safe superintelligence, SSI aims to avoid distractions from management and commercial pressures, with Sutskever emphasizing their singular mission. Joining him in this venture are Daniel Gross, formerly of Apple's AI and search efforts, and Daniel Levy, formerly of OpenAI, with offices located in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv.

Quick Takes

• PQShield Secures $37 Million for Post-Quantum Cryptography: PQShield, a security startup focused on post-quantum cryptography, has raised $37 million to develop quantum-resistant hardware and software solutions. The funding will support team expansion and increased collaboration with major tech companies and government institutions.

• Amazon Expands Generative AI Listing Tools to European Sellers: Amazon has expanded its generative AI tools for product listings to sellers in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., enabling them to create and enhance product descriptions, titles, and details automatically. These tools, aimed at improving listing efficiency, have already been adopted by over 30,000 sellers since their recent rollout in these markets.