Generate an App from a Prompt with LlamaCoder 🤯💻; Amazon Unveils Project Amelia, AI Assistant for Sellers 🤖🛒; Salesforce’s AI Strategy Admits AI Will Take Jobs 🤖💼
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Generate an App from a Prompt with LlamaCoder 🤯💻
Together AI, a leader in AI acceleration, enables developers and businesses to design, build, and manage their generative AI projects using open-source models like Llama. To inspire developers, the company launched LlamaCoder, an open-source app that lets users generate entire apps from a simple prompt using Llama 3.1 405B. Since its debut, LlamaCoder has gone viral, earning over 2,000 GitHub stars and helping developers generate more than 200,000 apps. “It’s amazing to see people creating custom apps with just a prompt,” says Hassan El Mghari, highlighting the model’s powerful capabilities.
Amazon Unveils Project Amelia, AI Assistant for Sellers 🤖🛒
Amazon has introduced Project Amelia, an AI assistant designed to help sellers grow their businesses by answering metric-related questions and resolving issues. Built on AWS's Amazon Bedrock, the assistant is now available in beta to select U.S. sellers, with a broader rollout planned for later this year, including expansion to other countries and languages. The goal is to provide sellers with tools to better manage and scale their businesses.
Salesforce’s AI Strategy Admits AI Will Take Jobs 🤖💼
At its Dreamforce conference, Salesforce Inc. revealed a shift in its AI strategy, now focusing on AI tools that can operate autonomously and updating its pricing model. As generative AI transforms the industry, Salesforce will charge $2 per conversation for its new AI “agents” that handle tasks like customer service and scheduling without human oversight, marking a significant change from its traditional software-as-a-service model.
AI Notetaker Fathom Raises $17M 💼📝
AI notetaker Fathom, one of the early players in the space since its 2020 launch, has grown in popularity among the many options available today. After raising $4.7 million in 2022, Fathom has now secured a $17 million Series A round, led by Telescope Partners, with $2 million coming from users via Wefunder. The company reports a 90x revenue increase and 20x usage growth over the past two years, with over 8,500 companies now using its HubSpot integration.
Qwen2.5: Foundation Models Galore! 🎉🤖
In the three months since Qwen2's release, developers have built new models on Qwen2 and shared valuable feedback, driving advancements in language model intelligence. Today, we’re thrilled to unveil Qwen2.5, potentially the largest open-source release ever—let’s get the party started!
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