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🔓 Thursday’s AI Report:

1. 🆕 Amazon debuts AI Alexa+

2. 🎯 In partnership with Taplio

3. 🤖 Microsoft’s next-gen Phi models

4. 🎙️ ElevenLabs launches Scribe STT

5. ☑️ In partnership with Eleventh AI

6. ⚙️ Trending AI Tools

7. 🏗️ Practical AI Applications

8. 📑 Recommended Resources

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The US tech sector saw a slight rebound as the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.3%, fueled by a surge in semiconductor stocks, with Nvidia rising 3.7% ahead of its highly anticipated earnings report. Microsoft and Alphabet posted marginal gains, while Tesla slipped amid concerns over EV demand and production challenges.

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🆕 Amazon debuts AI Alexa+

🚨 Our Report — Amazon has unveiled Alexa+, a major overhaul of its voice assistant powered by generative AI, enabling more sophisticated interactions, personalized responses, and enhanced integration with Amazon's ecosystem.

🔓 Key Points:

• The new Alexa+ features advanced AI capabilities that allow it to store user preferences, make restaurant reservations, and seamlessly connect with Amazon's product ecosystem.

• This upgrade represents Amazon's strategic response to competition from Apple and Google, who have been developing their own AI-enhanced voice assistants.

• The integration of generative AI technology marks a significant evolution from Alexa's previous command-based interactions to more natural, context-aware conversations.

🔐 Relevance — The integration of generative AI into voice assistants marks a significant leap forward in their capabilities and usefulness. As these AI-powered assistants become smarter and more context-aware, they have the potential to revolutionize how we interact with our devices and access information and services. Amazon's Alexa+ is a major play to maintain its leadership position in the face of intensifying competition.

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🤖 Microsoft’s next-gen Phi models

🚨 Our Report — Microsoft has announced the release of Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-mini, the latest additions to their Phi family of small language models (SLMs). These models are designed to empower developers with advanced AI capabilities across various modalities, including speech, vision, and text.

🔓 Key Points:

• Phi-4-multimodal is Microsoft's first multimodal language model, capable of processing speech, vision, and text simultaneously within a single, unified architecture, enabling more natural and context-aware interactions.

• Phi-4-mini outperforms larger models in text-based tasks, including reasoning, math, coding, instruction-following, and function-calling, despite its compact size of 3.8B parameters.

• Both models are designed for efficiency and can be used in compute-constrained environments, making them ideal for edge-case scenarios and on-device deployment.

🔐 Relevance — The release of Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-mini opens up new possibilities for developers and businesses looking to harness the power of AI in innovative ways. The models' efficiency and cross-platform compatibility make them suitable for a wide range of industries, from automotive to healthcare and retail, driving innovation and enhancing user experiences.

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🎙️ ElevenLabs launches Scribe STT

• ElevenLabs has launched its first standalone speech-to-text model called Scribe, which aims to compete with major players in the speech recognition space.

• The model boasts high accuracy across many languages and advanced features like speaker diarization.

• Scribe supports 99+ languages, with 25 in the "excellent accuracy" category (< 5% word error rate), including English at 97% accuracy.

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TRENDING AI TOOLS

1. Comp AI is building an open-source compliance AI automation platform as a competitor to companies like Vanta and Drata

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PRACTICAL AI

LIVE Q&A

❗ Tomorrow: Live Q&A with AI Agent Expert: Jake George

❓ Who: Jake George. Jake is an AI agent expert and founder of Agentic Brain, which builds custom AI agents that understand your business and are trained on cutting-edge data and tactics, so you can automate your pipeline without increasing headcount.

⌚ When: Friday 28th February, at 11 AM EST

🎓 Where: Skool

🙋‍♂️ What: Tomorrow, and every Friday, AI agent expert, Jake George, will be going Live, on Skool, to answer any question you have about AI agents.

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