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My focus is entirely on AI.
It is going to contribute $15.7 trillion to the global economy in 2030.
If you're not paying attention, you'll get left behind.
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If I didn't need another reason to get the Apple Vision Pro.
Me a die-hard F1 fan:
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OpenAI released plugins for ChatGPT.
It will change the future of humanity.
Here's how they work and why this is so important:
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Hard skills get you in.
But soft skills get you far.
10 threads that will accelerate your career:
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Want to be a 10x better communicator than 95% of people?
Use McKinsey's 3-step Pyramid Principle:
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Sequoia Capital, the VC behind Airbnb, Uber, and WhatsApp, has backed over 300 startups.
Their pitch deck framework has funded over $3.3 trillion dollars in market value.
Steal it for free:
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10 mind-blowing AI websites that you’ve probably never heard of:
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ChatGPT will make you superhuman.
But only if you know how to use it correctly.
Here's a crash course on ChatGPT for beginners:
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We are at the iPhone moment of AI.
It will transform the future of speech, creativity & biology forever.
Here's every AI announcement from Nvidia's GTC event:
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Sequoia Capital has created over $3.3 trillion dollars in value.
Steal their pitch deck framework for free:
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Microsoft PowerPoint is the most popular presentation software in the world.
Jeff Bezos banned it from Amazon meetings in 2004.
Here's the better alternative:
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Microsoft 365 has over 345 million paid users.
Last week they announced AI Copilot for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams.
7 breakthrough features that change the future of work forever:
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OpenAI just launched GPT-4.
It leaves ChatGPT in the dust.
Here's everything you need to know:
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I spent the weekend down a rabbit hole with ChatGPT.
My judgement is most people aren't using it effectively.
7 lesser-known prompts that will transform your productivity:
(copy them)
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The 10 best AI businesses to start with ChatGPT right now:
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Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and 1,121 tech experts just signed an open letter to pause the training of AI models more powerful than GPT-4.
They warn this could "represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth."
Here's what I found out:
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Elon Musk is the master of pitching.
He's sold spaceships, flamethrowers and electric cars.
And his framework can be applied to any pitch.
10 simple storytelling tips to nail your next pitch:
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ChatGPT is the most powerful conversational AI in the world.
It has 175 billion parameters.
GPT-4 is estimated to have 100 trillion.
Here’s what parameters mean and why you must understand them:
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I spent the last 24 hours using GPT-4.
My judgement is most people aren't using it effectively.
7 non-obvious prompts you need to know:
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Goldman Sachs just released their AI report on economic growth.
They predict 300 million jobs will be lost to automation.
Here are the key takeaways everyone must know:
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I read all 154 pages of Microsoft Research's "Sparks of AGI".
Most people don't realise the shocking reality AI is going to bring.
Here's what I found:
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OpenAI just released its Code interpreter to all Plus users.
You now have access to a junior programmer at the speed of your fingertips.
Here's everything you need to know:
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Bloomberg just introduced BloombergGPT.
It's a 50-billion-parameter large language model for finance.
Here's how traditional finance is quickly getting disrupted:
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Google just launched Gemini 1.0.
It’s their most capable AI model yet competing directly against GPT-4.
Here's everything you need to know:
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Creating a pitch deck is hard.
But not if you learn from the best.
10 of the most successful startup presentations:
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Last week Adobe unveiled Firefly AI.
It gives creators superpowers.
This is how it's going to transform your life and art forever:
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The total value of Y Combinator companies is over $250 billion.
Including Airbnb, Stripe and Coinbase.
Here are the 10 best resources from their startup library:
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I watched 'Air' last night for the first time.
This is Phil Knight’s manifesto for Nike from 1980.
I'm now convinced every startup needs this on their wall.
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Peter Thiel turned a retirement account into a $5 billion dollar tax-free piggy bank.
Here's the incredible story:
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Last week NASA released an AI system called DAGGER.
Here's how AI protects life on Earth:
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Peter Thiel is worth $7.19 billion dollars.
His secret to investing in success?
These 7 questions:
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Google just introduced Duet AI.
It has the potential to change the way we work forever.
Here's how it works:
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Investing can be complicated.
Let's make it simple.
10 terms every entrepreneur and investor should know:
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Peter Thiel is worth 4.7 billion dollars.
He wrote one of the greatest business books of all time.
Here are the 10 best lessons from 'Zero to One':
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McKinsey released their state of AI report.
Here are the 10 key takeaways every business owner must know:
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Yesterday Palantir announced its Artificial Intelligence Platform.
Here's how it transforms the future of military and defence:
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Peter Thiel turned a retirement account into a 5 billion dollar tax-free piggy bank.
Here's the wild story:
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How to learn a new skill as fast as humanly possible.
The 20-hour rule:
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Venture Capital and Private Equity are two buzzwords you're probably heard a lot about recently.
Here's a simple breakdown:
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Want to persuade anyone?
Use the Rule of 3 to be in the top 1%.
The most powerful persuasion tool in the world:
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Sequoia Capital released a 52-page presentation warning founders of a 'crucible moment' and a 'longer recovery' ahead.
Here are the 10 key takeaways every business owner must know:
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Stanford just released a groundbreaking AI study.
"Generative agents" can simulate authentic human behaviour.
Here's the breakdown (and the potentially devastating consequences):
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Last week McKinsey released their generative AI report.
Here are the 10 key takeaways everyone must know:
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Ray Dalio is worth 22 billion dollars.
He wrote one of the greatest business books of all time.
Here are the 10 best lessons from 'Principles':
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The most important trait of an entrepreneur is someone who can tell a story.
10 storytelling principles to get their attention, raise money and win deals:
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ChatGPT is all the rave.
But what does GPT actually mean?
Here’s a quick breakdown so you don’t get left behind:
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How is Elon Musk paying $44 billion for Twitter?
Here's a simple breakdown:
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Today Microsoft announced a huge update for Bing Chat.
• No more waitlist
• Visual search
• Plugins
Here's everything you need to know:
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Note-taking sucks.
Luckily ChatGPT can organise your notes for you.
This method will save you hours each week:
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Elon Musk is the master of pitching.
He's sold spaceships, flamethrowers and electric cars.
And his framework can be applied to any pitch.
10 simple storytelling tips to nail your next pitch:
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Harvard’s new computer science teacher is a chatbot.
Students enrolled in the university’s flagship CS50 course will have access to the AI teacher from September.
Here's the breakdown:
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Last week Stanford University released its 2023 AI Index Report.
It's 386 pages long.
Here are the 10 charts everyone must know:
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A new era of AI content creation has begun.
Nvidia just announced its text-to-video model.
Here's how it's going to transform the future of video forever:
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1/ Start with the answer first
It's natural to build up to a conclusion after presenting the facts.
Instead, give the answer first.
This allows your listener to quickly process your recommendation.
"What should we do?" → "You should do X."
You'll be more persuasive.
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Google just announced Med-Gemini for medical tasks.
It beats GPT-4 on all benchmarks:
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2/ Group and summarise your supporting arguments
Your ideas should form a pyramid under your answer.
Your ideas at one level must be a summary of the ideas below.
For each supporting argument, break down into a group of 3.
Three is the magic number– memorable and persuasive.
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Key take-aways of the Pyramid Principle:
1. Start with the answer first
2. Group and summarise your supporting arguments
3. Logically order your supporting ideas
Use it in written and verbal communication to persuade others.
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The PayPal mafia have a combined net worth of $310 billion dollars.
The group of former PayPal employees have founded YouTube, SpaceX and LinkedIn.
5 lessons from the the most powerful network in Silicon Valley:
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I built a multi-million dollar network on Twitter for free.
Steal my playbook:
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6/ Elevate your presentations in PowerPoint
Save hours of design work.
• Turn documents into decks with speaker notes
• Refine layouts & formatting
• Condense presentations
So what: I like this one—you get to improve your storytelling by focusing on the story, not the style
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9 years ago, Peter Thiel hosted an AMA on Reddit.
It's full of gems on AI, technology and startups.
Here are my favourites:
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3/ Excel Formula Bot
Stop wasting hours creating Excel formulas.
Turn your spreadsheet problem into a formula in seconds.
Experience the full power of Excel & Google Sheets AI.
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Meetings were changed for good.
• Start with a silent 20 minute reading period of the narrative
• All participants digest and take notes
• Followed by questions, comments, and a discussion
Amazon quickly realised the benefits.
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How a Guatemalan founder built a $6.5 billion company,
To become the
#1
language education app in the world.
The story of Duolingo:
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Last week Bill Gates said, "Artificial intelligence is as revolutionary as mobile phones and the Internet."
Here are 9 other gems from his memo "The Age of AI has begun" and how it will change life as we know it:
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AI is changing the world as we know it.
But 98% of people don't realise how it will impact their life.
Here are 10 core concepts in AI you need to know that will transform your future:
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John Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Ford.
All 3 were beaten by 1 man in the productivity revolution.
Frederick Winslow Taylor.
Taylor's 4-step framework to 50x productivity:
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Building a startup is hard.
But with the right tools you can go 10x faster.
Here's 10 resources you can't miss:
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Twitter can be the most powerful platform in the world.
But 98% of people aren't using it right.
Here's 1 feature you've probably never heard of that will 10x your creativity:
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Excel is finished.
Imagine having a personal AI analyst for your data.
This tool changes everything:
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Artificial intelligence will change the world.
Here's how Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, sees the future of AI.
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3/ Logically order your supporting ideas
You want to make sure your ideas belong together.
1. Time order - follow if there is a sequence of events
2. Structural order - break a single thought into its parts
3. Degree order - present your ideas from most to least important
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Microsoft PowerPoint is the most popular presentation software in the world.
Jeff Bezos banned it from Amazon meetings in 2004.
Here's the better alternative:
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1/ Automatic meeting notes in Teams
Copilot catches you up on anything you’ve missed in a call.
• Get up to speed on the conversation
• Organise key discussion points
• Summarise key actions
So what: Improved accountability to avoid tasks falling through the cracks.
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2/ Collaborations with major companies
Here's an example of meal planning for your weekend:
• Restaurant recommendation for Saturday (OpenTable)
• Recipe for Sunday (ChatGPT)
• Calculate calories (WolframAlpha)
• Order the ingredients (Instacart)
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TL;DR:
1. Company Purpose
2. Problem
3. Solution
4. Why Now
5. Market Size
6. Competition
7. Product
8. Business Model
9. Team
10. Financials
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There's a lot of noise in AI right now.
Most people are reading the wrong stuff.
Here are the 10 best resources from the week guaranteed to make you smarter:
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The single best trait of an entrepreneur is someone who can tell a story.
Investors have a short attention span.
They will give you the most attention at the start of your pitch.
In the first 5 minutes be crystal clear about what you actually do.
Let's dive in:
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Less than 1% of startups successfully raise funds.
Why?
They fail to tell a story.
Here's how to master storytelling for your next pitch:
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1/ Visual inputs
GPT-4 is a multimodal modal.
It accepts both image and text inputs for text output.
GPT-4's image recognition & understanding capabilities are mindblowing.
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5/ Nvidia Omniverse
Omniverse is a platform for industrial visualisation.
It bridges the digital & physical worlds.
• Virtual bringup of a factory
• Reduce surprises or delays
You can design, operate and optimise physical products digitally before making a physical replica.
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An idea that changed my life.
Wu Wei, the art of effortless action:
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There's a lot of noise in AI right now.
Most people are reading the wrong stuff.
Here are the 10 best resources from the week guaranteed to make you smarter:
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2/ Active recall
If you're a student or just want to learning something new– this one is for you.
Active recall involves recalling information from memory.
This is far more effective than passively reading your material.
Play your own game of 20 questions.
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Long-term memory is coming to Bing Chat.
Here's how it will revolutionise the future of AI:
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Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Elon Musk learn faster than 95% of the population.
Why?
They teach what they learn.
Explanation Effect 101:
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TL;DR:
1. Company Purpose
2. Problem
3. Solution
4. Why Now
5. Market Size
6. Competition
7. Product
8. Business Model
9. Team
10. Financials
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Speed is the ultimate weapon in business.
You'll move 10x faster.
Use this 3-step process to beat 95% your competition:
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The single best trait of an entrepreneur is someone who can tell a story.
Investors have a short attention span.
They will give you the most attention at the start of your pitch.
In the first 5 minutes be crystal clear about what you actually do.
Let's dive in:
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TL;DR:
1/ Tribescaler
2/ Fireflies
3/ Excel Formula Bot
4/ Magic Eraser
5/ Autoenhance
6/ Writesonic
7/ Talk To Books
8/ Rytr
9/ Namelix
10/ Replika
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1/ Nvidia AI foundations
Foundations comprise of three model-making services:
• NeMo (Language)
• Picasso (Visual)
• BioNeMo (Biology)
It allows you to build, refine and operate custom large language models (LLMs).
It's trained on your data and domain-specific tasks.
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1/ Introducing Adobe Firefly
Firefly is a family of creative generative AI models coming to Adobe products.
• You can generate images and text effects from descriptions
• It's trained on content that’s licensed or out of copyright
• Currently available to access in beta
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3/ Nvidia Picasso
Generative AI is transforming visual content.
Picasso lets you build and deploy applications for:
• Photorealistic images
• High-resolution videos
• Detailed 3D geometry
Generated assets can be imported into editing tools like Photoshop and After Effects.
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1/ Organise your notes
In my opinion, this is a hidden gem.
Paste in your disorganised thoughts, quotes and ideas.
Let ChatGPT sort your writing into topics and themes.
This will save you hours spent refining or distilling.
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4/ Nvidia BioNeMo
Drug discovery is a near $2 trillion industry.
Generative AI is transforming the drug discovery process.
You can:
• Access pre-trained models through the cloud
• Get on-demand supercomputing infrastructure
• Customize & deploy 3D protein prediction models
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