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🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Amazon unveiled Bedrock, an AWS service that lets developers customize popular AI models. Aimed at "large enterprises", Bedrock lets companies overcome the cold-start problem by providing access and tooling to adapt models to a company's specific needs. "Base models" include the likes of Anthropic, Stability AI, and Amazon's own Titan 🎉

The battle to build the enterprise "picks and shovels" for generative-AI is getting hot 🔥

 ♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Amazon makes its AI-coding assistant free for everyone

• Spotify ships a "radio-to-podcast" feature for broadcasters 

• Google launches an overhauled UI for Chat 

• WhatsApp rolls out safety features for social engineering attacks 

• Meta open sources an AI that turns doodles into animations

• Twitter rebrands 'Super Follows' to 'Subscriptions'

General and early-stage

• Stability AI launches a new version of Stable Diffusion 

• Ethereum shipped an upgrade allowing staked ETH withdrawals 

• Reef unveils its "net dollar retention" tracking tool 

• HyperWrite AI ships an AI personal assistant

• Glean launches a generative-AI tool for internal data 

🔍 Other good finds

• 8 Sleep?? Unlocking growth for high-friction products

• Yet again. Google CEO hints at second round of layoffs

• Reinforcement. How Google sorted waste with a fleet of robots

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol