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- 🤖 OpenAI Raises $40 Billion
🤖 OpenAI Raises $40 Billion
PLUS: How 1 dad used AI to advance finding a treatment for his son’s rare disease
Cliff Worley
April 07, 2025
Happy Monday!
As the stock market does its best impression of a nosediving roller coaster, OpenAI somehow managed to pull a rabbit out of a hat and snag a cool 40 billion dollars last week. Talk about living in a world where reality is stranger than fiction!
Enjoy!
In Today’s Edition:
🤯 OpenAI Raises $40 Billion
🛠️ 7 new AI tools that will speed up your workflow
👶 How and why parents and teachers are introducing young children to AI
🤖 AI tool enhances AI prompts for clearer responses
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📰 AI INDUSTRY NEWS
OpenAI just raised another $40 billion round led by SoftBank
Microsoft expands AI features across Intel and AMD-powered Copilot Plus PCs
AI therapy chatbot achieves comparable results to ‘gold-standard cognitive therapy’
Meta releases two Llama 4 AI models
Google’s NotebookLM can now find its own sources
Runway says its latest AI video model can actually generate consistent scenes and people
How 1 dad used AI to advance finding a treatment for his son’s rare disease
Adobe launches Premiere Pro’s generative AI video extender
How and why parents and teachers are introducing young children to AI
🛠 NEW AI TOOLS
🎥 Higgsfield: AI platform enabling cinematic video creation.
🧠 Poppy AI: Visual workspace integrating AI for content creation
🎥 Hedra: AI platform for creating lifelike character videos.
🧞 Prompt Genie: Enhances AI prompts for clearer responses
🎨 Readdy: AI turns ideas into professional UI designs
📊 Supaboard: AI-powered tool for creating dashboards from data.
🖥️ HeroUI Chat: AI transforms prompts into React applications.
🎨View our database of marketing tools mentioned all past newsletters:
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📹 TIKTOK OF THE WEEK
Access The New ChatGPT Images Easier 🤯
@theaiconsultinglab The new ChatGPT image creator is good, really REALLY good. But did you know there's another way to access it, with more tools and controls... See more
🆇 POSTS OF THE WEEK
Here’s a reframe.
AI doesn’t take your job.
AI allows you to do any job.
So a coder can now make films.
And a filmmaker can now write code.
It allows a non-specialist to get started.
But a specialist will be needed for polish.— Balaji (@balajis)
3:53 AM • Apr 3, 2025
y'all are not ready for images v2...
— Sam Altman (@sama)
11:04 PM • Apr 1, 2025
Whether you are entering the workforce or looking for a change, @NotebookLM is here.
Just upload your resume and any prospective job descriptions. NotebookLM can highlight your previous skills and experiences that best fit the job and prep for potential interview questions.
— NotebookLM (@NotebookLM)
7:22 PM • Apr 4, 2025
the chatgpt launch 26 months ago was one of the craziest viral moments i'd ever seen, and we added one million users in five days.
we added one million users in the last hour.
— Sam Altman (@sama)
6:11 PM • Mar 31, 2025
☕️ THE EXTRAS
One year ago today, I wrote Amazon Invests $2.75 Billion Into This AI Startup
The most clicked link in last week’s newsletter: OpenAI rolls out image generation powered by GPT-4o to ChatGPT
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That’s it for this time! See you next week.
— Cliff Worley