xAI Adds AI Image to Grok, Bret Taylor's $4B+ AI Startup, Bet on the Election with RobinHood!
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Headlines
xAI Isn’t Far Behind
Elon Musk’s xAI adds image understanding capabilities to Grok (TechCrunch)
OpenAI’s Chairman Raises + TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
Bret Taylor’s customer service AI startup just raised $175M (TechCrunch)
How Advex creates synthetic data to improve machine vision for manufacturers (TechCrunch)
AI Expansions
Google expands AI Overviews in Search to more than 100 countries (TechCrunch)
CenterPoint Energy says Texas AI data center requests surge eight-fold (Seeking Alpha)
Bet on the Election!
Robinhood rolls out contracts to bet on US presidential election (Reuters)
AI Products
APIPark: Your open source AI gateway & API developer portal (ProductHunt)
SwarmStack: AI Agent for product planning and recommendations (ProductHunt)
Technical Videos
Y-Combinator: Why OpenAI's o1 Is A Huge Deal | YC Decoded (YouTube)
Kaggle Competition
If you love the NFL, take a look at this competition!
NFL Big Data Bowl 2025: Help use pre-snap behavior to predict and better understand NFL team and player tendencies (Kaggle)