🍪 AI agents hit the market

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Alright, let’s get to the good stuff.

In the oven this week:

  • 🤖 Auto-GPT hits the market

  • 🍪 Cookie crumbs: 7 bite-sized headlines

  • 🗳️ Poll of the week: are the cool kids still using Snap?

  • 🍫 Chocolate chips: our 3 favorite finds

  • 😂 Snickerdoodles: Thursday memery

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AI AGENTS HIT THE MARKET

Lately, it feels like there’s new AI stuff coming out left and right. Like right when you figure out how to use GPT3, everyone’s already on GPT10.

There’s cool stuff happening everywhere, but we gotta say, a lot of it feels pretty niche.

Enter: AI agents.

The next big thing for us normies.

What do they do, you ask?

Basically anything ChatGPT does, except better.

Let me explain.

Normally, when you use ChatGPT, you gotta give it lots of direction. If you wanna figure out how to grow your ketchup business, you’d have to give ChatGPT tons of individual requests.

“What’s a good target market for purple ketchup?”

“Give me 10 tweets to promote my ketchup brand.”

“How much should I price my purple ketchup in Nebraska?”

It’s kinda like talking to your grandma. Ya can’t give her too much info all at once.

With AI agents, the chat prompts itself and moves onto the next task automatically.

So if you tell it to help you grow your purple ketchup business, it’ll do stuff like identify target markets, develop a marketing strategy, even build a website for you, all without you having to go back and re-prompt it.

It’s the set it and forget it for the AI era 😎

A ton of these AI agents have hit the market in the last few weeks: Auto-GPT, AgentGPT (a good one to try since it’s probably the least technical), BabyAGI, and GodMode are some of the bigger projects.

And the best part is, people are already ordering pizzas with it.

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BITE SIZED TREATS

If you’re a lil iffy on your local bank after the whole SVB debacle, Apple just partnered with Goldman Sachs to launch a new savings account with a 4.15% interest rate. The catch is that you gotta be an Apple Card user, but even then, the rate’s still lower than the 4.8% rate from Wealthfront. (Not financial advice, LOL. Just lookin' out for our homies.) 

Elon just incorporated a new company called X.AI to rival OpenAI. He also quietly changed the name of Twitter, Inc. to X Corp. He’s been talking about creating a superapp (think WeChat) for some time now, so this seems like just the beginning 🤔

Satya Nadella said he was trying to make Google dance with Bing AI, and boy are they dancin'. Google's now sprinting to launch an AI powered search engine code named Magi with a bunch of new conversational AI features.

Here’s something that’ll make you think “immediately no:” FTX says it might restart in mid-2024. Apparently it recovered $6.2B in assets it owes customers, and that happened to go up to $7.3B with the rise of crypto prices (i.e. BTC’s ~80% rise this year.)

Put down the celery juice, people. McDonalds is officially rolling out changes to its burgers in the US. The updates: softer pillowy buns, meltier cheese, juicer caramelized onion flavor, and even more Big Mac sauce. Brb while we run through this drive thru!

The layoffs continue at Meta, this time for technical roles: they're laying off 4K workers this week.

Snap held a partner summit yesterday and here's the TLDR: Evan Spiegel says he'd "love" a Tiktok ban (duh), everyone now gets access to Snap's AI chatbot, they're launching physical AR mirrors for businesses, and apparently Snapchat+ now has more than 3M users (<1% of daily active users)

POLL OF THE WEEK

ARE THE COOL KIDS STILL USING SNAPCHAT?

Speaking of Snap - it's been a bit of a yawn ever since TikTok and IG stories came on the scene. Are we missing something or is Snap slowly withering away?

Are the real ones still using Snapchat? Let us know if we're just out of the loop.

Sound off 👇🏽

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CHOCOLATE CHIPS

OUR FAVORITE FINDS

  • If you like free money, listen up. Back in 2018, Facebook got sued in a class action lawsuit for allowing user data to be scraped in the whole Cambridge Analytica scandal. Now, you can get a piece of that sweet settlement cash if you’ve used FB in the last 16 years (aka basically everyone and their grandmas). Here’s the official litigation form to submit a claim. 

  • 10 charts that show how the world is changing. Some interesting bits: people are lonely af, Temu is crushing it, and apparently the life expectancy of today's 5 year olds is 100 🤯

  • What actually makes you happy: the contrast between what you have now and whatever you were just doing. The best drink you will ever taste is a glass of tap water when you’re thirsty. The best food you will ever eat is fast food when you’re starving. The best massage you will ever feel is sitting on a couch after a long run. Amp up the contrast.

SNICKERDOODLES

THURSDAY MEMES

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That's all we got for ya this week, folks. See ya next Thursday!

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