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June 17, 2024
Poe upgrades its creator monetization analytics, while Cohere adds AI agent capabilities to enterprise AI models with multi-step tool use on the API, and SoftBank partners with Perplexity to offer a year-long free trial of its Pro AI Answers features to customers.
Poe lets users create and monetize custom #AI chatbots built on dozens of popular AI models for image and text. For image, you can use DALLE 3, Ideogram, Playground-v2.5, SD3-Turbo, StableDiffusion3, and StableDiffusionXL.
For text, you can use ChatGPT, Claude 3 Haiku 200k, Claude 3 Opus 200k, Claude 3 Sonnet 200k, Gemini 1.5 Flash 1M, Gemini 1.5 Pro 1M, GPT 4 Turbo 128k, GPT 4o 128k, Llama 2 70b, Mixtral 8x7b Chat, and more.
Some bots require subscriber access. Once you’ve built a working bot with a free model (like GPT 4o or Gemini 1.5 Flash 1M), you can subscribe to test your bots built with subscriber access models for $19.99 per month.
- Source: https://x.com/poe_platform/status/1802720563095597360?s=46
- For Creators: https://creator.poe.com/docs/welcome-to-poe-for-creators
- Monetization FAQ: https://help.poe.com/hc/en-us/articles/21921312368020-Poe-Creator-Monetization-FAQs
- Best Practices for Prompts: https://creator.poe.com/docs/best-practice-text-generation
- Server Bot QuickStart: https://github.com/poe-platform/server-bot-quick-start
Cohere announces the availability of multi-step tool use in the Cohere API, giving enterprise-grade AI models the power to become #AI agents.
Tool use gives Command R and R+ models access to your data on Google, Salesforce, AWS, and other providers to complete simple tasks (single-step) and complex tasks (multi-step).
The ability to manage tasks that require a series of dependent actions with multi-step tool use as AI agents could significantly improve productivity throughout any organization.
- Source: https://x.com/cohere/status/1802756849844060324
- Blog: https://cohere.com/blog/multi-step-tool-use
- Developer Docs: https://docs.cohere.com/docs/multi-step-tool-use
- Cookbook: https://docs.cohere.com/docs/multi-step-tool-use
SoftBank, a mobile, broadband, and electricity service provider in Japan, has partnered with Perplexity to offer a one-year free trial of Perplexity Pro to SoftBank, Y!mobile, and LINEMO customers.
Applications for the free trial open on June 19.
- Source: https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1802737018578911340
- Press Release: https://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/news/press/sbkk/2024/20240617_01/
- Sign up page: https://www.softbank.jp/mobile/service/perplexity-ai/
YouTube has added a new notes feature that allows users to fact-check content.
It’s a lot like 𝕏 Community Notes, but by the most used video platform.
- Official blog: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/new-ways-to-offer-viewers-more-context/
- Eligibility to write notes on videos: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14925346?hl=en…
- External evaluators: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9230586?hl=en
Are hidden fees and cancellation barriers by big tech companies acceptable practices? The FTC says no, and here’s why.
The FTC has filed a complaint against Adobe and its executives for deceptive practices related to subscription cancellations and hidden fees.
This complaint, lodged by the Department of Justice on the FTC’s behalf, targets Adobe for not clearly disclosing the steep early termination fees tied to its popular “annual paid monthly” plans and for making cancellation a challenging task for consumers.
Notably, the FTC’s action points out that Adobe obscured these fees on their website and placed numerous obstacles to deter subscription cancellations.
- Source: https://x.com/linakhanftc/status/1802779078337892674?s=46
- Press Release: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/06/ftc-takes-action-against-adobe-executives-hiding-fees-preventing-consumers-easily-cancelling
- Official Complaint (PDF): https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/adobe_complaint.pdf
Podcast advertising in the U.S. is evolving, with marketers increasingly channeling ad dollars into this under-advertised medium, despite a slowdown in growth last year according to IAB and PwC.
Ad spending on podcasts rose by only 5% in 2023, trailing the overall digital advertising growth of 7.3%, amid broader market challenges.
With predictions of a brighter future, podcast ad spending is expected to exceed $2 billion this year, marking a return to double-digit growth.