New AI tool emulates entire companies

Welcome back to The Daily Update — Here’s what’s kicking off another week in AI:

🗞️ The Latest in AI: MetaGPT simulates entire companies

🤖 AI Tool of the Day: Writesonic — Create SEO-optimized content 10x faster

📸 Business Spotlight: HeyGen has created lifelike AI-generated avatars

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

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🗞️ The Latest in AI: MetaGPT simulates entire companies

Worker replacement fears have run high since ChatGPT exploded in popularity last fall. Now, a new AI tool may lead to fears of entire company replacements.

MetaGPT tries to simulate a software company by assigning roles like engineers, architects and project managers to AI language models. The tool has already surpassed 20,000 stars on GitHub.

How it works:

• MetaGPT uses GPT-4.

• It takes a one-line requirement of text or code as input.

• MetaGPT outputs user stories, competitive analysis, requirements, data structures, APIs, documents and more.

• AI agents are assigned distinct roles.

• The model activates a chain of agents that each contribute to a given task.

• Agents produce outputs based on specific prompts and their designated job profile.

• The system’s two-tier architecture directs agent behavior and fosters collaboration.

• MetaGPT emulates an entire software agency.

Why it matters: It’s still too soon for MetaGPT to replace an entire company. That said, it may be a glimpse into the future of worker replacement. While this is a scary prospect, it could also empower entrepreneurs to launch companies without the traditional restraints of capital and labor.

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📸 Business Spotlight: HeyGen has created lifelike AI-generated avatars

Last week HeyGen announced the 2.0 of its AI-generated avatar clones. The upgraded clones are shockingly realistic (see for yourself in the demo above).

Key points:

• Joshua Xu, the founder of HeyGen, cloned himself using 100% AI in the demo.

• The updated clones include huge improvements to video quality, voice cloning and accents.

• Xu’s voice and accent were cloned in just two minutes.

• HeyGen’s technology is only going to continue to improve over the next year.

The bottom line: It won’t be long before AI-generated content is sweeping across different types of media, and it will be almost impossible to tell what’s actually real.

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

• Text-to-image: Midjourney rolls out a GPU cluster upgrade. The update reportedly reduced render times from ~50 seconds to ~30 seconds and made renders ~1.5x cheaper.

• Fear factor: 82% of Americans don’t trust tech giants to regulate AI.

• ‘Are you a robot?’: New research shows that bots are better and faster than humans at online CAPTCHA tests.

• Microsoft: Copilot AI can now help deploy field workers.

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Jack

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