AI is moving quickly. 💨

Here are the highlights from the week that was in AI and Chipplandia and our spicy takes on what it actually means. 🌶️

AI Highlights from Around the Web

Keith Rabois: Focus on Lift, Not Runway

Renowned investor Keith Rabois advises startups to prioritize achieving "lift" over extending runway. Explore this tweet.

🌶️ With AI speeding development of ideas, initial lift can and should come before runway (raising).

AI Adoption Surges in B2B Marketing

Two in three B2B marketers now use AI, a 20% increase from last year. 60% have implemented guidelines for its use. Explore this tweet.

🌶️ Large numbers in marketing with conflicting data from companies broadly. Marketing along with education have been the first industries disrupted by AI because it’s exactly what AI is good at.

Less Than 5% of Businesses Using AI

The Economist, reports that less than 5% of businesses are using AI - down from the previous quarter. Explore article.

🌶️ Businesses don’t know how to use AI, so they’re not implementing it. AI needs to be bottoms-up.

Anthropic Releases New Prompting Resources

Anthropic has launched new tutorials for prompt engineering, including an interactive intro for Claude and a course for developers. Explore tweet.

🌶️ Learn to talk to AI to find value from AI. Our workshop next week will help.

Chipp Highlights

Gender Disparity in AI Use

Scott Meyer, Chipp's CEO, highlights the significant gender disparity in AI adoption across various professions. Read the full post

Choose Your Own AI Model

Chipp now offers multiple AI models, including GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, with more on the way. Watch the tutorial.

AI in Education: Chipp Builder Series

Educator Danelle Almaraz shares her journey of integrating AI into the classroom, creating tools for teachers and principals.

Chipp Hackathon: AI for Business

Join our virtual hackathon starting August 26th to create impactful AI use cases for businesses. Open to all skill levels! Learn more and register

Workshops This Week

We’re hosting a record number of workshops the next two weeks as a part of the Hackathon. Even if you’re not entering the Hackathon, you are welcome to join!

View the entire calendar and register here.

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