1. 🦾 OpenAI Debuted Its Largest & Strongest Chat Model, GPT 4.5

Meet the bigger, smarter, newest (& more expensive) ChatGPT model: GPT 4.5. The new model will be released as a research preview first to ChatGPT Pro users and developers on all paid tiers. The company is working to bring it to ChatGPT Plus and ChatGPT for Teams users next week, followed by ChatGPT Edu & ChatGPT for Enterprise users the following week. (Quartz)

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3. 🤖 Meta Plans to Release Standalone AI App

In an effort to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Meta plans to debut a standalone AI app in Q2. Unlike ChatGPT and Perplexity, Meta AI is still only available to users via a website and the company’s apps like Facebook and WhatsApp, though this new app could change that. (CNBC)

4. 📉 Struggling with LinkedIn Ads? Here’s Why

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5. 🤝 IBM Closed $6.4Bn HashiCorp Acquisition

IBM has finalized its $6.4 billion acquisition of enterprise software company HashiCorp, shortly after the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) gave the go-ahead. HashiCorp is best known for Terraform, an “infrastructure-as-code” tool for automating infrastructure provisioning and management across clouds. (TechCrunch)

6. ✌️ Nvidia is Out of the $3T Market Cap Club

Well, Apple is now the sole member of the $3 trillion club. Nvidia’s shares fell more than 8% today following its quarterly earnings, wiping out around $273 billion in value and giving the company a market cap of $2.94 billion. That said, Nvidia is still the second most valuable U.S. tech company, behind Apple but ahead of Microsoft. (CNBC)

7. 💰 Snowflake’s Startup Accelerator is Getting $200M in New Capital

Cloud-based data storage giant Snowflake is planning to expand its startup accelerator with $200 million in additional capital commitments. The Snowflake Startup Accelerator invests in a broad range of early-stage startups, most notably in startups building AI-based industry-specific products on Snowflake. (TechCrunch)

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