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AI Takes Over YC Demo Day 🕹

Plus: OpenAI raises the stakes with $20,000 bug bounty 💰

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RUNTHE AI
April 12, 2023

Good Morning AI Runners 🏃‍♂️

Here's what we've got for you today:

  • AI Takes Over YC Demo Day 🕹

  • OpenAI raises the stakes with $20,000 bug bounty 💰

In this article, the writer sat through YC Demo Day (popular startup accelerator) and observed a pattern: AI is the go-to solution for startups, with companies relying heavily on AI for their business plans. He provided a list of startups presenting at YC Demo Day that rely heavily on AI:

  • Type – AI-first document editor.

  • Iliad – Generate game art assets.

  • Layup – Build workflows across apps with one line command, like onboarding a hire.

  • Nucleus – AI-powered onboarding orchestration that understands “the true nature of a business.”

  • Hadrius – SEC-compliance robo-advisor.

  • Speedybrand – Generated marketing content for SMBs.

  • Quazel – Language learning with an AI tutor.

  • Booth.ai – Generative AI “photographer” for e-commerce.

  • Squack – Natural language accountant tools.

  • Berri.ai – Creating ChatGPT apps as a service.

  • Semantic – Financial news insights “enriched” by AI.

  • Credal.ai – ChatGPT-like interface for employees that references company docs but protects business secrets.

  • Defog – Add AI data assistant to your app.

  • Linkgrep – Suggests things from knowledge base and adds to chat or notes live in browser.

  • Sail – Automated sales emails.

  • Aiflow – Automate market research based on reviews and feedback.

  • Tennr – Turn knowledge base into a custom LLM.

  • Truewind – AI-powered bookkeeping and finance processes.

  • Flair labs – Collect insights from customer service call data and emails.

  • JustPaid – Automate bill pay, catch over-payments to vendors.

  • Kyber – Automate insurance industry tasks like answering questions and underwriting.

  • Meru – Platform for training your own LLMs.

  • Sameday – AI that calls workers like plumbers and roofers to make appointments.

  • Zenfetch – Analyze customer calls live and surface talking points.

  • Syncly – AI to analyze customer emails.

  • Pair AI – Video courses generated using AI.

  • Latent – Automating electronic health records.

  • Avoca – AI receptionist to answer missed calls at SMBs.

OpenAI has announced a bug bounty program that offers cash rewards to anyone who can find vulnerabilities in its AI services, including ChatGPT. Now, before you go all "Mr. Robot", there's a catch. OpenAI isn't looking for ChatGPT jailbreakers or a new version of "DAN" (the popular do anything now jailbreak). So, if you were hoping to get the chatbot to spit out some malicious code to get the prize? it won't work. Rewards start at a cool $200 for low-severity findings and go all the way up to $20,000 for exceptional discoveries. Not too bad!

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