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Maor Shlomo’s solo‑built, vibe‑coding startup Base44 just got snapped up by Wix for a jaw‑dropping $80 million in cold hard cash, just six months after launching and only 8‑people strong. In that brief time, Base44 attracted 250,000 users, turned a tidy profit - $189k in May alone and caught Wix’s eye for its ability to let anyone build full‑stack apps via conversational prompts. This isn’t just an exit, it’s a wake‑up call: no‑code, LLM‑driven tools are redefining who can innovate and how fast.

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Today’s AI Menu

▪️ Base44’s $80M exit, Midjourney does video & more

▪️ Tutorial: How to use Podcastle AI for podcast recording, editing & transcription?

▪️ 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

▪️ AI Special Edition: Wimbledon replaces line judges with AI

▪️ AI Daily Prompt

TODAY IN WORLD OF AI

🎬Midjourney unveils V1: Your first steps toward AI-generated video

Midjourney, best known for its mesmerizing AI art is now diving into video. Their newly released V1 model transforms still images into four unique 5-second clips, with an option to extend each by 4 seconds (up to 21 seconds).

▪️ Simple & Creative: Upload or generate an image via Discord; press Animate, and watch it come alive with customizable prompts and motion intensity (low or high).

▪️ Creative, Not Commercial: Targeted toward artists rather than Hollywood but with future ambitions in real-time simulations, 3D worlds, and more.

▪️ Pricing That Hits: Entry starts at $10/month. Video uses approximately 8× more compute than images, but costs per second align closely making it a compelling value for creators.

▪️ Facing Legal Heat: Launch arrives amid Disney and Universal lawsuits over AI training biases, Midjourney must now balance innovation with intellectual property concerns.

Why it matters for startups & creators?

This launches a pivotal era for multimedia tools from marketing clips to immersive storytelling. It proves that powerful video can now be made by anyone, without Hollywood budgets or giant teams.

THE AI INSTITUTE

How to use Podcastle AI for podcast recording, editing & transcription?

▪️ Sign up at podcastle.ai.

▪️ Record audio or upload files.

▪️ Use AI to remove background noise, filler words, and silences.

▪️ Generate transcripts or convert text to audio with AI voices.

▪️ Download or publish directly.

FOOD FOR PRODUCTIVITY

5 tools for your productivity

🎥Captions.ai: Auto-captioning tool that also translates, edits, and enhances video content for creators.

🗂️Dataloop: AI-powered platform for managing and annotating data used in machine learning models.

🧾Levity: Automate repetitive tasks like tagging emails, documents, or images using custom no-code AI.

📚Humbot: AI tool that helps students write better essays, summarize texts, and check grammar.

🧰Quickreply: AI tool that drafts smart replies for customer support chats and emails.

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EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW

🚀Ignition: Honda successfully tested and landed its first reusable rocket in Taiki Town, Japan. The 21-foot craft soared 890 feet, hovered for nearly a minute, and landed within 37 cm of its target, an impressive show of precision tech borrowed from its automotive R&D. Though still R&D with no commercial plans yet, Honda aims for suborbital flight by 2029, setting its sights on satellite launch ambitions and space-industry relevance.

🧠OpenAirwaves: OpenAI has open-sourced an enterprise-grade Customer Service Agent framework, signaling a major push into business automation. This toolkit gives enterprises plug-and-play building blocks like triage agents and guardrails to spin up conversational AI agents tailored to real-world support.

🎬Premiere: YouTube will integrate Google’s Veo 3 AI video-generation tool into Shorts later this summer. Building on Veo 2's visual features, Veo 3 adds synchronized audio-dialogue, effects and all supercharging creators’ storytelling in bite-size clips.

⚙️Silicon: Apple is exploring generative AI to accelerate its chip design process, says Johny Srouji, SVP of Hardware Technologies. By leveraging AI-enhanced EDA tools from Cadence and Synopsys, Apple aims to streamline custom silicon development, a move that echoes its bold pivot to Apple Silicon in 2020.

AI SPECIAL EDITION

🎾AI meets Centre Court: Wimbledon & IBM serve up a smarter spectator experience

This year, Wimbledon is playing a whole new game by partnering with IBM to bring cutting-edge AI right to the heart of Centre Court. The star players:

🎤“Match Chat” real-time assistant
Fans can now ask the Wimbledon app questions mid-match about stats, history, or player performance and get instant, insightful answers via IBM’s watsonx-powered LLMs.

📈”Live Likelihood to Win” projections
A dynamic, data‑driven win probability model updates point‑by‑point using Watsonx and Red Hat’s AI infrastructure, giving fans a deeper, moment-to-moment pulse on the match.

On-court contrasts:

▪️ Wimbledon has replaced 300 line judges with AI systems.

▪️ They’re also deploying AI-generated commentary for select matches.

Why it matters?

🧠 Next‑gen fan engagement delivering “snackable,” interactive content to tech-savvy viewers who juggle screens.

🤖 Strategic tech adoption enhancing the experience without sidelining human storytelling.

⚙️ Broader model, these innovations are part of IBM’s growing sports-tech portfolio (e.g. Formula 1, U.S. Open).

As digital platforms evolve, Wimbledon’s AI playbook, real-time Q&A, predictive insights, smart officiating offers a blueprint for transforming live event experiences. For sports execs, tech founders, and enterprise AI teams, this case spotlights how data and generative AI can electrify engagement and build new dimensions of fan love.

AI PROMPT OF THE DAY

Prompt for generating a list of allowable deductions for freelancers

Prompt: Generate a comprehensive list of allowable tax deductions for freelancers or self-employed professionals. Include categories like home office expenses, software and tools, internet and phone bills, travel, professional development, marketing, and health insurance. For each item, briefly explain eligibility criteria and how to document it for tax purposes, ensuring the list is practical, updated, and region-specific (e.g., India, US, etc.).

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Thanks for reading.

Until tomorrow!

Shinky & the Hanoomaan AI team