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May 1, 2024

How to get AI to nail a task in 4 steps

If you want AI to take over your grunt work, you have to put in some upfront effort to show it how. Our Education Product Lead, Tara Aranha, is giving you 4 easy steps to follow.

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Greg Shove
Tara Aranha
6 mins
For students
AI
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April 24, 2024

The best open-source AI chatbots in April 2024

While big players like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have been stealing the spotlight, a crew of underdogs have been working on models to give them a run for their money. But how do they stack up?

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Greg Shove
Chase Ballard
5 mins
For students
AI
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April 16, 2024

The VC perspective on successful AI startups

You might have a cool idea for an AI startup, but is it venture backable? General Catalyst's Christopher Kauffman will tell you.

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Greg Shove
Christopher Kauffman
5 mins
For students
AI
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April 10, 2024

We introduced our first AI avatar professor. Here’s why.

Earlier this month, we wrapped our very first AI avatar-led course. Here's the nitty-gritty calculus behind our decision to try avatars as instructors.

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Greg Shove
Taylor Malmsheimer, Head of Strategy
5 mins
For students
AI Avatars
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October 27, 2023

Your privacy guide to AI chatbots

We hear concerns about AI’s privacy policies every day, so let’s dig in. Here’s our guide to how the most popular LLMs treat your data (as of October 2023).

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Greg Shove
Taylor Malmsheimer, Head of Strategy
7 mins
For students
AI
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October 27, 2023

Think like the company disrupting you

At a recent offsite, our CEO Greg posed this question: “When Section is disrupted, what will our competitor do to make us seem obsolete”? Check out our framework for getting ahead of your future competition.

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Greg Shove
Taylor Malmsheimer, Head of Strategy
5 mins
For students
Strategy
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April 4, 2025

Is Deep Research worth $200 a month?

With new AI tools coming out all the time, it’s hard to know which ones are worth investing in. So here’s our lead AI consultant’s framework for whether you should shell out for Deep Research or not.

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Greg Shove
Chase Ballard
6 mins
For companies
AI
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March 29, 2025

AI is good enough, the humans need help

Newsflash if you’re waiting for AI to get better before you invest: It’s already pretty good, it’s the people using it that need to get a lot better – and fast. Greg is taking over this week’s newsletter to show you why.

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Greg Shove
Greg Shove, CEO
7 mins
For companies
AI

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