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🤖 How this AI startup raised $43m with $0 in revenue
PLUS: Spotify's new AI DJ comes for your listens
Good morning.
Today we’re covering AI. Surprise, surprise.
Spotify’s new AI DJ
Notion AI finally available
Tome AI raises $43m with $0 in revenue
Let’s go!
🤖 Top Stories
🎧 Spotify unwraps AI DJ to serve you tunes
You absolute fool. You’ve given Spotify all your music data for YEARS.
Now, they’re using it.
How? A new AI DJ.
The DJ is your guide to the vibes - talking directly to you and recommending songs. Its home is a little button at the bottom of the Spotify UI.

Source: Spotify via Forbes
It knows your taste, so it can recommend you new music or serve up that hit from 6 years ago that puts you in the feels.
If you're not feeling the mood, you can hit the DJ button again to start fresh.
The voice uses generative AI, too.
No word on whether you can customize the voice; if you can, I'm picking DJ Khaled.
This feature is seriously cool. If the recommendations are as good as we expect, it’ll be a welcome companion for listening.
👀 Impress your coworkers with Notion AI
Notion is the latest company to bring generative AI to…well, everything it does.
Today it announced Notion AI.
There are so many features it’s hard to drill down to a few.
In a nutshell. Their new AI tools boil down to supercharging anything writing or meeting-related.
Take meetings. With Notion AI, you can summarize meeting notes, create action items, or generate takeaways. All from your text.
Or say you’re suffering from writer’s block. You can tell Notion AI what you want to start writing about, and it’ll give you ideas.
Notion AI is now available to everyone.
No waitlist, no “limited preview.”
Get started: notion.ai
— Notion (@NotionHQ)
4:04 PM • Feb 22, 2023
You can even have it regenerate text based on tone.
A lot of people clown on Notion for being clunky and overkill, but when I see stuff like this, I get the hype.
It starts at $10 a month per person, so it ain’t exactly cheap.
If you can let it handle meetings, it might be worth every penny.
😬 Pre-revenue AI startup raised $43 million
YOU ASKED FOR IT.
AI delivered.
Powerpoint is now a dinosaur thanks to this hot AI for storytelling startup.
Tome AI is like PowerPoint: being the go-to presentation tool of big tech PMs. It also takes inspiration from Google Slides because it doesn't have any revenue.
It just raised a whopping $43 million. That puts its valuation at $300 million.
Big numbers for a product that’s pre-revenue.

Tome auto-generated this slide. Source: Tome
Tome boasts the title of “fastest SaaS product to a million users”.
Beating stars like Dropbox and Slack.
The product is straightforward. It uses generative AI for any type of storytelling. That could be a children’s book or a 3-D prototype. It’s found the most traction as a PowerPoint killer, though.
The tech is promising. Presentations need a revamp. I don’t think there’s anyone saying “Hey, powerpoints are fine! Why should we change the most boring thing on the planet?”
9-figures pre-revenue is a bit of a head scratcher. They do have plans for a $10/mo enterprise version.
On the plus side? Those early signs of product-market fit are tantalizing. That type of growth is rare.
And you know it’s poised for hypergrowth when the high schoolers start using it to cheat.
Calculator, Computer, Internet, Wikipedia… Tome?
Behind all of these is a human shaping the output.
(An email forwarded to us by a Tome user in high school today. We shared the GPT output log to prove he edited the tome to his teacher. 😅) twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Henri Liriani (@hliriani)
6:08 AM • Jan 5, 2023
😎 Cool links
First K-pop group generated by AI.
The World first K-Pop girl group generated with AI. Deepfake and full 3D technology.
MAVE _ PANDORA
Full video: youtu.be/1wGOHbcQKIc
— Zaesar 🎬 aifilms.ai 🤖 (@zaesarius)
12:59 PM • Feb 23, 2023
AI for autofilling forms.
How many hours have you lost filling forms?
We built Autofill AI at @hackwithtrees
🤳🏻 Connect your social media accounts, resume to feed info
🔥 Get answers tailored to the application and your profile
✅ Auto fill forms in secondsHere’s a demo using @fdotinc’s app:
— Jay (@JayadityaSethi)
12:03 AM • Feb 23, 2023
AI changes your outfits…automatically.
game 👏 changer
— Danny Postma (@dannypostmaa)
2:44 AM • Feb 23, 2023
AI can easily remove backgrounds from images.
AI Background Remover
Rembg.pics removes backgrounds from images up to 5 MB.
Upload your image & view a side-by-side comparison or use the toggle to view your image without the background.
Download the image when finished.
Free: httprembg.picsp
— Heather Cooper (@HBCoop_)
5:40 PM • Feb 21, 2023
ChatGPT hanging out on your Mac.
🪄 Introducing Raycast AI: The magic of AI, right on your Mac.
Write smarter, code faster and answer questions quicker with ChatGPT in Raycast – just one keystroke away.
Join the beta 👉 raycast.com/ai
— Raycast (@raycastapp)
3:24 PM • Feb 22, 2023