😸 AI ideas worth your $$$

PLUS: Amazon's new robot deal

Welcome, humans.

We owe y’all something nice for those horror clips from Friday. How about a giant ball of cats?

On second thought…

What about the cutest montage we’ve ever seen? Or the world’s most unattractive tinder bio? Or for any fellow 90s kids out there, how about this trailer for live action Samurai Jack? Gotta love the internet…

P.S.—Happy Labor Day in the U.S.A!

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

We share the top 10 AI product ideas Neuron readers actually want.
Amazon’s upcoming Alexa subscription will be powered by Claude.
LAION released two new image training datasets that are “research safe.”
“Emotion AI” has emerged as new product category to interpret human emotional context.

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Top 10 “high-value” AI use cases that our readers would actually pay for.

Context is key—so build what people need!

Hey, all you AI product managers and aspiring AI-entrepreneurs! Looking for hot tips on what to build with AI? Today's story is for you!

On Friday, we asked you what AI products don’t exist yet that you would actually pay for—call it our attempt to crowd-source “high value” AI ideas for all the AI companies who need to justify their expenses with real-world apps.

Here's your top 10 AI product suggestions:

Comprehensive Data Protection: Identity theft protection, personal data removal, and privacy management—the bot would scrub your data from the web, summarize ToS agreements, and safeguard your digital footprint.
Financial Advisors: An intelligent stock and portfolio manager that analyzes market trends, optimizes investments, watches webinars + reads financial reports (like 10-Ks), and provides personalized financial advice.
Holistic Health Monitor: A personal healthcare assistant that tracks your diet, exercise, and even bodily functions, offering real-time recommendations for improving your overall well-being.
Empathy-Driven Content Generator: A service that creates and promotes factual content to decrease societal divisiveness and counteract the rage-driven engagement of current social media.
Advanced Medical Diagnostics: For accurate medical diagnoses based on patient imaging, lab tests, and physical/emotional assessments. This could extend to research for curing diseases and developing new drugs.
Intelligent CRM Assistant: Automatically updates your CRM system using data from LinkedIn and the web, keeping your contacts current across all your platforms.
Proactive Task Agents: On-device assistants capable of following complex instructions and carrying out tasks autonomously, adapting to your personal and professional needs.
Smart Consumer Advocate: A shopping agent that optimizes your spending by finding the best deals across online and brick-and-mortar retailers, factoring in sales, coupons, travel costs, and shipping to save you money.
Enterprise Sales Simulator: A system that generates on-demand digital twins of prospective buyers, allowing sales teams to practice and refine their pitches for enterprise clients.
Comprehensive Virtual Private Assistant (VPA): A secure, offline assistant that manages your inbox, text messages, social media, and work personas, all while maintaining strict privacy.

Anyone building any of these? Let us know!

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Around the Horn.

Read here to learn how it works, and here for why it matters.

Amazon hired the founders of Covariant (which makes robots for warehouse automation), and will license the company’s foundation models for Amazon’s existing robot fleet.
LAION, the group that created the dataset used by Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Runway to train their image models, released two new datasets—RE-LAION-5B and RE-LAION-5B research safe (read why here).
Amazon will launch “Remarkable” Alexa as a $5-$10 monthly subscription service next month, and it will be powered by Claude.
“Emotion AI” is a new category of AI being built to interpret human emotion in various contexts (e.g., genuine “what do you mean?” vs pissed “what do you mean?”).

Treats To Try.

*Need a new machine to customize your own AI models? Learn all about Dell and NVIDIA’s new Precision workstations in this free webinar on September 12th. Save your seat here.
Alibaba Cloud released Qwen2-VL, a powerful new model for visual and language processing, that offers advanced capabilities like the ability to understand 20 mins of video (try it here).
Officely AI automates “any” business processes using teams of specialized AI agents and works with “all” language models.
SeekAll lets you search multiple platforms and AI engines simultaneously with a single click.
Cirroe AI simplifies AWS cloud infrastructure deployment and debugging through an intelligent chatbot interface, offering fast deployments and troubleshooting.
Ugic generates customized Figma drafts based on user component libraries and design systems, with support for multiple languages and design styles.
QWiser transforms study materials into interactive, personalized learning experiences by organizing content and generating quizzes.