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Hey there, digital trendsetters and tech-savvy explorers! Friends of the Metaverse welcomes you to the ultimate weekly source of tech news where we explore the rise of mixed reality and the latest advancements in technology, from web3, AI, and the metaverse to everything in between.

It's Friday, and we've saved the best for last:

• A roundup of the week's news

• The scoop on upcoming tech events

• Our favorite new AI tools

• Plus, our AI pic of the week

It’s time to discover the future!👇

📰 Weekly Top Reads on Web3 and AI

• Snowflake Backer Wing Closes $600 Million AI-Focused Fund (link)

• Meta to release commercial AI model in effort to catch rivals (link)

• AI Startup Hugging Face Is Raising Fresh VC Funds At $4 Billion Valuation (link)

• News Explorer — Spanish National Museum Thyssen to Mint Exclusive Collection of Van Gogh NFTs (link)

• The Flash Web3 Movie Experience (link)

• Co:Create Releases Web3 Loyalty App on Shopify (link)

• Siemens bets on the metaverse to build profits (link)

• Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes Launching New NFT Collection (link)

• AI Metaverse Startup Futureverse Raises $54 Million (link)

• Wix’s new tool can create entire websites from prompts (link)

• Apple’s headset could redefine what being in the metaverse means (link)

• Thousands of Authors Ask AI Chatbot Owners to Pay for Use of Their Work (link)

• Microsoft closes at record after revealing pricing for new A.I. subscription (link)

• Crucible launches metaverse tool for Unreal Engine game devs (link)

• Microsoft Azure node deployment opens door for easier Web3 app development (link)

• The Jed Foundation issues report on preserving youth mental health in the metaverse (link)

• Can AI Help Accelerate Metaverse? (link)

• Unity’s Apple Vision Pro game development tool opens in beta (link)

• Startup Cerebras Takes on Nvidia With Chain of AI Supercomputers (link)

• Reddit engineer shares strategy behind NFT onboarding at EthCC (link)

• MeetKai Uses Best-in-class Digital Twin Technology to Recreate Silicon Box's $2 Billion Dollar 800,000 sqft Advanced Packaging Fab in Metaverse (link)

• Lenovo Is Secretly Building Its Metaverse Empire For The Enterprise And Industry (link)

• Valentino Enters The Metaverse To Launch Digital Avatar Outfits - V Magazine (link)

• Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAI (link)

• Floor opens NFT buys in-app, will absorb 30% fees from Apple and Google (link)

• McDonald's HK wows HKers with McNuggets art exhibition and metaverse experience (link)

• Upland and FIFA launch Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 metaverse experience (link)

🎁 Friends of the Metaverse
_{Season of Innovation 2023 | December 7 · Virtual}

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🚀 AI Tools (Our Top Picks)

The future of AI is here! Our database and it has now has reached over 600+ AI tools that can assist with writing, photography, images, sales, audio, music, and more! Here are some of these amazing AI tools that are revolutionizing work and saving countless hours. Explore the amazing power of AI and discover the potential of these incredible tools.

• Stable Doodle turns sketches and doodles into images.

• Dream with Vision Pro - A lucid text-to-3D tool built with the Apple VisionOS.

• Chathub lets you use ChatGPT, Bing, Bard, Claude & more simultaneously.

• Leap helps you add AI to your product with a single API.

• Extend : AI-Powered workflows for unstructured data.

• Transcript LOL : Easy transcriptions with speaker identification, topic identification and summaries.

🖼️ AI Image of the Week

Prompt: Award-winning Hyperdetailed, Sketch art, In the style of Allie Brosh

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