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AI collaborations among tech giants have been the status quo, but a shift toward independence could give firms an edge.

Tech giants such as Nvidia Corp. (ticker: NVDA) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) have been rushing to claim their share of the burgeoning artificial intelligence industry. The opportunity is vast, as the AI market is projected to maintain a compound annual growth rate of 36.6% from now until 2030, according to Grand View Research.

Although tech corporations are competing against each other, these same companies often work together along the way. Collaborations are common in artificial intelligence, and these are some of the top AI alliances in the latest tech race.

Perplexity, described as a “Swiss Army Knife for information discovery and curiosity,” is essentially an AI-enhanced search tool.

It combines ChatGPT and Google Search elements, yet it isn’t a direct substitute for either. The platform is similar to the direction Google is taking with Gemini, but appears to be less chaotic.

It provides a list of websites relevant to your query, along with a concise summary answer and the sources used to generate it. Sometimes, the summary alone suffices, while other times, you might explore the various sources for deeper insight.

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• 🌎️ MIT News: The Day of AI curriculum empowers K-12 students to collaborate on local and global challenges using AI (link)

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• 💪 A new twist on artificial 'muscles' for safer, softer robots (link)

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• 🖌️ Dorik: Create beautiful websites from just a prompt (link)

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• ✍️ Hypotenuse: An AI content writer made for ecommerce brands (link)