🍵🍃Green Tea: No bound for HubSpot's inbound, Sales and Marketing alignment, Hot on the plate AI and Tech updates, Trending topics on Twitter and more!

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Hello everyone !

Here’s our next newsletter for you and this is what we have in store.

Find out what's packed in Green Tea Newsletter #10:

🎙️Sri and Ramesh talking about the goals of Sales and Marketing teams within an organization, the impact of their alignment, the 4 key pillars for this synchrony, and an interesting rapid-fire round to conclude with

🔊Latest in tech – Nightshade’s 250,000 downloads in 5 days, Meta introducing Code Llama 70B, and Kore.ai securing $150M funding

✍️No bound for HubSpot's inbound -All about HubSpot, inbound marketing, their flywheel model, and the latest scoop - HubSpot acquiring Clearbit

📈A quick read on Using Trending Topics on Twitter

🛠️Link to a free tool that will give a deep insight into your Twitter Analytics

Syncing Sales and Marketing forces

In this episode of the Reset to Zero podcast, the talk is about making marketing work well for the sales team. How it's crucial for all salespeople to be successful and how aligning the sales and marketing teams is key. The discussion covers challenges in working together, handling biases, and the importance of good training to connect the teams. The episode wraps up with valuable insights on creating a strong connection between sales and marketing for success in the business world.

Time for a tech update! 🚀 Here's a quick sip ☕️of the latest in tech with our weekly Byte Brew. Highlights served up in easy-to-digest bits, so you don't miss a thing.

Nightshade: A Quarter Million Downloads 🌐📈

• Nightshade, a free tool disrupting AI models, hits 250,000 downloads in 5 days.

• Artists can use it to try and hinder AI from using their work without permission.

• Overwhelming demand prompts mirror links for smoother downloads.

• Glaze, a tool from the same team, safeguards artists' unique styles from AI learning and has garnered 2.2 million downloads since its release in April 2023.

• The Glaze Project aims to release a combined Glaze/Nightshade tool in at least a month.

Meta's Code Llama 70B Nears GPT-4 Performance 🤖

• Meta introduces Code Llama 70B, their latest and most powerful code generation AI model.

• Code Llama 70B outperforms previous models, allowing developers to handle more queries, making programming more accurate.

• Scoring 53% on the HumanEval benchmark, Code Llama 70B surpasses GPT-3.5 and inches closer to the performance of GPT-4.

• It is is available on three versions of the code generator and remains free for both research and commercial applications.

• It joins the trend with other major players like Amazon's CodeWhisperer and Microsoft's GitHub Copilot.

Kore.ai Secures $150M Boost in Funding for AI Innovations 💰

• Kore.ai, a leading enterprise conversational and generative AI platform, headquartered in Orlando secures an impressive $150 million in funding, with FTV Capital leading the investment round.

• The funding, featuring participation from notable entities like Nvidia and existing investors, aims to propel Kore.ai's Gen AI-powered innovations and facilitate wider adoption across diverse market segments.

• This organization’s established track record includes automating a remarkable 450 million interactions daily for around 200 million consumers and two million enterprise users globally.

At pour and explore, this week’s focus is on HubSpot, the company that set a new standard with its friendly marketing approach. Meet the brains behind it, Dharmesh Shah and Brian Halligan, who came up with the idea of "Inbound Marketing." The blog is a deep dive from their startup days to becoming a big deal globally. Learn about their clever Flywheel model and the recent buzz about HubSpot joining forces with Clearbit.

A Guide To Using Trending Topics on Twitter 🔥

What topics are trending on Twitter? How do you discover them? Read through this interesting piece to find out. Also, learn why engaging with trends is a win for your brand and get tips for making the most of it.

Tool of the week!🛠️

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That’s all for now. See you all next week with some more interesting info. Ciao! 👋