Hi, I’m Tina, founder of Endurance Sportswire. With my latest newsletter AI Sporstwire, I’ve merged my passion for AI with my background in sports business news to spotlight the latest AI advancements in sports and fitness.

In today’s email:

• OpenAI and Perplexity announce publishing deals

• Five new AI tools to save time and boost efficiency

• Test our race director prompt to organize volunteers for race day

• New funding raised by AI fitness startups revolutionizing training and health tracking

• This week’s AI art challenge and featured image

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AI News Bytes

OpenAI has kicked off its “12 days of OpenAI” event where they will reveal a new model or feature every weekday for the next two weeks.

OpenAI has partnered with Future, the publisher behind popular websites and magazines such as Tom's Guide, PC Gamer, and TechRadar. This deal will give users of OpenAI's ChatGPT access to news and lifestyle content from over 200 media brands, while also displaying proper attribution and links to the original articles.

On a related note, Perplexity announced today it was adding more than a dozen new media partners, including the Los Angeles Times and The Independent, to its program where it shares a portion of ad revenue with the publishers.

Amazon has launched its own line of artificial intelligence models, including six models for tasks like text and video generation, in an effort to compete with tech giants like Google and Microsoft in the rapidly growing AI sector.

Gemini, Google's AI assistant, is getting a new feature aimed at making calls and texts easier to manage. You'll soon be able to make a call or send a text without unlocking your phone, thanks to the AI feature.

Anthropic announced that you can now personalize Claude's responses to match your unique communication preferences, tone, and structure, with the ability to generate custom styles and choose from preset options.

🧰 Tools and Tips

• An AI-powered app called the Death Clock predicts users' exact date of death based on their lifestyle choices and health information, and how they can improve their habits to live even longer.

• Save hours creating, scheduling, and managing content across all platforms with quso.ai. It learns your brand voice and automates your social strategy.

• Designed for soccer analytics, BigBro.AI Sports offers analytics on fitness, tactics, and visualizations, enabling insights such as player speed trends, tactical success rates, and performance comparisons.

• Explore AI multi-agent workflow templates crafted by the community and build your own with MindPal.

• Notebook LM’s audio feature will take any document, video, or website you upload, and with one click, two AI hosts start up a lively “deep dive” discussion based on your sources. And if you listen to Spotify, Spotify and NotebookLM have teamed up to create a personalized AI podcast about your year in audio.

Prompt of the Day

If you are a race director, use this prompt to organize your volunteers for race day.

"Generate a detailed volunteer task matrix for a [race type: 5K, trail run, triathlon] with [total volunteer count], assigning roles like course marshals, registration staff, and finish line attendants. Volunteers will be needed to start [X hours before the event] to handle tasks such as registration, shirt handouts, and setup. During the race, include roles for [specific tasks: water stations, course marshals, etc.], and post-race roles like [medal distribution, cleanup, etc.]. Incorporate specific shift durations, contingency plans for [no-show rate], and ensure adequate coverage for all critical activities. Provide a summary table showing roles, start times, end times, and volunteer counts for each shift. Before you begin, ask me any questions you have about our event so I can give you more context. Be extremely comprehensive."

AI in Sports and Fitness

🥊 Startup Growl raises $4.75 million for its AI-powered interactive boxing coach, offering an immersive and gamified fitness experience for the whole family. Pre-sales for the product are expected to begin in April 2025.

🪞 Fitness platform Magic AI raised $5 million in funding for its hologram video-enabled training mirror, which uses proprietary AI technology to track and improve users' posture and performance.

📆 Fastbreak.ai, a leader in AI-driven scheduling solutions for the sports industry, has acquired SEQL, an innovative sports impact company focused on providing resources to underserved youth athletes and connecting them with leading consumer brands. 

🏌🏾 On a related note, TMRW Sports, the tech-focused sports, media, and entertainment venture headed by golf icons Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, last month announced a new partnership with Fastbreak.ai. The company will manage the schedule of TMRW’s tech-infused golf league TGL, which will debut in January 2025, crafting “ai-optimized” schedules that it says will strike a balance between broadcast viewership, player availability, and in-person fan experience.

🥦 17-year-old high school senior, Zach Yadegari, co-founder and CEO of Cal AI, is disrupting the health and fitness tech space with his innovative nutrition tracking app that leverages AI and unique marketing strategies.

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