Mavericks, Inc. (headquartered in Bunkyo City, Tokyo; representative: Shota Okuno), a developer of advanced AI products, publishes “Mavericks AI News,” one of Japan’s largest generative AI newsletters, with more than 80,000 subscribers. It is delivered every Monday.
The newsletter draws on the expertise of a team working at the front line of AI product development, and it curates and explains only the information that matters in day-to-day business.
”Mavericks AI News,” the most subscribed AI newsletter in Japan
Mavericks, Inc. is a Japanese startup that offers the generative AI product NoLang. NoLang passed 150,000 registered users within a year of launch and has been adopted by more than 60 companies, and the team runs its own product on the front line of AI-driven development every day. In a generative AI industry that changes extremely fast, readers want to know what generative AI can do right now, which AI services the market is paying attention to, and what kind of AI is coming next. The team that tracks product development first-hand selects the most important items and sends the newsletter out every Monday.
For busy business people who need to keep up with generative AI, this is the AI newsletter Mavericks recommends most.
The newsletter curates substantive, practical information from the perspective of a team that builds AI products daily. It goes beyond introducing technology: the aim is to help readers, including those with no prior AI knowledge, picture concretely how they could use a development starting tomorrow. Each item pairs the latest generative AI news with original commentary grounded in hands-on product development expertise.
Subscribe hereTwo problems at once: gathering information and applying it in business
Generative AI can reshape how businesses operate, and it keeps advancing at a startling pace. New tools and use cases are announced one after another, and how quickly a company catches up and puts them to work now directly affects its competitiveness.
That rapid change also brings a serious threat. 81% of companies say it is hard to keep pace with the speed of change1, and in a survey of the general public, 58% answered that they do not trust AI2, showing that social distrust of AI is growing as well.
So the volume and speed of AI information have grown beyond what people can follow, while its quality and reliability vary widely, which is part of why that distrust exists. Distrust of AI raises the cost of judging whether a given piece of information is true, and as a result many business people face real problems: exhaustion from information overload, and missing the news that actually matters.
Highlights from this week’s issue (delivered November 4)
Note: this week’s issue went out on Tuesday because November 3 was a public holiday in Japan.
Here is a brief look at the topics covered in the latest issue, delivered on November 4.
Feature 1: Google Gems plus Gmail integration cuts email drafting time
Have you ever tried to draft an email with ChatGPT and given up because it took too many steps? The issue walks through how to connect Gems, Google’s latest custom AI, with Gmail so that you can call up an AI that has learned your own tone and formatting directly from the Gmail screen and generate email drafts quickly, including example custom instructions.
Feature 2: Google “Pomelli” — automatically generating ad designs that match a brand
The issue introduces Pomelli, a new Google tool that takes only a website URL, has AI pick out the company’s brand identity (fonts, colors, images), and generates ad designs from it. It explains an AI trend with the potential to change how small businesses and sole proprietors produce creative work.
Feature 3: Music AI “Udio” and UMG strike a surprise deal — a new direction for copyright
Udio, a music generation AI that had been in litigation over copyright infringement, reversed course and announced a strategic partnership with Universal Music Group (UMG), whose artists include Taylor Swift. The issue examines the background to this striking agreement and how new rules, such as a ban on downloading AI-generated music, may affect copyright questions from here.
What comes next
As a product-out generative AI startup, Mavericks, Inc. sees giving back to society the expertise it gains from developing advanced products in-house as an important part of its mission.
Through “Mavericks AI News,” the company will continue to deliver reliable, practical information to the business people, developers and digital transformation leads who are opening up the AI era.
