There is a really cool project we will all work together in Abia State. Dr Alex Otti, governor-elect of Abia State, approved it this morning. For this project, everyone is an Abian because Abia is the new world. So, everyone is invited. It is a project that has never happened in the history of Nigeria, and it was conceived based on those comments you dropped on this feed. 

Abia – prosperity through enterprise, and God’s Own State. We’re finalizing the concept note and I want every young person to #believe, and that is why I asked Mr. Governor-elect to approve for young people to lead and drive it.

A man who hired me while in FUTO, nine months to my graduation, and put me in a furnished 3-bedroom flat with a Mercedes-Benz and driver, Chief David Ogba Onuoha, Ugoena Abiriba, is coordinating with me. Graduated on Friday, started work on Monday! He believes in talent and the new Abia is a place where talented people will thrive. 

Are you ready for #Abia? The road to prosperity and opportunity passes through Abia. #AbiaIsBetter

Elon Musk has admitted that his move to develop his own AI company is to challenge OpenAI and Google, who have already rolled out AI-powered chatbots.

The entrepreneur said his motive is to “create a third option” in an industry already being dominated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Musk made this known in an interview with Fox News. He said he’s thinking of naming the company “TruthGPT” with the goal of creating a “maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe” and that “hopefully does more good than harm.”

The Twitter CEO helped develop OpenAI, but exited the company in 2018 holding no stock. Amid the frenzy created by ChatGPT, which has triggered global AI race, Musk has been very critical of AI development, warning that it poses existential threat to humanity and could be the end of civilization if it is not regulated. He has also criticized OpenAI for deviating from the original plan to make the venture non-profit.

While Musk’s criticisms appear not to change anything, he has decided to create an AI version that will represent everything he had advocated. But he seems late to the party. Musk acknowledged that he is “starting late” which puts him in significant disadvantage to his rivals.

It is not clear how seriously Musk intends to pursue his plan. But the WSJ reported last week that the world’s second richest man is assembling researchers and engineers to start his AI project.

Musk is making the plans while working to transform Twitter, the microblogging app he acquired late last year. He had vowed to free the social media platform from censorship. He said on Monday that the US secret service had access to all Twitter accounts, including direct messages, under previous management.

Musk’s push to promote free speech on Twitter and his decision to develop TruthGPT, suggest there is a grand plan to make the social media platform part of his AI pursuit.

He said Twitter was working on a feature that would allow users to optionally encrypt their direct messages, and that it’s “hopefully coming out later in the month, but no later than next month.”

Musk has previously said that Twitter should offer Signal-style encryption, which is believed to be a way he intends to make conversation on the platform secure.

“If you are in a conversation you think is sensitive, you can just toggle encryption on and then no one at Twitter can see what you’re talking about,” he said.

But encryption may be in addition to his other plan to make Twitter a payment platform. Musk has merged Twitter with X Corp., a parent company he’d registered to bring his companies under one umbrella, in pursuit of his “everything app” called X.

ChatGPT Continues To Accelerate

Meanwhile, ChatGPT is not waiting to be caught as it now moves into the stock playground, LinkedIn News explains.

ChatGPT has begun to insert itself into the world of finance. Not only was the AI chatbot able to distinguish between “hawkish” or “dovish” statements by the Federal Reserve, it successfully determined whether headlines were good or bad for a particular stock, according to two academic papers. The research also shows that the technology developed by OpenAI can perform these and other tasks without being specifically trained to do so. This so-called zero-shot learning capability already exceeds earlier technologies, experts say. Chegg, an educational software maker, is combining quiz answers with GPT-4 to create a study aide called Cheggmate.

Well done Paul Onaodowan and Edekee team for executing the playbook. Tekedia Capital is excited to be an investor in Africa’s leading AI-system for video shopping. New York welcomes the best. Welcome to New York. Welcome to global opportunity. At Tekedia Capital, we’re the bank for entrepreneurial capitalism as we continue to invest millions of dollars to build up the next African economy.

Setting up shop for Edekee at downtown 23rd Street Manhattan New York City USA has been an amazing experience. The hustle and bustle of this cosmopolitan melting pot of a city, with rides on its famous Yellow cabs and it’s Metro trains, having lunch on a boat on the Hudson River, a walk through the famous Wall Street and taking a selfie at Times Square has been truly bizarre. And though the regular grind as a tech Co-founder in Lagos Nigeria was a good prep for this, waking up in “the city that never sleeps” has been, The Experience!

With the help of the prestigious Starta Accelerator, Edekee plans to scale it’s Shoppable video API integrations for third-party streaming services as well as it’s mobile and video streaming app which is already getting the attention of New York’s savvy Gen Z and millennial demographics, Edekee has plans to rock this city.

In the coming weeks, we look forward to, hosting a few events at Columbia University and NYU for early adopters and other techies, sales pitching to fashion brands and entrepreneurs on flea markets, building strategic partnerships with a few streaming services and attending those vital investor meetings.

Self Appraisal:
Plans are being well executed and the bird is off the ground.

Edekee,bridging streaming and E-commerce!

Edekee CEO

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We’re excited to announce that Edekee has been accepted into the prestigious Starta VC accelerator program! With their support, we’re expanding our AI shoppable video technology operations in the US for B2B streaming platforms and e-commerce platforms, right from our New York office.

But that’s not all – this announcement coincides with the launch of our B2C app, Edekee 2.0. We’re excited to bring our cutting-edge technology to even more users and help revolutionize the way people shop online.

This is a fantastic opportunity for us to connect with experienced mentors and entrepreneurs in NY, and to take our business to the next level. We’re set to make a global impact and change the world with our solution, and we’re inviting investors to join us on this journey.

If you’re interested in learning more about our company and our vision or you are considering investing in our ongoing seed funding round, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Paul Onaodowan. Let’s work together to create a better future.