Future Tools

Future Tools is a website that curates the latest tools, news and events in the world of AI. Created by @mreflow

[Matt Wolfe @mreflow]

I need an AI agent that can setup X ads for me. I have $1,000/month in ad credits for my @futuretools profile but can't seem to find the time to learn best practices for X ads. lol

[Matt Wolfe @mreflow]

Nano Banana Pro drops today! I've had about a week with it now and it's really impressive.

Combine up to 6 images into a single image.

Annotate any image with details about the image that Gemini researched for you.

The best text rendering in an image generator we've seen so far. Even small text in an image is actually coherent.

Doodle on images to inform a edit, directly from within Gemini.

Convert any aspect ratio to any other aspect ratio without screwing up the image.

Style transfer - Apply the style of one image to another.

Free Gemini users get a certain amount of generations per day before it goes back to OG Nano Banana. And they're baking it into pretty much every other Google product.

Full breakdown video just went live on my YouTube channel.

This is NOT sponsored but I am super grateful that Google hooked me up a little early to be a tester and to provide feedback.

[Matt Wolfe @mreflow]

What’s the most impressive thing you’ve seen someone do with Gemini 3 so far? Link to it below.

It could be something you made or something you saw someone else made.

Coolest ones will be in an upcoming video.

[Future Tools @futuretools]

Yay! After years of trying, I finally got the FutureTools handle on X. The new handle marketplace actually works.

Also got our business verification. Time to actually do something with this account!

[Future Tools @futuretools]

Anthropic's latest report on its Economic Index reveals that the new Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI has increased its use in coding, education, and scientific applications. Its "extended thinking" mode is primarily used for technical problem-solving. Full data is available for researchers. https://t.co/Mg4w3nRLE3

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt).

Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the world, building models and data centers at unprecedented speed and scale.

X is the digital town square where more than 600M active users go to find the real-time source of ground truth and, in the last two years, has been transformed into one of the most efficient companies in the world, positioning it to deliver scalable future growth.

xAI and X’s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent. This combination will unlock immense potential by blending xAI’s advanced AI capability and expertise with X’s massive reach. The combined company will deliver smarter, more meaningful experiences to billions of people while staying true to our core mission of seeking truth and advancing knowledge. This will allow us to build a platform that doesn’t just reflect the world but actively accelerates human progress.

I would like to recognize the hardcore dedication of everyone at xAI and X that has brought us to this point. This is just the beginning.

Thank you for your continued partnership and support.

[Matt Wolfe @mreflow]

This week's AI News video was one of the most fun videos to produce that I've done in a long time. This week was a blast!

Between playing with o4 ImageGen, Gemini 2.5, Reve, Ideogram, Pika, and more, how can we not be entertained?

Check it out on YouTube if you haven't yet.

[Matt Wolfe @mreflow]

We're only half way through Wednesday and already this week we've gotten...

- Google Gemini 2.5 with enhanced thinking capabilities
- OpenAI's Advanced Image Generation
- Microsoft's Researcher and Analyst AI Agents
- Reve Image 1.0 beating out all other image gen models
- Ideogram 3.0 for free with Enhanced Realism and Speed
- DeepSeek's new V3 AI model under MIT license
-Alibaba's LHM Model to Create Animated 3D Avatars from Single Image
- Alibaba's Optimized 32B Qwen2.5-VL Visual Language Model
- Perplexity's New Answer Tabs for Images, Video, Travel, and Shopping

And that's just the bigger ticket items. There's been even more smaller announcements as well.

We're off to a crazy start this week!

Which are you most excited about?

[Future Tools @futuretools]

Trying to get this account verified as a business account. Paid $1,000 and got denied with no reason given. Going to get this account dialed in. If someone knows anyone at @X that can help, it would be greatly appreciated. 🙏

[Matt Wolfe @mreflow]

AI News from the past week that I've found interesting. Let me know about (and link me up to) anything that I missed this week so I can be sure to cover it in my breakdown video...

(March 7th - 13th)
- Google Releases open-weight Gemma 3 model
- Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash Image model to devs
- Google intros Gemini Robotics models
- Google adds Gemini to Google Calendar
- OpenAI releases Responses API to build AI agents
- OpenAI is developing new model that excels at creative writing
- Perplexity launches Windows desktop app
- Convergence launches Deep Work
- xAI launches ability to ask Grok questions directly in X feed
- Hunyuan launches TurboS model
- Reka open-sources 27b parameter Flash 3 model
- Everyone goes crazy over Manus AI agent
- AI-written paper passes peer review for ICLR conference
- Luma Intros Inductive Moment Matching to Break Pre-Training Limits
- Snap launches AI-powered Video Lenses
- Xbox launching AI Gaming Copilot
- Bolt launches Figma to AI app tool
- Meta testing building their own AI training chips
- Apple developing AirPods with AI translation

Google seems to be winning the week (in my mind). What am I missing? I do my best to stay super looped in but there are always things that miss my radar.

Also: all sources are linked over at FutureTools (dot) io on the news page. (Easier to see than linking everything in a thread)

[Matt Wolfe @mreflow]

I created a second X account over at @futuretools - Yes this is actually the official account of Future Tools.

I'm planning on building some automations that automatically share AI news and AI tools to that account as part of the upcoming Future Tools 2.0 launch. :)

[Future Tools @futuretools]

This is the official X account of Future Tools. Just getting things setup. Planning on having an automated news and cool tools stream coming from this account.

-@mreflow