What's brewing in AI

A 5-minute weekly email about how — and why — to build with AI

[dario @itspapilama]

just ordered my 3rd americano of the day and the barista called me 'crazy'.

dude, can you not judge me on my caffeine or token usage while i'm working please.

I have things to ship.

[dario @itspapilama]

I tested Google's @antigravity, a new agent-first IDE, to find out if it deserves a spot in the small set of tools I use every day.

As a non-engineer who has spent the last 6 months vibe coding in Cursor every day, here's what stood out for me:

[dario @itspapilama]

AI isn’t stealing your job. It’s stealing your focus.

95% of AI-related posts are hype and clickbait.

Blocking accounts help, but also, build a mental filter for what you see.

Here's 8 things I keep in mind when consuming content about AI to stay focused on what matters:

[dario @itspapilama]

GPT-4o can redesign ANY space in seconds without expensive interior designers.

I transformed my Airbnb's living room into 24 different interior styles.

Here are all the transformations + the exact prompts I used—so you can give your place the same glow-up.

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[dario @itspapilama]

GPT-4o's new image generator is wild! It can do any cartoon style.

Here's 24 different versions of myself, and the prompt I used to generate them (while avoiding copyright warnings)

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[dario @itspapilama]

James Dean's voice can now read your documents (using ElevenLabs' new reader app).

Also, Sequoia says we’re in an AI bubble, YouTube wants to train new AI music tools, Runway Gen-3 is now available to everyone and more.

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[dario @itspapilama]

You can now organize your chats with Claude into shareable Projects.

Also, ChatGPT MacOS app is now available to everyone, Character AI introduces Character Calls and more, ElevenLabs now has a reader app.

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[dario @itspapilama]

Here's the most important, AI-related updates from Apple’s WWDC 2024 keynote:

1. Apple Intelligence - Apple’s own AI system
2. Siri’s AI comeback (starring ChatGPT)
3. AI-powered writing & image tools
4. The privacy aspect of it
5. The non-AI stuff they released

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[dario @itspapilama]

Apple didn’t really release groundbreaking AI at their WWDC 2024 event – yet they still did something clever:

[dario @itspapilama]

OpenAI is basically saying capability > safety.

Brewing in AI this week:

1 OpenAI’s new safety committee
2 Ex OpenAI researcher Jan Leike joins Anthropic
3 A new LLM leaderboard has entered the chat
4 Custom GPTs are now available for free
5 Perplexity introduces Pages

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[SciSpace @scispace]

We’re thrilled to announce that SciSpace has been recognized as the top AI tool for Academic Research by Whatplugin! 🥇

Discover more about why we stand out: https://t.co/9Wxo2IFKGb

[dario @itspapilama]

Pizza with extra glue, please 🍕

The top stories AI this week:

1. Google’s AI overview backfires hard
2. Elon raises $6 billion for xAI
3. Microsoft expands Copilot to acts as a team member
4. The latest on OpenAI’s ongoing drama
5. Anthropic maps their AI’s “brain”

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[dario @itspapilama]

Here's all the drama in AI this week 🤷🏻‍♂️

1. ChatGPT gets improved data analysis skills
2. OpenAI takes down the “Sky” voice from ChatGPT
3. OpenAI dissolves its safety team
4. Controversial clause in OpenAI’s off-boarding agreement
5. Microsoft’s “AI-first” PC

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[dario @itspapilama]

It’s one major thing after the next this week

1. Google I/O 2024: the key announcements
2. Google introduces AI overviews
3. Chief scientist Ilya Sutskever leaves OpenAI
4. Claude available in Europe
5. OpenAI embraces industry standards for AI generated content

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[dario @itspapilama]

My breakdown of the OpenAI Spring Update event

- OpenAI's new model, GPT-4o. It’s faster, cheaper and its voice & vision capabilities is like AI from the movies
- Free GPT-4 for everyone
- ChatGPT’s new Desktop app
- My favourite demos

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[dario @itspapilama]

Hot tip! I've found the vision capability in ChatGPT (and now also Claude) on mobile excellent for identifying weird animals 🦤

Anyways, here's the most important stuff happening in AI this week..

[dario @itspapilama]

The top stories in AI this week...

- Memory for ChatGPT becomes more widely available

- Reid Hoffman interviews his AI twin

- Apple has resumed talks with OpenAI

- US Government starts AI Safety Board

- Elon Musk is close to raising $6 billion for xAI

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[dario @itspapilama]

Llama 3 is here 🦙

The top stories in AI this week...

1. Meta releases Llama 3
2. Microsoft’s hyper-realistic talking face videos
3. Multi-bot chat on Poe
4. AI features coming to Adobe Premiere Pro in May
5. OpenAI’s updated API dashboard and assistants API

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[dario @itspapilama]

ChatGPT is back topping the charts.

1. OpenAI releases a new and improved GPT-4 Turbo
2. OpenAI opens in Japan
3. Devin is a lie, but that's not the most important thing
4. Gemini 1.5 Pro now available as API
5. TikTok’s plans on using AI influencers for advertisers

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[dario @itspapilama]

finally, a slow week in AI 😄

1. OpenAI adds image editing to DALL-E
2. Anthropic and Cohere allow apps to interact with their LLMs
3. OpenAI makes it easier to fine-tune GPT-3.5
4. ChatGPT Enterprise customers has quadrupled since January
5. Which AIs people use for work

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