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Jul 18 7 tweets 3 min read
Poe is one of the most underrated AI tools right now.

The Preview feature allows you to code custom apps directly in chat, similar to Claude Artifacts, but for ANY AI model (GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5, + more)

Here's a few of my favorite use cases: First off, what is Poe Previews?

Previews allow users to see and interact with custom web app created directly in chat — no coding ability required.

Imagine building games, interactive animations, drag-and-drop interfaces, and more just by describing it.
Jul 15 10 tweets 4 min read
AI NEWS: OpenAI is reportedly working on a new AI model code-named 'Strawberry'

Plus, more developments from the LMSYS Chatbot Arena, Amazon, Patronus AI, and U.S. Rep. Jennifer Wexton.

Here's everything going on in AI right now: Per Reuters, OpenAI is developing a secretive new AI model codenamed ‘Strawberry’ (formerly known as Q*).

The model is reportedly designed to dramatically improve AI reasoning capabilities and enable autonomous internet 'deep research' Image
Jul 12 10 tweets 4 min read
AI NEWS: OpenAI has reportedly internally introduced a 5-level roadmap to AGI.

Plus, more developments from Google DeepMind, Marc Andreessen, The Rundown, BXI Robotics, and the first-ever 'Miss AI'.

Here's everything going on in AI right now: OpenAI reportedly internally introduced a new five-tier system to track its progress toward AGI.

The classification system ranges from Level 1 (current conversational AI) to Level 5 (AI capable of running entire organizations). Image
Jul 11 11 tweets 4 min read
AI NEWS: Microsoft and Apple just dropped their OpenAI board seats.

Plus, more developments from Neuralink, Samsung, Anthropic Claude, xAI, and Skild AI.

Here's everything going on in AI right now: Microsoft just withdrew its role on OpenAI's Board, while Apple also reportedly scrapped plans

These drop-offs come right on the heels of the EU/US investigations around big co antitrust violations
Jul 9 10 tweets 4 min read
AI NEWS: OpenAI and Thrive just launched a hyper-personalized AI health coach.

Plus, big developments from Odyssey, Poe, Luma Labs, LivePortrait, NVIDIA, and Japan's Defense Ministry.

Here's everything going on in AI right now: The OpenAI Startup Fund and Thrive just announced a new venture developing a hyper-personalized AI-powered health coach

The coach will be trained in scientific research, biometric data, and individual preferences to offer tailored recommendations
Jul 8 10 tweets 4 min read
🚨 Chinese AI company SenseTime just revealed SenseNova 5.5, an AI model that claims to beat GPT-4o across key metrics

Plus, big developments from Apple, YouTube, KLING, Neuralink, and Google DeepMind.

Here's everything going on in AI right now: At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai this weekend, SenseTime unveiled SenseNova 5.5.

The company claims the model outperforms GPT-4o in 5 out of 8 key metrics.

While I'd take it with a grain of salt, China's AI startups are showing major progress Image
Jul 3 10 tweets 4 min read
AI NEWS: Leaks just revealed Google is planning to launch a 'Recall' feature for the Pixel.

Plus, more developments from Meta, ElevenLabs, Runway, Perplexity, Nomic AI, and Elon Musk/xAI.

Here's everything going on in AI right now: According to a newly leaked report from @androidauth, Google is planning a new feature called ‘Pixel Screenshots’ for the Pixel 9.

The AI tool will allow users to search and summarize manually captured screenshots, without being ‘always-on’ like the Copilot Plus’ Recall feature Image
Jul 1 10 tweets 4 min read
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is incredible for writing.

If you haven't tried it yet, you should. It's free and far less robotic than ChatGPT.

Here's the prompt process I do to mimic any writing style:
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Firstly, a couple of important clarifications:

1. I personally don't use AI for my writing — but I do use this technique to generate "blank slate" ideas or to edit my work

2. If you do use this, make sure to double-check your work for hallucinations.
Jul 1 8 tweets 3 min read
Agility Robotics just signed the first Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) deal for its humanoids.

Plus, big AI developments from Apple Intelligence, Google Translate, Amazon, and Meta Llama.

Here's everything that happened in AI over the past few days: Agility Robotics just signed a multi-year deal with GXO Logistics to bring the company’s humanoid robots to warehouses

The agreement is the first Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) deal and ‘formal commercial deployment’ of the humanoids

Are subscription-based robots the future?
Jun 24 9 tweets 4 min read
AI NEWS: Meta and Apple are discussing a potential major AI partnership.

Plus, big developments from Unitree, OpenAI, Anthropic, Pillbot, Midjourney, and xAI/Grok.

Here's everything that happened in AI over the past few days: Apple is reportedly in talks with Meta to integrate its AI models into Apple Intelligence

For Apple, securing a variety of models gives users the best possible experience—while Meta gets a massive new distribution

Full rundown in tomorrow's newsletter: therundown.ai/subscribe
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Jun 19 13 tweets 5 min read
AI NEWS: OpenAI is expanding to AI cancer care.

Plus, big developments from TikTok, Meta, Google DeepMind, Notion, Runway, Hedra, ElevenLabs, and Nvidia.

Here's everything going on in AI right now: OpenAI and Color Health just announced a partnership to create an AI assistant to craft personalized cancer care

The AI (built with GPT-4o) analyzes patient data, guidelines, and medical records to identify screening gaps and create tailored plans.

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Jun 14 14 tweets 5 min read
AI NEWS: Google DeepMind researchers have developed a virtual rat with an AI brain.

Plus, major developments from OpenAI, Synthflow, DenseAV, Elon Musk, Zeta Labs, Stability AI, Luma Labs, PROTEUS, and the University of Tokyo.

Here's everything going on in AI right now: DeepMind and Harvard just created a virtual rat powered by an AI neural network.

It's capable of mimicking agile movements and neural activity of real-life rats — massively opening up new research with testing on AI animals, and expanding robotics
Jun 12 13 tweets 4 min read
Luma AI just dropped a Sora-like AI video generator called Dream Machine.

But unlike Sora or KLING, it's completely open access to the public.

Here are 10 wild examples (and how to access it):

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Jun 10 12 tweets 4 min read
Apple just announced a ton of incredible AI developments at WWDC.

The 11 most impressive reveals:

1. Using the iPad calculator as a notepad and getting real-time answers 2. Apple Intelligence: Apple’s first AI system is coming to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Jun 6 8 tweets 3 min read
A Chinese AI video generator just dropped before we got access to Sora

Can generate 2-minute videos at 30fps, 1080p quality, available on the KWAI iOS app with a Chinese phone number

A few generations from their site:

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A car driving on the road in the evening with a gorgeous sunset and tranquil scenery reflected in the rearview mirror
Jun 5 9 tweets 3 min read
🚨 11 current and former OpenAI researchers just called for the ‘Right to Warn’ about AI.

Plus, big news from Leopold Aschenbrenner, Elon Musk and Tesla/xAI, Amazon's Project P.I., Microsoft, and Eric Yuan/Zoom.

Everything going on in AI right now: Current and former employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind published an open letter called 'A Right to Warn'

It calls for companies to expand whistleblower protections so workers can raise the alarm about potential AI dangers without fear of retaliation. Image
Jun 3 10 tweets 4 min read
Nvidia just revealed 'Rubin', alongside a ton of other AI tools and developments.

Plus, big news from the University of Cambridge, ElevenLabs, Google DeepMind, xAI's Grok, and Sam Altman's response to Helen Toner.

Here's everything going on in AI right now: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just announced next-gen ‘Rubin’ chips, slated for 2026, with 'Rubin Ultra' coming a year later.

"The days of millions of GPU data centers are coming" says Jenson.

It’s Nvidia’s AI world — we’re all just living in it.
May 31 13 tweets 5 min read
A revamped Siri is reportedly on its way, with agentic-like AI capabilities.

Plus, big AI developments from the OpenAI Board, Showrunner, Perplexity, Higgsfield, Midjourney, Scale AI, and MrBeast.

Here's everything going on in AI right now: As reported by @markgurman, Apple is set to reveal a major overhaul of Siri at WWDC

The revamped Siri will reportedly use LLMs to understand/execute more complex voice commands within on-device apps

The AI will also analyze user habits to auto-enable new commands on Apple apps Image
May 29 9 tweets 4 min read
Ex-OpenAI board member Helen Toner finally spoke about why the board fired Sam Altman.

Plus, big news from OpenAI's next model, SignLLM, Canva, Copilot for Telegram, and xAI.

Here's everything going on in AI right now: The OpenAI drama just doesn't stop.

Helen Toner, ex-OpenAI board member spoke out on why they fired Sam Altman in November:

Sam Altman was "in some cases outright lying to the board," and the board found out about the launch of ChatGPT through Twitter
May 24 11 tweets 4 min read
AI NEWS: Elon Musk believes that the rise of AI will make all jobs ‘optional’ in the long term.

Plus, major developments from OpenAI, Arc, Google DeepMind, BrainBridge, Cohere, and Amazon.

Here's everything going on in AI right now: At VivaTech conference today, Elon Musk said that the rise of AI will make all jobs ‘optional’ in the long term.

"If you want to do a job as a hobby, you can do a job. But otherwise, AI and robots will provide any goods and services that you want"
May 21 7 tweets 3 min read
Zapier Central’s Chrome extension is one of the most underrated AI tools right now.

It scrapes any website you're on and then automates actions across 6,000+ apps.

Here's a simple use case that my team and I are implementing to save time: Some quick context before we get into it:

@therundownai, we have an automated AI job board, and we hand-pick 4 new jobs from that board every day to highlight in the newsletter

This simple workflow automates that process.

H/T to @b_lake for the implementation and idea!