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TLDR; inside today’s newsletter

• Dropbox’s new AI tool, Perplexity’s updates and AI inspiration.

• ICYMI: new tutorials and blogs for putting AI to work.

• snack n skill - a bite-sized lesson to automate product feedback analysis

• 5 of the best new AI tools

• 6 interesting posts from around the web

• to-do’s

Alright, let’s get to it!

 🔎 Trends & news

• Dropbox launches Dash for Business⁷³⁹ - AI-powered universal search across work apps. Find, summarize, and organize content with natural language queries. It has smart collections (Stacks) and admin controls for sensitive content. Dash works even if your files are not stored on Dropbox.

• Perplexity expands on finance-based queries⁸²². It now shows real-time stock prices, compares companies, deep dives into financials and more. ps: NYT sent a cease and desist letter to Perpexlity¹⁰⁸, demanding it to stop accessing NYT’s content.

• Anthropic (other labs too) is adding regular blog posts and case studies⁸⁴⁹ on how companies are using its AI at work. You should check them out for inspiration. And let us know^103† if you want specific tutorials on any topic.

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👀 ICYMI: New stuff we’ve launched

• Learn to use XML tags to structure your prompts³⁹³ for accurate and relevant outputs.

• Build an automation that uses AI to analyse your competitors’ Google reviews²⁰⁵.

• Recap of my chat with Ross Simmonds on using AI to unlock the full potential of content distribution¹²¹,

• 3 practical ways HR teams can enhance employee experience¹⁵⁰ using AI-powered workflows.

ps: next Tuesday I’m talking with Steve about how to use Townie AI to create full-stack apps⁷² in minutes.

🍽️ Snack ‘n’ skill

Learn how to turn product feedback into roadmap features

Turning user feedback into roadmap items takes a lot of time. But what if AI could do it for you? This tutorial shows how to make AI read user feedback, create feature ideas, and add them to your roadmap automatically.

Step 1. Create a way to collect feedback

First, set up a form to get user feedback. We use Google Forms, but any form that works with Zapier is fine.

Step 2. Set up the AI system to handle feedback

• Set up a Zapier workflow triggered by new form submissions

• Use OpenAI's API to analyze feedback and come up with feature ideas

• Turn the AI's ideas into structured data that's easy to use

• Automatically add suggested features to show up in your roadmap tool (like Notion)

• Refine how the AI writes to match how you usually describe features

Tip: Experiment with different AI prompts to fine-tune the feature descriptions. You might also want to include specific company values or product principles in the prompt.

This walkthrough is a condensed version of this tutorial⁸¹. Check it out to set up your own AI-powered feedback-to-feature pipeline.

⚙️ Top new tools

• Guidde²⁶⁵* - Say goodbye to repetitive explanations! Create AI-generated step-by-step video guides, 11x faster. Free & easy to use!

• Concourse²²² - AI Analyst for corporate finance teams.

• Strella¹⁶² - Generate interview guides, recruit participants, and analyze results for your research.

• Foyle¹⁶¹ - Operate software by using LLMs to translate intent into action (for developers).

• Scenes by Suno²⁴⁰ - Create unique songs from your favourite photos and videos, all from your phone.

More tools here →¹⁴¹
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 📜 Interesting posts

• Nvidia and Mistral have both launched new models. Here’s the real deal on both:

  • Nvidia’s fine-tuned Llama 3.1 70B⁸¹ outperforms Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4 on automatic alignment tests, but it's not generally better for everyday use.

  • Mistral released two small commercial models (Ministral 3B & 8B⁵⁶) for on-device AI. If on-prem is not a dealbreaker, check out Gemini's new Flash-8B model too.

• How telecom company Lumen¹⁷⁹ is adopting Microsoft Copilot 365 at work.

• How to use AI to build your company’s collective intelligence²⁹⁷.

• Amazon's AI generator tool can now create audio ads¹⁵¹.¹⁵¹

• National archives want to use Google’s Gemini¹⁰⁷ to increase employee productivity.

📌 To-dos

Let us know^103† if you have any tutorials or courses you want us to create—we’re always open to ideas.

That wraps things up for today! See you again next week. 👋

Ben

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