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4. and, I just added a new workshop for 31st Oct with Tom on how to build AI voice assistants without code.¹²¹

TLDR; inside today’s newsletter

• Claude learns computers, Ideogram vs Midjourney's image editors, and new creative AI tools

• snack n skill - A bite-sized lesson to analyze competitor reviews with AI

• 6 new tools for documentation, video editing and more

• 8 interesting posts covering open-source models to enterprise AI

• to-do’s

Alright, let’s get to it!

 🔎 Trends & news

• Claude learns to use computers²⁵⁸ - Anthropic released a “New” version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet with a) a massive boost to its coding powers (49% on SWE-bench, up from 33%) and b) the ability to navigate interfaces and use software like humans do (in beta). We have word on Claude 3.5 Haiku too but Opus is missing. Computer Use is primarily usable by developers for now, but you can read notes from Ethan^217† and Simon¹⁵⁵ on how it changes the game.

• Ideogram launches Canvas²⁸⁰ - An infinite creative space with Magic Fill for inpainting and Extend for outpainting, perfect for combining uploads with AI generations. Not to be outdone, Midjourney has revealed an image editor²²⁸ plus re-texturing tools for materials and lighting.

• Join over 200,000 developers who trust AssemblyAI's robust API and industry-leading accuracy to build next-gen AI products. Experience the most advanced speech-to-text models—with up to 95% accuracy. Get $50 in API credits⁴⁸ when you sign up today!*

• Run AI inference on the fastest GPUs or fine-tune the latest models on Modal's serverless compute platform. Only pay for what you use. Run a GPU job today in seconds directly from our brand new Modal playground⁷⁶. Startups and researchers eligible for up to $25k in credits⁵⁹*.

• AI for multimedia isn’t stopping because RunwayML also announced Act-One¹¹⁸ in Gen-3 Alpha. It turns simple video performances into expressive character animations without mocap equipment.

  ps: more creative tools and news below.
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🍽️ Snack ‘n’ skill

Learn how to analyze competitor Google reviews using AI

Stop spending hours manually researching competitor reviews. Here's how to automate gathering and analyzing Google reviews to understand what customers think of your competition.

Step 1. Build your listening post

Create an Airtable base with essential fields: business keywords to search, location names, and a status field to trigger the automation. This will be your command center for competitor review analysis.

Step 2. Set up your insight engine

• Connect Airtable to Zapier and trigger actions when status changes to "Go"

• Use SerpApi to fetch Google Maps locations and their reviews

• Set up a loop in Zapier to process multiple locations

• Feed reviews through ChatGPT for intelligent summarization

• Automatically update Airtable with location details and AI-generated summaries

• Use the GPT-4-mini model to keep costs low while maintaining quality

Tip: Start with your closest competitors first. Once you've refined the AI's summary style, you can expand to analyze the whole market.

This walkthrough is a condensed version of this tutorial¹⁰⁷. Check it out for step-by-step API setup details and one-click copyable prompts.

⚙️ Top new tools

• Guidde²⁹⁰* - Create stunning visual guides in seconds—the free GPT tool for fast, AI-powered documentation. Save time and effort!

• DreamCut²⁶⁰ - AI video editor and screen recorder that works right from your browser.

• Perplexity Pro²¹¹ now has a reasoning mode to answer multi-layered questions.

• Voice Design by ElevenLabs¹⁸³ - Generate a unique voice from a text prompt alone.

• Watermark PDF¹²⁹ - Add custom text or image watermarks to your PDF documents securely and easily.

• Together Demos¹⁸⁵ - Open source example apps by the Together AI team.

More tools here →¹²⁷
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 📜 Interesting posts

• Learn to use Generative AI as a Product Manager with this free course only for Ben’s Bites readers.¹⁹⁸

• Enterprise AI insights¹⁸¹ from industry leaders (from SF Tech Week).

• Appen's 2024 State of AI report¹⁹⁶ - Generative AI and its impact on business processes.

• Genmo AI open-sourced their (amazing) video generation model Moshi-1 preview¹¹⁸.

• Inflection AI partners with UiPath⁸⁹ to bring agentic workflows to their enterprise plans.

• Even xAI is hiring¹²⁰ to build autonomous agents.

• Google Deepmind open-sourced Synth-Id⁷⁷ and has made significant improvements to MusicFX⁷⁷.

• OpenAI has shared new research that allows them to create images faster⁹⁰.

📌 To-dos

1. Let us know^27† 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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