Digest #507 → Subscribe¹ | Upgrade to Pro²¹⁰

Hey folks,

The workshop with Tom on how to build voice assistants without code¹⁹¹ has now been rescheduled to next week.

We’re slightly delayed on the new site migration but it’ll be coming any day 🙂 

TLDR; inside today’s newsletter

• ChatGPT Search goes live, Claude gets dictation & better PDFs

• snack n skill - create AI-powered how-to guides in minutes

• 6 of the best new AI tools

• 6 interesting posts on understanding AI

• to-do’s

Alright, let’s get to it!

 🔎 Trends & news

• ChatGPT Search is live for Plus and Team users.⁴²² After running the SearchGPT prototype, OpenAI has finally added it to the main ChatGPT experience. It searches the web automatically when it thinks it might be necessary (which might be annoying for some). More thoughts below

• Claude 3.5 Haiku is here⁸⁸ (only for developers), but I’m not impressed. Overall it feels weaker than GPT-4o-mini and Gemini 1.5 Flash 002 while being much more expensive⁷⁶. The redeemable quality of this model can be its coding capacity, where Anthropic claims it’s even better than the old Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

• But it’s not the reason to stop loving Claude. It just got two game-changer features. You can now dictate up to 10 minutes of voice messages¹⁸⁴ on the Claude mobile app and Claude now supports PDF uploads with images and charts¹⁶⁸ in it too (up to 100 pages).

• It’s Election Day—Arc steps back, SigmaOS leading the race! Tired of drowning in tabs, losing work, and declaring tab bankruptcy? SigmaOS⁴¹⁸ is your candidate! Speed up your work with workspaces that organize your tabs, and an AI companion who answers questions about your tabs. Choose SigmaOS today⁴¹⁸!*

• What if all of Minecraft was AI-generated? Well, we have some early results from Oasis: the first playable AI-generated game¹⁹⁰ from Etched and Decart AI. (I’m an investor). Also, Daan in our community pointed out that Netflix is hiring a VP for GenAI in Games.
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🍽️ Snack ‘n’ skill

Learn how to create AI-powered how-to guides in minutes

Creating documentation and how-to guides is crucial but time-consuming. With AI tools like Guidde, you can record, edit, and share professional process guides with voice-overs and animations in a fraction of the time.

Step 1. Install and set up Guidde

Download the Guidde¹⁷⁷ browser extension for Chrome or Edge and pin it to your toolbar for easy access. You'll use this to capture your screen actions and turn them into engaging guides.

Step 2. Create your video guide

• Click the extension and use "Capture" to start recording your process

• Describe what you're recording to help AI generate better content

• Navigate through your process naturally while Guidde tracks your actions

• Edit scenes and remove any unwanted captures from your recording

• Enhance your guide with AI-generated voiceovers or record your own

• Customize text overlays, graphics, and motion effects as needed

Tip: Start with a clear process in mind before recording. You can always delete extra steps later, but having a structured flow makes the final guide more professional.

This walkthrough is a condensed version of this tutorial¹²⁰. Check it out for detailed steps on creating engaging how-to content with AI.

⚙️ Top new tools

• 🎙️Elevate your voice apps - Flow by Speechmatics lets you build seamless voice experiences into your apps. Try the demo and get started today¹⁰⁶!*

• BlendBox²¹⁹ - Bring simplicity & control to AI art and shape your vision.

• Recraft AI²⁶³ - AI for pro designers. Try their new model here¹²⁹ without any sign-up.

• Granola⁴⁷⁶ (my preferred notetaker) added support for images in your meeting notes.

• FullContext^219† - Build GTM workflows 20x faster with natural language.

• Trove¹⁴⁹ - Real-time merchant intelligence for financial transactions.

More tools here →¹⁶⁵
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🗣️ Everyone’s talking about

OpenAI has finally added web search to ChatGPT for Plus and Team users. You can now get current info right in your chat, with links to sources. There's also a Chrome extension to search directly from your browser.

This is OpenAI's biggest move yet to compete with Google. Instead of multiple searches and link-digging, users can have natural conversations about current events, weather, stocks, sports and more—with ChatGPT automatically pulling relevant web sources. They've also partnered with major publishers like AP, Reuters, FT and others to ensure quality information.

Some practical ways to use it at work:

• Writing reports? Get the latest industry updates without leaving your draft

• Checking competition? Ask about their recent product launches or news

• Need market stats? Pull current data while working on your deck

My verdict: if you're tired of switching between Google and your work, ChatGPT search makes life easier. But I wouldn't unpin Google from my browser just yet.

Read more stories on the Ben’s Bites blog.⁶¹

 📜 Interesting posts

• Your guide to AI⁵⁰² - November 2024.

• π0 builds a generalist policy to teach robots new tasks¹⁰⁷ quickly.

• Stop writing all your AI prompts⁶⁵³ from scratch.

• Developers can now use xAI’s Grok via an API⁷⁹ and build products on top of it.

• Outlines of an AI future^250†, even without superintelligence.

• Gemini API and Google AI Studio now offer Grounding with Google Search.¹¹⁹

📌 To-dos

1. Let us know^41† 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 on Thursday 👋

Ben

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