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Hey folks, we'll be off for two weeks for Christmas and New Year. Thursday's newsletter will be our final send for the year. We'll be back on 7th Jan.

TLDR; inside today’s newsletter

• Day 6-8 of OpenAI’s launches, Veo 2, and Midjourney Moodboards

• ICYMI: new Sora tutorial and blogs from us

• snack n skill - bring the CRM right to your Slack chat

• 8 new AI tools including an experimental assistant

• 5 links to understand a future with AI

• to-do’s

Alright, let’s get to it!

 🔎 Trends & news

• Google has announced Veo 2³⁵³ - their video generation model. Results from early testers¹⁰⁴ look better⁷¹ than Sora, especially when movement⁵¹/physics is involved. Sora is still a better product than VideoFX (the only place you can try Veo 2, again with a waitlist). Google also upgraded Imagen 3 (available in ImageFX) and launched Whisk²³⁷ - a new lab experiment.

• Two-thirds of OpenAI’s shipmas⁷⁸ is over. Here’s the recap of

  • Day 6: Advanced voice mode gets camera and screen share support, with a special Santa mode.

  • Day 7: ChatGPT gets Projects²⁶³ - A much-needed way to organize ChatGPT’s chats (and a much better experience than Custom GPTs).

  • Day 8: ChatGPT Search is available to every logged-in user (free and paid). It has also improved over the past two months in speed and UI.

  reminder: our daily updated blog⁹² has more details. Day 9 is a mini-dev day, what are you expecting?

• Midjourney Moodboards³³⁷ - Use a collection of images to personalize models with just a minimum of 40 rankings and stable performance with 200 rankings.

• Are we ready for the quantum leap? Join BCG’s Antoine Gourévitch on Imagine This... as he explores how quantum computers could revolutionize materials discovery and design yet threaten data security. Don’t miss this dive into the future’s promise—and risks. Listen to the podcast here.¹⁰⁵*

• Google Cloud also launched ²⁹⁶Agentspace²⁹⁶ - a new enterprise AI platform that combines company-wide search, custom AI agents, and document analysis. A low-code tool to create department-specific agents is coming soon.
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👀 ICYMI: New stuff we’ve launched

• The not-boring way to do product documentation²⁶⁹ with AI.

• 5 easy ways²⁰⁰ AI transforms content that actually work.

• Create a short trailer using Sora¹⁴³.

🍽️ Snack ‘n’ skill

Learn how to chat with your CRM data in Slack

Switching between Slack and your CRM to find customer information is a hassle, especially during back-to-back client meetings. This tutorial shows how to build an AI bot that lets you chat with your Salesforce data right from Slack.

Step 1. Set up your workspace

Start by creating a Lindy AI account and connecting it to your Slack workspace. Pick a dedicated channel where you want to interact with your CRM data.

Step 2. Create your CRM assistant

• Connect your Salesforce account to give the AI access to your CRM data

• Set up an AI agent with specific Salesforce querying capabilities

• Add skills like searching contacts, accounts, and opportunities

• Configure the Slack messaging system for AI responses

• Test different types of questions to ensure accurate responses

• Fine-tune the AI's response format based on your needs

Tip: When setting up filters, make sure to exclude bot messages from triggering new responses—this prevents infinite loops in your Slack channel.

This walkthrough is a condensed version of chat with CRM data⁶⁰. Check it out for step-by-step instructions with screenshots.

⚙️ Top new tools

• Create AI influencers with Glambase²⁶⁰! Monetize content and engage audiences autonomously. Early adopters receive priority access.*

• Interactive mode in NotebookLM²²⁹ - Join the AI podcast hosts and ask them questions about your sources (and there’s a new NotebookLM Plus plan for team and enterprise).

• Scene Ingredients by Pika Labs²¹⁵ - Build a video with the exact character, object, wardrobe, and location you upload.

• ReelMagic by Higgsfield AI¹⁹⁷ - Adapt story ideas into ready-to-watch videos in a single workflow.

• Bartleby²⁰⁶ - An experimental desktop app that can watch your screen, run terminal commands, copy to clipboard, and search the internet.

• Twelevelabs²⁰⁴ - Multimodal AI that understands videos like humans—search, generate or embed.

• Scribe Pro²²⁷ - LLM-powered YouTube transcripts.

• Draft Alpha¹⁵⁷ - Create, enhance, and repurpose quality content—built for content marketers.

More tools here →⁹³
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 📜 Interesting posts

• OpenAI build hours²⁵⁷ - 10 sessions of OpenAI staff showcasing how to use OpenAI’s APIs and models.

• Staff are adopting LLMs faster¹⁶⁷ than companies can issue guidelines.

• Google, Samsung and Qualcomm launched the Android XR platform last weekend and it seems like the killer app for AR/VR is AI.¹⁰⁹

• The leader’s guide²³⁴ to transforming with AI from BCG.

• OpenAI claims Elon Musk wanted the for-profit¹¹⁵ arm of OpenAI, just with him in control. They shared a ton of emails and messages between Sam, Ilya, Greg and Elon.

📌 To-dos

1. Let us know^23† 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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