Digest #531 | Build with 20k+ others - Become a Pro member⁴³

Hey folks, we did two sessions (Bolt and Cursor) last week with members in our Slack. Today, we have a workshop for Bolt¹⁸⁶ from the Bolt team (with Paul, who’s been using it from day 1) and tomorrow we have office hours with me. Come chat about your projects and get help (link in slack).

TLDR; inside today’s newsletter

• Mistral upgrades Le Chat, ChatGPT Canvas is now shareable

• Alexa’s AI tease, Elon vs OpenAI version 97.4.0

• new tutorials on building apps with Create and ChatGPT sales prompts

• 9 new tools including Perplexity's free upgrades

• highlights from our community’s weekend build

• 4 must-read posts on AI economics and coding

• to-do’s

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 🔎 Trends & news

• Mistral AI’s Le Chat²¹⁵ is now on iOS and Android with 10x faster responses than ChatGPT. They are partnering with Cerebras⁸⁸ to achieve this speed. Le Chat also has Pro ($15/mo) and Team ($25/mo) plans with Enterprise in preview.

• You can now share a Canvas²⁸⁷ created in ChatGPT. You can make tiny apps and share them with others (like this one⁵⁴⁰). OpenAI also increased ChatGPT’s memory¹⁴⁶ and updated the CoT summaries¹²⁷ for o3-mini (still summaries, but mimics natural speech). Oh, and they ran a Superbowl ad¹⁷⁰.

• Amazon is holding a press event on Feb 26 where it could reveal the new Alexa¹⁰³. Alexa’s revamp for the GenAI era has been in the works for a long time and let’s see if this is any better than Apple Intelligence.

• Voice AI is at a tipping point, and Vapi is leading³⁸² the revolution. 100k+ developers are already shipping everything from enterprise support to personal assistants with Vapi. Their versatile API integrates with any model, any stack. Experience human-like speech at <500ms latency with Vapi.³⁸²*

• No one asked but Elon Musk is making a bid for the OpenAI non-profit¹¹⁵ at $97.4B. Obviously, this is a gimmick¹⁴³ but it can put OpenAI’s for-profit plans in a bind. Sam’s said OpenAI is not for sale!
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👀 ICYMI: New stuff we’ve launched

• Building an app with a prompt is getting easier day by day. We took create.xyz²¹⁸ for a spin and shared how you can also use Create to build an app¹⁶⁷ and connect it with a database and Zapier.

• Even with these magical AI app builders, having a workflow keeps you sane. A community member wrote a blog describing how he takes AI code from idea to production.²⁷¹

• Everyone keeps telling you to start ChatGPT for Sales, right? The quickest way to get started is to describe your daily tasks in detail but sometimes you need some inspiration. We got you: 11 ChatGPT prompts for sales teams³⁰¹.

Upcoming workshops

• Today - Create full-stack apps and deploy them with Bolt. (sign up¹⁸⁶)

• Friday - Get working code from your Figma designs with Builder. (sign up⁶⁴)

• 19th Feb - Quickly bring your AI app ideas to life with Create. (sign up⁴⁷)

• 3rd Mar - Build with AI + Replit (sign up⁵²)

⚙️ Top new tools

• Perforator – Save up to 20% on server costs by optimizing your code. Open-source, real-time profiling for devs. Get it free on GitHub⁶⁰*

• NotebookLM Plus²⁹⁶ is now a part of the Google One AI Premium plan. => If you subscribe to Gemini Advanced, you also get NotebookLM Plus.

• RPLY²⁵¹ - Draft replies for your unanswered texts instantly.

• PikaAdditions¹⁶⁹ - Add anyone or anything seamlessly to a video. (examples¹³⁸)

• ElevenLabs Studio²⁹² - Longform text-to-audio editor for creators and storytellers, now open to everyone.

• Ambient Chat by Chorus¹⁸⁹ - Chat anywhere on your Mac with an AI that can see your screen.

• Bernstein AI²⁷⁹ - Create deep research agents with this lego-like framework. (demo app⁹⁶) - made by one of our community members here’s⁶⁵ the report on me!

• Perplexity²⁴⁰ now offers file and image uploads for free users too (with a 1M token context window).

• Bubble AI³³⁴ - Build your AI-powered app quickly

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💬 Inside the community this week

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• Shahar built an open-source deep research framework for complex tasks. (link¹²¹) -

• Luke shared his ABM stack setup using Airtable and Freckle for lead generation. (link⁵⁹)

• A thread of weekend builds, including a YouTube transcript tool and a memory game for kids. (link⁶⁵)

• Guss asked if you could add a login-protected website to custom GPTs. (link⁴⁷)

• Alexander shared a post on hidden gems of subsidized AI tools. (link⁶⁴)

• Ricardo asked about adding data to Google Sheets via voice prompts (link³⁸)

• Keshav prototyped some tools with Replit and Bolt. I shared a tip to give Replit access to docs of any API (link⁵²)

• Chris shared a new AI writing tool that uses local LLMs. (link⁷⁵)

• Thomas asked about AI tools for landscape/garden design. (link⁶⁶)

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 📜 Interesting posts

• Which economic tasks²⁵⁴ are performed with AI - A paper from Anthropic.

• Vercel's Guillermo Rauch on AI and the future of coding.²⁸²

• Free workshop on 25th Feb - Design your own nervous system coach¹⁴³ with AI.

• Sam Altman’s three observations³⁴⁷ about the economics of AI.

📌 To-dos

That’s it for today. Feel free to hit reply and share your thoughts. 👋

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