Digest #545 | Building with AI? Get Pro and join the community⁵⁰

Hey folks, no new post from me today, but ICYMI, I’m back at creating videos to make building with AI easier. So far, I’ve covered:

• GitHub & Git³⁰⁷: for non-technical founders.

• Creating an extension¹⁰⁰ to supercharge Bolt with "Cursor Rules"

• A head to head battle²⁴⁹ between 4 AI coding tools.

check em out and let me know what you want next.

TLDR; inside today’s newsletter

• OpenAI’s attempt to be open again and Amazon’s secret browsing agent

• new video generation models in the market

• words from today’s sponsor: Speechmatics

• updates from Manus AI, Gemini Coder and more

• a new owner for Twitter

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 🔎 What’s Trending

• OpenAI plans to release an open-weights model soon¹⁷⁶. They are looking for feedback from the developer community to make it worthwhile. It’ll likely be a large model that can still run on a single GPU (instead of a model that you can run on your mobile). The goal appears to be to keep companies and governments that want local AI on their side.

• Amazon gave us a sneak peak into their version of a browser using agent. They call it Nova Act.²²⁷ It’s currently available as a toolkit⁹⁷ for just devs but it seems to work better than OpenAI’s operator or Anthropic’s Computer Use.

• RunwayML has a new video generation model: Gen-4.¹⁵⁶ They are focusing on making video generation controllable so that it can be used in actual workflows. That seems to be a common theme because another AI video generator, Higgsfield¹²⁸, is excelling at replicating camera movements in its outputs.

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• Eleven Labs have trained a model for dogs⁸¹⁶…no, seriously. Simply type a message, choose your breed, and their models will convert it into fluent barking. With independent benchmarks stating 95% of dogs couldn’t tell the difference!
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• Your AI should keep up, not catch up Speechmatics: 25% more accurate real-time speech recognition that gets you the first time. Try it free.¹⁵²*

• Native image generation in ChatGPT is now available to all free users as well (3 images per day). Here are 16 other ways to use ChatGPT image gen⁴⁷⁷ other than making Studio Ghibli style images.

• Gemini 2.5 Pro is now also available to free⁹¹ users of the Gemini App. It integrates with Canvas¹⁰³ and can create games that run in the browser. I personally find reading its thoughts the most delightful.

• Google¹⁹⁰ is wondering “To MCP or not to MCP” as it gets adopted by the AI community. There’s even one for WhatsApp²²⁴ now.

• Mirai¹⁴⁸ is helping developers build applications that use on-device AI without the ML shenanigans. Easily enable smart input, auto-reply, semantic search, and more features with AI that runs on your iPhone—no cloud, no GPUs. I am an investor.

• Developers love Claude Code - A command line tool for writing code. The PM behind NotebookLM¹²² built a version that uses Gemini instead. Gemini Code²⁶⁰ uses Gemini 2.5 Pro in the background, and in my little testing, this model is really better than Claude for coding.

• Manus AI³¹², the viral browser using agent, now has pricing plans: $39/mo and $199/mo. I predicted that in my unboxing of Manus¹⁴².

• PocketFlow²⁷⁶ lets you use AI to build AI workflows. Their dev framework is open source, but you can use their platform if you don’t wanna code.

• Scene¹⁹¹ is a modular AI web builder that combines the flexibility of drag and drop with the ability to create images, copy and wireframes with AI. It’s not a coding tool, but a modern take on website builders like Squarespace.

• Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is now the owner of X⁴⁴. It values xAI at $80B and X at $33B. I’ll say it’s not entirely surprising. Twitter was already xAI’s private data bank.

• AI therapy seems like it’s working⁴²².⁴²² A 200-person clinical trial at Dartmouth used fine-tuned Llama and saw depression symptoms drop by 51%, anxiety by 31%, and eating disorders by 19%. It’s still early days, but good signs.

• Anthropic released an update to its work on the economic use of Claude¹⁴⁹, comparing the changes in key categories. And in typical Anthropic fashion, they also released another paper, tracing Claude’s thoughts⁸⁹ to understand its biology.

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