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In This Issue:

• 💥 Big News: OpenAI’s GPT-4.5, Salesforce’s Agentforce 2dx, Google’s several updates, & more

• ✨ Weekly Spotlight: Build & innovate faster with AWS

• 🔥 Hot Tools: Auto-manage customer calls, turn text into lifelike audio, quickly solve CAPTCHAs, effortlessly plan trips, & 3 more

• 🛠️ Deep Dives: Give 10x better employee feedback, turn text into videos, & easily build your brand

💥 Big News

OpenAI Unveiled GPT-4.5

Key Highlights

• Currently available to Pro & Plus subscribers

• More natural conversations due to enhanced empathy & improved contextual understanding

• Significant improvement in accuracy, with hallucinations dropping 37% from GPT-4

• Expanded multilingual proficiency across 14 languages

• High API costs

🎥: See our full breakdown of GPT-4.5.

Salesforce Launched Agentforce 2dx

Salesforce’s new Agentforce 2dx enables you to create AI agents that work autonomously behind the scenes, anticipate your business’ needs, & take action—without constant human oversight.

Key Highlights

• Ability to integrate these AI agents into your existing data systems, business logic, & user interfaces

• Represents a significant evolution in enterprise AI from traditional ‘reactive’ automation towards fully autonomous ‘digital labor’

• Certain features available now, with more expected to release in April & fall of this year

• AgentExchange marketplace full of ready-made actions & template with pre-written prompts

• Advanced analytics for monitoring & optimizing agent performance

Rapid Recaps

• Google enhanced Sheets with data analysis & visualization, is upgrading AI Overviews with Gemini 2.0, introduced iPhone Gemini widgets for fast access to AI features, & launched a wildlife-identifying AI model + a free data analysis AI agent.

• Microsoft introduced a Copilot app for Mac.

• Opera released (in preview) a natively-integrated AI agent that performs tasks across websites.

• Cohere’s new AI model excels in image captioning & translation across 23 languages.

💫 Check out all of the 150 AI products, features, & news Big Tech released this week.

✨ Weekly Spotlight

Build & Innovate Faster with AWS

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• Hands-on training: Level up with live sessions, tutorials, on-demand videos, formal programs, & more

• Free courses: Dive into AWS-focused AI courses at no cost

• Learning paths: Master Amazon Q, Bedrock, PartyRock, SageMaker Jumpstart, & more

• Data & ML resources: Unlock data engineering, DataOps, & machine learning insights

• Code examples: Access ready-to-use AWS SDK snippets

🔥 Hot Tools

7 Trending & Featured Tools

• Zencall: Let a virtual assistant manage customer calls**

• MagicTrips: Effortlessly plan your next trip**

• Unreal Speech (freemium): Turn written words into lifelike audio**

• CapMonster Cloud: Quickly & accurately solve CAPTCHAs**

• Cardamom: Launch compliant products 10x faster

• Crosshatch (freemium): Deliver hyper-personalized customer experiences

• Greta: Build full apps or app components in minutes

**Featured

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🛠️ Deep Dives

1. Teamble: Give (& Get) 10x Better Employee Feedback

Why It’s Worth Your Time

• Integrate it seamlessly with your existing tech stack, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, & more

• Custom-design performance reviews that incorporate self-assessments, manager/peer feedback, & calibration steps

• Track various objectives (e.g., OKRs, SMART goals, & custom frameworks)

• Identify trends & inform strategic decisions with data visualization & reporting tools

• Use science-backed coaching modules to improve team management or individual performance

• Gauge employee engagement with customizable anonymous surveys

• Optimize team dynamics using personality trait mapping

Pricing

• Free plan (for up to 5 users)

• Team plan for $7/month per user

• Custom business plans

2. Fliki: Turn Text Into Engaging Videos

Why It’s Worth Your Time

• Create up to 30-minute, HD 1080p videos from any text, including blog posts & presentations

• Pick from 2,500+ ultra-realistic voices across 80+ languages & 100+ dialects

• Access 10M+ media assets, including stock images, video clips, music, & more

• Simplify workflows with brand kits & templates for social media, trainings, educational courses, & more

• Use AI avatars & voice cloning to add a personal touch without being on camera

Pricing

• Free 5 minutes of video per month (limited to 300 voices & HD 720p; includes Fliki watermark)

• Paid plans from $28-$88/month or $252-$792/year

• Custom enterprise pricing

3. Kive: Easily Build Your Brand

Why It’s Worth Your Time

• Integrate your products into AI visuals for more engaging content

• Train custom AIs on your products & preferred styles

• Extract specific frames to easily incorporate them into your projects

• Effortlessly organize visual assets with auto-tagging

• Access your creative library from any device, ensuring flexibility in your workflow

• Collaborate with your team through shared boards & interactive mood boards

Pricing

• Free plan

• Paid plans from $20-$100/month or $180-$900/year

• Custom enterprise pricing