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9 💥 AI Tools & An Epic (But Limited) Deal 🤑

+ TWO GPT-4o rivals, Perplexity's 🔥 upgrade, ElevenLabs' new uses, & 10 more

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We feel like we’ve said this before but… the battle to be the best LLM is really heating up these days 🔥.

Choose Your Fighter Meme: GPT-4o, Claude 3.5, SensesNova 5.5
In This Issue:
  • 💥 Big News: Anthropic debuted Claude 3.5 & Artifacts, SenseNova 5.5 outperforms GPT-4o, Perplexity’s impressive upgrade, Amazon’s game-based AI courses, + 5 more

  •  Weekly Spotlight: Automate 50% of your workflow by learning how to build custom GPTs

  • 🔥 Hot Tools: Optimize APIs, summarize books, make high-quality portraits, create 150 posts in 5 minutes, + 5 more

  • 🌟 GPT of the Week: Easily become an Excel pro

  • 💡 Quick Tutorial: Learn every aspect of Midjourney

💥 Big News

AI Releases From Big Tech

Anthropic debuted Claude 3.5 Sonnet, a new prompt feature, & ‘Artifacts’, which allows you to build upon Claude’s content in real time (here’s a few ways you can use it).

SenseTime’s new SenseNova 5.5 LLM shows higher scores than GPT-4o.

Perplexity significantly upgraded Pro Search’s research & problem-solving capabilities.

Google now automatically adds in-ad disclosures to political ads containing AI-generated content.

Amazon launched new game-based courses that help you prepare for AI-related jobs + released its Alexa-enabled smart alarm clock.

Stability lets you replace objects in an image with other objects & create high-quality audio.

YouTube now uses AI to remove copyrighted songs from videos without erasing all of the audio.

TikTok requires labeling AI ads + added an AI chatbot that offers real-time answers & more.

Instacart is adding AI-powered smart carts (which offer personalized deals & more) to more U.S. grocery stores.

The Washington Post’s new AI chatbot answers climate-related questions using archived articles.

💫 Big Tech launched 65 products & features in the last week. See summaries here.

 Weekly Spotlight

FREE AI & ChatGPT Masterclass to automate 50% of your workflow

More than 300 Million people use AI across the globe, but just the top 1% know the right ones for the right use-cases.

Join this free masterclass on AI tools that will teach you the 25 most useful AI tools on the internet – that too for $0 (they have 100 free seats only!)

This masterclass will teach you how to:

  • Build business strategies & solve problems like a pro

  • Write content for emails, socials & more in minutes

  • Build AI assistants & custom bots in minutes

  • Research 10x faster, do more in less time & make your life easier

You’ll wish you knew about this FREE AI masterclass sooner 😉

🔥 Hot Tools 

9 Trending & Featured AI Tools

Alfred by Treblle (freemium): Drive 10x faster API integrations**

Audioread (free): Get summaries for 500+ books on every topic**

1PX: Turn your photos into professional-quality portraits**

Brandblast: Create 150 social media posts in 5 minutes**

Scoopika (freemium): Build personalized AI agents that can see, talk, listen, learn, & take actions

Copysense AI (freemium): Create articles, images, voiceovers, code, & more with an all-in-1 content assistant

OneShot: Increase conversions across every GTM channel

MyLens (freemium): Understand anything through simple, clear visuals

Splice: Find, craft, & share royalty-free one-shots, loops, FX, MIDI, & presets

**Featured

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🌟 GPT of The Week

Easily Become An Excel Pro

Struggling with Excel? Just tell the Free Excel Formula Generator GPT what you need, and it’ll provide clear, step-by-step instructions to make it all seem like a breeze.

Free Excel Formula Generator GPT

How It Can Help

Write formulas, including:

  • Basic arithmetic & statistical (e.g., median & stdev)

  • Text (e.g., find, replace, mid, & concatenate)

  • Date & time (e.g., today & datedif)

  • Logic (e.g., if, or, & not)

  • Lookup & reference (e.g., vlookup, index, & match)

Troubleshoot errors: Debug complex formulas & resolve common errors (e.g., #N/A, #VALUE!, & #REF!)

Create templates & automate tasks: Set up spreadsheets for budgets, schedules, project plans, & more + create macros & write VBA code

Analyze & visualize data: Validate data for clean data entry, create pivot tables, customize graphs, & use conditional formatting to highlight important data

Explain functions & share tips: Share what a function does & how to use it, keyboard shortcuts, hidden features, & best practices

Example Questions

  • Can you write a formula to [e.g., calculate the average of a range of cells]?

  • What’s the best way to [e.g., organize my data or sort data by multiple columns]?

  • How do I create a [e.g., pivot table or scatter chart]?

  • How do I use [e.g., VLOOKUP]?

  • My chart isn’t updating data. What should I do?

Excel can be tricky, but the Free Excel Formula Generator GPT will help boost your efficiency — while significantly reducing your frustration.

💡 Quick Tutorial

Learn Every Aspect of Midjourney

Futurepedia's Midjourney Masterclass

If you’ve created 100+ images using Midjourney, you can now generate images directly on their website (say goodbye to Discord!).

This update offers tons of benefits… and motivated us to create this Midjourney Masterclass video — which is PACKED full of explanations, examples, and tips for every aspect of Midjourney, including:

Navigating the new site

‘Explore’, ‘Create’, & ‘Archive’ tabs

Prompting

Basic control methods, emojis, reference images, multi-prompting, combining words with power tokens, & more

Using speed settings & parameters

Stylization, weirdness, chaos, mode, ‘no’, tile, stop, & video

Adjusting & combining references

Image, style, character, color, & object

Maintaining consistency

Characters + using SRFs to maintain style across prompts

Dealing with text inconsistencies

Rerolling & style matching

Refining images

Varying, upscaling, reframing, & inpainting

We also explore different art styles & keywords, creating vector art & logos, tailoring outputs via the personalization feature, AND additional AI tools for remixing.

P.S. Login to check if you have access to the new Midjourney site. If you don’t, check your eligibility by typing “/info” into your Midjourney Discord channel to see how many images you’ve generated.

🧠 P.S. Want to learn something else? Explore our favorite AI tutorials & product demos… there are 190 of them (& counting!).