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8 Pivotal AI Tools This Week 🤸‍♀️

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We’ve had tonnns of new subscribers recently (welcome! 👋🏻), so we thought we’d reshare some resources that’ll catch you up to speed or provide a nice refresher on key AI lingo and concepts:

  • AI Fundamentals: Demystify AI concepts & how they all work together

  • AI Glossary: Browse quick definitions of AI jargon

  • AI Automation: Compare automation, AI automation, & AI agents

  • AI Evolution: Journey through AI’s earliest foundations to tomorrow’s innovations

In This Issue:
  • 💥 Big News: Shop with Perplexity, personalize Gemini, build AI agents with Microsoft, use other apps in ChatGPT, & more

  •  Weekly Spotlight: Create stunning how-to videos

  • 🔥 Hot Tools: Find ideal audio samples & wholesale products, analyze markets, interview candidates at scale, & 4 more

  • 🌟 GPT of the Week: Make complex decisions with confidence

  • 💡 Quick Guide: Organize & enhance various aspects of your life

💥 Big News

AI Releases From Big Tech

Perplexity can now buy products for you & answer questions about product images you upload.

OpenAI launched Advanced Voice Mode for web & now lets you interact with third-party apps directly through ChatGPT.

Microsoft upgraded its AI app-building toolkit, now lets you build custom AI agents, & is offering $4M to find security flaws in its cloud & AI systems.

Meta formed a product group to build AI tools for businesses & enhanced Messenger with HD video calling, noise suppression, & more.

Suno released v4, which includes custom personas, enhance remastering, & a creative lyric model.

TikTok’s AI ad tool now features Getty Images content & is available to all marketers.

GenSpark’s new AI tool creates visual financial reports on 300,000+ public companies.

 Weekly Spotlight

Create Stunning How-To Videos with Guidde

Guidde AI video documentation tool

Easily turn complex tasks into visual guides with Guidde’s AI-powered video documentation tool. Say goodbye to repetitive explanations, and let Guidde handle the heavy lifting:

  • Capture step-by-step guides in seconds with a simple click

  • Embed & share anywhere with ease

  • Save valuable time with 11x faster documentation

  • The best part? The browser extension is 100% free

🔥 Hot Tools

8 Trending & Featured AI Tools

MixAudio (freemium): Quickly find ideal audio samples**

Accio (free): Source products more efficiently**

HeyMilo: Interview & evaluate candidates at scale**

MarketAlerts: Analyze markets & find trade ideas**

Luqo AI (freemium): Perfect your language skills

Lasso: Find the contacts (& revenue) you’re missing

Cloudgov: Optimize your cloud costs

DeepMotion (freemium): Elevate animations with motion capture & body tracking

Parafact: Real-time fact check any writing

**Featured

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🌟 GPT of The Week

Make Complex Decisions with Confidence

Cost-Benefit Analysis Pro GPT

Decisions sure can be complicated, but the Cost-Benefit Analysis Pro GPT helps make them less overwhelming by breaking down your options, analyzing trade-offs, and providing actionable insights — so you can move forward with confidence.

How It Helps

  • Scenario Analysis: Identify short- and long-term outcomes, risks, & benefits, weigh upfront costs vs. future benefits, & assess probabilities or feasibility

  • Option Comparison: Evaluate trade-offs & identify best ROI option

  • Custom Takeaways: Create visual summaries, tailored reports with qualitative & quantitative insights, & spreadsheets, templates, models for ongoing analysis

  • Education: Explain relevant financial or economic concepts & outline decision frameworks (e.g., NVP, MCDA, & break-even analysis)

What It Can Help With

Business

Personal

Company expansion or product launch feasibility

Major purchases (e.g., homes/vehicles)

Operational costs vs. expected returns

Career opportunities or changes

Cost implications of new technologies or tools

Further education or trainings

Initiative or program benefits & risks

Where or how to best allocate time & effort

Investment opportunities

Investment decisions

Policy or regulatory impacts

Productivity or efficiency ideas

💡 Quick Guide

Organize & Enhance Various Aspects of Your Life

Google’s powerful AI research tool, NotebookLM, transforms your scattered thoughts and documents into cohesive resources. Simply upload documents or URLs into NotebookLM, and it can summarize & extract key insights, quickly locate specific information, find connections between multiple sources, and help you brainstorm new ideas.

Because we’re such big fans of this tool, we rounded up some of our favorite YouTube videos showcasing its immense versatility. (Never used NotebookLM? Watch this video first.)

Streamline Business Tasks

Create & analyze email marketing funnels, sales calls, newsletters, & more

🎥 Watch Rick Mulready’s video

Create Visual Presentations

Craft sales proposals, pitch decks, internal process documents, & more

🎥 Watch Blazing Zebra’s video

Organize Daily Life

Quickly access recipes, user manuals, medical records, family memories, & more

🎥 Watch Blazing Zebra’s video

Enhance Your Professional & Personal Life

Manage relationships, create custom GPTs & news podcasts, perform market research, & more

🎥 Watch Blazing Zebra’s video

Create & Refine Podcasts

Transform raw audio into polished episodes

🎥 Watch Blazing Zebra’s video

Make Money

Turn videos into blogs, documents into lead magnets, & more

🎥 Watch Bill Mcintosh’s video