📈 Gemini tops the charts (for now)

Hey folks,

A well-crafted prompt can mean the difference between an AI giving you basic, meh answers or delivering mind-blowing insights, so mastering the art of prompting is a hot topic. A trick called “echo writing” will help give a better output in your style, language, tone and length. Try this:

Here's a sample of my writing: 

[paste your text]. 

Write all responses matching this exact style, including my sentence length, vocabulary choices, and overall tone.”

Now let’s dive in..

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⚡ Google gives devs pre-built Prompt Gallery

🐝 The Buzz: Google just rolled out a free ‘Prompt Gallery’ in its AI Studio, basically a cheat code for developers to level up their AI apps without breaking a sweat. Not to be outdone, Anthropic dropped some new tools designed to simplify prompt-writing and make AI way smarter.

• Google's Prompt Gallery showcases the power of its Gemini models, offering coding helpers, creative tools, and more.

• Anthropic unveiled a 'prompt improver' and advanced example management tools, claiming a 30% boost in AI output accuracy.

• Both innovations aim to make developers' lives easier while pushing the limits of what AI can do.

💡 Takeaway: Tech giants are on a mission to streamline AI development, making it more accessible and powerful. Google's gallery and Anthropic's tools show how competitive this space is becoming, but developers are the real winners here, with smarter AI apps and less time spent yelling at their screens.

📈 Google's Gemini-Exp-1114 AI tops LLM leaderboard

🐝 The Buzz:  Google's latest AI model, Gemini-Exp-1114, has wowed the tech world by climbing to the top of the LLM leaderboard, inching past its counterparts like GPT-4o from OpenAI. Despite just being a test run, this model is already showcasing impressive capabilities.  

• The model excelled in math and vision tasks, performing particularly well in the Chatbot Arena where humans assess its output quality. 

• Google's Gemini app for iPhone, recently released, surpassed the ChatGPT app in a head-to-head test. 

• The leaderboard is dominated by Google and OpenAI models, with Google's new Gemini tying with the latest from OpenAI.

💡 Takeaway:  Staying current with AI developments is crucial as they deeply influence everyday tech usage and competitive industry moves. Google's successful release of an advanced model marks a pivotal moment in the competitive AI landscape, presenting users and developers with potentially powerful tools for innovation, emphasizing the rapid pace of progress in this field.

🛍️ Perplexity AI enables product purchases

🐝 The Buzz:  Perplexity is giving its AI search engine a shopping boost, now letting Pro users in the US buy products directly with the new "Buy with Pro" button, which includes free shipping. No hidden fees or kick-backs here; it’s all about making shopping through an AI interface as seamless as possible.

• Pro subscribers can purchase directly using the "Buy with Pro" feature, enjoying free shipping.  

• New shopping tools include AI-driven "Snap to Shop," allowing users to snap a picture of a product and ask questions about it.  

• Non-Pro users will see AI-enhanced product cards during their searches, complete with images and summaries

💡 Takeaway: With Perplexity integrating shopping directly into its AI search service, the convenience of buying in the age of AI is stepping up. For curious consumers and tech enthusiasts, this is a huge leap toward making online shopping less about the clicks and more about the experience + free shipping.

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💻️ How to Analyze PDFs with Claude AI

Claude’s new Visual PDFs feature, currently in beta, lets you analyze PDFs, including text, images, graphs, and charts. Here’s how:

• Go to Claude

• Select your initials in the lower-left corner and choose “Feature Preview.”

• Toggle on Visual PDF Analysis to enable it.

• Start a new chat, tap the paperclip icon, upload your PDF, and wait for the file’s thumbnail to appear.

• Then type your question and submit

🐝 AI buzz bits

🎄 AI-Powered Unwrap: Coca-Cola's iconic "Holidays Are Coming" ad gets a revolutionary AI makeover, producing 110 custom versions swiftly, redefining global creative possibilities.

🔫 Drone Defenders: The US military tests AI-driven gun "Bullfrog" to autonomously shoot down small drones, raising ethical concerns of lethal automation.

🔊 Sound Bubble Magic: AI-powered headphones create a custom 'sound bubble', allowing clearer conversations in noisy environments by filtering out background noise effectively.

🚀 LLM Mastery: Learn how to build a production-ready AI system with hands-on lessons on LLM and RAG using best LLMOps practices, absolutely free.

🏈 Avatar Assist: ESPN is testing an AI avatar named FACTS on SEC Nation to enhance sports commentary using ESPN Analytics, promising education and entertainment without replacing human hosts.

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