Hey Reader, Hope you had a wonderful holiday season β happy 2025! We have a lot to come in January, including opening enrollment in our flagship program, The AI Consultancy Project. You're already on the list to get all the details, but if you also want to get super-early access, sign up for text or WhatsApp alerts here. In the meantime, here are 3 Big Things in AI for this week... β’β’β’ #1 β Chip Wars: Nvidia sends less powerful AI chips to China One of the most fascinating sub-plots of the AI...
7 days agoΒ β’Β 2 min read
Hey Reader, My team and I are deep in "holiday mode" π₯ and putting the finishing touches on my AI predictions for 2025 β stay tuned for that soon. Today, a few favorites from 2024. β’β’β’ We'll be opening enrollment in The AI Consultancy Project in January. You're already on the list to get all the details, but if you also want to get extra-early access, sign up for text or WhatsApp alerts here. β’β’β’ Rob's Favorites from 2024 #1 β Cobra Kai Editor Zack Arnold on AI in Hollywood Zack and I did a...
19 days agoΒ β’Β 1 min read
Hey Reader, Hope you're getting ready for a wonderful holiday season! Thanks so much for being part of the Innovating with AI community this year. π βοΈ πΎ Here's what's coming next year plus what I'm reading during holiday downtime... β’β’β’ We'll be opening enrollment in The AI Consultancy Project in January. You're already on the list to get all the details, but if you also want to get extra-early access, sign up for text or WhatsApp alerts here. β’β’β’ Rob's Holiday AI Reading List #1 β...
26 days agoΒ β’Β 1 min read
Hey Reader, A super-quick share for today β last night I got access to Sora, the new video-generation model from OpenAI. I handed the keyboard to my 10-year-old son to see what he'd do with it, and here are the results: Yes, that's a Corgi Taco Police Chase Watch: Our First Look at Sora Video AI β’β’β’ (By the way, be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for lots more free tutorials and walkthroughs like this.) Enjoy! And if you have time this weekend, I highly recommend creating an account...
about 1 month agoΒ β’Β 1 min read
Hey Reader, I hope life, work and the world of AI are treating you well! We're back with 3 big things in AI. It was a huge week for AI, so I've done my best to actually synthesize this down to just a few items β more to come next week! By the way, make sure you're subscribed to our YouTube channel for free AI tutorials. I just posted a new one where Brian (our CTO) shows you how to connect Google Forms, Zapier and ChatGPT step-by-step to build a no-code AI client intake system. Watch the...
about 1 month agoΒ β’Β 3 min read
Hey Reader, I hope life, work and the world of AI are treating you well! We're back with 3 big things in AI. By the way, all the news items in today's email were shared first in our private Slack workspace for AI Consultancy Project and AI Incubator students. π #1 β 'A.I. Chatbots Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness' We've seen a lot of early studies about doctors using AI as a partner in diagnosing illnesses and reading X-rays and other test results. The most recent study claims that...
about 2 months agoΒ β’Β 2 min read
Hey Reader, I hope life, work and the world of AI are treating you well! We're back with 3 big things in AI. #1 β I thought Coke's AI commercial was cool, but apparently it went viral for the wrong reasons... A friend sent me Coca-Cola's AI-generated Christmas ad without commentary β and I thought it was awesome! But apparently a lot of people disagree. The first thing I did was Google it to confirm it was real, after which I discovered a litany of hate about how it's creepy and/or the death...
about 2 months agoΒ β’Β 2 min read
Hey Reader, I hope life, work and the world of AI are treating you well! We're back with 3 big things in AI. #1 β AI didn't disrupt the election πΊπΈ Back when OpenAI's Sora video model was released, there was a ton of chatter about whether fake videos would affect the election. In September, 57% of American adults worried that AI would be used to create fake content around the election. Well, Election Day is next week and there have certainly been a lot of disruptive events this year β but in...
3 months agoΒ β’Β 2 min read
Hey Reader, I hope life, work and the world of AI are treating you well! Three big things in AI and tech to share: #1 β Pika releases a sweet new video model You can try it at Pika.art (yes, weird domain name) and see some demos here. We've been waiting with bated breath for better publicly accessible video tools since we saw the OpenAI Sora teasers in February. RunwayML and Pika are two of the best video tools on the market right now, and Pika's newest release is legitimately impressive. My...
3 months agoΒ β’Β 3 min read