😸 Perplexity for Reddit

Reddit is a treasure trove of information but navigating it, especially as a newbie, can be a bit daunting. One new solution is called GigaBrain.

When you boot it up, you’ll be presented with an interface similar to that of other AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc. You can ask your own questions like “What’s the standing desk in 2024?” or you can pick from a number of examples that GigaBrain generates. Once you hit enter, the AI will scour Reddit, analyzing hundreds of millions, if not billions, of discussions across the platform. From there, it will source and extract the most relevant posts and comments in the hopes of answering your question.

GigaBrain also comes with a pretty handy Chrome Extension. Say you’re doing some online shopping, and you’re on the fence about splurging on a product. Instead of googling reviews for it, you can click the extension icon, and GigaBrain will scour Reddit for user reviews. 

As part of the launch, the GigaBrain team is offering $10 off the pro plan if you want to give it a shot. 

X, the platform that was once Twitter, has just launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini, the latest AI models from xAI. These models bring enhanced reasoning abilities and, for the first time, allow users to generate images directly within X. 

According to xAI, Grok-2 marks a significant upgrade from the previous Grok-1.5 model. Both Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini have been tested on a wide range of academic benchmarks, covering areas like reasoning, reading comprehension, math, science, and coding. 

The results have shown Grok-2 to be competitive with other advanced models, excelling in fields such as graduate-level science knowledge (GPQA), general knowledge (MMLU), and math competitions (MATH). Grok-2 also stands out in vision-based tasks, delivering top-tier performance in visual math reasoning (MathVista) and document-based question answering (DocVQA).

The new image generation feature is already sparking interest — mainly for its lack of guardrails. Browse the site for a few minutes, and you’ll find any number of wacky generations, usually involving a politician. According to xAI, Grok-2 uses FLUX 1, an AI model built by German-based Black Forest Labs, a company that recently raised $31 million from the likes of AI6Z.

Despite the model’s advancements, many early testers noted that Grok-2 still has room for improvement, particularly in areas like code generation and news summaries, which had caused issues with the first version of Grok.

Developers will soon have access to Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini via an enterprise API, which is expected to roll out later this month. For those eager to try it out, Grok-2 is available in beta for Premium users on X.

Built by a team of designers and developers, including Sam Odio, co-founder and former CEO of Freshplum, ShellMate is a lightweight, open-source app that aims to add superpowers to your Mac Terminal. As Sam puts it, “For developers, everything starts and ends in Terminal.” The last thing you want to do is break focus by heading to Google or ChatGPT for assistance. 

As you hack away, the AI assistant will seamlessly provide dynamic assistance within your Mac Terminal while you keep your flow intact. It works in the background to automatically detect bugs and suggest fixes. You can ask ShellMate questions about your Mac terminal context and quickly highlight specific lines of text to call attention to an issue you need help with. It can even suggest the following command based on the ones you’ve run already. 

The goal is to keep you in the Terminal and keep your concentration flow intact. Instead of jumping between different apps and sites to get assistance, ShellMate offers that assistance in-app.

As mentioned above, it’s also open-source, and Sam is looking for other passionate developers to help develop it even further. You can contribute to ShellMate by heading to the GitHub repo. 

Nathaniel Houghton is the co-founder of Incendium, a digital hub & studio for B2B demand generation. Always a believer in outbound, Nate's expert strategies were put to the test as technology made cold email easy for anyone to do, in turning making inboxes more crowded.

On the PH blog, Nate shares how his strategies for outbound have evolved. His new combination of plays "has yielded some of the strongest top of funnel demand for Incendium that [its] ever had."

📱 Here’s what was announced at Made by Google 2024.

🤖 X launched two new AI chatbots, Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini.

💬 TikTok is entering the chat app scene with the launch of group chats.

💬Telegram is adding new ways for users to make money on the platform.

🤖 Anthropic has launched a new feature that makes prompting AI easier.

🎨 Procreate has vowed not to introduce generative AI features in its app.

🎧 After a turbulent redesign, Sonos is considering relaunching its old app.

🍎 Apple has relented in its years-long battle with Spotify over in-app pricing.

⛔ X is ending operations in Brazil over a legal battle with the Supreme Court.

🧵 Threads has announced new features like analytics, multiple drafts, and more.