💎 The future of AI agents

Hello AInauts,

Welcome to the new issue of your favorite newsletter. Today we're back with a colorful mix of news, tips and tools.

Here's what we have in store for you today:

• 🤖 The future of AI agents and other news

• 💎 Are Gemini Gems the better GPTs?

• ⌨️ Never type again thanks to this app

Let's go!

🤖 The future of AI agents and other news

Let's ease into the issue with some news.

There was an exciting keynote from OpenAI Japan's CEO.

Here is the most important slide:

Notice anything? Exactly, as you can see, the new GPT-Next model delivers 100 times (!) better performance.

But what's much more exciting is the year below the model. 2024! Which suggests that GPT Next will be released soon.

Great news from Amazon too.

Alexa will soon be smarter, thanks to Anthropic’s Claude.

It seems that Amazon's internal attempts to make Alexa smarter have not worked. Luckily, some time ago, the company invested a whopping 4 billion US dollars in Anthropic.

We are very excited, because Alexa is also a permanent fixture in our home. We are looking forward to having really good conversations with her soon.

Last update, but probably the most exciting.

The founder of HubSpot and all-around genius Dharmesh Shah was once again guest in an exciting podcast.

The topic: AI agents. In other words, small virtual AI robots that perform tasks for you. We have already written several times about how AI agents will change the world.

Dharmesh has launched Agent AI as a small side project. It's a platform where you can try out such agents. We love the Meme Maker, for example.

But check out the podcast to learn more about AI Agents:

💎 Are Gemini Gems the better GPTs?

Thanks to feedback from the community, we know that many AInauts work within the Google universe. In other words: Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive etc.

We have already received a few requests to go into more detail about Google Gemini. Until now, we have rather neglected it.

Gemini was simply not as good as Claude or ChatGPT! But this is changing more and more. Therefore we are bringing you today the first part of a small series about Working with Google Gemini.

For example, many people don't know that you can now create so-called Gems on Google Gemini. Similar to the GPTs at ChatGPT or the Projects at Claude, these are small assistants that you can train with your own instructions.

To be able to build Gems, however, you must have a subscription to Gemini Advanced. Don't worry, the first 14 days are free, so you can just give it a try.

You can find it at the bottom left under Gem Manager.

Creating a Gem is really super easy. Click on Create Gem in the Gem Manager, enter a name and a short task description.

Then probably the best feature: you simply click the magic pen and Gemini revises your perhaps sparse or sloppily worded prompt and makes it better.

Finally, just save and you can use your Gem straight away.

Bonus tip: Use the extensions!

Gemini Gems are fun, easy to create and work pretty well. And you can give them access to your entire Google universe via the apps!

This makes Gemini and Gems really helpful assistants.

• For example, you can use the YouTube extension to make a summary of any video/topic.

• Or you can use the Gmail extension to find emails and prepare replies to them.

• You can even find the best flights and hotels with the two integrations!

As you can see, the possibilities are endless. More on this soon, for now have fun experimenting with the gems!

⌨️ Never type again thanks to this app

Finally, a little app that we are currently trying out and which is really fun.

The text you are reading now was not typed, but simply spoken.

Sure, audio to text is nothing new. But this app does a lot of things right and makes sure that we have to type much less. Previous transcription apps tended to annoy us. More on this in a moment.

We are talking about: Wispr Flow

You can download the app here for free and try it out. Important: Currently, because it is still a beta, only for Mac users (Silicone processors).

But now, let’s talk about why we find the app so ingenious:

1) It can be used inside all your existing tools and interfaces

No matter whether you're in your email program, Word, a Google Doc or WhatsApp.

Simply press and hold the predefined hot key and start chatting. Which brings us to the next point.

2) No matter how much you stammer, it will be a well-structured text

This is the main reason why we celebrate Wispr Flow. No matter how much you stammer, pause, etc.: your resulting text is well-structured and grammatically correct. Slips of the tongue are caught and automatically corrected.

Wispr also recognizes the environment in which you are writing something and thus formats, for example, an e-mail as you would format it. It also recognizes bullet points etc.

3) Very easy post-editing with Commands

Thanks to the completely new Command feature, you can also simply mark your texts and have them edited directly with AI.

For example, if you've said a lot, but there's not much substance, you can simply mark the result and say: "Flow, please shorten the text and make it more precise."

To summarize:

Wispr Flow not only makes working more convenient, but also faster.

It's super easy to install, you just have to give it the usual permissions.

🚨 IMPORTANT NOTE: The app is in beta. Therefore, sometimes buggy. In non-English languages, the automatic recognition and formatting of lists sometimes doesn't work, or the "Flow..." command is not recognized. For all things in English, however, it works really, really well.

The whole thing is also free to use for now.

We definitely wanted to introduce it to you because it is another example of how such AI helpers can speed up and improve our daily work more and more - and make us even more productive.

That's it! Thank you for joining us.

Reto & Fabian from the AInauts

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