🤖 This AI agent does your marketing 24/7

Good Morning AInauts,

Welcome to the latesst issue of your favorite newsletter.

We've just spent three days sitting together in freezing cold New York thinking about how we can make the newsletter and everything around it even better in 2025.

So today is a little shorter than usual. Here's what we have in store for you today:

• 🤖 This AI agent does marketing for you 24/7

• 😍 You have to try out these two new AI models

• 🆕 New ChatGPT feature: Tasks

Here we go!

P.S. Feel free to reply with your suggestions, topics, ideas that you want to see or no longer want to see from us. We are grateful for any feedback.

🤖 This AI agent does marketing for you 24/7

It can be a very effective marketing strategy to post on social networks such as LinkedIn, Instagram or Reddit on relevant topics and do some surreptitious advertising. Or write to users via personal message, etc.

The whole thing is nothing new, and many people are annoyed by it. But if it's done well, it's effective.

But doing it well is enormously time-consuming. That's why marketers have been trying to automate as much of the process as possible for years. Unfortunately, quality often suffers, even when networks block the worst spam.

But that's all water under the bridge, promises a new AI marketing agent.

24/7 marketing on Reddit & Co.

The new AI marketing agent is called Astral and promises fully automated growth marketing:

Astral sets off armed with a task, navigates through websites, searches for relevant content and posts suitable articles. Take a look at the video above.

The tool is currently in beta, and you can sign up for the waiting list here.

The exciting thing about Astral is that the tool does not use APIs, but behaves like a human being. It uses the browser. Understands content, posts, interacts, solves captchas.

Just like people do. This makes it more difficult for the platforms to block such accounts. Of course, all the big players are already struggling massively with AI-generated content, as there is definitely a lot of AI spam.

Nevertheless, it's extremely exciting because it will definitely be the future.

Our take: Why we do not (yet) fully recommend Astral & Co.

However, we do not currently recommend fully automated AI marketing. Agents like Astral operate completely without humans in the loop.

As we all know, AI unfortunately still gets lost quite often at the moment. Companies and brands in particular can quickly damage their reputation as a result.

We always recommend putting a human in the loop and supporting individual aspects of marketing with AI instead of simply letting agents run completely autonomously.

If you've been reading us for a while, you'll know that we're big fans of HubSpot when it comes to marketing automation with AI. (That's why they're a partner of ours).

With HubSpot AI Breeze, many marketing tasks can be automated and simplified with AI. Without putting your own reputation at great risk.

If you are interested in the topic: HubSpot offers a free webinar for Marketers on Tuesday, January 28, 2025. Worthwhile!

You can register here free of charge and get an overview:

😍 You have to try out these two new AI models

Things are happening again on the AI model front! Numerous open source language models and extremely powerful image models have been released this week.

With Sky-T1 came an open source reasoning model at the level of o1-preview, which was trained for less than 500 euros based on other models! It's awesome.

But today we want to show you two other models that you should definitely try out:

MiniMax-01: Incredible memory for free

Hailo AI has introduced a new voice model. The MiniMax-01. And what makes it so special?

It has a context window of 4 million tokens! In other words, it can memorize 3,000,000 words in a chat history.

That's all the Harry Potter books uploaded 3 times. Or in other words, 32x more than GPT-4o, 20x more than Claude-3.5-Sonnet and 2x more Gemini 2.0.

So if you want to work with a really, really large amount of data but don't want to set up a RAG system, try MiniMax.

Simply load everything into your conversation and get started.

Best of all, it's open source, and you can try it out for free right here.

New free image model from NVIDIA

NVIDIA's latest model, called Sana, proves that it can produce more than just GPUs.

The special feature is not the even better image quality, but the size and speed.

It is 20 times smaller than FLUX, for example, and produces really good images 100 times faster.

Thanks to these features, Sana runs locally on computers with 16 GB GPU and produces images in under a second.

Best of all, you can try it out here for free, without logging in or anything.

You can also make various settings under Advanced:

And of course the model is also available on Replicate.

Our take: always more open, always better

We love the trend. It's no longer really about constantly improving models, because the quality is already extremely high.

The new models are now relatively small, open source and, above all, fast. And since they require less computing capacity, we will soon be able to run all our AI needs locally on the computer for free. This increases accessibility enormously.

🆕 New ChatGPT feature: Tasks

Finally, a new ChatGPT beta feature that is currently being rolled out.

Tasks, i.e. tasks. ChatGPT is now also attacking apps such as Todoist and the like.

In other words, you can now also manage your to-dos in ChatGPT and let it help you remember them. Tasks can be either one-off or recurring.

ChatGPT then reminds you of tasks either via push notification or email.

Recurring reminders of your mom's birthday are nothing new. What makes it exciting is that ChatGPT can also perform content-related tasks.

• Daily summary of all important AI news

• Daily reminders to do sports with individual exercises

• Learn a new language together step by step every day

There are no limits to your creativity. Apart from the current limit of 10 active tasks in ChatGPT. 😉

However, we find the feature really exciting because it provides a glimpse of what is yet to come. For example, tasks in ChatGPT for certain trained GPTs. Then perhaps also tool support so that the tasks can also be implemented immediately.

OpenAI has managed to lay the first building block with a simple AI task scheduler in order to explore the path to fully automated processes in all areas.

So all this is a first step towards the topic of agents. And since ChatGPT is so widespread, it's a great way for most people to get their first experience with it.

Here are a few more ideas of what you can do with it:

As I said, the feature is currently being rolled out for all users of a paid version. You can see it in the model dropdown and can use it directly:

We made it! But no need to be sad. The AInauts will be back soon, with new stuff for you.

Reto & Fabian from the AInauts

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