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TLDR; inside today’s newsletter

• Nvidia’s Mac Mini killer, OpenAI Caterpillar and more AI podcasts

• ICYMI: new tutorials & blogs for marketers & doctors 👀

• snack n skill - automate patient feedback with AI

• 8 new AI tools for networking, video creation, and automation

• 5 must-reads about managing AI agents, creative tools and more

• to-do’s

Alright, let’s get to it!

 🔎 Trends & news

• xAI’s Grok is now available as a standalone iOS app in the US.

• Nvidia announced Project Digits, a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer coming in May. It’s a Mac Mini-sized AI powerhouse that runs on a standard power outlet. It can handle models up to 200B parameters—perfect for researchers, students, and developers.

  • Nvidia also released these “blueprints” for developers. Essentially, easy-to-follow workflows for common AI solutions.

• Caterpillar alert! ChatGPT is likely cooking up a Gemini Deep Research (our review) competitor. And if The Information is right, their browsing agent Operator is ready to crash the party this month.

• Google is bringing the NotebookLM’s podcast magic to its Discover feed. Meet Daily Listen - your personalized 5-minute AI podcast based on your Search & Discover interests.

• Speechmatics rolled out its next-gen voice AI—basically the best ears in AI right now. They handle multiple speakers and noisy backgrounds in real-time with a 95% precision claim. Perfect for industries like healthcare & education where understanding every word is critical. Experience it in seconds.*

• Anthropic is raising $2 billion at a $60 billion valuation - more than tripling its worth from $18 billion last year. I have just one question: where is this money going? Not in scaling inference because Claude keeps telling me “limits reached”.
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👀 ICYMI: New stuff we’ve launched

• Turn videos into social clips - Transform your long-form content into engaging social media snippets.

• Build an automated patient feedback system - Create a hands-free system for collecting and analyzing client feedback.

• Master AI tools that improve every meeting - From scheduling to follow-ups, automate your entire meeting workflow.

🍽️ Snack ‘n’ skill

Learn how to build an automated patient feedback system

Getting feedback after appointments is crucial but time-consuming. This automated system collects responses, analyzes sentiment, and flags urgent issues—all running in the background while you focus on patient care.

Step 1. Set up the feedback trigger

Create a new workflow in Lindy.ai and connect it with Google Calendar. Configure it to trigger after appointments end, filtering for external attendees only to avoid feedback requests for internal meetings.

Step 2. Create the feedback loop

• Design a personalized email template asking for specific feedback about the appointment

• Set up an AI agent to analyze responses for urgency and sentiment

• Create a Google Sheet to track feedback with columns for urgency, sentiment, and action items

• Configure automated alerts for urgent feedback that needs immediate attention

• Add a weekly summary report to spot trends and maintain oversight

• Set custom conditions to only process feedback for relevant appointment types

Tip: While connecting your Google Calendar, select only the calendar used for appointments to avoid triggering feedback requests for personal events.

This walkthrough is a condensed version of this tutorial (requested by a community member). You can follow the same process for different services too.

⚙️ Top new tools

• Fuel iX: One platform to manage and connect your infrastructure with 20+ premium GenAI models while maintaining full tech stack control.*

• Solidroad - AI coach to scale training and feedback for customer-facing teams.

• Happenstance - AI-powered networking to find connections in your network.

• Orchestra - Framework for building AI task pipelines and multi-agent teams.

• Chore - Handle your admin tasks with AI from finance to HR.

• Stagehand - Framework for browser automation with natural language.

• Velocity by Avataar - Create product videos instantly from product links.

• Freeform by Every - Create smarter, more adaptive forms with AI. Try sample form to reflect on 2024.

More tools here →
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 📜 Interesting posts

• How to integrate AI agents into companies.

• The ultimate creative AI tools list by Justine Moore.

• A guide to what AI agents really are by Chip Huyen.

• Testing Claude's visual reasoning with GeoGuessr.

• A practical guide to handling LLM pitfalls. (I’d say it’s a good technical read for non-technical folks)

📌 To-dos

1. Let us know if you have any tutorials or courses you want us to create—we’re always open to ideas.

That wraps things up for today! See you again next week. 👋

Ben