BB Digest: Is AI really slowing down?

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Hey folks,

I’m in SF this week and our workshop on building voice assistants is today—which should be at 10 AM PT. Sorry, the time zones are all out of whack but I promise I’ll make it. Pro members can also access the recording later.

TLDR; inside today’s newsletter

• OpenAI's strategy shifts and state of SERPs with AI overviews

• ICYMI: new tutorials and blogs to work smarter

• snack n skill - quick lesson to turn SOPs into flowcharts with Miro AI

• 5 new AI tools including a viral product (1M+ Twitter impressions)

• 6 posts on GenAI usage and tips for solving problems with it

• to-do’s

Alright, let’s get to it!

 🔎 Trends & news

• The Information reports OpenAI's GPT improvements might be slowing, but worth noting—o1's full version hasn't launched yet and Anthropic still has plans to launch Claude 3.5 Opus. Even with current tech, there's a lot of room to build practical products that help people work better. The real challenge right now? Getting teams to effectively use the AI tools we already have. (we can help)

• Semrush's massive study (200K keywords) reveals that AI overviews dominate long-tail informational searches but barely touch transactional queries. Only 46% of overviews include #1 organic results and pull links from way beyond the top 10 rankings.

• If you hate designing slides and dread that feeling of staring at a blank slide, Gamma is here to help. Gamma has become one of the fastest growing AI web products in the world, adding 25 million new users this past year, and is setting its sights on becoming the modern alternative to Powerpoint.*
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👀 ICYMI: New stuff we’ve launched

Tutorials:

• Learn to automate your focus groups with Lindy.

• Transform process docs into visual flowcharts using Miro.

• Create multiple content formats using NotebookLM's features.

• Build your first interactive website with Websim.

• Use Jasper to repurpose content from your knowledge base.

• Build your own AI research assistant with Lindy AI.

Blog:

• Master SEO with AI: 5 proven methods.

• Turn ideas into apps using Townie AI.

🍽️ Snack ‘n’ skill

Learn how to transform SOPs into flowcharts with AI

Every SOP document can be clearer with a visual flowchart, but manually creating one means hours of dragging shapes and arrows around. Here's how Miro's AI turns your text docs into polished flowcharts instantly:

Step 1. Prepare your SOP content

First, get your process document ready. Don't have a structured SOP? Use ChatGPT to transform your informal process notes or bullet points into a proper document format.

Step 2. Let Miro's AI do the heavy lifting

• Create a blank board and use "Create with AI" tools

• Pick flowchart from diagram options

• Paste your SOP text and watch AI generate a complete flowchart

• AI handles the connections, decision points, and basic styling

Step 3. Fine-tune the output

• Connect missing steps by dragging arrows

• Apply company brand colors in one click

• Use Miro's AI to shorten wordy descriptions

• Split long flowcharts into digestible chunks

Tip: Test with a smaller process first to get familiar with the tool. Once you're comfortable, you can tackle more complex SOPs.

This walkthrough is a condensed version of this tutorial. Check it out for detailed steps and advanced Miro features.

⚙️ Top new tools

• AssemblyAI: Announcing Universal-2, the most preferred speech-to-text model to date.*

• Context Autopilot - AI that uses your work tools (Drive, Slack) to do knowledge work. (see viral demo)

• CommercePro by Capcut - End-to-end content creation built for selling your products.

• PaperGen - AI tool for writing long-form papers with citations.

• Learn About - New Labs product from Google to learn about anything, with deep dives, suggested rabbit holes and interactive timelines.

• Truffle - Track X/Twitter accounts with instructions in plain English.

More tools here →
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 📜 Interesting posts

• How enterprises are approaching GenAI—usage data from 10,000 global Databricks customers.

• 90% of leaders are still "GenAI observers" while only 6% are actively upskilling their workforce— New BCG report.

• How ChatGPT brought down Chegg—once an online education giant.

• A no-code assistant to build a crew of AI agents.

• Building and prompting tips from Notion’s Co-founder.

• Have a task? Just have AI build an app for that.

📌 To-dos

1. Did you catch the reports in 📜 Interesting Posts above? They took some time to dig up. Hit reply and let me know if they were useful.

2. 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 on Thursday. 👋

Ben