Digest #533 | Build with 20k+ others - Become a Pro member
Hey folks, I’m hosting another office hour today, come and get help. And later today, we have a hands-on workshop with Create’s co-founder.
Tomorrow we have a Replit 101 session before the expert workshop on 3rd March.
TLDR; inside today’s newsletter
xAI launches Grok 3, Veo 2 in Shorts
Gemini gets an upgrade before ChatGPT
A peek into our community
6 new AI tools including Perplexity Deep Research
5 interesting posts with a scoop on Claude’s next version
to-do's
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🔎 Trends & news
xAI’s Grok 3 finally sees the light. There are four models in the Grok 3 family: Grok 3, Grok 3 mini, Grok 3 reasoning and Grok 3 mini reasoning. Andrej Karpathy did a comprehensive vibe-check of Grok 3 and it does look like the “Smartest AI on Earth” (at least for now).
An early version of Grok 3 is now #1 on lmarena and it’s way ahead of the competition on popular benchmarks. Even Grok 3 mini gives other models tough competition.
The reasoning models (in beta) are undercooked but are already at o3-mini-high level. There’s a “Big Brain” toggle for these reasoning models to think longer before replying. The “thoughts” of these are partially revealed (just like o3-mini).
Wait, there’s more. Grok will also have a Deep Search agent. They dropped the “re”, it’s cleaner. Voice chat with Grok is also under work and a week away (to come with what sounds like Elon’s voice).
Grok 3 is rolling out in phases with all these features. X Premium+ users will get first access to it. A separate subscription called SuperGrok and API access are coming soon.
Google’s video generation model Veo 2 is now available in YouTube Shorts. Creators in US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand can create short clips with Veo 2 and use them in their content.
Concierge is the first connected AI Assistant that can read & write to your apps, in real-time. Talk to your Gmail, Jira, Notion, Slack, Linear, Confluence, HubSpot, Attio, Salesforce, Airtable like magic. Ask Concierge to review emails, summarize Slack, create Jira tickets, update a CRM, and more.*
You can now ask Gemini about your past chats without needing to hunt it down. I don’t want to call it “unlimited memory” because it kinda searches through your chats to find a relevant one vs knowing it all. A similar feature in ChatGPT is likely coming soon.
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💬 Inside the community this week
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George is exploring building a Chief of Staff AI for small businesses. (link)
Shahar noticed O3-mini inventing personal histories when answering questions. (link)
Elliott shared his Grateful Dead Time Machine project. (link)
Keshav tested Deep Research and Sora against a YouTube video. (link)
Stephen shared a new Hugging Face course on AI agents. (link)
Isaac asked for tools to create an animated video for a poem. (link)
Mo inquired about Replit AI agent's effectiveness as app complexity grows. (link)
Shahar asked for tips on getting LLMs to generate long-form content. (link)
Cam liked our latest blog post on critical thinking and AI use. (link)
Keshav shared an example of coding at different levels of abstraction using O1 Pro and Replit. (link)
Sukaina shared a webinar about building custom AI solutions. (link)
Adam announced Lovable's launch of visual editing. (link)
Bryce asked for advice on building a CRM in Bolt with Supabase integration. (link)
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⚙️ Top new tools
Memex - Chat your ideas into code – the everything builder for your desktop. For extra free credits use code ‘BB’ = Build Boldly.*
Perplexity Deep Research - Use reasoning AI and search to create detailed reports. Available to try for free.
Nugget - Scale support effortlessly with AI-native, no-code platform.
Supercharge Bolt - Free Chrome extension for Bolt for faster workflow, better prompting and smart token usage.
Omniparser - A simple screen parsing tool for computer use agents.
Assistant UI - Add a Chat UI to your apps instantly.
More tools here →
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📜 Interesting posts
Install your Replit + Expo app on your iPhone in 15 minutes.
New York Times goes all-in on internal AI tools use.
Using Apple Shortcuts and AI to transcribe my handwriting.
Anthropic’s next model is coming soon and it could be a hybrid.
Mistral AI released Saba - A new 24B model custom-built for Arabic and Indian-origin languages.
📌 To-dos
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