Digest #532 | Build with 20k+ others - Become a Pro member
Hey folks,
Office hours yesterday was a hit - more folks should come by, we’re going to host them more regularly from now on! The recording from our Bolt workshop is now available.
Today: Turning Figma designs into full-stack applications
18th Feb: Office hours with me
18th Feb: Build your own full-stack AI app with Create
19th Feb: Getting started with Replit by Keshav on Wednesday, perfect before the;
3rd Mar: Replit expert workshop
TLDR; inside today’s newsletter
GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 are coming, Adobe’s Firefly update
New stuff from two top text-to-app tools: Bolt and Create
ICYMI: our blogs on cognitive decline, tools for teachers, and ChatGPT vs OpenAI API
What’s buzzing in our community
8 new AI tools including a rabbit hole
5 posts from around the web with a hilarious read for GenAI beginners
to-do’s
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🔎 Trends & news
Sam Altman himself leaked OpenAI’s roadmap on Twitter yesterday. GPT-4.5 (internally called Orion) is the last non-reasoning model from OpenAI. GPT-5 will be a system with levels of intelligence based on pricing tiers. It’ll be a unified model with access to all tools like Search, Canvas, Thinking, Deep Research etc. Users will not have to pick from half a dozen different options—it’ll just work.
The tentative timeline for GPT-4.5/GPT-5 is weeks/months as per Sam. I assume that means March end/mid-May.
Working in that direction: o3-mini can now see images in ChatGPT and the limit for o3-mini-high is now 50 messages/day (up from 50/week). OpenAI’s o3 also got a gold medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics.
OpenAI also updated its Model Spec - A guide that tells its models how to behave. This document is also open for anyone to read and use.
Soon Deep Research will be available to Plus (10 queries/mo) and free ChatGPT users (2 queries/mo).
Bolt can now create mobile apps too, and Create offers a built-in database for apps built on it.
Adobe has finally launched its Firefly video generation feature to users along with a new Firefly app and standalone pricing plans for it. Generate Video is now in public beta, allowing anyone to generate five-second video clips at 1080p. The new Firefly app also allows you to create multimodal workflows with images, videos and audio.
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👀 ICYMI: New stuff we’ve launched
Microsoft published a new study assessing AI’s effect on our critical thinking. The big question is: Does AI make us lazy thinkers? Sadly, the quick answer is yes, but our post gets into the nuance behind this discussion.
We've noticed some confusion in the community about the differences between ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. We broke down the key distinctions, use cases, and cost implications to help you choose the right option for your projects.
If you know a teacher, you know their hands are full all the time. We’re glad AI’s here to help, so they can focus on teaching. We compiled a list of the best free AI tools that teachers can use in 2025 (including tools for drawing and images)
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Today: Turning Figma designs into full-stack applications (sign up)
18th Feb: Build your own full-stack AI app with Create (sign up)
3rd Mar: Building with AI + Replit (sign up)
💬 Inside the community this week
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Justin updated his AI comparison app with Mistral’s stats. (link) and created a mobile-friendly scrip calculator. (link)
Aishwarya shared her exploration into Sierra AI for customer experience (link)
Jesus built a Glide app with Pinecone integration, perfect for chatting with internal docs. (link)
Wadnes asked about Replit vs Bubble for building AI apps. (link)
Mike asked for help connecting Cursor, Replit, and Github. (link)
Keshav edited a video with Meta's SAM2 and talked about possible opportunities in the space. (link)
Carl sought advice on leveraging AI tools for his coaching business. (link)
David asked about tools for creating videos with real people using AI after a video with celebrities went viral. (link)
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⚙️ Top new tools
Memex - Chat to build without writing code. Any tech stack. On your desktop. For extra free credits use code ‘BB’ = Build Boldly.*
RabbitHole - Learn about anything with branched topics and follow-up Qs. (I really liked the UI)
Create apps - now ship with a built-in Postgres database, powered by Neon
Lovabale Launched - A collection of apps created with Lovabale.
New Email - Build beautiful, responsive, and cross-platform HTML emails using natural language.
Icons8 illustration generator - Generate usable illustrations with a tool trained on Icons8’s own library.
Learn Copywriting - Get your copywork scored by an LLM.
Exa Answer - Get an LLM answer to a question informed by Exa search results.
This demo of Alexis, a conversation agent by ElevenLabs is insane 🤯.
More tools here →
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📜 Interesting posts
How I built an entire app with AI in one weekend.
AI agents are here. What now? — A comprehensive deep dive from HuggingFace.
Modern-day oracles or bullshit machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world.
Why you shouldn't worry about AI taking jobs.
Revenge of the GPT wrappers - Defensibility in a world of commoditized AI models.
📌 To-dos
That’s it for today. Feel free to hit reply and share your thoughts. 👋
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