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Cliff Worley
March 17, 2025
China’s Autonomous Agent, Manus, Changes Everything
Happy Monday!
Another wild week in AI land.
A groundbreaking tool from China called Manus dominated conversations in tech circles last week. This AI agent demonstrates remarkable capabilities, including simultaneously managing 50 social media accounts—a task that would typically require a dedicated team.
Perhaps most disruptive: it's being offered for free.
The future isn't approaching gradually—it's accelerating toward us at breakneck speed.
Enjoy!
In Today’s Edition:
🤯 China’s autonomous agent, Manus, changes everything
🛠️ 7 new AI tools that will save you a ton of time
🤖 An opinionated guide on which AI model to use in 2025
🦾 AI agents automate tasks, integrating with apps
Read time: 4 minutes
🎨 AI ART
Happy St. Patrick's Day ☘️
📰 AI INDUSTRY NEWS
The top 100 Gen AI consumer Apps
AI skills earn greater wage premiums than degrees, report finds
Gemini can now personalize its answers based on your search history
SMB websites see rising traffic from ChatGPT and other AI engines
An opinionated guide on which AI model to use in 2025
McDonald’s gives its restaurants an AI makeover
Consumer Reports finds popular voice cloning tools lack safeguards
The hottest AI companies right now are ‘Apps’
Google’s new AI button in Gmail automatically adds events to Google Calendar
🛠 NEW AI TOOLS
🤖 Lindy: AI agents automate tasks, integrating with apps
🖼️ BannsAI: AI automates unique ad banner creation.
🗣️ TheySaid: AI-powered conversational surveys delivering deeper insights.
📈 Skarbe: AI sales tool automating data capture and follow-ups.
🔎 AI Traffic Analytics: Monitors AI crawlers' site visits and human traffic.
👶 AI Ranger: AI analyzes children's emotions for early autism detection.
🎥 Symvol: AI transforms text into clear, memorable videos.
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📹 TIKTOK OF THE WEEK
Gemini’s Latest Image Generation Is Insane 🤯
@adamstewartmarketing Gemini’s latest image generation is insane… You can now edit image with simple text prompts. #gemini #aitools #imagegeneration #ai
🆇 POSTS OF THE WEEK
I just got access to Manus, the Chinese AI agent everyone is raving about.
It's absolutely insane. I feel like I just time travelled six months into the future.
I threw it a zip file of 20 applicants for a CEO job and it did a deep dive on each, one by one, browsing the web and… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson)
4:38 PM • Mar 8, 2025
Native image generation with Gemini 2.0 Flash is now available to all developers via an experimental release in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio!!
The chat based image editing and creation is so much fun to play with 🧵
— Logan Kilpatrick (@OfficialLoganK)
4:02 PM • Mar 12, 2025
Startups are being built faster than ever.
Cursor: $4M to $150M ARR in 12mos
Midjourney: 0 to $200M ARR in 36mos
Glean: 0 to $100M ARR in 36mos
ElevenLabs: 0 to $100M ARR in 24mos
Lovable: 0 to $17M ARR in 3mos
Mercor: 0 to $70M ARR in 24mos
Bolt: 0 to $40M ARR in 4.5mos— Deedy (@deedydas)
12:43 AM • Mar 11, 2025
Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it. This advice will be seen as some of the worst career advice ever given. I disagree with the Turing Award and Nobel prize winner who wrote, “It is far more likely that the… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg)
4:15 PM • Mar 13, 2025
☕️ THE EXTRAS
One year ago today, I wrote New Anthropic Claude Model: ChatGPT Killer?
The most clicked link in last week’s newsletter: OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI ‘agents’
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That’s it for this time! See you next week.
— Cliff Worley