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PLUS: Adobeās Sora-rivaling AI video generator is now available for everyone

Happy Monday!
What a wild week in the world of AI! Elon Musk decided he wanted to add OpenAI to his shopping cart, but Sam hit him with a big, fat "nope." In response, Elon called Sam a "Swindler," which sounds like a villain from a 1920s silent film. Meanwhile, Meta's cooking up some physical robots, so now I can look forward to a robot nagging me to post on Instagram every day. Thanks, Meta! And Adobe finally unleashed their video model to the masses. I'm itching to give it a whirlājust as soon as I figure out how to make myself look like a movie star.
Enjoy!
In Todayās Edition:
𤯠Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion
š ļø 7 new AI tools that will speed up your workflow
š” Is AI making us dumb?
š„ļø AI body double for Zoom calls.
Read time: 4 minutes

šØ AI ART

Happy Valentineās Day

š° AI INDUSTRY NEWS
Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion
AI-driven ads take the field during the 2025 Super Bowl
Adobeās Sora-rivaling AI video generator is now available for everyone
Airbnb CEO says itās still too early for AI trip planning

š NEW AI TOOLS
š„ Adobe Firefly: AI-powered tool for generating images and videos.
š» Lovable.dev: AI builds full-stack apps from descriptions.
š¤ Pickle: AI body double for Zoom calls.
š Stunning: AI-powered website builder for agencies.
š° Letterpal: AI-powered tool for creating high-quality newsletters.
šµ Beatoven: AI-generated royalty-free music for content creators.
š¹ Vidyard: AI-powered video platform for sales and marketing.
šØView our database of marketing tools mentioned all past newsletters:

P.S. Have a tool you want to submit? Submit it here.


š LEARN
AI Agents in 2025: Where to Start & What Really Works (No Hype)
I Switched 50% of My AI Work to Claude, Here's Why

š¹ TIKTOK OF THE WEEK
Elon Offered $97B To Buy OpenAI š¤Æ
@nate.b.jones If I had $97B I would buy an island or something lol #ai #chatgpt #elonmusk #openai #sama

š POSTS OF THE WEEK
2021: Growth at all cost
2025: Growth at no cost
ā Brian Halligan (@bhalligan)
8:38 PM ⢠Feb 14, 2025
Perplexity now offers file and image uploads with an expanded context window of 1 million tokens.
Free for all signed in users in āAutoā mode.
ā Perplexity (@perplexity_ai)
4:11 PM ⢠Feb 7, 2025
how i sleep knowing ai will never be able to do *my* job because *my* job alone requires that divine spark, that ethereal flame, that living ember that is what it means to be human and that a machine could never comprehend
ā Gustavs Zilgalvis (@GZilgalvis)
5:15 AM ⢠Feb 11, 2025
OPENAI ROADMAP UPDATE FOR GPT-4.5 and GPT-5:
We want to do a better job of sharing our intended roadmap, and a much better job simplifying our product offerings.
We want AI to ājust workā for you; we realize how complicated our model and product offerings have gotten.
We hate⦠x.com/i/web/status/1ā¦
ā Sam Altman (@sama)
7:17 PM ⢠Feb 12, 2025

āļø THE EXTRAS
One year ago today, I wrote Google retires Bard and unveils Gemini!
The most clicked link in last weekās newsletter: ChatGPTās agent can now do deep research for you

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Thatās it for this time! See you next week.
ā Cliff Worley