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🤖 My Top 10 AI Tools For 2025
PLUS: I have a special gift for you inside
Happy Monday and Happy New Year!
Wow, can you believe it's already 2025? I'm more excited than ever to see what amazing AI advancements this year will bring! But before we dive into that, I have two exciting announcements to share with you. First up, after checking out thousands of AI tools, I've narrowed it down to my top 10 favorites for 2025. These are the ones I simply can't live without, and I think you'll find them pretty awesome too. Check them out below!
Secondly, my brand-new AI course is now live! My aim is to help everyone integrate AI into their work to boost productivity and ultimately free up more time. As a special thank you to my subscribers, I'm offering a HALF OFF discount for a limited time. I truly appreciate you reading every newsletter, so this is my way of giving back. Here's a testimonial from one of my students who took the course:
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In Today’s Edition:
🤯 My new Cliff Notes course is finally live. Link and discount below
🛠️ My top 10 favorite AI tools for 2025. No gatekeeping
🎆 Thousands duped by hoax firework display ‘created by AI’
🤖 Meta’s new AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well
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📰 AI INDUSTRY NEWS
Meta’s AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well
These 4 graphs show where AI is already impacting jobs
Samsung’s smart fridges will use AI to suggest groceries to buy on Instacart
Thousands duped by hoax firework display ‘created by AI’
Football coaches could soon be calling on AI to scout the next superstar
IRS deploys AI tools to combat emerging tech’s role in new fraud schemes
🛠 CLIFF’S TOP 10 AI TOOLS FOR 2025
🤖 ChatGPT: My go to for all things AI. I pay for the $20 version.
🤖 Claude: I use this one for writing. I also pay for the $20 version
🤖 Gemini: 2.0 launched at the end of the year. I have a feeling this will be big.
🎥 Descript: Such a time saver for editing videos.
🗣️ ElevenLabs: Best text-to-voice AI generator out there.
🔍 Perplexity AI: I use this more than Google search. I am using the free version.
📋 Quill Meetings: My favorite meeting notetaker.
📓 NotebookLM: Mind blowing and probably the best tool I’ve seen so far.
🤖 Meta AI: It’s like having ChatGPT in your Instagram. I like the photo feature.
😎 Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses: It’s like having ChatGPT on my face. Love them.
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📹 TIKTOK OF THE WEEK
How To Use NotebookLM 🤯
@fawziammache Replying to @Gayan Kaushalya here’s the full version of how I did it. You just upload documents or links you want to use, and the audio co... See more
🆇 POSTS OF THE WEEK
About to toss that ingredient? #GeminiProTip: Gemini can whip up creative recipes from your grocery list or a photo.
Give it a try & share what Gemini’s cooking in the comments → goo.gle/4a4PLmU
— Google Gemini App (@GeminiApp)
5:27 PM • Jan 2, 2025
I expect that writing without LLM assist will soon feel like driving without a backup camera:
You could do it, but why would you want to? x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Justine Moore (@venturetwins)
6:13 PM • Jan 2, 2025
AI won’t replace programmers, but rather make it easier for programmers to replace everyone else.
— Naval (@naval)
9:46 PM • Jan 3, 2025
Each night I sit with Claude or any AI and pick something deep I am curious about and talk to it.
You can just learn stuff. It’s amazing.
— Suhail (@Suhail)
3:58 AM • Dec 31, 2024
☕️ THE EXTRAS
One year ago today, I wrote about New York Times Sues OpenAI - Happy New Year
The most clicked link in last week’s newsletter: 2024 State Of AI Tools
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That’s it for this time! See you next week.
— Cliff Worley