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PLUS:OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 AI model comes to more ChatGPT users
Cliff Worley
March 10, 2025
Happy Monday!
Another wild week in AI land.
Rumors are swirling that OpenAI is developing an AI agent priced at a whopping $20,000 monthly (with a "budget" option at $2,000). Are these the employee replacements we've been fearing? Possibly.
I'm sticking with my $20/month subscription for now. Let's see this mysterious agent in action before emptying our bank accounts, shall we?
🎂 Meanwhile, I just celebrated my birthday in Paris! To share the joy, I'm giving YOU a gift: one-day discount on my course with code BDAY at checkout.
Grab it before midnight!
Enjoy!
In Today’s Edition:
🤯 OpenAI's $20K AI Agents: The future arrives?
🛠️ 7 new AI tools that will blow your mind
🤖 A quarter of startups in YC’s current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated
🧔 AI-powered interactive digital avatars for businesses.
Read time: 4 minutes
🎨 AI ART
Happy Birthday To Me 🍷
📰 AI INDUSTRY NEWS
OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI ‘agents’
A quarter of startups in YC’s current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated
DuckDuckGo is amping up its AI search tool — but will still let you leave it behind
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 AI model comes to more ChatGPT users
Judge denies Musk’s attempt to block OpenAI from becoming for-profit entity
Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode
Sesame is the first voice assistant I’ve ever wanted to talk to more than once
Podcasting platform Podcastle launches a text-to-speech model with more than 450 AI voices
Anthropic raises Series E at $61.5B post-money valuation
Elevenlabs partners with Google Cloud to bring AI audio to enterprise
🛠 NEW AI TOOLS
🧑💻 Portalis AI: AI-powered interactive digital avatars for businesses.
🛠️ Promptimize AI: Browser extension enhancing AI prompt quality.
📊 Mesh: AI bookkeeper automating startups' financial tasks.
✂️ Opus AI Reframe: AI resizes videos for any platform.
📈 Scrunch AI: Monitors and optimizes brand presence in AI search.
📹 Faceless.so: AI-generated faceless videos auto-posted to platforms.
🖍️ ColorHippo: AI-generated coloring pages from descriptions.
🎨View our database of marketing tools mentioned all past newsletters:
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📹 TIKTOK OF THE WEEK
ChatGPT 4.5 Hidden Talent 🤯
@justinfineberg I’ve never gotten output like this from any model…
🆇 POSTS OF THE WEEK
GPT-4.5 rollout to plus users has started
will complete within the next few days
— Sam Altman (@sama)
6:08 PM • Mar 5, 2025
OpenAI Deep Research is very good at doing market size research and calculations. It's so much better than Googling around and wondering if you should pay $5K for some research report.
— Jared Friedman (@snowmaker)
8:15 PM • Mar 1, 2025
The new AI voice from Sesame really is a powerful illustration of where AI is going.
This is all real-time, from my browser. Excellent use of disfluencies, pauses, even intakes of breathe really make this seem like a human, though bits of uncanniness remain, at least for now.
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick)
2:59 AM • Mar 4, 2025
🚨 Announcing the latest @a16z top 100 AI apps!
For the fourth time, we ranked consumer AI websites and mobile apps by usage (monthly unique visits and MAUs).
There was a lot of movement over the last six months. Here are the trends we're keeping an eye on 👇
— Olivia Moore (@omooretweets)
4:29 PM • Mar 6, 2025
☕️ THE EXTRAS
One year ago today, I wrote Klarna's AI Assistant Replaces 700 People
The most clicked link in last week’s newsletter: Anthropic’s new ‘hybrid reasoning’ AI model is its smartest yet
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That’s it for this time! See you next week.
— Cliff Worley