I'm calling these weekly live streams "The AI Sandbox" and, if it's anything like last weeks, it'll be a fun, twisting and turning, exciting look at the latest news and the current state of AI that's actually useful.

Come hang!

I'm going live over on YouTube and Twitch at 11am Pacific. I'm mreflow on both platforms. Come hang out!

We'll talk about OpenAI's o1, the latest NotebookLM update, Veo, play with AI tools live, and answer any questions you send my way.

It's been a hell of a week and it's been fascinating to watch Google announce something huge day-for-day along with OpenAI's 12-days of announcements.

I know I'm missing some news. What else should I talk about in the video?

- Runway launches its talent network
- MidJourney launches Moodboards for custom styles
- Magnific launches Super Real
- Nvidia launches mini AI Supercomputer

- YouTube adds opt-in option for AI training
- GitHub announces free tier for Copilot
- Odyssey introduces its new generative world models
- Genesis Project Launches Open-Source Physics Engine
- Meta adds real-time video to Ray-Bans
- Pika 2.0 launches with scene ingredients

- Google shows off / Begins rollout of Veo 2
- Google launches Whisk to blend images
- Google NotebookLM UI overhaul & new chat features
- Google launches new Gemini 2.0 Advanced model
- Google launches Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking

- OpenAI Day 7 - Projects for better organization
- OpenAI Day 8 - ChatGPT Search for all
- OpenAI Day 9 - OpenAI o1 Available in API
- OpenAI Day 10 - 1-800-ChatGPT
- OpenAI Day 11 - OpenAI works with more tools

Alright... Trying to roundup the important AI news from the week for a breakdown video tomorrow... (I record on Thursdays so this list is Friday through today).

I need some prompts to test on Veo. I need both long and short prompts.

What would you want to see tested?

I think we have a new winner for my "Monkey on Roller Skates" benchmark test. VEO from Google is really good!

Here's the replay. Thanks so much to everyone that hung out and helped steer the conversation. Sorry for being ADD. We covered A TON of tools!

www.youtube.com/live/4R9kaZA...

I'm going live today. It'll be a casual hang-out style stream where we play with AI tools, chat about latest news, and basically do a live AMA. Streaming to both YouTube and Twitch. Come hang out!

mreflow on both YouTube and Twitch. :)

I'm planning on doing my first one on Monday at 11am Pacific time. Should be fun to play around with AI tools in real-time and show off some of the things I've gotten early access to. :)

Considering getting back into livestreaming! I miss the live interaction & Q&As. Thinking of doing weekly streams on YouTube/Twitch/X, covering news, testing tools (including early access previews), and taking audience suggestions. Did them before & enjoyed it. Thoughts on platform/frequency?

Today is Sora day. It was a long time coming but it's available today! :)

Really helpful. Thank you!

Can someone breakdown the major differences between Cursor and Windsurf for me? I've been using them both and switching back and forth and they both seem pretty much the same to me...

I feel like this is a feature that EVERYONE'S been wanting and waiting for. I'm excited to test this out and see if it can actually write like me!

Unfortunately, this news has been overshadowed by the "Sora Leak," which has already been shut-down. This is bigger IMO.

For additional context:
- Current Newsletter Subscribers: 170,000
- Current YouTube Subscribers: 675,000
- Current X Followers: 88,400
- Current Revenue: A lot more than $10k/mo ;)

It's absolutely wild how quickly things can change. I was just reorganizing some things in Notion and came across my goals list for 2023 and the roadmap that I made to get there.

I'm happy to say that, following this roadmap, I blew past every single one of those goals back in 2023. :)

Been tossing all the deals I find onto this page here: www.futuretools.io/black-friday...

It's not pretty but it does the job. :)

Here's even more that are offering deals:
- BeeHiiv
- Hostinger
- Kling
- Jasper
- Pictory
- Fliki
- Decktopus
- Recut
- Veed
- Galaxy AI
- Usermaven
- LinkBoss
- VidNoz
- Munch
- TubeBuddy
- Insta360
- Ray-Ban Metas
- Bolt
- Adobe Creative Cloud

Some I've already come across:

- Topaz Labs
- Leonardo
- Magnific
- RightBlogger
- Jupitrr
- BlueGPT
- ZipWP
- CircleBoom
- Humane Pin
- XReal Air 2 Glasses
- HubSpot Inbound 2025

I'd love to find more and help people round up all the deals!

Anyone come across any good Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals for AI tools or cool gadgets? I'm trying to round up as many as I can.

One thing that I really want in ChatGPT is folders to organize related conversations. Seems like an obvious feature that's not there yet.

Are there any good Chrome extensions that do this as a temporary workaround?

Warning: It looks pretty old-school but it's SUPER addicting.

- Deepmind Introduced AlphaQubit to identify quantum computing errors
- Meta added a handful of new AI features to Messenger
- V0 AI adds full-stack development and more
- Rabbit R1 can now automate tasks

Is there anything that I'm missing that I need to make sure to include?

- Microsoft to enable voice cloning for multilingual team meetings
- ElevenLabs launches conversational bot builder
- Suno officially launches v4 for music generation
- HeyGen launches an iOS App
- Coca-Cola releases AI-generated Christmas ad
- Perplexity allows you to shop straight from platform

- DeepSeek launches R1-Lite-Preview that competes with OpenAI o1
- Mistral's Le Chat has vision, search, coding and more
- H announces Runner H, an “agentic” AI
- Black Forest Labs releases Flux.1 Tools
- Microsoft partners with HarperCollins to train on books

Once again, I'm prepping to record my weekly AI news breakdown. Quite a bit happened this week...

- OpenAI's advanced voice is now in the web browser
- GPT-4o got a creativity and analysis upgrade
- Google Gemini now has memory capabilities
- Google Docs now integrates directly into Claude