ai media goes mainstream

Jun 03, 2025

I write a newsletter about startups and investing—for ai builders of all levels.

I record mini-tutorials, review tools I’m testing, share my insights from an exited founder turned investor.

Hey folks,

some tiktokers are playing uno reverse, using real footage and faking it as veo 3 videos to get attention, and we have a new ai safety meme (which sounds like something you’d get from veo 3)

Perplexity launched Labs - A new mode to use deep research, codegen and image generation all together. built for complex tasks like: building apps, writing in depth reports, analyzing data, designing and planning marketing campaigns, and basically anything else you could get from a small creative or research team. They also launched hotel discovery and booking on Perplexity in partnership with stripe.
Flux.1 Kontext is a new image model from Black Forest Labs - It’s powerful at image editing, while being cheap and fast. You can restore old photos, combine multiple images and more. You can try it for free here or read Olivia’s comparison of Kontext, Gemini and ChatGPT. share with us if you are building with flux
DeepSeek released a new version of R1, which is nothing like the original R1. For one, the new R1 seems to be trained on synthetic Gemini outputs instead of OpenAI’s
Automate real work with AI agents. Retool Agents don’t just chat, they connect to your business systems—databases, APIs, tools—to execute real workflows. Use any model, skip integration code, and get enterprise-grade security. Trusted by 10,000+ companies—from startups to Fortune 500s.*
GitHub released an early preview of Copilot Spaces, and Bing has a video generator using Sora.

Trends in AI by Mary Meeker and the Bond Capital team.
Lovable has a security flaw when connecting to external databases.
10 vibe coding ideas for GTM teams.
Why I have slightly longer AGI timelines than some of my guests from Dwarkesh Patel.
The recent history of AI in 32 otters.

Chronicle helps you make designer-grade presentations with AI for free. It is like Cursor for presentations!*
Underlord by Descript - AI editor for videos. Looks like it’s been out for a while and the examples on their landing page are mostly around talking head videos
VerbalCode - Smart assistant to help you navigate and understand code right in your terminal
Donut Browser - Spin and manage multiple browsers with unlimited profiles.
Mindly AI - Organise your saved items, thoughts and more with a Mac app
Netic AI - Growth engine for essential services businesses (raised $20M)
Serif - Your 24x7 executive assistant that you can handoff tasks to
Manus has a dedicated feature to create slides now
Mirage Studio by Captions - hyper-realistic, compelling video content for UGC, ads and marketing content

This MCP server from Browser Use runs parallel agents to test your vibe-coded app for UI bugs, broken links and more.
Charlie - Review typescript code, fixes bugs, opens PRs—directly in existing GitHub and Linear workflows.
llm-ui - React library for flawless markdown rendering in LLM outputs.
A lightweight version of MCP in bash.
Cloudflare built this Auth provider library with Claude.

Anthropic has a new course on AI fluency focusing on delegating your tasks to AI.
Play AI open-sourced Play Diffusion - their new model for editing audio in the middle.
IBM acquired Seek AI and Salesforce bought moonhub.
Snowflake announced integration with Julius AI. (i’m an investor)

That’s it for today. Feel free to hit reply and share your thoughts. 👋

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