BB Digest: Professor Claude

Apr 03, 2025

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Anthropic has a new plan for students and universities: Claude for Education. It comes with a learning mode that helps students use Claude to learn, create study guides, etc. Students can also apply to be Campus Ambassadors for Claude.
Lindy, the AI automation tool, now supports Agent Swarms. Swarms allow AI agents to duplicate themselves and do 100s of things at once, making your Lindy agents even more powerful. We have multiple tutorials on how to use Lindy to automate your work (plus a special discount for BB Pro members).
Well, talking about agents, here’s a quick batch of launches just this week.
- Ace is a new computer use agent trained on the actions we take on our computer instead of text and images.
- Genspark’s Super Agent gives LLM access to curated tools (make a call or generate a video) and databases to do your tasks.
- Augment Agent and Exponent are two new programming agents, both aimed at more seasoned developers, instead of vibe coders.
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Libretto.ai - Stop hoping your AI works. Know it does with a fully automated tool for monitoring, testing, and optimizing LLM prompts.*
VibeCode, a new text-to-code app, puts AI to building mobile apps. Another app, DreamFlow, excels in building apps with Flutter (used for cross-platform development).
Eunomia helps you authorize agents to use resources (which can be other agents), separating auth from your main agents’ architecture.
Attio Call Intelligence - Native, powerful conversational insights within your Attio meetings.
Discover sources in NotebookLM - Want external sources in your project? Now NotebookLM can hunt them for you and add them automatically.
App Deploys in Windsurf - You can now deploy apps to Netlify directly from Windsurf.
Cove Apps - Cove is a visual workspace to work with AI. Now, you can create custom interfaces within that workspace.

New benchmark from OpenAI - PaperBench measures the ability to create scientific research papers. Claude smokes OpenAI’s current models, including the reasoning ones.
Move beyond prompting and fine-tune a GPT on your writing.
How to create a website and make it live in just 60 seconds.
Tinder launched an AI game in the US to test how good you’re at flirting.
McKinsey, Bain, and BCG are using AI, but there’s a rift within.
Replit might be raising at a $3B valuation.
Gemini App is now led by Josh Woodward, whose team launched NoteBookLM.

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