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šŸ˜ŗ AI builds apps in 2 mins flat

PLUS: AI content moderators sue over "psychological harm"...

Welcome, humans.

Thereā€™s a bonkers AI video going viral on Facebook, and it needs no introduction other than the screenshot below (bet you can guess why weā€™re sharing it)ā€¦

Thereā€™s also a Reddit version.

According to Reddit (where the video has been upvoted 63K times), this video has over 250K likes on Facebook. So clearly, something about it is working. We think itā€™s a ā€œso bad itā€™s goodā€ situationā€¦

Now, if you want to see something AI created thatā€™s ACTUALLY good, check this out:

Hereā€™s the launch video (with a perfect song), the research page, and the research paper behind it.

Edify 3D converts text descriptions into detailed, production-ready 3D models in two minutes, automating what typically requires hours of manual 3D modeling work.

The end goal of all this is to create something as fluid and easy to manipulate as this example (which may remind Bladerunner 2049 fans of the memory maker).

Now imagine the above cat video made with 10x better toolsā€¦ could a FB vid qualify for The Oscars? Asking for a (furry) friendā€¦

Hereā€™s what you need to know about AI today:

  • We explain the new AI coding assistant Lovable.

  • Amazon invested another $4B in Anthropic.

  • AI content moderators sued SAMA and ScaleAI over workplace trauma.

  • School won case defending punishment of student's AI use.

It was a BIG weekend for AI coding startupsā€¦

Thereā€™s a new coding startup in town, and it just MIGHT have everybody else shaking in their boots (weā€™ll qualify that in a sec, donā€™t worry).

Itā€™s called Lovable, the ā€œworldā€™s first AI fullstack engineer.ā€ It just hit #1 on Product Hunt, and the user reviews are wild. Not the polite ā€œcongrats on your launch!ā€ā€”we're talking ā€œfixed my friend's project deadline in 5 minutesā€ and ā€œbetter than what I built in Bubble in a dayā€ kind of wild.

Back-up. Full stack engineer. What does that actually mean?

Think of it this way: Building a real working app needs multiple people (or one very skilled developer) to handle different parts:

  • Someone to design how it looks (the frontend).

  • Someone to make it actually work (the backend, security, payments).

  • Someone to deploy it all.

Lovable does all of that by itself. Tell it what you want to build in plain English, and it creates everything you need. Want users to be able to log in? One click. Need to store data? One click. Want to accept payments? You get the idea.

Early users are backing up these claims. One person even launched a startup that made Product Hunt's top 10 using just Lovable.

As for us, we made a Wordle clone in 2 minutes with one prompt. Only edit needed? More words in the dictionary. Itā€™s like, really easy yā€™all.

Now, Lovable is far from the first company to come up with this. Two other major AI coding assistants, v0 from Vercel and Cursor, both dropped big updates this weekend (are they nervous?)

You can think of v0 as the more powerful Lovable (example: someone used v0 to make v0), while Lovable has the better user experience (and Cursorā€™s more hands-on).

Fun fact: we were going to use todayā€™s newsletter to make a tutorial on how to create your own app with v0 before we tested Lovable, and, well, fell in love.

There's just something different about Lovable's approach. While others are making AI coding assistants, Lovable seems to have built an AI that actually understands how to build complete, working applications.

Besides those three, thereā€™s also Replit, Bolt.new, and the upcoming Github Spark. If you need help figuring out which one to use, thereā€™s this guy, who literally made a tier list maker for ranking the top AI software engineersā€”using Lovable, of course.

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Treats To Try.

  1. *Attention listens to your calls in real-time and helps you find relevant data when theyā€™re overā€”you can even go back and watch the relevant sections. Attention can do more, tooā€”book a demo and try it out for yourself here.

  2. Cades is like Lovable, but for mobile apps; you build a mobile app by describing what you want in a chat (free to create mockup, but gotta pay for the code).

  3. Autoflow Studio creates and runs automated software tests by recording your clicks through a website, then runs the same tests across different browsers to check if your site breaks.

  4. Pine handles negotiates your bills, cancels your subscriptions, and fights for refunds for youā€”all YOU do is explain your issues.

  5. FLUX.1 Tools let you edit and expand images, add depth and edge effects, and create image variations for the open-source FLUX image generator (available through the BFL API).

  6. Claude now integrates with Google Docs, allowing you to easily add documents to provide more context and get more relevant assistance during your conversations and projects.

  7. Suno V4 generates original songs and remixes with features like audio remastering, lyric writing assistance, and custom cover art generation.

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Around the Horn.

Want to see a montage of Figure 02 robots working at BMW? Here you go (good convo in the comments too).

  • Amazon invested $4B into Anthropic as part of a deal that will require the maker of Claude to use Amazonā€™s Trainum2 chip to train its models, and use the Inferentia chip to deploy them.

  • SAMA and ScaleAI (valued at $14B), who farm out ā€œhuman in the loopā€ tasks to workers in developing countries for AI companies like Meta, are being sued by 200 digital workers in Kenya for unreasonable working conditions and psychological harm after reviewing ā€œthe worst of the worstā€ content.

  • The parents who sued a school for discipling their kid for copying AI-generated text from Grammarly into his homework lost their case.

NEW SECTION: Technical Roundup

Believe it or not, every week thereā€™s tons of AI news we donā€™t cover because, well, itā€™s a little TOO technical. So we thought weā€™d try out a new section to round up these finds for the nerds in the audience (us included!). Here ya go:

  1. Deepseekā€™s new model, R1-Lite-Preview matched (or exceeded, by some accounts) OpenAI's leading o1-preview model in certain tests (try it here)

  2. AIMv2 from Apple helps your computer better understand what's in photos and videoā€”if you're building apps that need to recognize objects, analyze images, or answer questions about pictures, AIMv2 makes those tasks more accurate without requiring as much training data.

  3. SmolLM2 gives you tiny language models that run directly on your phone or laptop, letting you chat and write without needing powerful computers or internet (135M-1.7B parameters). Thereā€™s also SmolTalk, the dataset specifically created to train the SmolM2 models.

  4. Recall.aiā€™s Desktop Recording SDK lets you capture meeting recordings directly from users' computers instead of using meeting bots - so your apps can grab Zoom, Teams and Meet data without joining calls.

  5. TĆ¼lu 3 helps you customize and train language models for specific tasks like coding or math while preserving their general abilities (read more about it here, playground to test it here).

FYI: Weā€™re actually debating what to call this sectionā€”hereā€™s a few ideas, if you want to select your fave!

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A Cat's Commentary.

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