Social Media's AI Evolution Begins

Welcome AI enthusiasts. We are back in 2025 with a fresh redesign for another WILD year…

In this edition we’ll be covering…

• Meta’s new AI Influencers

• A guide on how to use Google’s new Stream Realtime with Gemini

• A new AI coding assistant that has access to your command line

• 6 Trending AI Signals

• 3 New AI Tools

• And much more…

The Latest in AI

Coming Soon to Your Feed: Meta’s AI Influencers

Meta plans to unleash AI-generated profiles across its suite of applications to boost engagement among its nearly 3 billion users.

These AI personas will have bios and profile pictures (like the most of us, I’d hope), and they’re going to generate content to add to the AI slop that’s already out there on the internet.

But Why?

• This initiative is part of Meta’s strategy to make its apps more entertaining and engaging, particularly for younger audiences.

• Experts are raising red flags about misinformation (shocking, I know).

So What?

Welcome to Social Media 2.0, where your next viral trend might be started by an AI having its main character moment.

As this digital experiment unfolds, we're all going to learn what happens when you let algorithms join the group chat.

Spoiler alert: it's going to be... interesting.

Industry Intel

Hey Google, Watch Me Code

Real-time AI just got…real.

Google’s Stream Realtime is easily the most useful feature in the new Gemini 2.0 release, enabling users to interact with the model through dynamic vision processing, real-time voice conversations, or both combined.

Through the Multimodal Live API, we can create applications where users interact with AI in a way that feels more human than ever.

I took it for a live spin to demonstrate these capabilities as my new pair programmer!

To use Stream Realtime as your new pair programmer (or anything, really):

1. Navigate to Google AI Studio and sign in.

2. On the left sidebar, go to the microphone icon, that represents Stream Realtime.

3. There, you can share your screen with Gemini, select the window you want to share.

4. Talk to Gemini as if it were right over your shoulder!

Innovation Showcase

Command Line Magic with Cline

Meet Cline, an AI that can use your CLI aNd Editor.

Cline is an AI-powered coding assistant for Visual Studio Code that enhances your development workflow by automating tasks such as code generation, editing, and execution.

Thanks to Claude 3.5 Sonnet's agentic coding capabilities, Cline can handle complex software development tasks step-by-step. With tools that let it create & edit files, explore large projects, use the browser, and execute terminal commands, it can assist you in ways that go beyond code completion or tech support (talk about full stack).

Here’s how you can begin using it:

1. Download and Install VS Code if you haven’t already.

2. Install the Cline extension in VS Code - search for it in the extensions marketplace and install it.

3. After installation, open the Cline extension on the left. Set up the API provider, enter your API key, and select the LLM you’ll be using to power it.

4. You’re ready to rock! Try out code generation, executing terminal commands, and using browser integration.

   Activate Cline 🤖 

Quick Bites

Stay updated with our favorite highlights, dive in for a full flavor of the coverage!

TechCrunch published its “weird AI benchmarks that took off in 2024,” featuring the viral Will Smith spaghetti videos.

Prompt Engineering broke down Anthropic’s blueprint for creating lean AI agents in its most recent YouTube video.

The world of AI is changing and changing quickly. Martin Keen, Master Inventor is here to help set some expectations for what in AI in 2025 (via IBM).

NVIDIA has completed the acquisition of Israeli artificial intelligence company Run:ai after undergoing antitrust scrutiny.

The recent rollout of iOS 18.2 finally brings many of the promised Apple Intelligence features, but one such long-awaited tool is Visual Intelligence, a feature currently reserved for the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max that was first introduced at the company’s September event. Now, we can finally use it.

Hugging Face has launched smolagents, a very simple library that unlocks agentic capabilities for language models.

Trending Tools

📊 Rava AI - Wholistic AI marketing platform to plan your strategy and create content.

🌪️ Google Whisk - Whisk is a new Google Labs experiment that lets you prompt using images for a fast and fun creative process.

🔌 HeyWire - Create or refresh content in minutes rather than hours.

The Neural Network

I came across this and it got me thinking, what if OpenAI DID put out an open source model?

If it really is this small, maybe it could be a good shout, some food for thought…

I know Elon would hate to see this coming!

Until we Type Again…

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