Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast - EP 431: Top AI Tools and Features of 2024

Episode Date: January 2, 2025

Just in the past 3 weeks, we've seen enough AI releases for like 3 years. But what AI features and tech tools are actually worth using? We recap and rank the top AI features and tools of 2024. Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageJoin the discussion: Ask Jordan questions on AIUpcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: [e-mail] with Jordan on LinkedInTopics Covered in This Episode:1. Top AI Tools and Features Discussion2. AI Tools of the Year & Rankings3. In-depth Discussion of Specific Tools4. AI Industry OverviewTimestamps:00:00 Network with tech professionals; explore AI tools.10:16 Share show for AI tools honorable mention.12:32 Siri uses ChatGPT for complex queries.18:09 Inline AI enhances collaborative document editing efficiently.23:23 ChatGPT search tool flawed after limited beta.31:06 Cursor went viral as first user-friendly AI.34:52 Google excelled with Gemini 2.0 updates.37:56 Google deep research: fast, comprehensive answers engine.46:17 Use Microsoft 365 Copilot Studio for automation.50:03 Microsoft Copilot Vision simplifies travel bookings. Limited.55:32 Iterative prompting guides advanced language models.01:02:47 Gemini app enables video and voice interaction.01:07:42 Google's Veo AI video tool released, concerns remain.01:13:52 Notebook LM prioritizes trust and transparency in AI.01:15:49 Top AI tools and features 2024 list.Keywords:Jordan Wilson, live stream, AI tools ranking, people's choice award, Midjourney v6.1, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Copilot Vision, Notebook LM, Sora, Veo 2, Zapier Agents, AI tool tiers, podcast, AI developments, generative AI, AI tool selection, AI tool ratings, AI 2024, audience participation, Claude's Artifacts, Claude Computer Use, Cursor AI, 11 Labs conversational agents, Google Gemini 2.0, Google Deep Research, HeyGen's new v3 avatars, AI in documents, Canva's Magic Studio, Chat GPT's new search, OpenAI's 01 Pro.Send Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info) Start Here ▶️Not sure where to start when it comes to AI? Start with our Start Here Series. You can listen to the first drop -- Episode 691 -- or get free access to our Inner Cricle community and all episodes: StartHereSeries.com Also, here's a link to the entire series on a Spotify playlist. 

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trying out different features, different AI tools, hundreds of videos on our YouTube channels, countless hours on podcasts, trying to understand what happened in 2024. And today, whether you're joining us, or listening on the podcast. I'm going to recap the top AI features and tools of 2024. So maybe learning AI or implementing AI in your business is a top priority for 2025,

and you're wondering where to start. There's literally thousands of AI tools. And the big ones like ChatGPT and Perplexity in Gemini, Microsoft Co-Pilot, are getting updated on a weekly, basis. So where do you start? You start here. All right. This is our top AI tools and features of 24. I'm excited. Let's get started. If you're new here, welcome. Thank you for joining us. My name is Jordan Wilson and this is Everyday AI. This is your daily live stream podcast and free daily newsletter helping everyday people learn and leverage generative AI to grow your company and your

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from companies like Google, Open AI, IBM, Microsoft, I mean, everything. And then startups, everything, business owners, whatever you are trying to navigate with. generative AI. We've already done it, and it's on our website at your everyday AI.com. All right. So normally we would go over the AI news for the day. We're going to have that in our newsletter. We have too much to get to. So let's jump right into it and talk about our top AI tools and features of 2024. Hey, live stream audience, thank you for joining us. It's going to be a, it's going to be a hopefully a packed one there in the live stream comments. So yeah, maybe you're a longtime podcast listener.

We do this live at 7.30 a.m. Central Standard time on LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, all that good stuff. Thank you for joining us, Michael and George, Harvey, Michelle, everyone, Jackie, happy 20, 25. It's great to see you all. Douglas, Ronald, Christopher. Hey, everyone. Dennis from New Jersey. How are the drones? All right. So, you know what?

Also, make sure you're active in today's comments. There's a lot. I looked at who's attending. There's people from huge tech companies watching live right now. So get your, you know, if you want to network with others, say what you are, say who you are, what you're working on, where you're from, all that good stuff. All right. So like I said at the top of the show, I've spent, I don't even want to count because it's embarrassing, but more than a thousand hours just trying out all the newest features,

updates and tools. Yes, I spend multiple hours a day doing this, whether we're, We're building something for a client, right? So clients hire us to help them learn AI and start using AI in their company or whether I'm just doing a new update in chat GPT or Claude for our YouTube channel, multiple hours every single day all year. All right. So you don't have to be lost.

I'm going to cut through the fluff right now. So a couple things about this list, y'all. This is not the best AI tools. That's not what this is. All right? This is just the top or the most popular. All right. So obviously, 24, we did 24 of the biggest AI updates or in some cases new tools, right? So there's some very popular AI tools that didn't really have big updates in 2024, right?

Like as an example, like character AI, right? There's a lot of them that aren't going to make the list. So before you start harassing me and being like, hey, Jordan, you missed blank tool. Well, it probably didn't get updated in 2024. This is just what's new. what's hot in 2024, the most talked about tools. All right. So these are for everyday people as well.

So there's obviously some fantastic niche tools for certain verticals, certain types of businesses. That's not this list either. Also, I'm not putting up a bunch of random, you know, old, you know, GPT rappers, right? You know, these AI companies that I think will ultimately get squashed. So that's not what this is either. right so any kind of tool that I put up on my list as a top you know or best tool of 2024 or feature it's not going away right a lot of people are pushing a bunch of garbage out

there on the internet that is not me I personally believe that a lot of the big tech companies Microsoft Google open AI Claude Anthropic meta they're going to be crushing hundreds of quote unquote AI startups that maybe came out in you know late 2022 23 so that that list this is not that list, right? If you want a bunch of flimsy AI tools, everyone else on the internet's covering this, this is just the stuff that you can use right now today to grow your business, all right? And I've used almost, almost all of them extensively. All right. Everyone, take a look at the screen. Here are the top 24 tools. I'm not going to make you wait until the end. But what I want you to do live stream audience. You can only vote once. Okay. We're going to have a people's

choice award because at the very end, I'm going to tell you which is my top tool, all right, for the year. But we're also going to have a people's choice. So all you have to do right now, if you're listening on the live stream, go ahead and type in the number. You see them up there on the screen. And for our podcast audience, I'm going to quickly rattle them off and we're going to go over one by one. And then we are going to tier them. Okay. we are going to rank them on a tier list. All right. So I actually made this tier list.

Let's see if I can get it to work here, huh? That's not the right one. There we go. So made this in Claude Artifax. So there's a tier list. I don't know how this started, super popular here on the internet, right? So it's essentially S-A-B-C-D. So S, I believe stands for super or something like that.

A is A, B, C, D, right? So S is the best, then A, then B, then C, then D. All right. So we're going to be jumping over between these two screens, but and ranking them all by tiers, all right? And if something's a D, that doesn't mean it's a bad tool. It could be really, really good, a great tool, a great feature. Just because something's a B doesn't mean I don't like it.

So I'm going to give you my quick hot takes for every single one of these 24 tools. Here they are. Again, live stream audience, get your vote in. And right now, this list is just alphabetical order. This isn't my top list, all right, or my rankings. One, Apple intelligence. Two, advanced voice mode from chat GPT.

Three, chat GPT canvas. Four, Canva Magic Studio. Five, chat GPT search. Six, clawed artifacts. Seven, clawed computer use. Eight, cursor AI. Nine, 11 labs conversational agents. 10, Gemini 2.0.

11, Google Deep Research. 12, H-NV-3 avatars, 13, Meta-Lama 3.2, 14, mid-Jurney v61, 15 Microsoft copilot studio, autonomous agents, 16 Microsoft copilot vision, 17, notebook LM from Google, 18, open AIs, O1 Pro, 19, runway V3, 20, SORA from Open AI, 21, 21, stream real time from Google, 22, Suno v3, 23, V02 from Google, and 24 Zapier agents previously called Zapier Central. All right. So that is our list. You don't need anything else.

You can leave now. I'm not going to be offended. All right. But we're going to go through. I'm going to talk very quickly about all of these tools. And again, these are tried, true, tested, and vetted. Some of them are brand spanking new. Not all of them have general availability either.

Here's the other thing. If something's only out in beta, I didn't put it on this list, right? Because there's others that I probably would have included. So almost all of these have general availability, except for, I believe, VO2, although enough people have access to it and have shared about it that I felt comfortable already putting it on the list and it's that good. So that is our list, live stream audience. I see a couple of y'all have voted.

So if you are live, all it takes, just get your vote in now. Just type the number that you think is the best or top tool. All right. Just put in the number one through 24. I'm going to give y'all just two more seconds to get your votes in. And we're going to be putting the people's choice, your choice. I always said everyday AI. It's for all of you, right?

This isn't just something I run the show, right? I schedule the shows, but y'all run it. So what is your top AI tool or feature? Again, there's a lot of great AI tools. or features that just didn't make the list because they either, I have an honorable mention list actually. So if you want access, I believe there was another 20 tools on there.

If you want access to the honorable mention list, just go ahead and share or repost this show. And I'll send that to you as well. A little added bonus for those of you that, you know, help us out and share this with your friends. So we have that list as well. So, all right, I think most of you all got your vote in. You know, hey, Luke, chat GPT project.

was actually on our honorable mention list. Yeah, it didn't make the top 24. There's a lot of great updates that just didn't make the list. It is tough. All right. And yes, some of these are standalone kind of pieces of software. Some of them are just big updates. But all of them tried, trued, tested, and something that you can use to grow your

business literally immediately. All right. Enough chit chat. Let's get to it. We're going to be ranking all of these. right now. Let me just get my list here so I can copy and paste and you don't have to watch me fumble through. All right. Like I said, yeah, we do have an honorable mention list. I believe that's 20-some. List is already done. Click that repost, share if you're listening on LinkedIn or Twitter.

I guess those are the only places you can share it. And then just hit me up with a DM or a message and let me know you shared it and I'll send you that list. All right, number one. And again, This is just an alphabetical, mostly alphabetical order list. All right. So number one, Apple intelligence. Yeah, this was often talked about. So it was just fully introduced in iOS 18.8. This is Apple's AI, right?

Essentially, I'll say this. This is stuff that we essentially had like three years ago in a lot of other tools. For me, there's nothing revolutionary about Apple intelligence. And it does actually rely on OpenAI's GPT4O model for more complex queries, right? So if you're asking Siri something that's, you know, especially difficult, it just uses chat GPT. It is a combination of edge AI or on-device AI, which is great, right? So kudos to apples for doing that and still prioritizing security. But for, like I said, for more complex queries, you're just passing everything off to chat GPT anyways.

right. So let's go ahead and live stream audience. Let me know. Can you guys see my my screen here? I'm going to be jumping back and forth between my two lists here. So let me know if you can't see anything. So our first one, Apple Intelligence. In this tier list, yeah, actually just made this real quick on Claude artifacts because all the ones online. So these S-A-B-C-D, they were just plastered with ads. And I literally couldn't even use them. So in about two minutes, I just made this in Claude Artifacts. Can we see it? Let me know. Can we see it?

Oh, yeah. And everyone, yeah, get your vote in for each tool too, right? So Apple Intelligence, is this the best S super A, B, C, or D? All right. Hopefully, you all can see this Claude Artifax. So Apple Intelligence, D, all right? Doesn't mean it's bad, all right? I don't know.

Nothing good. I tried it. I tried it all. Nothing in Apple intelligence impressed me, hardly at all. Like I said, it's all stuff we've had for many years. Apple is just extremely late to the party. I don't know. Advanced voice mode.

All right. Advanced voice mode, this is from chat, GPT. This was originally demoed at OpenAIs kind of spring event and was just finally released in September with limited features, and then the features were upgraded in December at Open AIs, 12 days of Open AI event. So finally, it does have access to the Internet, which is great, which it previously did not have. Also, it has video access. So, yes, you can show it something.

This is amazing. This is what I think the future of AI is. When it was first released, it was a little buggy. I did a review probably the day after I got it. I think most of those bugs have been worked out. So if you're listening, maybe you haven't used advanced voice mode from chat GPT. You do have to be on a paid plan.

But you are literally talking to a neural live agent that can see, right, on your phone, on your iPhone, right? So you can show it a photo of something on your whiteboard. You can, you know, show it something on your desk, something that's broken. I've already been using it a lot for things like that. You know, I'm the least handy person ever, right? I can do just about anything in front of a computer. I don't know how to work a screwdriver, right?

So I've been using advanced voice mode a lot for, you know, I wouldn't even say projects around the house because I don't do actual projects, right? I use a computer and hire someone or my wife uses, you know, an app to hire someone to do projects. But I mean, for small stuff, it's like, what's this? This is broken. Look up this, right? Like, it's actually really good for that. So what's everyone's vote?

is it S, A, B, C, or D for advanced voice mode from chat GPT. All right. What do you guys think? What do you guys think? Brian says A. Peter says S. Luke says A for advanced voice mode. Let's go ahead and see.

Where is this going to make it on our list? All right. Our first S or super. I think that's what this list. This means super, I don't know. All right, but advanced voice mode. It's up there. It's up there.

All right. It is an S. Let's go to number three. We're going to keep this going quickly. So we have Canvas from ChatGPT. This is low key. Canvas is getting slapped on. So what I liked originally about some of these, you know, essentially GPT wrappers or AI writing tools,

One of the ones that I've been using since it came out in, when was this? 2020 was Jasper Jarvis, right? But one thing I always liked about it is it's in line, right? And I've been saying like since chat GPT came out in November 2020, I'm like, yo, like we need inline AI, right? Because that's how people work and operate. They don't work and operate in a back and forth chat, right? You need to be able to have a document that you can work in and talk with chat GBT

in anywhere in that document, right? And sometimes what would happen when you're working with large language models in a back and forth chat, back and forth chat format is you might just want to change a couple of things and you either then had to just copy and paste it and do it manually, which ended up being a huge waste of time, or you would just have to go back and forth with a large language model just to change your tweak a couple of things. So with Canvas, you can just change a couple of things, right? You can go and collaborate.

I do think this is a huge step toward augmented intelligence, which is really working hand in hand versus, I think, a general chat mode when you're just pinging back and forth with a large language model. It's actually very unintuitive, right? That's why when chat GPT first came out, I'm like, not that good, right? Because I was used to using all these other GPT tools that had in line AI editing. All right. So what do you all think?

Get your boats in, y'all. Canvas for chat GPT. So like I said, I think canvas is absolutely slept on. I think it's great. I do think that we're going to see. a bunch of canvas clones, right? I've already seen it and a lot of these other, like, third-party AI tools that I use, they got these new, you know, essentially canvas modes, which is great.

I do think ultimately you're going to see them from Google. You're going to see it from Microsoft. You're going to see it from Cloud. There's no way around it. These large language model companies are going to have to offer this. Same thing with meta. It's just too good. It's too intuitive, especially for people who are,

non-technical, right? Because it does feel much more like working in a Google Doc, working in a collaborative page, right? This feature, not exactly this feature, but Microsoft co-pilot pages, right? Another one that made our honorable mention list, I believe. So where does Canvas go? Gladys said Canvas A, and so did Christopher, and both of them are right. All right. So that did make our A list.

Hey, everyone, can you let me know yes or no? Can you see both screens here? I'm using this in Claude Artifax, so hopefully you all can see it. All right. Number four, Canva Magic Studio. All right. There's so much in Canva's Magic Studio. We actually had their top AI person.

Canva's head of AI on the show to talk about Canva Magic Studio. So that's the other thing, y'all. Like when I talk about these things, when I give you a list, I'm not just some random dude. Like, yeah, this is fun. No, I've spent, like I said, more than a thousand hours using all these things. I've talked one-on-one with the people who are building these things. I found bugs. I'm having conversations with people from all of these companies, right?

So I don't make this list lightly, just FYI. I just had to mention like, oh, yeah, Canem Magic Studio. Talk to their head of AI. All right. So this one's different. And this is, if I'm being honest, aside from Chad GPT, technically Canva is the tool that I use the most. All my crappy slides that you're seeing on the screen right now, right? Like I make everything in Canvas.

So I use Canvas magic studio a lot, a lot of kind of new AI features, magic animate, magic edit, magic expand, magic grab, right? So a lot of things that used to take me a long time, hours in Photoshop, like eight years ago. Now you can do in seconds with kind of Canva's Magic Studio. So live stream audience, what do you think is this S, A, B, C, or D? Let's jump over. Where does Canva Magic Studio go? Kevin says, what's up, Kevin? Kevin says, I always feel restricted by Canva.

It's good, but not amazing. B, Brian says it's a B. Daniel's loving Canva Magic Studio says it's an S. All right. Here's my take, Rial. Canbo Magic Studio. D. Doesn't mean it's bad.

It's fantastic. I love it. But when we're talking about the top AI tools and features of the entire year, just because something makes the D tier does not mean it is bad. It's just I can't give everything an ABCD, right? So this is comparatively. So I think it might be one of the better, you know, kind of design, AI design tools.

but at least when compared to everything else, right, I was trying to weight these evenly. You know, it made D tier. All right. Chat GPT search. All right. So chat GPT search. It integrates web search capabilities into chat GPT. One of the things that I think, let me just say this.

This is big, right? it's a big step for how people use the internet. Chad GPT really did go all in on this. This is one of those they first released as a prototype search GPT. They did a pretty limited beta for a couple of months, and then they released it to the general public a little bit later. So if you don't know anything about chat GPT search, it's that little globe icon now, right?

If you use chat. GBT, sometimes chat GPT knows that it will need to use or search the web. personally, I'm not a fan of it. I'm not. I liked previously. I liked the browse with Bing. Chad GPT search, there's a huge problem with it.

I've been actually saying like, oh, do I need to do a show on this? Or should I just be talking to my, you know, to my, you know, contacts over there at Open AI to let them know. There's a couple of things that are very broken in chat GPT search. I honestly think, right? There's things that are better, right? There's things that are better. It gives you more of a search engine experience, bringing in rich text, you know, snippets.

You know, so certain things, if you're searching for like local events or something, right, chat GPT search is great for that. It does give you much more visual, better UI, UX, but from an actual iterative, you know, talking with chat, GBT search iteratively, if you're trying to have it go do research and it comes back and then you're trying to improve or modify it, it's actually oftentimes broken and it gets stuck in a loop, right? So you can send a query to chat GBT. It's going to use chat GBT search. It comes back and does some research for you and you're like, hey, this isn't right. Actually, I was talking about D, E, and F, not A, B, and C. And what happens is it just gets stuck in a loop, right?

It's actually kind of broken. I'd hate to say that, but that's the truth. But maybe that's my experience. Everyone else, what do you think? Chat, GPT search, where does it go? Is that a S, A, B, C, C, D. What do you think? Daniel says D. Robert, joining from Twitter. What's up, Robert? Robert says uses Grock for searches. I will tell you this. Grock didn't even make my honorable mention list. I think it's garbage. That's just me. And I use a lot of large language models. Yeah, they have all the compute in the world. They have users on X slash Twitter. It's not good. All right, B. Dr. Janet says B. Sorry. Sorry, y'all. Chad GPD search gets a D for me. It does. Doesn't mean it's bad, but I will say there's a lot of things that are kind of broken with chat GPT search. All right. Six, Claude artifacts. All right. If you don't know, Claude artifacts, I mean, it's literally what I'm sharing on my screen right now. It's been out for a while in 2024. This was an earlier 2024 release, but essentially it renders code. Right. So now in Canvas mode, which I did put as an A tool. So Canvas mode can now render Possible mode. Python, right, which is great.

But with Claude artifacts, you can render just about any type of code. So you can, you know, as an example, you can have Ask Claude, you know, in the new 3.5 Sonnet, which didn't make my list, not that impressive, y'all. 3.5 sonnet new or 3.6 on it, whatever you want to call it. But whatever you have, Claude generate, it can render it, right? So you could be doing just, I don't know, HTML and CSS. You could be doing JavaScript. You could be doing Python.

It can just render, which is amazing, right? Render mockups, render websites, render games, all in the council there. So it splits the screen into two. If you haven't used artifacts, it's amazing. All right. So it's much different than Canvas. So Canvas is an editable kind of document, right, where you can play with it in line. That's not what artifacts is.

Artifacts can just essentially render all different kinds of code. And it's pretty robust and amazing. All right. So Robert says it's an A. Kevin. Kevin says artifacts A, but could go up to S. All right. Everyone else, hey, I love to hear from y'all.

You know, I definitely don't want my bias to show through here. But, I mean, here's the reality. I'm literally using Claude Artifacts for this tier list. because there were things that just, I try to find some of these on the internet and they were just littered with ads and I'm like, I can't share this on my screen like, right? Like you can't even see anything. I love artifacts. I use it every day.

For me, it is a, a tool. I'm like, I'm like Kevin. For me, it was teetering between A and S. If you would have asked me in November before we had an absolutely nuts December from OpenAI and Google, I probably would have said S. But right now it's A. But for me, it's borderline. I don't know.

Maybe if enough of you say it's S, maybe I'll modify the list here at the end. All right. We got some people saying A, B, love Claude. Jackie says it's an S. Yeah, it's borderline for me. Maybe I'll change it. Who knows? You guys let me know.

You can change my mind. All right. Number seven, Claude, computer use. All right. So this was released. I believe. in October, we did a dedicated episode on this. This is a very, I would say, early and archaic version of being honest of agents, right? So you can talk to Claude in real time. And then

computer use can essentially go do things. It can go Google something. It can go browse websites. It can create charts from information on a website. But it is extremely clunky. It's not great for everyday people. That's what this list is for. You have, have to know, you have to know a little bit. Like I said, I did like a 101 show on this. I showed you guys live how to do this. It's not the easiest thing. You got to know a little bit.

I mean, it's not hard. It's just a little cumbersome, right? Some copying and pacing. You might have to download kind of a virtual environment like Docker. So it's not super intuitive. But I think it's, hey, to Anthropics credit, they were the first, right? We've heard rumblings from Open AI coming. coming out with their operator.

We saw, you know, Google with originally what was code name Jarvis, now called Project Mariner. That's going to be a Chrome extension that literally does the same thing. But I think technically Claude was the first, quote unquote, big AI or tech company to have a working version of a programmable agent. It was clunky. It didn't feel very intuitive. The rate limits like anything Claude were absolutely terrible.

But they were first. And it's, you know, even though y'all, I'm giving this and let me know what you're giving it. Even though I'm giving it a D doesn't mean it's bad. They made the list first. I should have tested my clawed artifact here. I wonder if I'm going to run out of room. Hopefully not. Yeah, Kevin said it's a D.

Robert. Robert said it's a D. Jackie said it's a D. Nothing special. Luke said it's a C. George just said unfamiliar. Yeah, George, you didn't miss a ton. if you haven't tried it yet.

All right. Let's keep going, y'all. Let's keep going. Eight. Cursor AI. Cursor, it's an AI coding tool, right? I'll say that.

There's a lot of them and a lot of them made my honorable mention list. And I think even in the last couple of weeks, a lot of these other kind of cursor, quote unquote, competitors have been getting a lot of love, a lot of attention. GitHub actually made their tool free. So Microsoft's GitHub. is now free, you know, very similar. A lot of these are forked, you know, essentially forked versions of the same thing that have been modified.

But I would say cursor was kind of, they technically weren't first, but I think they were the first kind of dedicated AI coding tool to go viral in 2024. Like I said, GitHub co-pilot tab nine. So many of these other ones have been around longer. But I think it was the combination of, you know, they use outside tools, right? So I think it was the combination of some of these other tools like Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the new version, you know, GPT40. A lot of these other large language models that these tools use got good enough at the right time. And they just had a good enough, you know, user interface and user experience.

You can go in there with a tool like cursor and create a fully functioning web app with a little back and forth, even if you don't know how to code. All right. There's a lot of other ones, windsurf, lovable dev. have. There's so many. But Cursor, I believe, is the only one that made our list. Live stream audience, what do you think? Daniel says WinSurfer should be an S.

WinSurfer made, I believe, my honorable mention list. It did not make my top 24 list. I think WinSurfer, a couple weeks or a month or two after Cursor. And I do think for most use cases, I think for everyday people, Curser is maybe a little bit better. All right. So let's jump in cursor. Where does cursor go?

All right. Cerser is going to be our first tool at the C level. Doesn't mean it's bad, y'all. Doesn't mean it's bad. It's really good. It's amazing. If you want to know the basics of coding, yeah, there's a lot of options. WinSurf, is it WinSurf or WinSurfer?

I forget. So many tools. I've literally tested out probably, I don't know, 500 of them this year, probably a lot more. So C, C for Cursor. All right, let's go. 11 labs conversational agents. All right. So 11 labs is probably one of the best text to speech platforms.

I've used this as a test, right? I did some testing in there. Pretty cool. Essentially, I think you can build drag and drop kind of trees, right? Essentially, you could route, you know, people on your website. You can use it for customer support. But you can have essentially text to speech agents, And you can kind of create a visual flow that you can, you know, you can even send it to different agents.

And you can give these different agents or different kind of steps in your flow, different knowledge, right? Which is huge, right? So it's essentially uploading or connecting your knowledge base to an AI text to speech platform. 11 labs, I still think is probably the leader in this space, although they do have a lot of competition from others. 11 Labs isn't new, but in 2024, conversational agents were their big new feature. All right. So where is this going to go, y'all? S, A, B, C, or D.

So 11 Labs, conversational agents, we're going C-Tier. All right. I'm just going to, I'm going to shorten this. I'm going to just say 11 Labs agents. There we go. Bam, C-tier. Let's keep it going to. on. We're going to go fast and furious, y'all. I don't want to keep you here for two hours. Google

Gemini 2.0. This is again, Google was on friggin' fire in December. So many releases. Open AI had their 12 days of Open AI or 12 days of ship miss. Google was just, they woke up and silently chose violence. No marketing, no hype. They came out punch for punch. And I think, I'm not going to say knocked out, but they went toe to toe with Open AI. And I think in the end, Google had a better December. You know, I had a hot take Tuesday on Google's 2024. I'd say they had the worst, you know, three years for AI of all the companies except December.

Google cleaned up and I think really turned it around in Gemini 2.0. Its biggest updates right now, those are just the experimental versions. Those are not the final versions of Gemini 2.0 or Gemini 2.0 Flash, which if you're working on the business, if you're a business leader, you know, trying to connect something on the back end using their API. I mean, instantly Gemini 2.0 Flash is something along with GPT4O Mini, maybe Deepseek V3, maybe, you know, Claude 35 Haiku, right? Some of these lower costs, very fast, very affordable, kind of large language models that you can build on the back end. All right. Where is Gemini 2.0?

I mean, here's the other thing. It's number one on the LM arena, right? On the chat bot arena. So it right now, technically, according to blind benchmarks, right? Blind test from users, you can put in a prompt, get two different responses. And then there's millions of votes. Right now it is the top model. All right.

So Gemini 2.0 gets an A from me. Me and Jackie are on the same page and Brett. all right. If you haven't used it, it's fantastic. No, the versions right now are experimental. These aren't the final versions. Nofia says, I refuse to use it. All right, let me know why. You know, and hey, I'm going to feature some of our favorite comments or hot takes in our newsletter. So if you want your insights to be seen by tens of thousands of people, get your comments in now. I'm going to pick my favorite hot takes or, you know, a couple of them. So I want to hear from you guys.

Jay Anke says Google Gemini is really powerful for small business owners. Absolutely. Gemini, A, Brian, yeah. So you guys got it right. It's not right or wrong, but you guys agreed with me. All right. Let's keep it going, y'all. Google deep research.

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You guys noticed, perplexity did not make my list of top 24 AI tools or features. Number one, they didn't release anything groundbreaking. I think a couple of their incremental feature updates made my honorable mention list. Again, if you want access to that list, just go ahead and share, repost this. I'll send this over to you. I might also just include it in video form so I can give you a quick five-minute hot take

if you want that on each of those honorable mentions. Google Deep Research is both amazing and a little frustrating right now. So if you haven't used it, essentially, it's like perplexity. It is an Answers Engine. So it uses Google's cache of the web, right? Because Google has the entire web cached. What that means is it saves essentially. potentially every web page and a huge database.

And that's why it can work very quickly. So you can use something like perplexity or chat GPT search, ask it for an answer from the internet instead of going to 5, 10, 15 or 20 websites. Something like chat, GBT search, or perplexity will just give you an answer by going to 10 to 20 of them and give you highlights with sources. Jev and I does that times 10. So with deep research, it's brand new. It's only been out for a couple of weeks.

I did a dedicated episode on this if you want to know more. it's fantastic. So it oftentimes goes 200 to 300 sources because it has it cashed. It's slower. So it might take two to three minutes, but it will go and look in its cache of updated websites and literally go through hundreds, hundreds of webpages to give you answers. The one reason why I don't think I can make this an S right now is it's not super steerable, unfortunately. at least not yet. So I am going to bring this up with, you know, some of the people that I talk to at Google. So right now, unfortunately, even though it's powered by Gemini, you can't steer it a ton, right? So you can't ask for certain outputs. You know, you can't as an example, ask for, you know,

bulleted lists. It's like, hey, I can't do that, which I get. So unfortunately, right now, the output is just long paragraph forms, long paragraph form. Sometimes, the output is a little too generic. So if you want to get super granular, very detailed on something, this is not the tool to use or the feature to use. But if you are doing general learning and you've got a huge project and you're like, yo, I'm going to spend like 10 hours because I've got to do a bunch of research. Use Google Deep Research.

It's fantastic, right? So like I said, if you're an expert in something already and you want to deepen your expertise, I don't necessarily think Google Deep Research is the tool for that. but for anything else, it's fantastic. Like I said, I wish it was more searable. I wish you could have a little bit more fine-tuned control of the outputs. Hopefully you will be able to soon. It's not great at iterative prompting either.

It's kind of like a one-off, right? Because you literally give it an assignment. It confirms it with you. You click start research and then you check back in two to five minutes. I did actually have one. Go to 1,300 web pages, right? So it's essentially a web researching agent. You give it your task.

it confirms it with you before it starts. You give it two to three minutes. You come back. You do have to be on a paid plan of Gemini. And I believe you can only have two concurrent chats going at the same time. Because at first I'm like, yo, this is amazing. I'm going to have a hundred of these going. You can't have a hundred.

All right. Where does this make the list for you guys? Where does this list go for you guys? Peter says S. Jackie says X. Kevin doesn't have research access yet. Peter says B. Douglas says it's a sleeper.

I agree with Doug. It is, for me, it was borderline A-S. So either S-super the best or Google or A second best. So it does get the A treatment right there. It was close. It was on the border. All right, Hey Jen, V3 avatars. So this was the only in Hey Jen just released their V3 avatars, I believe, in November.

So brands banking new. It's only been out for a couple of weeks, but extremely impressive, right? There was some other AI avatar companies that made the honorable or features that made the honorable mention list, I believe. But HNV3 was the only one. Super realistic. The thing that I like is it with text, right? So you can do a clone of yourself. They have essentially AI avatars that do that you can have as a template.

But I'd say there's about three companies, three to four companies that are kind of, you know, the quote unquote leaders in this space and they all kind of go back and forth. And it depends on what you want, right? But there's Synthesia. There's, there's hour one. There's, hey Jen. But with Hey Jen, V3, I would have said it was a tighter race before this. But with V3, I mean, Hey Jen's in the lead now.

So they are. So right now with text, you can tweak emotion in the voice, in someone's face. Really cool. Some of the other platforms, you can do this, but it's more of a drop-down. But I think this new version

from Hey Gen B3, it's just a little bit better. So, have you any of you guys use Hey, Jen? I'm curious. I mean, there's also other cool things you can do.

You can translate things live in other languages. But for me, Hey, Jen, it is our first B-tier. How did we get through half the list? And we didn't even get a B-tier tool yet. All right, let's keep it going.

Actually, no, this is our recess. We are halfway through. I got to get this going faster. I don't want this to turn into a two-hour podcast. All right. So let me know if you haven't voted already, go ahead and vote. I'm going to do the people's choice. What is your top AI tool or feature for 2024 live stream audience?

I have this screen up one more time. If you didn't get it, if you joined halfway through, all you got to do is drive. the number. I'm not going to reread them. Y'all can see somebody give you about 10 more seconds. If you haven't voted already, we're going to do our people's choice award. I'm going to give you my top tool at the end. Yes, we are ranking them by tiers. If something's a D doesn't mean it's bad, right?

Just FYI, because that means they beat out thousands of other tools. All right. This is just the top 24 tools. But this is for you. We're going to put our people's choice award in our newsletter. Five seconds. Go ahead. Get your vote in.

just put the number, a couple other people voting here. All righty then. Let's go. 14. Mid Journey, the 6.1. I think 6.1 was a pretty big release. So if you haven't used Mid Journey, I don't have time to go through what's new, but it's everything. It's so, so a mid-jorney, I would say, was one of the first most popular AI image generators.

It is extremely flexible now. All right. So it just has more and more features, more and more things you can do for consistent characters, creating different screens. So when you talk about AI video tools, which we're going to get to, so many people start in Mid Journey. I love Google's Imagine 3. I think that made my honorable mention list. It's really, really good.

But I think Mid Journey v6.1, I think it's actually on V63 or something like that. But I think V61 was probably the biggest iteration of 2024 for Mid Journey. So what do you all think? is that going to be an A, B, C, D, S, what do we think for Mid Journey? Let me, let's see, we got Hay Journey. Oh, I went out of order. That's fine. All right.

So what did you all say? Luke says A. Daniel's loving mid journey says S. LinkedIn user here says B, A, B. All right. Well, for me, it's a B. All right, our second B tool, mid-journey. Oh, I think I forgot to put one on my list.

I'm a human. I make mistakes. All right, we'll see if I got it later. All right, Microsoft Copilot Studio Autonomous Agents, y'all, I'm not going to waste time. This isn't us. I don't care. I don't care what anyone says. If you haven't used this, if you haven't looked it up, my gosh, it was just fully released.

It was actually on my birthday. So I was out at Microsoft Ignite. They invited me out there to go see what was new. Microsoft co-pilot studio, autonomous agents, no code. You don't have to be an expert. You literally just go type in conversational tone. If your organization is a Microsoft 365 copilot organization. So if you've rolled out co-pilot to your entire organization, you need to start using

co-pilot studio like yesterday. It's amazing. Like I said, it works with all of your dynamic data, which is the biggest. difference between things like, you know, chat, GBT or Claude, you have to upload your files, right? And this is autonomous agents. It can be triggered on anything. Hey, every time I get this type of email, go check my sharepoint, go update, you know, go look in my outlook, like, whatever, right? Anything within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, you can literally no code, you can load code it too, but no code talking in natural language. You can literally build an agent

that autonomously does all of these things. This is not up for discussion. I don't care. It is an S and it is not even close, right? If you haven't used co-pilot Studio and autonomous agents, it is only our second S tool. I got a, I'm going to say Microsoft Copilot Studio autonomous agents. This is going to take up too much room. It's an S.

Sorry. Y'all should use it. Michelle says, hey, Jordan, will you also share your honorable mention list? If you go share this, go share this, right? Sorry. Sometimes, you know, I get so many DMs, like, oh, Jordan, like, thank you so much. Like, this is so helpful. I'm always like, go tell someone that.

All right. So if you go repost this on LinkedIn or Twitter, I'll share that list with you guys. All right. Let's get back to it. I'm going to go a little faster here. 16, co-pilot vision. So if you haven't used copilot vision, this is from Microsoft. you have to have a paid co-pilot pro account.

So that is $20 a month. I always get it confused. I'm sorry, y'all. I got to Google here. I always can, like, is it co-pilot pro plus? Some things are plus. Some things are pro. I get confused.

So yeah, co-pilot pro $20 a month. And you have to use this in Edge. So this is different. This is different than advanced voice mode. And I'm going to be talking about Gemini live here in a second. So a lot of these use what's on your screen, right? So with Google as an example, you can share your screen with Gemini. But it only looks at your screen with Copilot Vision, which is brand new.

It doesn't work with every website. Right now, there's a very small list of websites. Otherwise, I would give it a higher score. But what it does is it can see everything on that web page, which is different than how a lot of these other, quote unquote, live, you know, large language models can see and interact with your content. right? So in most, in many cases, it just takes a screenshot of what's on your screen. It essentially uploads it in the background to a large language model, kind of uses computer vision, and then it gets back to you. Copilot vision is different.

So like I said, you have to be on co-pilot pro. You have to be using the edge browser. And it is limited to just a dozen or a couple of dozens of websites right now. But it is freaking amazing. It does work with some popular websites like Amazon, like Target. I was actually trying to do an in AI and 5, a little YouTube tutorial. And for whatever reason, it wasn't recording the voice. And I tried like three different ways.

So I don't know why, but extremely impressive because it can see everything, things that aren't even on your screen. So I do think, again, when we talk about autonomous workflows, you know, that's huge, right? Because it can see things that you can't even see and instantly analyze, let's say you have, you know, a huge Amazon list or something on target. I think William Sonoma is another place. There's some like booking websites, right?

And you're like, oh, I'm trying to find something, you know, under three, you know, let's say you're trying to find like a booking, you know, somewhere to stay. I forgot which site it works for. Right. And you're like, I want something under $300, you know, the nice view, you know, blah, blah, blah. Right. So versus having to scroll down and look at a list of 96 results. It'll do it for you.

Have any of you guys use this, by the way? So Microsoft co-pilot vision. I know a lot of people haven't used it yet. but for me, it is C. The only reason it's C to tell you the truth is it's very limited right now where it can work. And I wish that it was that you could access it anywhere. But it's a little limited right now in terms of where you can access it. All right.

Notebook L.M. What do you guys think? If you've listened to the show, you probably already know where I'm going to put notebook LM. But notebook LM, it's pretty good. Have you guys used it? If not, I don't care. You can hang up on me right now if you're on the live.

Thanks for sticking around for 50 minutes. Go ahead, hang up on me. Go use notebook L.M. It is literally out of the box. No code rag. Retrieve a long minute generation, a state-of-the-art model that is grounded. What that means is like you could upload a bunch of information about your company.

All right. And you could ask it something else. It only gives you answers or responses for what's in your uploaded documents. It is great for not just learning, but I think this is a simplified way to, like I said, get a state-of-the-art rag, large language model powered by Google Gemini in seconds. No code. You can copy and paste.

It can literally, I did the math and I'm like, yo, there's no way this is right. 50 million words if you're on the paid plan. So there is a free plan. There's a paid plan now that they just rolled out a couple of weeks ago. And the other feature. So you all probably know it has this kind of deep dive audio overview, right? So you can have, I don't know, 10 million words from 50 different sorts. sources, you can click a button and these two AI podcast hosts are going to have a conversation

about it. But now there is, which I think, and I did a video review specifically on this, if you want to go see it, there's a new join live feature, which you have to have the paid plan to get access to. But you can literally at any point, right, so it might make a five-minute podcast, it might make a 20-minute podcast. At any point, you can click the join live button and ask questions, and the host will answer them. It is, can we just have like a little bit appreciation here for how uniquely amazing this is, right? I'd say a year ago, I was getting kind of tired of everything in the AI space, right? Because everything was kind of the same, right? It's, oh, new models. Okay, good. It's, you know, Gemini 2.156 or, you know, chat GPT 4.02,

right? Right. Okay, fine. Oh, another AI tool that, you know, is a chat GPT writer. Oh, another AI image generation tool. When notebook L.M came out, it was, I think, probably the second most unique AI tool ever made, ever, next to chat GVT, right? Because they kind of started the wave. So what do you guys think? I don't know. Okay.

Jackie says A, wish it had more flexibility. Kevin says S awesome tool. Dennis says you need to be able to invite others. Well, now you can, Dennis. So if you are on the paid plan, a lot of people are confused. Like, how do I get the paid plan? And that one is called plus, not pro. I don't know.

Everyone else, can we just come up with something else aside from plus or pro? Or can we all get on the same page and say pro is 20. It's confusing because chat GPT pro is $200 a month. But, you know, co-pilot pro is $20 a month. And then plus from notebook L.LM is 20. Right. So you get access to notebook LM plus if you are a or your organization is a Google Gemini subscriber. So if you have the 20, I think it's either $20 or $30 a month for Google Gemini advance. So if you have that, you have access.

And then you can share with anyone else in your organization who also has that same level of access. And you also get, I believe it's six times the limit. So instead of 50 sources, you get 300. And I think that's what takes you up to, I think it's 50 million words. This is why I'm like, y'all, companies three years ago were paying a million dollars for something like this. And notebook LM is better. It's better. All right.

So you might have guessed for me, notebook LM, no doubt about it. S. It is our third S tool. So so far, our cream of the crop is advanced voice mode from chat, GBT, Microsoft co-pilot studio, autonomous agents, and notebook LM from Google. it's so good. All right, a couple more. Open AIs O1 Pro. So this is the first reasoning model that was made publicly available.

So 01 came out, I believe, in September. So if you are brand new to large language models, or maybe you're just an everyday user, you're not, you know, a power user. So essentially you have your quote unquote transformer models. That's what mostly everything has been up until lately. So, you know, your whatever model you're saying, you know, meta 3.1 or, or you know, GVT40 or Claude 3-5, these are transformer models, right? So now you have this new tier or new breed of large language models.

You know, there's no official name for them yet, but a lot of people call them reasoners. All right. So there's essentially a prompting technique. And this is kind of what our prime prompt polish kind of teaches, but it's an iterative prompting technique. You know, it's chain of thought, you know, where you essentially steer a large language model with multiple kind of back and forths to go where you want it to go. That's what these reasoning models do, such as O1 Pro.

I know Google Gemini has flash thinking, which didn't make the list, but it's still very, very good regardless. But O1 Pro, to me, this might be a shocker. And you do have to have that $200 a month. So I get that this is the first, like, expensive AI tool. but I use O1 Pro every single day. It is by far, I think, the most impressive large language model. Yes, I know. The chat bot arena doesn't say so.

The chat bot arena says, you know, it's Google's new Gemini 2.0. But for me, it's an S. All right, we have our fourth S with OpenAIs.I's O1 Pro. Obviously, they announced 03 a couple of weeks ago. I don't believe anyone has access to it yet. they're probably going to give it to like five people, right? They couldn't do O2 because of some naming rights. So they did already release O3, which is wild to me.

So we'll see if that even becomes publicly available in 2025 because right now, one report showed that even single prompts cost like $1,000. But it was benchmarking like, I mean, AGI levels, like not even human levels, right? But 01, yeah, 01. So if you have the $20 a month, you have access to 01. which is still a very good, very capable model on that $200 a month pro plan. You do have access to 01 Pro, which is a special version of 01. Yeah, Douglas says S.

Brian says S. LinkedIn user, sorry, I can't see your name. Just a bunch of S's. Yeah, George, I know. I think I missed Meta Lama 3.2. I'll get that. You know what? I'll just do with that one right now.

So Meta Lama, it wasn't on my slide list, y'all. I am a human. but we're going to put Mata Lama 3.2 right there on our B list. So it's not truly open source, but it is a more open model that a lot of other companies have been using. And it's like, y'all, like to have a state-of-the-art model that is not proprietary that you can go and build on and fork and use for your own purposes, that's wild, right? So I was, Mato's Lama 3.2 was on that AB tier.

I eventually decided to put it on the B tier. I think if it would have came out with the big version, so they only came out with their small and medium version in terms of parameters. I think if they would have came out with their big version, which I'm guessing they should any day soon. I'm guessing that would have been an A, but right now it's a B. All right. Runway V3.

Runway V3, AI video tool. It is impressive. So it's not the best outputs, all right? But I do think at least right now, it is the most flexible video platform. I will say it is more like a creative studio than an AI video tool, right? Like SORA, like VEO. So the outputs are definitely top, right?

Not number one, but top, right? Top tier outputs. But I do think runway V3 was one of only three AI video tools because I think this is going to be the trending category, one of the three trending categories in 2020. So I do have to, you know, definitely shout out runway. It is very amazing. Live stream audience, what do you think? So I'm going to put this runway V3.

What did everyone else say? Sometimes I just like to see. I know there's a little delay because I'm like, oh, am I giving it too much credit? Not enough credit. Runway V3 gets a B. Very solid. Very solid. All right.

A couple more. We have our last five tools. So SORA, what do you guys think? This one, this one I went back and forth a lot on SORA. So SORA was the much hyped, much delayed, right? I believe this was previewed in February of 2024. And it wasn't released to the public until December during Open AIs, 12 days of Open A.I. And for two days, at least, it was either two or three days.

It was by far the best AI video model out there. So not nearly as flexible. as something like Runway, which has been around for multiple years. So they just have more features. And there is a little bit steeper of a learning curve with Runway. Sora is a little, I think, easier to use. But it's less flexible, at least right now. But there's so much hype around Sora.

And there was a nine-month gap between when it was announced versus when it was actually released. But Sora, what do you guys think? What's everyone say? Michael says C. Douglas says B. Kevin gave it a D Jay Anaki

sorry if I'm mispronouncing your name says B Jackie says A All right So Sora It's going B So good It's great

Is it the best ever? No Is it problematic sometimes? Sure Doesn't quite understand physics yet I don't think runway does yet either I think Runway understands physics a little bit better than SORA, at least right now. I don't know how long that will go because SORA has more users, right? The more users and the more time, the better the platform come because you're essentially training the models to get better, right?

So I don't think runway has the user base. They've been around for longer. But, you know, SORA is, you know, Chad GBT is the biggest player out there, right? even bigger than Google. Like they have the market share, right? They are the Google of search. OpenAI slash chatGBT is the Google of search for AI. They have more users, even when you look at, you know, Google.

I know everyone kind of tweaks the definition of what a user is, right? You know, I'm guessing Twitter slash grok is going to be like, we have a billion users, right? It's like, no, you don't. No one uses it. All right. A couple more tools. stream real time from Google. So this is a little niche.

But I think it's still for everyday people. I already went on a big rant about how I think Google and Gemini really stunk for their go-to-market and made it hard for people to find things. But this is good. So stream real time is you have to be inside Google's AI studio, which I know it's primarily for developers, but it's not hard to use at all. So this still makes my list for everyday people. So this is essentially stream real time is one of the options within Google AI Studio. And you can talk with Gemini Live. You can also do that, you know, now the Gemini app on iPhone or Android.

You can talk to Gemini Live similar to advanced voice mode. I think a voice advanced mode from Chad ShpT is a little better than Gemini Live. However, on the desktop version of stream real time inside of AI Studio, powered by Google Gemini's models, you can do you can talk with Google Gemini. You can share video in the same way that advanced voice mode can share video. So if you're working on something, you can share your video,

share your screen. But then, like I said, also share your screen. So it's really good, a little different than co-pilot pages, a little different than advanced voice mode. I wish it was on the front end of Gemini, right?

Gemini.com, but you do have to go into Google AI studio. Has anyone used this yet? Michael says it's an ass interesting. Okay. Jankalee says B. All right. I don't know.

To me, I did a review of this. I didn't, which I wish there was a little bit more transparency because I didn't know if you're actually using 2.0, Gemini 2.0. It kind of has this heading that appears you are using Gemini 2.0 when you're using stream real time. It didn't feel like it to me. I did a couple of reviews. I played around with it. Right. As an example, I shared a landing page. I shared the everyday AI homepage. And I'm like, oh, give me some tips. How would you improve this? What do you see?

Right. And it didn't do a great job. And I did this a couple of times with a couple of different, you know, use cases. So it did a good job of like, quote unquote, seeing what's on my screen. It did an okay job of being able to, you know, give me some insights. But it did not, when I asked for things very specifically in a very specific way or output, advanced voice mode from chat, GPT, was much better. Microsoft co-pilot vision was much better. I don't know why. It seems like there's a slight disconnect between the quote-unquote vision capabilities and actually the model. So hopefully, you know, I don't know if it is actually using Gemini 2.0 because I would have expected a little bit more. However, you know, it makes the list.

So just because I'm putting this as a D does not mean it is a bad tool because it still beat out thousands of other AI tools and features. All right, our last three. Suno v3, AI, audio and songmaking program. Freaking fantastic. We have the CEO on the show last year. Mikey on Valentine's Day. That was fun.

Got to make a little AI music thing for my wife live in real time. And we kind of demoed their V2. I think that was the first time the rest of the world saw a V2. now V3 it's stupid it is stupid that's like a good like a good thing

like it is stupid good I don't know what the cool kids say I don't know it's the bomb dot com no cap I don't know what the kids say it's freaking good if you haven't used to no V3

highly encourage you to do so I mean you can even use V2 because I think V2 is free and you can get a taste right but you can make a song about any Anything, literally anything with natural language, which you can write your own lyrics, you can have Suno's AI do it. But V3, it sometimes sounds realer than actual music.

Right. It is so good. It is concerning, right? Like one of my predictions has always been, I think that we're all just going to have in the future. We're not going to be listening to human artists anymore. I don't think we are, right? I think algorithms, I do think Spotify is eventually going to acquire someone like Sooner. or someone like UDO, right?

And then, you know, based on all your, you know, listening history, you're just going to get 100, you know, AI generated songs that are going to just hit you right where, right where it counts, right? You're going to be like, what the frick? This is so me, right? I think that's where we're going. Suno v3. Has anyone use it? Michael says, C.

Okay. Jank Ali says, asks for musicians. artist. Yeah, this is for everyday people, but I think that there's a lot of use cases for this for everyday people. So I'm going to go Suno v3. Wait, is there Suno v4? Oh my gosh. I forgot. Suno v4 already came out. Maybe yes, gosh, I'm sorry, y'all. I meant to say V4. I do this too much. Suno V4. we're going to go Suno is there's so many versions of so many different things

it's a beep. All right. Last two. Vio. Is it Vio or VEO? This is Google's AI video tool which was released, quote unquote, released about two to three days after Open AI finally revealed SORA. I don't know who is ultimately going to get access

because there was VEO or Vio version one that was announced like six months ago, that was still never released to the public. So to me, a little concerning, right, if you have a V1 of a tool and then you release a V2, but you're like, yo, like V1 wasn't even released to the general public. So what's up with that? But VO2 or VO2, it is far better than anything else out there, right? SORA had the limelight for like three days and everyone's like, oh my gosh, look at Sora.

It's so good. But if you can get over the fact that SORA doesn't know physics, it's amazing. And then Google says, you know, hold my AI beer. And then it, geez, it's so good. V-O-2, V-O-2, whatever it's called. It is mind-bogglingly good. It is better than Sora. It is better than Kling, 1.5, 1.6.

It's better than runway. It's better than Luma Labs. It's better than everyone. And it is not even close. It is not even close. So Vio or VEO 2. Brian just says be nice, be nice to get access to Vio. Yeah, I know you can go to like Discord channels.

I don't know. Something about doing this thing daily. I don't have a ton of time to go be nice to people. I don't know. Maybe the Google people don't like me because sometimes I'm a little harsh. All right. But where does it go? Where does VO go, guys?

Is it an A? Is it a C? I'm going for VO. it is so freaking good. I'm going A. All right. Almost S. That was another one.

It was teetering between V. I think if it was generally available, then anyone could use it. I would probably put it as an S. But who knows if this is even going to get released because V-O-1 didn't get released to the general public. So will V-O-2? I don't know. All right. Last but not least.

And this is alphabetical order, y'all. So it's not like there's some big reveal at the end. Zapier agents previously called Zapier Central. amazing tool. So it does have a very familiar chat GPT-esque interface. So this, I think Zapier has been this secret tool that the world's best marketers and advertisers have been literally reliant on for a decade, right? I've been using Zapier for a decade.

If you don't know what Zapier is, think of it as a very, it's much easier to use now. It is a marketing automation tool that you can literally automate like anything, right? Because that's the thing with, you know, chat GBT or, you know, Google Gemini, right? You can't really work in real time with your data, with other platforms, right? A lot of these AI tools are siloed. So Zapier breaks that down. Zapier, last I checked, I think it connects to almost 7,000 outside services. So, yeah, whether you're talking about, you know, if you're running meta ads or your company's MailChimp newsletter or your power BI.

dashboard, whatever it is, Zapier connects to it. So with the new Zapier agents or Zapier Central, it's literally like going into ChatGBT in building marketing automations that can run autonomously without having to know the details. Because yes, Zapier is, I won't say it's clunky, right? But there's a learning curve. Not anymore. You can literally go, if you can use natural language, if you can use ChatGBT, Yeah, you got to be on a paid plan.

And, you know, it can get a little costly if you need a lot. of it. But Zapier agents, fantastic tool, don't sleep on it. So where does this make it on my list? Our last one here, it is a D tool. That doesn't mean it is bad, y'all. That doesn't mean it's bad. All it means is, hey, with all the other top tools, it's a D. Still beat out. It's still in the top 0.1% because there's thousands of garbage AI tools and feature updates that were released in 2024. But that's it. That's it, y'all.

All right. Let's quickly run this down our list are D tools, top 24 tools features of 2024, only new releases. D, and this is the top ones. It doesn't mean it's the best. These are just the most talk about ones. So, D, we have Apple Intelligence, Canva Magic Studio. Chat GBTGPT search, Claude computer use, stream real time from Google and Zapier agents. C, we have cursor AI.

We have 11 Lab agents, Microsoft co-pilot vision. B, we have HGNV3 avatars, mid-jorney V61, MetaLama 32, Runway V3, Sora from ChatGBT, and Suno v4. And then A, these are almost, almost the top of the top. It is Canvas from ChatGPT, Cloud Artifacts, Gemini 2.0, Google Deep Research, and Veo2. And then R.S, our top of the top. We had four of them. These are all tested, tried, and true. You can't go wrong using these.

Ready. In Voice Vance Mode from ChatGPT, I think this is the future of how we interact with AI. Microsoft Copilot Studio Autonomous Agents, my goodness, so free. freaking good. Then we have notebook LM from Google and Open AIs O1 Pro. All right. As we wrap it up, y'all, I'm going to announce what I think is my AI tool or feature of the year. Go ahead. Get your one vote in now. If you haven't already, I'm going to go ahead and bring up that screen here one more time. What is your top AI tool of the year? Go ahead and get your number in. I'm going to get our people's choice award in the newsletter.

I'm going to go ahead and say what mine is imaginary drum roll. That was bad. Notebook L.M. Notebook L.M. And I will say as much as I love, Microsoft co-pilot studio Autonomous Agents, Advanced Voice Mode from chat GPT, O1 Pro from OpenAI, notebook LM takes it because I think one of the biggest problems through the first two years of quote unquote generative AI is trust and transparency. Everyone's like, yo, like I, we want to use large language models, but they're hard to control

and we can't, you know, we, we don't have any control over the guardrails and, you know, there's hallucinations. Notebook L.M is mind-boggingly good. It only uses your data that you upload. If you're on the paid plan, I think it takes like 50 million words, which is. is nuts, right? You can upload audio files, YouTube videos, blog posts, copy and paste, Google slides, Google Docs, right? It's even if you're not a Google organization, you can just copy and paste everything in or upload your files in, and it only uses that.

It is a grounded state-of-the-art rag model that requires zero expertise. That is wild, y'all. Companies were literally paying millions of dollars for this in like 2021, 2021, 2022, 2023. Now it it's available. Literally, a lot of these features are available for free. If your organization is on the the paid Gemini version, it's insane. So yeah, you can share it. It brings you up to a 300 source limit. It is by far, I think, the top AI tool or feature of 2024.

It is a paradigm shift, I think, and how we should be using in looking at large language models. right. So thank you all. There is our final list if you want to check it out one more time there. So that's it. That is our top AI tools and features of 2024. I hope this was helpful. Like I said, we have an honorable mentions list. If you benefit from the show, I don't know. I woke up at 445 this morning to finish this list because I've been working on it for the better part of six months. If you find value from Everyday AI takes you like 30 seconds to click that, not even 30 seconds, takes you three seconds, click that repost button, share this with a friend.

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