🧙🏼 ChatGPT can see your Notes

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And now — what’s brewing in AI today:

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1. ChatGPT works directly with more writing and coding apps — and can talk to you at the same time

• ChatGPT now has support for coding apps including Warp, IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and more. Once enabled, ChatGPT will be able to see what you’re working on inside those apps while you’re working. On the ChatGPT Desktop app, these apps are enabled through the Work with Apps option located underneath the message input bar. Coding with apps in this way is now also compatible with the o1 and o1 Pro models.

• When it comes to writing, ChatGPT now has support for Apple Notes, Notion, and Quip. Instead of having to copy/paste context from these apps, you can now connect ChatGPT to them directly, which gives it context about the entirety of your document.

• Work with Apps also works with Advanced Voice Mode. This means that you can, for example, have a real-time convo with ChatGPT’s voice model while you’re editing a Notion document, while getting live feedback on what you’re doing.

The Work with Apps feature is currently available to all paid users, though only works on the macOS desktop app. OpenAI is planning to bring it to Windows and to free users next year.

‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ ChatGPT is becoming a better coding environment with the integration of popular coding apps – something OpenAI is rushing to enable as they’re facing fierce competition from apps like Cursor AI, which has really nailed the AI coding workflow.

Also – OpenAI prefaced today’s announcement by highlighting that ChatGPT is in an ongoing shift from simple Q&A to being agentic, in others words, taking actions on your behalf. These updates—enabling ChatGPT to integrate directly with selected apps—are testing the waters on things like what’s useful, what’s safe and what people are comfortable with when it comes to agentic systems.

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2. Perplexity acquires Carbon, with the goal of making it easy to connect AI to your data & files

Perplexity just acquired Carbon, a 4-person startup who figured out a good way to connect AI to your files — a RAG workflow which also keeps your files in place, maintaining privacy.

With the tech from Carbon, Perplexity has plans to integrate apps like Notion, Docs, Slack, and more; bringing context not just from public web sources, but any type of apps and storage.

‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ Perplexity’s in-house team has been making great strides lately to be the best user interface for AI, focusing on UX upgrades with tailored searches for things like finance, sports and shopping. Their chat output for these queries look the best of any chatbot at the moment, imho.

Now, they’re buying an external tech, aiming to also improve their inputs; that is, having their model understand the user’s work context. As these features—which include integrations and a lot of context—start launching early next year, it will be interesting to see if Perplexity manages to keep their interface smooth, latency low and privacy high.

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4. 5 quick-fire headlines

There’s been more brewing in AI over the last days than I’m able cover in detail today. Here’s the other important headlines to keep you in the loop:

• Google dropped Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, an AI that’s similar to OpenAI’s o1 in the sense that it “thinks” through complex problems. However, it’s both free and reportedly faster.

• Microsoft announced that US-users of Copilot Pro will get Vision during this holiday break. Here’s a demo of Copilot Vision helping do some holiday shopping.

• Anthropic unveiled the first batch of start-ups backed by their $100M Anthology fund, in partnership with Menlo ventures. 18 startups were handpicked across thousands of applications; you can see a list of the startups here.

• Another OpenAI exec, Alec Radford, jumps ship to pursue independent research.

• Github Copilot in VS code now has a free tier (2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month).

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