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The start of the year brought loads of new stuff already, especially in the AI world which evolves at an unseen speed these days. ChatGPT remained the most innovative app being steps ahead of Bard, Grok and Copilot. Not just because of the GPT Store launch but also because of what's coming next! Find out more below
As TestingCatalog also evolves, I am investing more and more time into reverse engineering and building my publishing workflow around this. In case you are interested in contributing, take a look at the TestingCatalog project update section.
If you have a ChatGPT Plus subscription - don't forget to try our TestingCatalog News GPT which can assist you with querying the most recent info about new features on popular AI apps (and not only).
And finally, let's dive into new features under our radar.
Here's your guide on how to make the most out of this newsletter:
🤳 Gear up with your mobile phone and desktop devices.
📩 Scan through the newsletter, picking out the apps that pique your interest.
👀 Dive deeper into our TestingCatalog posts to discover how to put these apps to the test.
📲 Roll up your sleeves and try them out yourself!
The GPT Store is out! What's next?
Users got access to a huge variety of GPTs and these GPTs became much more refined than before. These GPTs already could work as "AI Agents", supporting us with many different tasks including content creation, coding and much more.
Some of the upcoming features which the OpenAI team is cooking will allow us to work within a single chat from where you will be able to talk to any custom GPT. These conversations will also be Personalised as ChatGPT will learn about you from your chats. GPT's "mention" feature will be a huge change to the way how we work with ChatGPT as it will simplify workflows a lot. It is still unclear how it will perform in real life as it is not yet released but it has a huge potential.
Google's Bard is lagging behind. The leaked "Motoko" feature (GPTs analogy) is not there yet and it is still unclear when it will be released. There have been 0 updates since December.
Grok and Copilot are not more advanced either. Copilot got a mobile app, as well as a bit of announcements about Copilot Pro which doesn't have a release timeline yet.
ChatGPT
Discover the latest ChatGPT update for seamless custom GPT integration, enhancing workflow efficiency for prompt engineers.
OpenAI set to roll out GPT Store for builders in January's second week
ICYMI: ChatGPT APIs now offer granular usage tracking per API key
ChatGPT rolls out UI updates with a handy "revert changes" feature
ChatGPT's Team plan rolled out along with a support form for GPTs
🔥 Testing GPTs Store
GPT-Store expands to iOS: Anticipated editing feature and more updates
ChatGPT prepares to release Personalization with an updated FAQ
🔥 ChatGPT is working on a Personalization memory management feature
ICYMI: ChatGPT debuts 5-star rating system for custom GPTs despite technical glitches
🔥 ChatGPT will soon let you talk with many custom GPTs at once
ChatGPT integrates enhanced DALL-E controls for granular image customization
Bard
Copilot
Microsoft Copilot landed on Android to offer a ChatGPT-like AI experience for free
Microsoft announces Copilot Pro with advanced ecosystem integration and custom Copilots
🔥 Microsoft's Copilot app now boasts 4 new specialized GPTs
Runway
Leonardo AI
Explore Leonardo AI's new feature that transforms images into dynamic motion videos - privacy options for premium users, fair credit use for free accounts.
ICYMI: Leonardo AI releases new feature to convert images into motion videos
Now you can refine your prompts faster with Realtime Gen from Leonardo AI
🔥 Leonardo AI Celebrates Its First Anniversary with Free Access to Alchemy V2 and PhotoReal Features
There are loads of things happening in web3 but for some reason, I cannot name anything exceptional. OpenSea got more user-friendly to non-crypto native people to sign in and buy NFTs, the Wrapcast social app keeps getting new features and Magic Eden is cooking a retrospective Airdrop which I hope I will be able to experience and report about (but only in February).
The most interesting feature for me to explore was HTML NFTs which you can produce on Paragraph and browse on OpenSea over here. I generally believe that NFTs will become the next "print" for media and the importance of publishing on-chain will rise along with AI expansion.
Farcaster
Unlock the latest Wrapcast features: NFT-gated chats, shareable cast images & interactive frames for developers. Explore now!
Opensea
Magic Eden
Phantom
X (Twitter) is evolving super fast and is leaping towards video content. Not 100% sure I like it because I rarely produce videos, but observing this transformation would still be interesting. Especially assuming that video content will potentially grow X's user base and will bring more attention to other accounts.
The other notable release happened on Notion where they've released a calendar feature which can be integrated with Google Calendars and Notion's content.
Telegram
Explore Telegram's latest features with custom channel designs, easy reposts to stories, and fun photo cutouts. Perfect for enhancing engagement!
Telegram Christmas update is out with new nifty features for stories
ICYMI: Telegram is gearing up to update its Saved Messages feature
Telegram ships one-time viewable media and saved messages chat tab
Telegram X updates with folder support and experimental settings
Telegram Beta for Android now allows video speed control in stories
Discover the latest on Twitter's NFT profile picture support removal and join the community's reaction on TestingCatalog.
Twitter Drops Ethereum NFT Support for Profile Pictures, Sparks Community Backlash
🔥 How to Combat Bot Spam on X: A Simple Yet Effective Strategy
ICYMI: X's Media Studio boosts media management and live broadcast control
Notion
Google Photos
This time I didn't have a chance to try loads of new products but I would like to share my invite codes over here in case someone needs one.
For now, I am still hunting for an invite code for the new Magic Eden wallet extension, hope to be able to share some codes here in Feb as well.
Some new projects I've tried:
AAAaaaandddd! Invite codes!
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Don't forget to join @TestingCatalog on these networks 👀
My main target for this project at this moment is to expand the audience as quickly as possible. Mainly on X due to its organic growth. Telegram still is number 2.
I also aim to cover ChatGPT as comprehensively as possible and this is why you would see more posts on this topic than on others. This also includes reverse engineering of the same and potentially it will be the main growth opportunity for TestingCatalog at this moment.
In case you are testing a certain app and would love to write about your experience on TestingCatalog, please reach out! You can expand your writing portfolio, learn how the publication pipeline works and become featured on Google News and potentially other websites depending on the topic.
Stay tuned! 🙌
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