Greetings friends, Looks like this was a great week for Swifties but definitely not a memorable week for Manchester United fans
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Chief Knowledge Officer @ Animoca Brands. Also assists in Growth Marketing
I'm also sharing another inspiring commencement address from my curated collection.
This 17 minutes speech from Ben Horowitz of the famous venture capital firm Andressen Horowtiz aka A16Z of the 2015 commencement address at Columbia University has a click-baity title but in my humble opinion is worth watching
Public: Don't Follow Your Passion | Notion
This 17 minutes speech from Ben Horowitz of the famous venture capital firm Andressen Horowtiz aka A16Z of the 2015 commencement address at Columbia University has a click-baity title but in my humble opinion is worth watching
I'm experimenting with a new presentation mechanism this week in particular using a tabular format on days which have had multiple posts to see if its easier to isolate the individual posts on a single day. Previews still show some rendering issues in particular that whilst I have the columns configured in different widths whilst editing, they render as identical widths. I have upstreamed this bug report to the Paragraph team
The following messages were posted on the 'All Things AI' Telegram group from Sunday 24th Aug 2025 - Saturday 30th Aug 2025
Some of you have asked as to what AI tools and services I use on a regular basis. As many of you know, I reside in Hong Kong, which has unique challenges of accessing AI tools and services most of you take for granted.
I've prepared the below Notion page which describes what I use, elaborates a bit more on what we experience in Hong Kong , and thus colours my recommendation to my friends and associates who reside in Hong Kong. Hope this helps some of you.
I do realise that for many amongst you may not be able to relate to why I may be recommending some tools but all I ask is that you mentally put yourself in the shoe of someone who faces constraints you are privileged to not be facing
AI services that I subscribe to | Notion
FWIW, Since some of you asked, I wanted to share the various AI tools that I currently pay for
1 | A FAANG software engineer tells how they vibe code at a FAANG For those unaware, FAANG is an acronym for five major American technology companies: Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google (now Alphabet) https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1myakhd/how_we_vibe_code_at_a_faang/ Reply from: Roope Rainisto Yeah this one is pretty comical. Faster horses for step #5. |
2 | Poster: Matias Best AI tool to build and deploy a website incl. graphics and design? I'm not a coder Reply from: Yusuf I'm pretty sure there are threads and thread upon this on X and on Reddit. The phrase 'best' also changes as updates come out. IMHO, you might be best served by either Lovable or Replit Please compare paid versions of each versions of the products and encourage you to reach out to their customer service staff as well as lurk on their respective community |
3 | Poster: Chris Hazelton Best AI tool to create a lovable monster with a lot of detail? I’m not an artist but know what I need. 🙏🏻 (edit: I have tried a couple platforms and they don’t follow specific asks about how the monster’s hands should look) |
1 | Paradigmai transforms the traditional spreadsheet by embedding AI agents into every cell, enabling automated data collection, cleaning, analysis, and contextual enrichment at remarkable speed—reportedly 500+ cells per minute, making it up to 1000 times faster than manual work. Free trial and then 2 plans, one at USD 20/month, the other at USD 500/month ParadigmThe AI-powered way to do spreadsheet work. Set up, edit, populate, and analyze sheets with assistant. Enrich empty cells with data from trusted sources.  Why Paradigm built a spreadsheet with an AI agent in every cell | TechCrunchParadigm raised a $5 million seed round and is releasing it's AI-powered spreadsheet to the general public.  https://www.perplexity.ai/search/paradigmai-LYPB_qYmQnmP_MXryhuiOg |
2 | Google's nano banana image-editing model which had some buzz since a few days with great benchmarks and awesome results now rolling it officially via the Gemini App, AI Studio and also available via Freepik and Poe
Our new native image generation and editing is state-of-the-art, and ranked #1 in the world. And we're rolling it out for free to everyone today.
You’ve got the tools. Now go bananas. Ideas & inspiration in the  below.
 nano banana is here → gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview- SOTA image generation and editing - incredible character consistency - lightning fast available in preview in AI Studio and the Gemini API 
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is now available on Poe!
In our evaluation, this model delivers best-in-class image editing, combines images and styles seamlessly, and maintains top-tier consistency across multiple revisions. (1/3) 
BREAKING: Nano Banana is Live!
@OfficialLoganK shares the best image generation model we've ever seen  And it's #1 on @lmarena_ai leaderboards - Character continuity - Photoshop level edits - Full world understanding Try for yourself @googleaistudio Full episode here 
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1 | OpenRouter now offering image-gen models starting with nano banana aka Google-2.5 Image Preview including offering free access for a week.
Big milestone for us, for Gemini, and for AI in general.
We’ve held off on adding image-gen models to OpenRouter for years, for a few reasons: 1. Most image gen models are not conversational. We believe this is a critical ability and core to the reason ChatGPT was a success in
The first-ever image model is up on OpenRouter:
Gemini 2.5 Image Preview Some tests we ran, including our tsunami-edit test: 
Try Gemini 2.5 Flash Image for free, for at least a week!
 openrouter.ai/google/gemini-…
The first-ever image model is up on OpenRouter:
Gemini 2.5 Image Preview Some tests we ran, including our tsunami-edit test:
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemini-2-5-flash-image/ |
2 | Grok Code in OpenRouter, Also available in Cursor [free for one week], KiloCode also offering it for free
Fifth model launch of the day
 Grok Code Fast, from @xAI At 92 tokens per second so far, it's one of the fastest coding models on OpenRouter, and comes with 256k context 
Grok Code is now available in Cursor! It's free for one week.
It's fast and has competitive pricing ($0.2/1M input, $1.5/1M output) 
We've teamed up with xAI to give you unlimited free access to Grok Code Fast, inside Kilo Code.
Kilo Code is a free, open-source AI coding extension for VS Code that hit 240,000 downloads in under 4 months. Here's how to get unlimited free access to Grok Cost Fast: 
I am blown away. Grok Code now live on OpenRouter and the price is way better than I expected, and it appears to have prompt caching from day 1?
$0.20 per million input, $1.50 per million output, is absolutely nuts. If this performs the same as Sonic, its not gonna be the best  |
3 | In case of interest to any legal folks in the group video interview between Gustaf Alstromer, GP at Y Combinator and Max Junestrand of Legora Legora's blurb
At 23, with no legal background, @MaxJunestrand co-founded Legora to transform how lawyers work. Today, Legora’s AI workspace is used by tens of thousands of lawyers across Europe—valued at $675M just 13 months after launch.
From due diligence grids that turn days of work into 
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1 | via Simon Willison (co-creator of Python framework Django)
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2 | A Notion database compiled by Carl Velotti
How I AI - Tactical Takeaways | NotionCompiled by Carl Vellotti  |
3 | Poster: Aaron So Claude recently launched a competitor to Perplexity's Comet |
For what its worth, I use this prompt suffix for a socractic style explanation from a reasoning model which is also augmented with search capabilities so that its not constrained with its knowledge cut-off date
o3, Opus/Sonnet-4, Grok-4, Gemini-Pro-2.5 are my current gotos for such class of models
I humbly welcome your feedback if this approach helps you particularly when you are trying to learn new concepts
I would benefit most from an explanation style in which you frequently pause to confirm, via asking me test questions, that I've understood your explanations so far. Particularly helpful are test questions related to simple, explicit examples. When you pause and ask me a test question, do not continue the explanation until I have answered the questions to your satisfaction. I.e. do not keep generating the explanation, actually wait for me to respond first. I'm hoping that by tutoring me in this Socratic way, you'll help me better understand how superficial my understanding is (which is so easy to fail to notice otherwise), and then help fill all the important blanks. Thanks!
I wouldn't recommend using the above in an answer-engine such as Perplexity but it probably works best with an LLM front end more suited for multi-turn conversation such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Poe, ChatLLM etc
Example prompt where you can see the approach
Explain perpetual futures contract
<insert above-prompt-suffix-here>
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