Greetings friends, Yet another edition of my weekly newsletter 'This Week in All Things AI'
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The following messages were posted on the 'All Things AI' Telegram group from Sunday 14th Sep 2025 to Saturday 20th Sep 2025
Snippets from Lenny Rachitsky recent podcast
AEO [Answer Engine Optimisation] has been the biggest change in search and the largest new marketing channel in over a decade.
Companies optimizing for AI answers are seeing 6x higher conversion rates than Google traffic, and unlike SEO (which can take years to drive impact), early-stage startups can win at AEO immediately.
Ethan Smith and his team at Graphite have been at the forefront of the rise of AEO (also known as GEO), and have discovered a number of tactics for getting ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini/Perplexity to recommend your product or website more often.
This conversation is the most comprehensive and tactical AEO resource you'll find. Many months of research and tests went into the tactics we discuss.
Poster: Robby Yung
This is a great long read if anyone is interested in the bigger picture of AI development:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/16/song-chun-zhu-why-one-of-the-worlds-most-brilliant-ai-scientists-left-the-us-for-china
Reply-by: Valerii Anufriev
Interesting to see how US will keep up with China in the field of AI once hardware like semi-conductors isn't an issue anymore for Chinese AI industry
Reply-by: M00
Very interesting. Parallels his predecessor Qian XueSen went through. Qian helped to build the foundation of China’s ballistic missile system. I think Professor Zhu will have a similar impact in AI
1 | Gamma getting some hype on X from some AI a-listers post the launch of their 3.0 version
Excited to introduce: Gamma 3.0
A generational leap for the world's most popular AI presentation tool. Two major changes: 1. Gamma Agent - with one prompt, you can make sweeping edits across the presentation. a. Say 'make it more visual' and it will scan each slide for data 
A new agentic slide deck generator has entered the chat
 I tested @meetgamma's new release (Gamma 3.0) by giving it a research paper to transform into a deck  The agent can do research, grab images, and make transformations across slides in natural language 
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From xAI
Introducing Grok 4 Fast, a multimodal reasoning model with a 2M context window that sets a new standard for cost-efficient intelligence.
via Artificial Analysis
xAI has released Grok 4 Fast - breaking through our intelligence vs cost frontier by achieving Gemini 2.5 Pro level intelligence at a ~25X cheaper cost
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2 | ComfyUI one of the most important open-source platforms in creative AI powering millions of workflows across images, video, 3D, and audio raises $17M Funding and announces Comfy Cloud Comfy Raises $17M FundingBuilding the OS of creative AI  Comfy CloudJoin the private beta. Comfy Cloud is a browser-based hosted ComfyUI where everything just works.  Why We Invested in ComfyUI: Creativity Thrives in Open SystemsWe bring institutional experience and founder energy.  |
2 | Shamir Alibhai firing on all cylinders with yet another update to Eddie AI We aren't building another NLE/video editing app. We're building your assistant editor that helps you create better stories, faster. We just launched 4 new features designed to do this: 🎬 Agentic Story Support – Drop a URL into Rough Cut mode and Eddie pulls out the client’s key messages + positioning which informs your story framework. Think of it as providing a backgrounder to the edit. (Add a treatment soon.) ⏱ Long-form Rough Cuts – Now up to 40 minutes!! (It used to be 10 min.) Perfect for YouTube videos, docs, interviews, webinars, and corporate storytelling that needs more runway. 🎤 Smarter B-Roll Logging – Eddie now uses speech recognition on B-roll too. If people are talking in background footage, it gets logged—so you never miss the nuance. Auto Titles & Descriptions – Eddie now gives you the essentials for publishing to YouTube: a ready-to-go title and description with chapters. Eddie AI just got more agentic. We aren't building another NLE/video editing app. We're building your assistant editor that helps you create better stories, faster. We just launched 4 new features... | Shamir Allibhai | 13 commentsEddie AI just got more agentic. We aren't building another NLE/video editing app. We're building your assistant editor that helps you create better stories, faster. We just launched 4 new features designed to do this: 🎬 Agentic Story Support - Drop a URL into Rough Cut mode and Eddie pulls out the client's key messages + positioning which informs your story framework.  |
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