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Happy Friday!

Some exciting news this week — Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series is out… and AI-generated Lord of the Rings is in.

DeepSeek-V3-0324 Release: Increased tool use and front end development capabilities for this new release of DeepSeek’s V3 model

AI Enabling More With Less: Naval said it best: “AI won’t replace programmers, but it will make it easier for programmers to replace everyone else.” — companies leveraging cutting edge AI are able to achieve higher revenue per employee numbers than ever before and the headcount they are retaining are engineers.

OpenAI Image Gen: If your feed is full of gorgeous Studio Ghibli-style art, blame OpenAI’s new 4o image model. It’s gone viral for a reason.

And if you haven’t seen it yet, don’t worry — LinkedIn will catch you up next week 🤪 

Gemini 2.5: Google just launched its new Gemini model. Leading other U.S. models in reasoning capability.

Google vs OpenAI X Battle: Google and OpenAI leads took some shots at each other on X, wild to see some of this play out in real time.

Qwen Video Chat: Why call when you can Zoom? Well you can now Zoom with your AI assistant as well.

AI Generated Lord of the Rings: Someone finally did it!!! We can now use AI to make a Lord of the Rings TV show faithful to Tolkien’s Silmarillion! See you later Rings of Power, I can make my own Hollywood quality cinema now ✌️

Animations: Here’s the tools to make your own version of your favorite series Hollywood ruined — Kling, Luma Dream Machine, Flora

If you go down the AI animation rabbit hole, be careful — it’s shockingly easy to “accidentally” spend $250K on GPUs.

(Aaron and Mark —  DO NOT check the BFL credit card statement 😅)

Now that I’ve given my business partners a mini heart attack… I can confirm: I’m kidding.

Have a great weekend,

-Justin

aka the guy with great AI links

Co-founder & Head of Technology @ BetterFutureLabs

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