Character rolls out AI-powered social feed

Welcome back, Superhuman. Some food for thought: The Intel ASCI Red Supercomputer was released in 1996. It could execute 1.3 trillion math operations per second and cost $55 million. The iPhone 15 Pro, released in 2023, can execute 35 trillion math operations per second and costs $1,000.

While the cost of other necessities — like housing, education, and healthcare — has skyrocketed, the average person today carries more computing power in their pocket than an entire Fortune 500 company of 30 years ago. If the cost of intelligence follows a similar downward curve, the average person could soon have access to more labor (in the form of AI agents that work for you) than the typical billion-dollar company today.

Today: An AI-powered social feed, learn how to automate repetitive tasks with Comet Shortcuts, and get the latest prompts, headlines, and trending social posts.

TODAY IN AI

1. Character.AI rolls out an AI-powered social feed: The startup just launched an AI-native 'Community Feed', allowing users to share AI-generated videos, character interactions, and chat snippets that others can instantly remix or extend with one tap. Users can also jump into 'character vs. character' roast battles or co-author stories in what the company frames as one of the world's first truly synthetic content platforms. You watch it in action here.

2. Alibaba drops image model to solve AI’s "gibberish text" problem: Alibaba claims that the new image model, called Qwen-Image, excels at rendering complex text in images like multi-line layouts and paragraph-level semantics, something many image models struggle with. The model produces readable text in both English and Chinese, and an open source version is available on GitHub.

3. Grok gets AI video generation power: The startup is pushing boundaries again with the official rollout of 'Grok Imagine', an AI image and video generator that lets users turn text into images and still images into short video clips. Positioning itself as an alternative to more restricted competitors, the new feature permits some NSFW content (with guardrails), but critics cite concerns that it could potentially be misused to create deepfakes. You can see it in action here.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

The battle for visibility on the internet is entering a new era

The $80 billion online search industry is getting turned upside down. For more than two decades, marketing professionals and businesses have been fixated on ranking higher for online search results. This had given rise to the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) industry — the practice of boosting a website’s visibility in search engine results. From headlines to e-commerce listings, SEO has fundamentally shaped what content users consume on the internet.

Everything changed with the arrival of ChatGPT. A growing number of users are now interacting with AI interfaces rather than traditional search results. For websites dependent on search traffic, a recent piece in New York Magazine describes this shift as nothing less than the "apocalypse." With SEO heading out the door, Generative-Engine Optimization (GEO) is the new buzzword in online search.

Here’s how it works: The goal is to get your website, content, or product mentioned by AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Now, content creators must optimize and pivot to being cited rather than being ranked. Some early GEO strategies include:

• Creating content in "citable chunks" with clear authorship.

• Creating structured material like listicles, rankings, and original research.

• Securing mentions on sites that AI systems ‘crawl’ during training — Wikipedia, Reddit, and YouTube — creates "bias" that influences model responses.

• You can find some actionable tips for your day-to-day here.

Do we really need it though? The downside of traditional SEO practices is that it has degraded many aspects of the online search experience for users. Ever searched for an answer to a question, only to be bombarded with a list of pages that are stuffed with low-quality slop geared towards ranking higher on search results? Perhaps it’s best if chatbot search dynamics remained a secret for now.

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How to automate repetitive tasks with Comet Shortcuts

• Open the Perplexity Comet browser, type ‘/’ and select ‘+Create Shortcut’

• In the Instructions field, describe exactly what you want the shortcut to do.

Sample Prompt: Analyze this product and search for a real, unbiased assessment on the quality of the product or argument. Look beyond influencer and marketing hype and give me real, non-sponsored human testimonials. List potential downsides or alternatives.

• Give it a clear and descriptive name, and then click Save.

• Open Comet assistant while browsing and type /shortcut-name (e.g., /Unbiased Review Finder), and press Enter.

• Comet will instantly run your saved instructions on the current page.

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IN THE KNOW

What’s trending on socials and headlines today

🪄 Research Analyst: A viral prompt from investor BuccoCapital shows you how to do deep research on any company in the style of an investment banker. An updated version of the prompt is also available.

🧙 Code Genie: Another viral prompt from developer Ian Nuttall claims to stop Claude from over-engineering and refactoring your codebase.

📈 Rock’n’Rank: A trending tutorial shows you how to use Claude Code to rank on SEO in no time.

A report from Cloudflare claims that Perplexity is ‘stealth crawling’ blocked sites by disguising its AI crawlers.

Legal AI startup Harvey has reportedly hit $100 million in annual recurring revenue, weekly average users have also quadrupled according to the startup.

OpenAI is working to make ChatGPT better at detecting users in mental distress and present “evidence-based resources when needed.”

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PROMPT STATION

Morning Routine Optimizer

Prompt: You are a personal productivity strategist and routine architect.

Your task is to design a personalized morning routine that helps me improve [INSERT DESIRED OUTCOME: e.g., focus, energy, productivity, creativity, calmness, physical health, etc.].

Here are my key preferences:

Wake-up time: [INSERT TIME]
Time available for morning routine: [e.g., 60 minutes, 90 minutes]

Lifestyle context: [e.g., work-from-home, commute to office, student, parent with young kids]

Personal goals or struggles: [e.g., low energy in the morning, trouble staying focused, high-stress mornings]

Please include:
- Time allocations for each activity.
- Suggested activities that are evidence-based or commonly recommended for my goal.
- Optional swaps for days with less time or motivation.
- Consistency strategies to help me stick to the routine long-term.
- Tool or app suggestions (if helpful) to enhance each part of the routine.

Format the routine in a way that’s easy to read and implement. 

3D Logos

ChatGPT Prompt: {
  "style": "Jelly 3D Icon",
  "object": "User-uploaded logo or emoji (e.g. Netflix N, Ghost, Spotify icon, etc.)",
  "base": {
    "shape": "Rounded square",
    "material": "Soft translucent jelly-like material",
    "color": "A strong contrasting color to icon (e.g. purple, green, blue)",
    "lighting": "Inner glow and soft ambient shadows that gently fade outward"
  },
  "icon": {
    "material": "Jelly/glassy translucent look, softly glowing from within",
    "color": "Brighter tone or brand color, always with a jelly-glass texture",
    "depth": "3D extruded with rounded edges and subtle bottom shadow",
    "placement": "Centered with even padding inside base"
  },
  "render": {
    "camera": "Front orthographic view with centered framing",
    "lighting": "Studio-quality lighting with soft top-left highlight and directional drop shadow underneath icon",
    "shadow": {
      "style": "Soft diffused base shadow with slight blur",
      "position": "Directly under icon, slightly offset down",
      "opacity": 0.15,
      "spread": "Medium, matching other icons in set"
    },
    "background": "Soft warm grey or pastel cream for consistency",
    "dimensions": "1:1 square ratio, minimum 1024x1024",
    "file_format": "PNG"
  },
  "style_notes": "Ensure consistent lighting and shadow softness across the set. Shadows should appear slightly beneath and behind the icon with soft blur — matching the Spotify, Camera, and Weather icon samples exactly. Avoid flat or harsh shadows. Emphasize clean separation between icon and base through shadow and depth."
}

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