Perplexity Computer does your taxes

Welcome back, Superhuman. Perplexity Computer dropped a timely update with April 15th rapidly approaching: doing your taxes. If you haven’t already filed, consider passing the task off to AI (just be sure to double check its work).

Today: Learn how Perplexity Computer files taxes, how to audit website SEO with Replit, and get the latest prompts and trending social posts.

TODAY IN AI

1. Perplexity Computer can help prepare your federal tax return: To have Perplexity Computer file your taxes, just upload all relevant documents, answer a few questions about your situation, and watch it fill out the relevant IRS forms. Perplexity claims that Computer retrieves and applies the current tax code to all filings, ensuring that everything is up-to-date. Watch it in action (1.9M views).

2. OpenAI acquires founder-led talk show TBPN: Technology Business Programming Network (TBPN) is a daily live podcast where top tech and business leaders discuss the news of the day, often referred to as SportsCenter for business. This marks OpenAI’s first major media acquisition, and the company was clear that TBPN will maintain editorial independence.

3. Both Google and Microsoft release new models: Google dropped Gemma 4, its most intelligent family of open models to date that excels at advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, coming in four versatile sizes (watch the release video here). Coincidentally, Microsoft revealed the MAI family of models that deliver state-of-the-art performance for transcription, voice, and image generation.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

Breaking down one of the most disruptive wealth creation events in history

Shattering records. OpenAI closed $122B in funding at an $852B valuation this week — the largest private raise ever that made OpenAI more valuable than Disney, Uber, and McDonald’s combined. The growth story is undeniable, but so is the fine print: OpenAI has yet to turn a profit.

OpenAI’s numbers. OpenAI now generates $2B in monthly revenue, has 900M weekly users, and says its ads pilot crossed $100M ARR in under six weeks. The strategic vision is to create a unified "superapp" merging ChatGPT, Codex, browsing, and agentic capabilities into a single system. But while the growth is rock solid, the $122B in fresh funding has some caveats.

The fine print. Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank accounted for 90% of the round, but that money comes with strings. $35B of Amazon's pledge is conditional on OpenAI going public or achieving AGI, and much of Nvidia's contribution is in GPU compute rather than cash. Since OpenAI spends heavily on both companies’ products, lots of the capital will flow right back to the investors who wrote the checks — a caveat that can make the round look bigger than it is.

The elephant in the room? Profit. OpenAI is projected to lose an estimated $44 billion before profitability arrives (optimistically) around 2029. Revenue has soared from $6B to $24B ARR in barely over a year, but will that growth be enough to outpace OpenAI’s burn rate? That’s the $852B question.

THE AI ACADEMY

How to audit website SEO with Replit

• Log in to your Replit account

• Go to Replit agent and open any project or create a new one

• Click the “+” button in the input box

• Select “SEO Auditor” skill

• Enter your website URL

• Run the audit and review insights (SEO score, issues, suggestions)

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IN THE KNOW

What’s trending on socials and headlines today

🤖 Claude Cowork: This detailed prompt helps you create in-depth research reports for any company.

📚️ Personal Wikipedia: Learn how OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy deeply researches interesting topics by setting up "LLM Knowledge Bases.” (1.5M views)

👀 Open-Source Claude: Developers built a Claude alternative that has Cowork-like abilities, works with any LLM, and runs locally (9.5K bookmarks).

💰️ Finance Prompts: These 7 prompts can help you create a personal wealth plan that analyzes your paycheck, identifies insurance needs, and builds an investment ladder.

🖥️ Computer Use: Claude Cowork and Claude Code’s autonomous computer skills are now available in Windows.

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PROMPT STATION

Tool Comparison

Grok Prompt: Compare [TOOL A] vs. [TOOL B] vs. [TOOL C] for [USE CASE].

Include:
Verified pricing (tiers + hidden costs)
Key differences (what actually matters for this use case)
Real user pros/cons
Reliability (outages, issues, controversies)
What power users are saying on X

Output:
1–2 line winner + why
Simple comparison table
“When to choose what” (clear scenarios)

Rules:
No fluff. No speculation. Only verified info
Focus on trade-offs, not feature lists

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Until next time — Zain, Theodore, & the Superhuman AI team.