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The golden age of social media is coming to a close. But AI companionship apps are taking off. People are spending more and more time building friendships and relationships with AI. We evaluate what’s going on — and what it means for us.

In today’s issue:

• The end of social media opens the door for AI companionship

• Frontier: Snap’s AI-powered smart glasses

• Tutorial: How to analyze data with AI

• AI-Generated Images

• 6 new AI tools & Tools on sale

• New AI Job Opportunities

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

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The end of social media opens the door for AI companionship

The decade spanning 2005-2015 was a lovely time to launch a social app. Facebook, Instagram, Snap, and so many other social media apps took off during this period. But things ain’t what they used to be. Platforms and regulators have closed the door on many of the growth hacks that led to explosive user growth. And with Apple now mandating apps ask permission for friend-based contact sync, good luck to anyone launching a new social app today.

One man’s loss is another robot’s gain. While social apps that need you to invite your friends are on their way out, AI friendship and companionship apps are taking off. Character AI is leading the pack. The app lets you chat with personalized AI-generated characters and attracts over 200 million website visits a month, with the average user spending over 12 minutes each visit.

Replika is another example. The app claims to have over 30 million users and describes itself as an AI companion who is eager to learn and “would love to see the world through your eyes.”

Parasocial to robo-social. All of this sounds weird. But let’s be real — the current crop of social media apps haven’t been that great either. The effects on mental health have been well documented. And we collectively entered the age of parasocial relationships — one-sided relationships where someone feels a strong emotional connection to a media figure or celebrity, despite having never met them. A generation of people went from comparing themselves to the coolest kid at their local high school to comparing their lives to the most popular teen pop stars in the world.

The rise of AI companionship apps is another major shift of the same magnitude. Deprived of attention from real humans on the other side of our parasocial relationships, a generation of young people are moving to apps where they get undivided attention — and affection — from artificial intelligences.

FROM THE FRONTIER

Snap unveils new AI-powered smart glasses

Best known for its instant messaging app Snapchat, Snap has also released several generations of AR smart glasses to growing enthusiasm. Its latest, Spectacles 5, is only available to a small group of developers for now. They’ll be able to create new AI-powered products, designs, and filters that they can then share with Snap’s wider audience.

Other features coming to Snap’s AI-powered revamp include:

• An AI selfie feature that inserts your face into personalized ads

• An Easy Lens that can generate filters, 3D objects, and characters based on custom text prompts

• A text-to-video generator that lets developers create clips with written or image-based prompts

• An updated My AI assistant that can interpret the world around you via your camera

THE AI ACADEMY

How to analyze data using Julius AI

Go to Julius AI and log in to your account.

• Upload your CSV or PDF file and prompt it to visualize the data for you.

• You can use it to analyze your data, clean it, extract tables, create quizzes, understand complex formulas, and much more.

Here are some of the basic sample prompts:

1. Data Manipulation: Filter the data to include only a row where the [column A] is [enter number], then sort by [column B].

2. Data Cleaning: Remove any duplicate entries, and fill values in the [x] column with the mean [x].

3. Apply Formulas and Functions: Create a custom formula and apply it to the data to generate total revenue by [x].

4. Automation and Scripting: Write a Script to automate the monthly report generation process.

5. Manipulate Styles and Formatting: Change the font color of the 'total' column to [insert color] and apply formatting to highlight values above [enter value].

Prompt of today

Prompts:

a simple moodboard of interior design materials for a bathroom, photo of a materials layout, no objects only material samples put together, gold Carrara marble, white ceramic tiles, gold details, light wood, natural colours, minimal Scandinavian design style, --ar 9:16 --sref 3421909812

Tools showcase

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✅ Syncly: Extract insights from customer feedback.

✅ Before Sunset: An AI personal assistant that plans your day by automatically generating daily schedules.

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Tools on sale

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New AI Job Opportunities

• 👥 Fiddler AI - Director of People Operations

• 💻 Cohere - Software Engineering Tech Lead

• 📈 Meta - Technical Program Manager

• 🌐 DeepL - Account Executive

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AI around the world

• Office Intel: LinkedIn is reportedly using users’ data to train its AI models, although you can opt-out via the platform’s account settings tab.

• Hiring Helper: Mercor, a startup that vets job candidates with AI interviews, raised $32M in a Series A funding round with backing from Peter Thiel, Jack Dorsey, and Larry Summers.

• Listing Wizard: Amazon unveiled Amelia, an AI assistant that can help third-party sellers analyze data, write product listings, and create AI-generated video ads.

• Model Home: AI cloud platform Fal raised $23M to serve as a hub for models like the popular image generator Flux for around 500,000 developers.

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