So much just changed in AI that almost nothing has changed (it′s been a long time, I shouldn′t have left you).

I′ve done a bit of international travel over the past few weeks, am in building mode with not one- but -three of my current startups, and (most candid reason) had turned our condo into a haunted house for our daughter′s 18th birthday, then escaped to Santiago for a week to celebrate our anniversary, and haven′t had my computers set back up since putting them in my closet to allow my office to be ′makeup HQ′ for the haunted house until now. I know, I truly do know - that these aren′t great excuses for being weeks delinquent on this newsletter, and I appreciate the numerous DMs I′ve received with the many mentions of all the ′huge′ things that have happened over these weeks, namely (although non-exhaustively):

• newest Claude 3.5 Sonnet being incredible (truly next level)
• "Apple Intelligence" (or maybe it′s Apple "Intelligence")
• New ChatGPT functionality, functionality and rumors
• Almost all image and video generators getting upgrades
• "Canvases for everything"
• Replit mobile app

and much more.

But what does it all really mean?

Every few days I′ve seen headlines that make me feel like I "have to" do a deep dive to share it all with all of you - but when I demo them, most have indeed fallen short of fully compelling me. My belief is that while we see tons of new innovation from "Canvas" in ChatGPT, "Canvas" in Ideogram , de-facto ′canvas′ in Midjourney ; Replit now having a mobile app allowing you to build and deploy software even with AI and API integration in it even from your phone, Anthropic Claude~s new 3.5 Sonnet (not to be confused with the old one, lol), the real headline at the moment (imhaho - humble and honest) is: everyone is holding aces up their sleeves at the moment, seemingly waiting for the "average adopters" to start really understanding, using, and leveraging the current state of Artificial Intelligence.

You taking the time to read this issue of Tech For Good (building in public) newsletter shows your openness, commitment, willingness, dedication and action on the above. I believe that after the forthcoming US election we will see the release of many text-to-video and image-to-video tools and digital avatar twin products being released, and I do believe that the end of this year will be dominated by autonomous agents, probably with that another cross-companies and cross-industry mass layoffs of human capital.

What has happened specifically that has so many saying these have been the biggest leaps forward in AI, and that makes many, myself included, believe that exponential advancements are ready to be unleashed?

Well, one of the biggest one is from Anthropic′s Claude, namely, that it can now take over our computers (soon any devices), and perform tasks on our behalf. This is what many of us had hopes that the ChatGPT "app store" would have been over a year ago, but a full next level. Able to access any local files/KB, create docs, work within existing sheets, access various accounts and take actions (order delivery, do our taxes, download software, unsubscribe to things, ′work on our behalf′ are all "realistic" potential use-cases). When you also realize how amazing Claude artifacts is now at coding, prototyping, collaborating and more, you begin to truly understand what this agentic framework will unlock for both we the people, but also the corporations. Learning what′s available, how to use it, its risks and limitations, etc. is how to ensure that you stay ahead of the curve for now, individually and organizationally.

When it comes to generative AI creating video, movies, graphic design ( Canva just started revealing some cool AI functionality, primarily via embedded partnerships too) and music, it's all getting way better, and I do expect to see OpenAI to release Sora after the US elections, as they′ve alluded to ever since the first cherry-picked teasers were released. It′s also rumored that their next model (GPT5) is likely to be released soon, but not to their subscribers or all users, but rather licensed to other companies (potentially 微软 , although they and OpenAI are in serious negotiations involving their legal teams to restructure their partnership and cap table, which could mean anything). Microsoft copilot keeps getting better and better too, and we can't forgot their substantial investment into Cognition Labs (Devin), acquisition of Inflection AI (PI), and more. The "new" Claude ′terminal takeover′ is tech Microsoft announced more than half a decade ago.

So what am I really trying to say in this issue?

I think a lot of consumers are getting callous to the headlines that each and every new feature, startup or phrasing of a feature someone showcased or tried to roll-out months ago is a "game changer", but also don't want us to ′lose the forest for the trees′. I think we have a lot to prepare for en masse, but also think we need to help the general public feel good about what's coming, understand what it actually means for them, and why they should care. Then we can help them figure out how much they want to embrace, use, and evangelize for it - but at least we′ll all be singing from the same hymnal.

A last unrelated message, but one that transcends all of this ^^^ if we want to have a humankind to keep tech "on the rails" for. Let′s please ALL pray for world peace, stabalization in the war-torn regions, empathy, forgiveness, and LOVE. It won′t always be easy, but it′s worth striving for. All prayer, words, actions, hugs, smiles, posts, et al matter. We are all one, and as one we will move into the most incredible moments of human history.

I′ll do a follow-up issue within days to cover the actual tech, how to use it all, update on some cool new products and companies as well as some insights into what we′ve been working on behind the scenes at some of mine. But the short of it is, I′m back to home base, my computers are back from sabbatical (those who know me know I do everything from my phone - which reminds me of my actual last point, but I digress) so now I have no excuses. Also, if you love Tech For Good newsletter, please feel welcome and encouraged to invite some friends to subscribe as well - we′re still on track to hit 250,000 subscribers by years end, despite my "taking it easy" these few weeks.

Which, having mentioned my phone, begs the last insight I have from now having had and played with the newest iPhone 16 Plus and now also access to the newest Samsung Galaxy as well. I don′t personally find my device (Apple) to be "smarter" at all, Siri is still "same old" Siri, the new camera button is a bit clunky, I do like the camera itself better, but the battery still isn′t good, the touch menu on the bottom doesn′t unlock much intelligence in my experience, and so far I′m quite disappointed. That said, I have watched hours of tutorials, played with all the settings, keep updating beta updates etc., and am still hopeful. That said, and as an iPhone user for well over a decade, I am loving the new Samsung. Discuss freely in the comments below.

See you all soon. In gratitude,

Cory Warfield // Coryconnects

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