The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Since ChatGPT burst onto the scene last year, AI writing tools have been big news. Most of these apps are really just wrappers connected to OpenAI's GPT-3 and GPT-4 APIs, with a few extra features built on top. Now this isn't to say that none of these AI-powered writing apps are worth using.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Called Fixie , the firm, founded by former engineering heads at Apple and Google, aims to connect text-generating models similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT to an enterprise’s data, systems and workflows. ChatGPT plugins could represent somewhat of an existential threat to Fixie, in fact.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2023

Ahead of Meta’s launch of a text-based social network , female-founded social networking startup RTRO is launching its app this week with the goal of connecting brands, creators and their fans and followers in a more positive environment focused on human connections and communities, not algorithm-driven content.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

He was referring to the company’s integration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 into Bing, its 13-year-old search engine. The hope, say the folks in Redmond, is that the integration will help Bing better compete with Google. Google and AI: Trying not to be outdone, Google this week announced Bard, its counterpart to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The first commercial venture to announce that it’s integrating Anthropic models is Robin AI , a legal tech startup that’s raised over $13 million from investors including Plural, Episode 1 and the Google Black Founders Fund. But like ChatGPT, the system suffered from limitations, like giving dangerous answers to questions (e.g.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

But producing content, handling the posting schedule, and finding what your audience wants to read can be hard—even with a standard social media management app. Here are the eight best AI apps for managing your social media. I only considered apps that have this kind of AI at work in the background. But AI is changing the game.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

Here are some other AI stories of note from the past few days: My AI goes rogue: Snapchat’s My AI feature, an in-app AI chatbot launched earlier this year with its fair share of controversy , briefly appeared to have a mind of its own. Opera gets an AI assistant: Opera’s web browser app for iOS is getting an AI assistant.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

The launch was a surprise to many consumers, who wondered why the team behind one of the world’s most iconic social apps would return to startups to focus on one of the toughest areas instead: news. ” This realization led to the creation of Artifact, a social news app powered by machine learning.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Anthropic, a startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI employees, today launched something of a rival to the viral sensation ChatGPT. In these ways, it’s similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Quora offers access to Claude through its experimental AI chat app, Poe. Claude is reportedly worse at math and a poorer programmer than ChatGPT.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

and music-making app Collab , among other things. The project also takes inspiration from other projects Toff worked on at Google’s AR/VR division, like its VR and AR app-building service Poly (which became another Google causality in 2020 ), and the 3D modeling tool for VR, Blocks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2023

But there’s a catch — the feature is only being rolled out to DoorDash’s white-label delivery solution for restaurants, DoorDash Drive, which allows restaurant owners to offer delivery from their own website or app while tapping into DoorDash’s courier network.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

The two platforms will continue to operate separately but over time, the plan is for more integration and cross-selling between the two, the companies said. But on the other hand, he noted that “Blinkist has very high user engagement,” something Go1 wants to improve in its app. Seim is far from concerned about this, though.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Listen up : Sarah reports on a pair of new Spotify features: iPhone users can now get to the app faster through a new Lock Screen widget, and there is new tech for turning radio broadcasts into podcasts. And we have five more for you: &integrate : Ampersand helps SaaS companies build their customer-facing integrations , and raises $4.7

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

While a lot of the focus today is on the development of foundational large language models (LLMs) , the transformer architecture was invented only 6 years ago, and ChatGPT was released less than a year ago. The week before we launched ChatGPT, we were worried that it wasn’t good enough. Noam Shazeer, Character.AI

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

There's a lot that goes into robots like these (and the ones we interact with online, like ChatGPT): automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, to name a few. Try using Zapier's ChatGPT plugin to connect thousands of apps and perform automations from within ChatGPT's interface.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

On top of that, Navan — a combination of navigate and avant (or forward) — claims to be the first travel company to integrate OpenAI and ChatGPT APIs across its infrastructure and product set. The company said it has now unified its travel, corporate and expense offerings into “a single super application.” The company raised $5.5

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Readjust video ratio and size to meet the app's criteria. If all you want is captions, then any free generative AI tool (even ChatGPT ) will get the job done. You can even automate the whole process with Wavve's Zapier integration. You need to: Choose clips that capture your viewer's attention quickly.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

I also got a demo from CTO and co-founder Ilan Twig of just how Navan is using ChatGPT within its new offering, which is essentially a CFO dashboard, the company says. Growthwise, we are growing extremely fast, and a lot of our metrics would support being public. I don’t think the market is there right now.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Krisp got its start as an AI-powered noise cancellation service, but now the startup is moving beyond that with instant on-device transcription of all your calls and meetings — and of course it integrates ChatGPT now for quick summaries as well. The open beta goes live today. And how are the transcripts?

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

Using Ahrefs and Semrush, we identified high-search-volume keywords and smoothly integrated them throughout our website, from the homepage to the menu. For example, we sell productivity tools, so we noticed there was a high search volume around ‘best task management apps.’

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

But the app itself can only do so much, and a core feature was always being able to get a helping hand from a volunteer, who could look through your phone’s camera view and give detailed descriptions or instructions. In it, Be My Eyes user Lucy shows the app helping her with a bunch of things live.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

In an interview with TechCrunch, co-CEO and co-founder Henrique Dubugras said that users of Brex Empower will now be able to book travel inside the Brex mobile app. The app also aims to make it easier to help employees who work in different countries to travel domestically and pay for travel in different currencies, he added.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

” Patterns’ platform lets users build integrations, automations and workflows with AI from a set of modular components. First, customers connect an app to Patterns using a library of prebuilt connectors. According to Van Haren, it essentially wraps workflow logic and infrastructure in a software layer.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. ChatGPT was recently super-charged by GPT-4 , the latest language-writing model from OpenAI’s labs. Paying ChatGPT users have access to GPT-4, which can write more naturally and fluently than the model that previously powered ChatGPT.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

There’s a long history of productivity tools offering integrations and aggregations that propose to pull relevant but distributed data into one easier-to-keep-tabs-on location. Close attention to security and privacy is one point of differentiation Spoke AI claims vs legacy approaches to boosting productivity via aggregation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

The passkeys give you access to your account without passwords, and “authentication essentially synchronizes across all devices through the cloud using cryptographic key pairs, allowing sign-in to websites and apps using the same biometrics or screen-lock PIN used to unlock their devices,” Paul writes. Ivan has more.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2023

Here are some of our pieces for further reading: AI is in full force, unsurprisingly, but, astoundingly, yes, there’s a whole cohort of Y Combinator-backed startups that are trying to build ‘ChatGPT for X.’ If all your portfolio companies start to integrate with the right existing tools on the market, they could bloom too.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

That’s not especially novel; ChatGPT does this already, as do Bard , Bing Chat and the countless other chatbots out there. The avatar fixated on the Google Messages web app, which I use to text — informing me that I seem to frequently text three specific people, all of whom it referred to by name.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Chatting, but with a bot : Everyone’s ChatGPTing. Dubious ChatGPT apps are flooding the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Better chat, with some ways to go : Anthropic’s Claude improves on ChatGPT , but it still suffers from limitations, Kyle reports. Know how we know? Ivan has more. Startups and VC.

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David Teten VC

OCTOBER 31, 2024

I also led the development of the world’s first financial super app in 2013 for the largest bank in the CEE region. We also integrate emerging technologies, particularly AI, into our strategy. These sectors have long been integral to our pipeline. Through our partnership with AIx2.AI,

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