The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

As a kid, I was deeply traumatized by the Borg in Star Trek: Next Generation —so it's safe to say that I had some baggage to work through when I first started hearing the term "AI integration." With Zapier, AI integration is about making your workflows work better. Table of contents: What is AI integration?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 27, 2025

Their team of receptionists and AI agents serves businesses like law firms and home service providers by answering questions, booking appointments, and qualifying leads, all in real time. Today, AI voice is a big part of our business. Smith.ai , a virtual receptionist service based in California, knows this well.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 2, 2020

“Life’s not about how hard of a hit you can give. It’s about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.” ? Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa. When my business plans took a significant turn in March 2020, owing to lockdowns implemented to prevent the spread of Covid 19, my initial feeling was remorse.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

At first glance, Jasper and ChatGPT seem similar—they're both generative AI tools that can create content in a split second. But there's a big difference here: ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that's flexible enough to handle just about any task you throw at it, while Jasper is a specialized AI marketing tool.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Pro tip: Use Zapier Canvas —a free AI-powered diagramming tool—to map out processes and workflows from scratch. If you work in IT operations, the work you do is basically the backbone of your company. And when manual processes bog you down, it's even harder for you to focus on high-impact work. That's where IT automation comes in.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Over the weekend, I found myself in an hour-long conversation during my drive with an AI. When I have an idea now, I don’t scramble for a notebook – I hold the right-option keyboard key to activate Whisper, an AI that listens and transcribes everything I say, even my messiest, most ill-formed thoughts. Weave it in.”

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

If you use an AI transcription tool like Grain , you know it can transcribe, summarize, and pull insights from recordings automatically in the background of every meeting. When you connect Grain with Zapier, you can orchestrate entire systems with AI and automation to streamline the way you hold meetings (and everything that comes after).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

You’ll need to prick up your ears for this slice of deepfakery emerging from the wacky world of synthesized media: A digital version of Albert Einstein — with a synthesized voice that’s been (re)created using AI voice cloning technology drawing on audio recordings of the famous scientist’s actual voice.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Engaging content Blog posts, FAQs, and detailed product or service descriptions build trust and credibility. SEO optimization Use relevant keywords to help your site rank higher on search engines. Heres how: Start a blog Share how-to guides, case studies, and industry insights. But where do you start? best bakery in Austin).

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2025

AI is bringing efficiency to small businesses as never seen before. Five top AI tools are presented that have directly increased the productivity of staffs and departments of small businesses. As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly evolves, its no longer just enterprise-level companies reaping the benefits.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

Meet your new AI teammates Try Zapier Agents So, which ones are worth your time, money, and vibes? Before this category came into shape, we had a loosely formed category named AI app builders. What about autonomous AI engineers, IDE add-ons, and agentic coding tools? If it works, who cares how it's written?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Founded in 2018, Ai Palette uses machine learning to help companies spot trends in real time and get them retail-ready, often within a few months. Both will join Ai Palette’s board. It brings Ai Palette’s total raised to $5.5 Ai Palette is based in Singapore, with an engineering hub in Bangalore.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 2025

The best WordPress SEO plugins Yoast SEO for content analysis and guidance Rank Math for a free plan and affordable scalability Squirrly SEO for AI-powered suggestions SmartCrawl for balancing features with simplicity The SEO Framework for speed and automation Slim SEO for beginners What makes the best WordPress SEO plugin? Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Designed by Anthropic, Claude is a powerful chatbot that excels at summarizing text, writing code, and even creating content—everything you'd expect from an advanced AI assistant. Try Zapier Chatbots Create free custom AI chatbots to engage customers and take action with built-in automation. It only takes a few minutes to set up.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Not surprisingly, a survey done by Statista found that content marketing was believed to be the most effective digital marketing technique according to marketers — followed by marketing automation, big data, and artificial intelligence (AI). How to boost marketing efficiency with AI. Faster content creation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

There’s a growing appetite for alternative search engines. In 2020, Socher co-founded You , a search engine that uses AI to understand search queries, rank the results and parse the queries into different languages (including programming languages). It seems there’s some truth to his words.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

And while AI has since come on the scene, it hasn't replaced automation—it's made it better. Now, I delegate to AI automation. Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers. Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On the one-year anniversary of Copy.ai ’s launch on Twitter , the company, a GPT-3 AI-powered platform that generates copywriting tools for business customers, secured another round of funding. If AI progresses, it will be a source of empowerment and another tool that has uncapped potential. This follows a $2.9 Writing helper Copy.ai

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

But it's perfectly valid to take a break to see what other AI chatbots are available. Build your own AI chatbot with no-code Here's how Allow me to save you a dozen Google searches (or ChatGPT prompts). I spent time talking to some of the best AI chatbots to see how they measure up.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As the enthusiasm around AI image and text generators grows, Jasper , a startup developing what it describes as an “AI content” platform, has raised $125 million at a $1.7 Jasper leverages AI to generate content for blog articles, social media posts, website copy and more. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The fresh investment comes as VCs see a growing opportunity in AI-powered, copy-generating adtech companies, whose tech promises to save time while potentially increasing personalization. Customers can use Regie to generate original, optimized-for-search-engines content or create custom sales sequences.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

And with search engine algorithms and social media platforms constantly in flux, having a rich email list that you own and control is more important than ever. And with search engine algorithms and social media platforms constantly in flux, having a rich email list that you own and control is more important than ever.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

When Stripe-subsidiary Paystack raised its seed round of $1.3 million in 2016, it was one of the largest disclosed rounds at that stage in Nigeria. . At the time, seven-figure seed investments in African startups were a rarity. Nigerian fintech startup, Kuda, which bagged $10 million last year, comes to mind, for example.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

But AI is changing the game. Use automation to share, engage, and cross-post without lifting a finger Learn how I researched and tested every AI tool for social media management that I could get my hands on, and I found a lot of useful options. Here are the eight best AI apps for managing your social media.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT , can now browse the internet — in certain cases. Search engines like Google and Bing use their own safety mechanisms to reduce the chances unreliable content rises to the top of results, but these results can be gamed. Time will tell whether they’re sufficient.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

The same day Microsoft invested billions in OpenAI, McKinsey snatched up an enterprise-focused AI firm, Iguazio, for a relative steal. Iguazio’s product suite collects data and preps it offline or offline, accelerating and automating AI model training for deployment via APIs.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Israeli AI accelerator company NeuReality has become the first semiconductor startup to license IBM Research’s low-precision high-performance digital AI cores. As part of the partnership, NeuReality will become a member of the IBM Research AI Hardware Center. Read more here.

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Feedough

MARCH 18, 2021

Uizard is an AI-powered design assistant for non-designers. The tool enables decision-makers, managers, engineering teams, and business analysts to quickly and effortlessly create interactive prototypes for web and mobile apps without all the noise and complexity of traditional design software. Welcome, Uizard. The best part?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

But with Zapier's powerful AI tools—like Zapier Agents and automated ChatGPT workflows—it's now easier than ever to become a trading pro. Meet your new AI teammates Try Zapier Agents AI-powered trading bots can help you buy, sell, and analyze markets—without a single line of code.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Software engineering best practices have begun to infuse data: data observability, specialization of different ETL layers, data exploration, and data security all thrived in 2021 and will continue as users stuff more data into databases and data lakehouses. Every year I make a list of predictions and score last year’s predictions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Founded in 2016, New York-based Fakespot uses an AI and machine learning system to detect patterns and similarities between reviews in order to flag those that are most likely to be deceptive. For instance, recent reports indicate that people are using AI chatbots , such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT to write reviews for products on Amazon.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

That's why I was so excited to get my hands on Google's new AI chatbot, Google Bard. It's similar to other AI-powered text generation tools like ChatGPT , but it's supposed to pack the power of Google Search —where I spend most of my time—into a conversational bot. ." So why not just Google a topic?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Content in all forms, be it blogs, infographics, or podcasts, is still the preferred choice of businesses to connect with their customers. Search Engine Marketing. Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is one of those digital marketing trends that will never go old. 93% of all online connections still start with a search engine.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

Fast forward to this month: Our startup, CustomGPT , was named to “ Top 10 Emerging Leaders in Generative AI ” along with OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, Cohere, Databricks, A121 Labs and Aleph Alpha — by GAI Insights, an analyst firm focussed on Generative AI. That is some serious company there! throw it out the window.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 15, 2024

When I program computers, I don’t want to work at the level of lines & functions & arguments, but the style of a webpage like this blog’s theme. So, I’ve taken to keeping an AI open on a separate monitor. Can it draft an email, or critique a blog post well? It’s different now. Running Llama3.3

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

In a blog post published today, Lonsdale — who serves as 8VC’s general partner — said that his firm’s mission is “to fix a broken world.” Austin-based venture firm 8VC, led by controversial Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale, has raised $880 million in its fifth fund. He also shared that the 8VC team has grown to more than 60 people.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

The venture most notably incubated the blogging platform Medium. The venture most notably incubated the blogging platform Medium. For Stone, that led to the creation of Jelly, a Q&A app and search engine that was later sold to Pinterest. However, in 2013, Stone and the others shifted their focus to individual startups.

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