The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Agentic AI vs. generative AI vs. AI agents Agentic AI in action Agentic AI examples Getting started with agentic AI What is agentic AI? ChatGPT had launched a few months prior, and it was taking the world by storm. You typed in a prompt, and ChatGPT would generate a response that, at least 70% of the time, was shockingly good.

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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." For example: Marketing teams might use AI to speed up content production or automate AI image generation for social media posts.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 3, 2024

Over the past year, generative AI’s capacity for content creation has drawn most of the noisiest headlines: how AI models can instantaneously create Pixar-like shorts starring your pet chihuahua, or drum up the Drake-Kendrick Lamar diss track you never knew you wanted. But this evolution is just getting started. via Captions ).

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

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. Brainstorm and generate content ideas We know Google Bard isn't bad at generating text that sounds human.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Since ChatGPT burst onto the scene last year, AI writing tools have been big news. In the right circumstances, these AI text generators can help you work better and faster, and create more polished and on-brand copy. I considered getting an AI text generator to write the intro to this article, but it just felt like a cheap trick.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

I'll be using ChatGPT and a few other free tools to show you how to create a social media post for Facebook. The process is similar for other social media platforms, so consider this inspiration for whatever AI-generated social media post you're looking to create. Can ChatGPT remember what you write?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Add the power of ChatGPT to your workflows Automate ChatGPT But first, I have to apologize for the crimes against consistent naming conventions, capitalization, and hyphenation we're all going to have to endure. mini, o3-pro, and GPT Image 1 are three of OpenAI's latest models. Hang in there. OpenAI is moving fast.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Typeface , a startup developing an AI-powered dashboard for drafting marketing copy and images, emerged from stealth this week with $65 million in venture equity backing from Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV (Google Ventures), M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund) and Menlo Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Anthropic , a startup that hopes to raise $5 billion over the next four years to train powerful text-generating AI systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT , today peeled back the curtain on its approach to creating those systems. “Constitutional AI responds to shortcomings by using AI feedback to evaluate outputs.”

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

It'll support your social media strategy with content generation, sentiment analysis, and big data insights. for generating carousels and videos Publer for generating post text and images ContentStudio for staying on top of your content topics What makes the best AI social media management software?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

We're talking about everything from the workhorses that automate routine tasks to the brains that understand language, interpret images, and even think up new content. These bots follow predefined scripts to do things like fill out forms, shuttle data between spreadsheets and CRMs, process payroll, or generate routine reports.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

There’s a lot of noise right now about how generative AIs like ChatGPT and Bard are going to revolutionize various aspects of the web, but companies targeting narrower verticals are already experiencing success. Then you load up its maw with the last 10 years of annual reports, financials, blog posts and so on to make it yours.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Sesamm , a French startup that helps financial firms and corporates adhere to their ESG goals by using natural language processing (NLP) to generate insights from digital content, has raised €35 million ($37 million) in a round of funding to expand internationally. Supply chain Sesamm founders Pierre Rinaldi, Sylvain Forté and Florian Aubry.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Although, on closer inspection, some pundits suggested the no opt out applied only to “service generated data” (telemetry data, product usage data, diagnostics data etc), i.e. rather than everything Zoom’s customers are doing and saying on the platform. Still, people were mad. through 10.4 screengrabbed below).

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

I've found that they can especially be a great source of inspiration for generating ideas, workshopping the perfect caption, adding hashtags, and creating visual pairings. If all you want is captions, then any free generative AI tool (even ChatGPT ) will get the job done. AI-generated images work just as well.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Additionally, AI can help with product development, such as through natural language processing and image recognition, to improve the user experience and stay ahead of competitors. Marcin Jezierski , PR Advisor, QuantUp Brainstorm Blog Content Ideas One way that we use AI in our business is to brainstorm ideas for blog topics.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When you type in a single word, you get a huge amount of data in various forms, such as dictionary definitions, videos, and blogs. Google’s “Bard” and Microsoft’s “Bing” offer AI chat services, and Naver is also preparing its next-generation search service, “Search GPT.

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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. Computer vision: OCR and ICR tools can "read" images or scanned documents, converting them into text. Wondering where to start?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Notion treats each piece of content, whether that's text, images, or tables, as a "block," and blocks are more programmable and dynamic than typical, static elements. Obsidian doesn't come with any AI features out of the box, but you can install third-party plugins to, say, directly access a ChatGPT-based bot.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

If you look at most sites, there's a fair amount of text, images, and general organization to it all. I refuse to accept that the AI-generated stock text is appropriate for a legitimate website.) So I was pretty curious to see how the AI website generators would stack up. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

From lead generation and customer retention to reporting and strategic planning, their work is built around a simple goal: use data to move faster and smarter. "Phoenix started as a conversation with ChatGPT," says Jeff Lang , Drive's Director of IT. "Our But growing that vision came with growing pains.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Stability AI , the startup behind the generative AI art tool Stable Diffusion , today open-sourced a suite of text-generating AI models intended to go head to head with systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4. ” Image Credits: Stability AI There might be some truth to that. make up) facts. make up) facts.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 29, 2023

Let me share some examples : This weekend, I wanted to clean up some HTML image links in older blog posts & modernize them to markdown format. That requires uploading images to Cloudinary’s image hosting service & using the new link. I typed this description into ChatGPT.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Add the power of ChatGPT to your workflows Automate ChatGPT It's a really interesting approach, and reasoning models have already demonstrated that they're the next leap forward for LLMs. In essence, it's generating a really really long response and then creating a good summary.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

If you're in the same boat, here's a little trick: let AI-powered tools like ChatGPT do the heavy lifting for you. This technique involves mentally mapping out a physical space you're familiar with (a memory palace) and "placing" images representing the information you're memorizing in various spots or loci.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

OpenAI shipped GPT-4 yesterday, the much-anticipated text-generating AI model, and it’s a curious piece of work. It’s also multimodal in the sense that it can understand images, allowing it to caption and even explain in detail the contents of a photo. GPT-4’s image understanding abilities are quite impressive.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. Major brands are experimenting with it, using the AI to generate ad and marketing copy, for example. ChatGPT was recently super-charged by GPT-4 , the latest language-writing model from OpenAI’s labs. And OpenAI is heavily investing in it.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2023

“AI whisperer” jobs are roles made for people who are savvy prompt engineers and able to manipulate ChatGPT or other generative AI tools to get what they want from it. It’s also a reminder that generative AI’s boom will create a whole new set of questions about how we ask questions. Ask for help. Give feedback. Tell it that!

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Machine learning models predict code, synthesize images, author blog posts reducing composition time by a factor of 2 or 3. Here are my predictions for 2023. ML propels SaaS into a massive second wave that increases workers’ productivity measurably. The hangover from web3’s raucous 2022 extends into 2023.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

If you enjoy this newsletter, you should check out my personal blog too ! Hype machines Generative AI is building the foundation of proptech’s next wave AI is eating itself: Bing’s AI quotes COVID disinfo sourced from ChatGPT Google is losing control Also, follow Dom on Twitter! Image Credits: salihkilic / Getty Images Etc.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

I’m also writing on my personal blog, if you’d like to follow along with the 1,821 other people who come to hang and be too wordy. Snapchat announces 750 million monthly active users Twitter delays launch of its new API platform again Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch Etc., Book your pass ASAP!

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Jason Calacanis

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Made this images using OpenAI’s Dall-E, which is ironic. Today, the New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for stealing millions of pages of their content to power the most promising technology platform since the iPhone: ChatGPT. Recently, I found myself doing product searches with ChatGPT.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / Bryce Durbin (opens in a new window). Jokes aside, if you have been on tech Twitter at all during the last few weeks, you’ve probably seen some pretty sleek, imaginative algorithmically generated portraits of your friends (and nemeses). UPDATED: It’s way too easy to trick Lensa AI into making NSFW images.

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