The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

This allows IT teams to easily track assets (like computer equipment and software) and their relevant requests. From the project, you can switch between priority views and quickly see the status of each request—features that make the lives of IT teams much easier.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

From each node, you then repeat the process, drilling deeper into the different concepts. "BBQs" We're never paid for placement in our articles from any app or for links to any site—we value the trust readers put in us to offer authentic evaluations of the categories and apps we review. It gets out of the way.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

Table of contents: Perplexity vs. ChatGPT at a glance ChatGPT is a general-purpose chatbot Perplexity is designed to find information from the web Perplexity can do chatbot things if you push it Both apps have lots of cool features Both have the same pricing structure Perplexity vs. ChatGPT: Which should you choose?

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

We jumped from discussing Cooper Flagg’s basketball stats at Duke to comparing Carlo Rovelli and Brian Greene’s competing theories of physics to talking about the history of San Francisco. I’ve tried fine tuning, but that didn’t work, so instead I fed some of my previous blog posts into an AI to generate a prompt.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

AI Artificial intelligence is the broad field of building machines or software that perform functions we normally associate with human intelligence, from pattern recognition and language understanding to planning and decision-making. o1, o3, o4, and dozens of other specialized model versions released from OpenAI alone.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Over the past few years, it's continued to develop large language models , multimodal models , and text-to-image models. Complex tasks without advanced reasoning Text, Images Text 1,047,576 tokens $2 / $8 Versatile, powerful general model GPT-4.1 inputs: Text, images GPT-4.1 outputs: Text GPT-4.1

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

I order groceries, get food delivered, map out how long the drive is to Barnes & Noble, and check the weather to confirm that staying inside is the best course of action—all from my cozy corner of the couch. It relies on APIs to fetch real-time weather data from meteorological services and deliver it to your device.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

I noticed this post today from Ezra Galston titled “ Dear Brad, Fred & Mark: How The Hell Do You Do It? BTW – if anybody at Twitter reads this you need to fix your “embed Tweet” code because as you’ll see from above it doesn’t properly embed when you have a quoted Tweet. **. HSzvQK63th.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

More importantly, when does sheer volume cross the line from "cool" to a rather profound exercise in futility? ImportRange, ImportData, ImportHtml, ImportFeed, or ImportXml formulas: These formulas can pull data from external sources but are generally limited to around 50 external references at once to avoid bogging things down.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

And actually if you have ADD you may just want to watch the videos I’ve embedded below because it’s easier to concentrate on that than reading a blog post. I’m not a doctor so everything you’ll read and listen to here will be my point-of-view from what I’ve read and from doctors I’ve consulted.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 10, 2021

The EU will require some ADAS features in all European cars from 2022. AutoBrains technology costs 33% less, using self-learning artificial intelligence technology that requires only 10% of the computing power of Mobileye’s deep-learning approach. Startup of the Week: AutoBrains: A new kind of AI for automotive. in September 2021.

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Haystack

MAY 19, 2018

Social networks were not much of a thing, email was about work, telco’s charged for texting and we had feature phones which were definitely not computers. The marine layer of fog that draped Dolores Park shielded us from the world. Fridays, I tried to keep free from meetings. I’d end up taking a few calls.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Generative AI refers to new and original content in various forms such as such as images, text and multimedia that is autonomously created without direct human involvement. To do this, Generative AI technology uses deep learning techniques that analyze and learn patterns from very large datasets.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

His father came from Romania. And she bought a computer because she wanted to computerize her business. And as a result, I got a job in a computer store during high school. DEREK] You didn’t get a computer science degree in college, but you still coded, right? He grew up in Colombia, South America.

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

00:45 – Where did the idea come from? 4:00 – From project to company. 19:00 – Data examples from their blog. 20:30 – Post: Fashion retailers have nothing to fear (yet) from the rise of Stitch Fix. 29:00 – Finding good data scientists who work from first principles. Google Play.

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Y Combinator

MAY 15, 2019

Jonathan Gill [01:03] – From the current state of the podcasting market, ad-supported sponsorship is one way forward when people are used to free products versus television and cable where they’re used to different tiers. In terms of the industry, the metrics aren’t there in the same way video and text are.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s powerful text-to-image AI system, can create photos in the style of cartoonists, 19th century daguerreotypists, stop-motion animators and more. But it has an important, artificial limitation: a filter that prevents it from creating images depicting public figures and content deemed too toxic.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

The child of a rocket scientist at NASA, Ann is a Palo Alto native and has been steeped in technology startups from when she was a teenager. She has a BSEE from Yale and a PhD from Stanford in math modeling of computer security. Favorite business book, blog, podcast? They have strong beliefs, loosely held.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

With so much of the startup news cycle focused on unprecedented funding round sizes and record amounts of time bootstrapping , we don’t often step back from the numbers to have a hard think about innovation. Brain-computer interface: measurement to insight. Quantum computing: supremacy to advantage. Predicting 15 shifts.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Code-generating systems like DeepMind’s AlphaCode, Amazon’s CodeWhisperer and OpenAI’s Codex, which powers GitHub’s Copilot service, provide a tantalizing look at what’s possible with AI today within the realm of computer programming.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Copying and pasting text is one of those things that you probably do dozens or even hundreds of times a day without really thinking about it. Even logging in to some websites requires you to copy and paste a code from your email account or text message app. Sharing a link with your friends? Copy and paste. Copy and paste.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

From AI-powered image generation to natural language tasks (like generating or summarizing text), AI tools are disrupting the workforce. With it, you can generate images from text using a pre-trained model, fine-tune models to generate images with your own data, and edit existing images using AI.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. Colony’s presentation is intriguing (and worth a watch if you have a few minutes) because I love to see when informed people make arguments that are different than you ordinarily hear (and different from my own views).

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 21, 2019

Quantum computers are one of the hottest buzzwords today. Developed by governments including the United States, Russia, and China and companies like IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Alibaba, quantum computers may offer computing power that far exceeds anything we have seen to date. Quantum computers use qubits.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

I guess from there we had nowhere to go but down. Check out this chart from eye-tracking research conducted by the usability guru Jakob Nielsen published in this piece. It shows that our eyes are trained to focus on the text, not the ads. Text is shown to deliver higher CTRs than banners. Text is what we’re reading.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

” Part of the beauty of blogging that in two sittings Fred was able to influence what was built over the next 12 months. I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. They are often one click away from buying. Fred’s post was right.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 19, 2011

When you take kids off the streets and out of the playgrounds, locking them… err… protecting them from the dangers of the outside world, you force them to turn to the computer in their room and now, the one in their pocket. I grew up in Brooklyn. There were over a dozen kids that lived on my street alone.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

When I first launched my podcast, The Fractional C-Suite Retreat, I had no idea what would come from it. The three key ingredients: a computer to record the podcast, a good microphone to capture your voice, and a software program to edit your audio. Your audience hears your voice and mannerisms in ways that texts cannot compete with.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

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. Since ChatGPT burst onto the scene last year, AI writing tools have been big news.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 19, 2023

Becoming a climate neutral company requires a shift in thinking from leadership to employees. Deleting emails they won’t need again, apps they don’t use, and photos from cloud drives keep those items from being stored and using energy. Also, encourage employees to send texts or use messaging apps to communicate.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

From smart productivity enhancement workflows to data deep dives into what TV shows your Twitter audience likes to watch, there's a tool for every circumstance. After you've locked into the main idea, you can use the AI text generation features to ask for longer or shorter text and add it to each post.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

See, unlike Stable Diffusion and DALL·E 2 , you can't install Midjourney on your own computer or use a nicely designed web app. There is a reason that Midjourney uses Discord—even if it seems a little convoluted from the outside. Enter /imagine in the message box, and then type a text prompt, and press Enter or return.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

After selling the blog, he launched Hinge’s subreddit. He then pursued his Masters in Information Management from Syracuse University and soon after joined Johnson & Johnson as a Product Analyst, where he built a number of online communities. million investment from a Fortune 500 company. And it’s been a huge success!

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 23, 2020

By: Lance Cottrell, North Bay Angels Editors Note - The following article shares points from one investor to founders. In this blog, I will share with you my five-step process for building a killer pitch. I have a blog on the nine things angel investors look for in startup fundraising pitches. Limit yourself to just a few.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

But an automation tool that can also collect new data, learn from it, and handle complex decision-making? It can learn from previous choices, quickly analyze data to make accurate predictions, and make quick decisions. Computer vision: OCR and ICR tools can "read" images or scanned documents, converting them into text.

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