Happy Tuesday! Fun update on the personal front today - I’m joining the growth team at Mercury! It’s been a great few years at MasterClass, and I’m excited now to marry PM life with my finance background. Would love to connect and swap notes with any readers in the fintech space 👋

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Vercel, the maker of the popular Next.js framework, launched an AI SDK that makes it easier for developers to build generative AI interfaces. With just a few lines of code, developers can now add conversational experiences to applications built on React/Nextjs 💬

Given the popularity of both LLMs and the Next.js framework, expect to see generative AI interfaces popping up a lot more across the interwebz 🤖

♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Discord removes the paywall for its collaborative gaming feature

• Google rolls out third party ‘smart chips’ within Google Docs

• Meta unveils Voicebox, an AI for speech generation

• Meta lowers the minimum age for Quest to 10 years old 

• Epic rolls out a hyperrealistic animation tool on iOS

General and early-stage

• Parallel Domain ships an API to build synthetic datasets using AI

• Radiant launches a no-frills iOS client for Mastodon 

• Rever unveils its refunds and returns logistics product 

• Notion ships a dependency shifting feature for project timelines

• Firebase launches remote configuration real-time updates 

🔍 Other good finds

• Love marks. Breaking down the word of mouth growth loop

• Meme life. How Duolingo transitioned away from paid acquisition

• Fresh fruit. Apple’s tries to trademark the image of the apple fruit

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol