How to build smarter in the AI era

Welcome back, Superhuman. A little-known startup just built a video model that thinks like a screenwriter. Instead of generating everything at once, it goes frame by frame. Plus, a new study proves that Claude has a moral compass. And we talk to VC legend Jeff Bussgang about creating a winning product in the AI era.

Today’s Insights

• Open-source video models, Huawei’s AI chips, and Anthropic’s ethics study

• Jeff Bussgang on how to build a winning product with AI

• Tutorial: How to turn YouTube videos into study guides

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• News, memes, what’s trending on socials, and more

TODAY IN AI

1. New startup drops top-tier video model: A small lab called Sand AI just open-sourced MAGI-1, the first major VLM to use a technique known as autoregression. Basically, instead of generating an entire video upfront, it goes frame by frame, taking each previous shot into account before creating the next one. That helps it achieve frontier-level character and style consistency. You can try it out here, or see how it was made here. And here’s a thread with five examples of what you can create.

2. Huawei could soon fill China’s Nvidia-shaped hole: Now that the US is halting the sale of Nvidia’s H20 chips (the ones specially designed to be less powerful, just to meet US export regulations), China’s Huawei is rushing to fill the gap. It just unveiled a new Ascend 920 chip, which could help companies like DeepSeek and Alibaba forge ahead despite the US crackdown. Its latest semiconductor, the 910C, already delivers about 60% of the performance of Nvidia’s industry-leading H100.

3. Anthropic dives into Claude’s morals in first-of-its-kind study: Anthropic just analyzed 700,000 anonymized Claude conversations to figure out which values the chatbot prioritizes most. For the most part, Claude tries to mirror its users’ values — although in 3% of conversations, it stood up for its own beliefs even when users tried to steer it toward nihilism or amorality. (Here’s the full paper.)

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FROM THE FRONTIER

What it takes to win in the AI era — a conversation with legendary VC Jeff Bussgang

Jeff Bussgang is the co-founder of VC firm Flybridge Capital Partners, a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, and author of the new book “The Experimentation Machine: Finding Product-Market Fit in the Age of AI.” We talked to him about how to merge age-old concepts like finding product-market fit with newer AI-powered workflows.

1. AI distribution is instant, global, and unprecedented: In the early days of the internet, startup growth was relatively gradual, since not everyone had access to a computer or a smartphone. Now that the web is everywhere, AI startups have an instant distribution network and a global audience at their fingertips.

2. Founders should think past the pilot phase: Too often, startups get stuck in “pilot ghettos” — meaning big companies try out their products on a small scale but never sign on for larger contracts. The key is to come up with tangible metrics for your customers so they can see exactly how scaling up would benefit them.

3. Use AI to land on must-have value propositions: If you don’t know where to start, try feeding a model all of your data, including things like podcast interviews, survey results, and market research, to generate a customer persona. Create prototypes with a no-code building tool. Finally, use AI to explore profit formulas and business models.

4. Brand and distribution are now just as important as technical chops: Advanced coding knowledge is no longer a requirement for building a successful product. On the other hand, conceptual thinking, interpersonal skills, and grit have never been more important.

👉 Watch our full conversation here

THE AI ACADEMY

How to turn YouTube videos into study guides with AI

• Go to AI Studio and log in with your account.

• Select ‘Gemini 2.0 Flash’ as your model (best for video analysis performance).

• In the prompt box, paste the YouTube link you want to learn from. Then, add a clear prompt.

Sample Prompt: "[enter YouTube Link]" Can you break down the key concepts from this video, like you're explaining them to a high schooler?

• Wait for a few seconds and you’ll get the response. You can also ask follow-up questions about specific parts of the video.

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

🛒 Add to Cart: AI news site TestingCatalog found evidence that OpenAI could soon bring Shopify to ChatGPT, letting users make purchases directly inside the app.

💼 Work Revolution: Renowned AI researcher Tamay Besiroglu is launching an ambitious, if controversial, startup called Mechanize that aims to “completely automate labor” with AI agents.

✍️ Ahead of the Curve: In a world first, the United Arab Emirates announced it’ll soon start using AI to write new laws, “making the process faster and more precise.”

🚨 Crisis Companion: Motorola Solutions is rolling out a device called SVX that uses body cameras, radios, and an AI assistant to speed up emergency workers’ reaction times during crises.

🐆 Predator Ping: A new World Wide Fund for Nature program will use AI-powered cameras to warn farmers when a snow leopard is nearby, allowing them to move their livestock to safety. The initiative could help save the highly endangered species, since they’re frequently killed in retaliation for attacking sheep.

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• 🎨 Figma: AI Applied Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer

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PROMPT OF THE DAY

Summarize long docs and articles

Prompt: Act as an expert summarizer and critical reader. I’m going to share a long document or article with you — your job is to extract the key insights, break down complex points into simple language, and structure the summary so it’s easy to scan and understand. Start with a brief overview (2–3 sentences), followed by key takeaways as bullet points or sections (depending on the content). Highlight any data, trends, or powerful quotes worth remembering. If the document is biased, outdated, or missing context, let me know. At the end, suggest 1–2 thoughtful follow-up questions I could explore or ask someone if I were discussing this in a meeting. Assume I want to sound sharp without reading the whole thing. [Paste article or document]

🤓 Want more? Check out our Top 1,000 Prompts

SOCIAL SIGNALS

What’s trending on socials today

🧑‍💻 Treasure Trove: Anthropic just shared a new guide with its best practices for agentic coding with Claude Code. Investor Deedy Das called it “an absolute goldmine of tips.”

🩺 Sky’s the Limit: In an interview with 60 Minutes, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who won a Nobel Prize last year, predicted that AI could help cure all diseases within the next decade. (Watch the full video here.)

💥 Agent of Chaos: Eighteen-year-old builder Eddy Xu claims he just created “AI interview glasses” that can clone your voice and answer technical interview questions in real time.

📈 Off the Charts: The IQ score of frontier models jumped 40 points — from 96 to 136 — in just the past year. Now, imagine what it’ll be like “one year from now.”

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ChatGPT Prompt: [upload image] turn this photo into 8-bit pixel art, front view, game screenshot, in the style of Nintendo.

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