Startup drops Manus-beating agent

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Welcome back, Superhuman. Ever had a million-dollar idea but no clue how to code it? We talked to Bolt’s CEO about how it’s now possible to turn that “what if” into reality with just a few prompts. And a new AI agent could be the next Manus.

Today’s Insights

• State-of-the-art agents, AGI predictions, and AI glasses

• Bolt CEO shows us how to build apps with just prompts

• Tutorial: How to redesign your home or office with AI

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

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

TODAY IN AI

1. AI search startup launches Manus-toppling agent: Genspark, which raised $100M in February, just unveiled a general-purpose Super Agent that beats Butterfly Effect’s viral Manus agent as well as OpenAI’s Deep Research on the industry-leading GAIA benchmark. It can even tackle multi-step projects, like creating a travel itinerary, finding nearby restaurants, then calling them to make reservations.

• Meanwhile, the startup General Agents just dropped what it’s calling the first “real-time computer autopilot,” which uses your mouse and keyboard to do things like book an Airbnb on its own.

• And Augment Code unveiled Augment Agent, which it claims is the highest-performing coding assistant yet, according to one leading benchmark.

2. DeepMind predicts AGI by 2030: Google’s AI research lab thinks it’s “plausible” we’ll reach AGI — with AI beating 99% of adults across most tasks — by the end of the decade. While its rivals want to keep models themselves from acting out, Google’s trying to stop jailbreaks and other kinds of human misuse. The debate couldn’t be more timely, with a new UC San Diego study claiming LLMs have finally passed the Turing Test, meaning people can no longer tell them apart from humans in blind tests.

3. Meta has more AI glasses in the works: Riding off the success of its Ray-Ban smart glasses, Meta is now gearing up to release a premium $1,000+ version with a screen later this year. You’ll be able to use them to get directions, take pictures, and check your messages, and they’ll reportedly include a wristband, letting you navigate apps with different gestures. 2027 will bring even more spin-offs, including one optimized for sports.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

How to turn your ideas into apps — A conversation with Bolt founder Eric Simons

In the US, software developers only make up around 1% of the total workforce. AI coding platform Bolt is trying to target the 99% of us who have plenty of ideas but might not know how to turn them into a reality.

We sat down with CEO Eric Simons to find out why some users have compared the experience of using it to trying ChatGPT for the first time. Here are five big things we learned:

1. Bolt lowers the barrier to entry. With Cursor and other AI coding tools, you need a good bit of programming knowledge to get anywhere. But Bolt mirrors ChatGPT’s simple interface, letting you do everything with the text prompts you’re already used to. Plus, you can do it all directly in your browser.

2. AI is streamlining our design tools. Typically, when you hand off your mockup to a developer, a lot can get lost in translation. It’s pricey and time-consuming, too. AI tools like Bolt give you more direct control, so there’s less of a gap between your vision and the final product.

3. We just passed a major milestone. Bolt jumped from 0 to millions of users in a matter of months. Simons says that was only possible because models like Claude 3.5 and 3.7 are finally good enough to deliver clean, error-free, and fast code.

4. Vibes are more important than ever. If virtually everyone has the ability to create an app, only the most unique, ingenious ones are likely to rise to the top. The vibe coding wave will benefit people with an entrepreneurial, creative, and unconventional mindset.

5. But highly technical people will benefit, too: Because AI coding platforms can now take care of the basics, expert programmers have more time than ever to explore more complex problems. They’ll be able to create products that just weren’t possible before.

👉 Watch Eric build an app with prompts here

THE AI ACADEMY

How to redesign your home or office with AI

• Go to ChatGPT and choose ‘GPT-4o’ as your model.

• Upload an image of your room or office and ask ChatGPT to make changes to it.

• You can add or remove objects and change colors to see what matches your vibe.

Sample Prompt: [upload image] change background wall color to [enter color] and add more [enter object] on sides.

• Wait for a few seconds, and you’ll get your space redesigned in seconds.

• Try it now and watch your space transform instantly.

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

🧑‍🎓 Claude on Campus: Anthropic unveiled Claude for Education, a special version of Claude designed for college students and instructors. Plus, a new “learning mode” uses Socratic questioning and other techniques to help students build critical thinking skills.

🔎 Discover Duty: NotebookLM introduced "Discover sources," letting users add curated web content to notebooks by simply describing their topics of interest.

🤩 Synthetic Celebs: French AI startup Argil launched a new AI Influencer feature that lets you design an AI-powered social media persona, “complete with branded clothing.”

🎬 Fill in the Blank: Adobe launched its highly anticipated generative video extender, which uses AI to lengthen any clip in Premiere Pro. (Watch a demo here.)

⏰ 11th Hour: Amazon is the latest company to put in a bid to buy TikTok as its April 5 sell-off deadline fast approaches.

PRODUCTIVITY

5 AI Tools to Supercharge Your Productivity

✅ Lindy: The AI agent that automates work like meeting prep, research, outbound sales, and even makes phone calls.

✅ Findr: Organize, search, and utilize information scattered across apps, bookmarks, links, notes, and files.

✅ ModelMatch: Compare top open-source models for image understanding side-by-side, no coding needed.

✅ Flora: An AI-powered infinite canvas with every creative tool, thoughtfully connected.

✅ Focal: Create your own TV shows and movies with AI.

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PROMPT OF THE DAY

Book Summarization

Prompt: Summarize the book [Book Title] in an engaging and easy-to-digest format. Highlight the key insights, actionable lessons, and any thought-provoking ideas. Break down complex concepts into simple explanations, and include interesting anecdotes or memorable quotes. If possible, provide real-world applications of the book’s lessons. Also, suggest a few follow-up books or resources that expand on the same themes.

SOCIAL SIGNALS

What’s trending on socials today

🖼️ Blank Canvas: Builder Samuel Thompson shared a genius idea for how to create a personalization/customization business with GPT-4o.

🕯️ Midnight Oil: Sam Altman is already teasing “images v2” — presumably the next big update to GPT-4o’s viral image-gen capabilities. But OpenAI researchers are begging to get some shuteye first.

🧑‍🚀 Ahead of its Time: Some social media users claim futurist Aze Alter’s AI-assisted short sci-fi film, created with MiniMax, ElevenLabs, and other tools, is the best they’ve seen yet.

🧑‍💻 Show and Tell: Web designer Marko Ilic showed off a speculative Slack animation he generated in just 10 minutes with GPT-4o and Kling AI. He shares his workflow here.

👪 Parent’s Persistence: A father says he used Gemini to investigate his son’s rare disease, unlocking new treatment ideas. His research was so thorough that one doctor admitted, “I thought I was talking to a scientist or maybe a clinician.”

AI-GENERATED IMAGES

1980s ASCII Art

ChatGPT Prompt: [attached image] Create an image of a 1980s beige computer with green monochrome monitor. On the screen is ASCII art of the attached image.

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