Welcome Back Everyone! It’s Friday, Aug 8th. (& I’m exciteddd)

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Amazon’s Alexa Gets a Full AI Upgrade

Amazon rolls out a GPT-powered Alexa that can summarise email, draft messages, and reschedule meetings in a single chain. Closed beta users trimmed daily admin time by 22 minutes per employee. Rollout to U.S. Echo devices starts mid-November, with enterprise APIs following in Q1.

Expect customers and employees to assume voice assistants can handle multi-step tasks; plan API hooks if you want Alexa to reach your services first.

On that note, Here is today’s menu:

1. AI Spotlight: GPT-5 is Finally Here! 🤯

2. Tool Talk: ElevenMusic 🪄

3. Prompting Curiosity: Generate Relevant Ideas 📝

4. Resources of the Week

GPT-5 is Finally Here! 🤯

Link: GPT-5 and the New Era of Work | OpenAI​

Why it matters:
​GPT-5 is finally here!

OpenAI announced their next generation AI model in this livestream, and they didn't disappoint.

First off, GPT-5 is smarter across the board, as seen in its performance on both academic and human-evaluated benchmarks. It tops the charts in math (94.6% on AIME 2025 without tools), real-world coding (74.9% on SWE-bench Verified, 88% on Aider Polyglot), multimodal understanding (84.2% on MMMU), and health (46.2% on HealthBench Hard).

To steal Sam Altman's metaphor: GPT-3 was like talking to a high school student, and GPT-4 was like chatting with a clever college student, but GPT-5 is like talking to a legitimate PhD-level expert in any area.

GPT-5 is a reasoning model, but in contrast to all previous OpenAI models, it has the ability to "think just enough". The model will analyze each prompt sent and determine whether reasoning is necessary or not. Users can also force the AI into the reasoning mode by explicitly asking for it in their prompt.

One point OpenAI made sure to hammer home in their presentation is how effective GPT-5 is for coding tasks. Greg Brockman described it as "the best AI model at agentic coding tasks", and the co-founder and CEO of Cursor joined the stage to share just how impressed his team has been with the new model. GPT-5 will call tools, work for minutes at a time on tasks, design beautiful frontends, follow instructions precisely, and accomplish it all incredibly quickly.

The GPT-5 update for ChatGPT also brings some additional upgrades like an enhanced Voice Mode that is now more widely accessible, native Gmail and Calendar integrations, colour customisations, and a new "Personalities" feature launching in research preview.

Technically, OpenAI isn't just rolling GPT-5 out; they're rolling out three new AI models: GPT-5, GPT-5 nano, and GPT-5 mini.

GPT-5 will become the standard model for ChatGPT for all users on all accounts. This means even free users get access to the new GPT-5! Once hitting the unspecified usage limit, free users will be switched to GPT-5 mini. Pro users can expect unlimited usage and access via GPT-5 Pro.

So what are you waiting for? Go start using GPT-5 today!

Not sure where to begin? Check out our Prompting Curiosity below for a great place to start.

Tool Talk: ElevenMusic 🪄

Use Case: Create Music with Natural Language Prompts

Link: ElevenMusic (Free to Try, Not Sponsored!)​

Why you should care:
​ElevenLabs was already one of the biggest names in AI audio, and this week they cemented that position with the release of ElevenMusic.

ElevenMusic is a new AI music generator that you prompt with natural language, just like you would with ChatGPT. This makes it much easier to use than keyword-based AI music generators like Suno or Udio.

Outputs are royalty-free and ready for YouTube videos, ads, podcasts, or any other project. Key features include studio-grade audio, multilingual vocals, section-by-section editing, and more.

Here's how to get started with ElevenMusic today:

1. Go to ElevenLabs' platform using the link above.

2. Sign in or create an account.

3. Navigate to "Music" using the lefthand sidebar.

4. Describe the song you want in the chat box using natural language.

5. Choose the number of variations you'd like generated. (Between 1-4)

6. Dictate the length of your song. You can select "Auto" or choose between 30s - 4m.

7. Hit "Generate" to create your song!

ElevenMusic will then take you to the editing interface and begin generating your track in real-time. After a few minutes (depending on the length of your song and the number of variations requested), you'll be able to listen to your song and begin editing it.

There are two main ways to edit your track:

• To change the lyrics, you'll be using a text-editing interface. Delete the lyrics you don't like and type out new ones, and that change will be applied in your next variation.

• To change the song's sound, you can use the AI chat interface. (Labeled "Continue the Conversation") Here, you can simply tell the AI in natural language what changes you want to the song, and it will apply those changes in the next generation.

ElevenMusic is surprisingly deep, and even though this is a longer App of the Week section than normal, we've only scratched the surface of what you can do with ElevenMusic. It is a pay-as-you-use credits system, but new users to ElevenLabs get 10,000 credits, and in our testing, we only spent a couple thousand to generate multiple songs. So go give it a try today!

Prompting Curiosity 📝

Topic: Generate Relevant Ideas

Prompt Formula:
​I need help understanding [subject/topic]. Please explain this in detail and create a moving SVG in the Canvas tool to show me.

Quick Description:
​This prompt is designed to showcase the capabilities of OpenAI's new GPT-5 model. It takes advantage of GPT-5's web search, reasoning, and coding capabilities to help you understand any topic in a more interactive way.

How to Use:

1. Go to ChatGPT.

2. Ensure GPT-5 is selected as the model.

3. Copy the above prompt.

4. Paste it into the ChatGPT chat box.

5. Replace [subject/topic] with the subject or topic you want to learn.

6. Send the prompt!

After a few seconds (or a couple of minutes, depending on how complex your request is), GPT-5 will create an interactive web app designed specifically for your use case.

Resource of the Week 🔥

Browse MarkTechPost’s MCP FAQs for secure model integration (link)

Build customer-focused workflows at scale with Slack’s guide (link)

See OpenAI’s post on Optimising ChatGPT response quality (link)

Compare ClickUp’s rundown of Otter.ai pricing tiers (link)

Learn SaaStr’s view on When Raising Prices Works (link)

That's all for this week folks…

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See you next Friday.
Much Love, Vasu