Andy Halliday

Under the hood, we've given Common Assistant new tools for perceiving and interacting with web environments, improving how the Common Assistant makes sense of complex websites and your complex windows, by the way, because it can look at data across multiple tabs simultaneously.

Previously, you'd have to open the tab in order for the Common Assistant

To look at that information.

No.

Now, if you've got a window with multiple tabs open, it can be comprehending everything on every tab that's on those windows.

Maybe not with the one window I've got with 45 tabs open on it.

But anyway, you can get more done with that new common assistant now because it doesn't give up easily on complex tasks.

Internal tests show it performs 23% better than its predecessor.

And that is helpful if you want your task assistant to take many, many steps right and all in the right order.

Yeah.

What did McKinsey say?

That's the more important part.

On that same subject, just this past week, Higgs Field, which is the video generating company that was started by the former leaders of Snapchat's AI community.

division.

They left Snap and went outside.

Remember last week we talked about Perplexity paying $400 million to provide AI search against, you know, for all the users of Snap, which is a billion users a month, right?

But Higskill's mission is to give every creator true cinematic control like it was just demonstrated here.

But they launched a new feature called Recast.

So you can take and upload any video

with a with a character in it like a live video let's say i took the feed of me and you can swap it out with an ai generated character so it can be a photorealistic character i could it could be you know like uh abraham lincoln speaking to you right now or