🔥 This Week’s Top 5 AI Tools You Should Try
Here are the tools that genuinely stood out this week — useful, fresh, and instantly actionable.
1. Perplexity Pages
Best for: Creating research-grade reports in minutes
What it does:
Turns any topic into a beautifully structured, multi-section article with citations, visuals, summaries, and references.
Why it’s impressive:
Produces publish-ready content
Perfect for founders, students, analysts, and creators
Better accuracy than most AI tools
2. Luma Dream Machine
Best for: Mind-blowing AI video generation
What it does:
Creates high-quality 3–5 second videos from simple prompts. Great for ads, brand reels, and quick creative concepts.
Why it’s impressive:
Crisp motion tracking
Rich cinematic look
Free tier available
3. Gamma AI
Best for: Beautiful presentations without design effort
What it does:
Instantly turns rough ideas into clean, well-designed slide decks, documents, or landing pages.
Why it’s impressive:
Perfect for pitch decks
Auto-layouts and styling
Super fast
Try it:
https://gamma.app
4. NotebookLM 2.0
Best for: Turning your documents into a personal AI researcher
What it does:
Upload PDFs, notes, websites, and turn them into a fully interactive AI-powered research assistant.
Why it’s impressive:
Generates summaries, mindmaps, and Q&A
Great for students, analysts, researchers
Handles large documents
5. Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Best for: Best all-around AI model right now
What it does:
Creates long-form content, reasoning tasks, coding, explanations, and complex analysis with unmatched clarity.
Why it’s impressive:
Best reasoning model
Better than GPT-4o for most tasks
Excellent for writing and research
Try it:
https://claude.ai
⚡ Workflow of the Week
“Research Anything in 5 Minutes” — Using Perplexity + NotebookLM
Search topic in Perplexity
Export or copy the full report
Upload into NotebookLM
Ask:
“Explain this like I’m 15.”
“Create a mindmap.”
“Summarize key insights.”
Done — instant learning loop.
🧭 AI Trend This Week
Short-form AI videos are exploding.
Dream Machine, Pika, and Runway Gen-3 are enabling creators to produce ads and reels in minutes.
Expect the next wave of AI tools to focus on:
Motion tracking
Face replacement
Full-scene editing
Longer, story-driven video
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