Perplexity for Reddit

Happy Hump Day! In today’s digest, I’m covering a new AI tool that’s kind of Perplexity but for Reddit. But first…

Some headlines: 

📱 Google held its latest event yesterday. Here’s everything that was announced. 

🤖 X has launched two new AI chatbots, Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini. 

🍎 Apple has relented in its yearslong battle with Spotify over in-app pricing.

Reddit is a treasure trove of information. No matter your interests, there’s probably a subreddit waiting for you. You can catch up on all the latest news, find new memes, interact with some of your favorite celebrities, and more. It’s so useful, in fact, that Google has started pushing Reddit results more in response to people appending “Reddit” to their search result queries. 

But navigating it, especially as a newbie, can be a bit daunting. The homepage is populated with all sorts of genres, and different subreddits have different rules for who can join and contribute. Fortunately, like with every problem, there’s a maker working on fixing it. One of the proposed solutions is GigaBrain.

GigaBrain is an AI tool similar in purpose to Perplexity — whose goal is to bring order to the chaos of Google search, but instead of Google, its focus is Reddit. When you boot it up, you’ll be presented with an interface similar to that of other AI tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc. You can ask your own questions like “What’s the standing desk in 2024?” or you can pick from a number of examples that GigaBrain generates. 

Once you hit enter, the AI will scour Reddit, analyzing hundreds of millions, if not billions, of discussions across the platform. From there, it will source and extract the most relevant posts and comments in the hopes of answering your question.

It also comes with a pretty handy Chrome Extension. Say you’re doing some online shopping, and you’re on the fence about splurging on a product. Instead of googling reviews for it, you can click the extension icon, and GigaBrain will scour Reddit for user reviews. 

As part of the launch, the GigaBrain team is offering $10 off the pro plan if you want to give it a shot. 

Two weeks ago, two new major model families became available for fine-tuning: Llama 3.1, which comes in 8B, 70B and 405B(!) variants, and GPT-4o mini. Kyle Corbitt, the founder of OpenPipe, shared his experience comparing GPT-4o mini and Llama 3.1 for fine-tuning. The good news is, all three of the models are extremely high quality. The bad news is...

REMOTE WORK TOOLS 

Ralify is a tool for founders and fast-paced teams that turns your ideas and mockups into goals automatically to help you reduce the need for pointless meetings.

Manaflow lets you automate repetitive office and remote work tasks with natural language. By using tables, you can execute millions of tasks involving data transformation, gluing APIs, and more.

DEVELOPER TOOLS 

Postgres (dot) new from Supabase, lets you instantly spin up an unlimited number of Postgres databases that run directly in your browser.

NotHotDog is a developer tool for testing your LLM APIs and agents. It is suitable for both voice and text-based instances. 

PRIVACY TOOLS

AI Eraser is a Chrome Extension that automatically redacts sensitive information that might be included in your ChatGPT prompts.