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December 23, 2025
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🚀 Replit Retires Assistant, Introduces Faster AI Mode
Replit is phasing out its current Assistant tool on December 30 for paying users, making way for the new Fast Mode in Agent. Fast Mode brings faster responses and more precise code editing, helping developers build quicker and smarter. Replit says it's a big leap forward in value and performance. Want to see what’s new? Try Fast Mode today.
🧠 Meet QEDScience — Your AI Assistant for Research
Whether you're writing a grant, prepping a manuscript, or reviewing the latest findings, QEDScience helps scientists streamline their workflow. It uses AI to search, distill, and organize complex literature across disciplines — giving you insights without the overload. Ideal for researchers who want more time for thinking, less time searching. Try it at qedscience.com.
🚀 Manus Hits $100M ARR in Just 8 Months — Fastest Ever
AI startup Manus has shattered records, reaching $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) just eight months after launch — making it the fastest startup ever to hit that mark. With a total revenue run-rate of $125M, Manus is growing over 20% month-over-month, fueled by demand for its general AI agent that transforms natural language into complex tasks. The company has now processed over 147 trillion tokens and created more than 83 million virtual computers. Big plans are ahead — including a new office in Paris.
A Better Way to Deploy Voice AI at Scale
Most Voice AI deployments fail for the same reasons: unclear logic, limited testing tools, unpredictable latency, and no systematic way to improve after launch.
The BELL Framework solves this with a repeatable lifecycle — Build, Evaluate, Launch, Learn — built for enterprise-grade call environments.
See how leading teams are using BELL to deploy faster and operate with confidence.
AI as Your Personal Tutor: Learning R Step-by-Step
Imagine having a friendly, knowledgeable tutor available whenever you need help – day or night. That’s the experience many people now have with AI chatbots like ChatGPT. These tools can guide you through learning challenges in a patient, personalized way, essentially acting as a private teacher who never judges. Whether you’re brushing up on math or mastering a programming language like R, an AI tutor adapts to your needs and makes learning approachable for anyone.
Learning R with ChatGPT: A Step-by-Step Example
Consider a learner who wants to improve their R skills for data analysis. Instead of signing up for a formal class, they turn to ChatGPT as a personal tutor. They begin by telling ChatGPT what dataset they have and what they want to achieve, then ask for a full plan in R. ChatGPT responds with a step-by-step roadmap – suggesting which libraries to use, how to import and clean the data, which statistical tests or visualizations might be relevant, and even providing R code snippets with explanations. The learner follows each step in R, effectively being guided through the project. If anything is confusing or an error pops up, they ask ChatGPT for clarification or debugging help. In essence, ChatGPT can translate plain English instructions into R code and help troubleshoot issues along the way, creating an interactive, iterative learning process. Once the analysis is complete, the learner takes one more step: they ask ChatGPT to generate an instructional manual of the workflow. ChatGPT then produces a neat summary of all the steps and code – a personalized how-to guide the learner can reuse later. (In one real example, a user even asked ChatGPT to make a printable R programming cheatsheet for future reference!)
Practical Benefits of an AI Tutor
Self-Paced Learning: You set the pace. An AI tutor is available 24/7, so you can learn on your own schedule and revisit concepts as needed. There’s never any rush or pressure to keep up with a class.
Iterative & Interactive: Learning with ChatGPT is a two-way conversation. You can ask unlimited follow-up questions, get step-by-step guidance, and tackle problems one bite at a time. This iterative dialogue keeps you engaged and lets you refine your understanding with each exchange.
No Judgment, No Fear: AI tutors are endlessly patient. They won’t get annoyed if you ask basic questions or need something explained twice. In fact, ChatGPT is non-judgmental, so you can take your time to grasp concepts without feeling self-conscious. There’s no embarrassment in making mistakes, which makes for a safe learning space.
Instantly Adaptive: An AI tutor tailors instruction on the fly. ChatGPT adjusts to your skill level and the context, personalizing its teaching style to fit your needs. You can suddenly switch to a new question or dataset, and the AI will immediately adapt its guidance to the new scenario. This flexibility means the learning experience is always relevant to your goals.
All of this adds up to a learning style that is friendly, curious, and empowering. In fact, having an ever-ready AI “personal coach” at your side lowers the barriers to picking up complex tools like R – no formal course or human tutor required. It’s a self-paced, no-judgment zone where you can experiment, ask anything, and instantly apply new knowledge to real problems. By combining patience, adaptability, and on-demand expertise, AI tutors like ChatGPT are turning eager learners into confident practitioners, one question at a time.
Example Prompt:
“I have a CSV file with data on bird species counts across several nature reserves. I want to analyze species richness per site, test if it differs by habitat type using ANOVA, and visualize it with a boxplot in R. Can you walk me through the full process step-by-step, including which libraries to load, how to clean and prepare the data, run the stats, and generate the plot? Afterwards, can you create a short manual I can reuse for similar projects?”
Eightify — Turn Long YouTube Videos into Clear, Actionable Summaries
We’ve all been there.
You open a YouTube video that promises “everything you need to know in 10 minutes” — and 25 minutes later, you’re still waiting for the actual point.
Eightify solves exactly that problem.
Instead of creating content, Eightify focuses on something surprisingly valuable:
turning long YouTube videos into short, structured summaries you can actually use.
What Eightify Does
a concise text summary
key takeaways
chapter-style breakdowns
bullet-point insights
timestamps for important moments
Instead of watching a 40-minute video, you get the essence in under a minute.
Eightify’s core features: instant summaries, key points, and structured insights.
How Eightify Actually Works
Eightify works as a browser extension rather than a standalone platform. Once installed, it integrates directly into YouTube itself. When you open any YouTube video, Eightify automatically appears next to the video player, allowing you to generate an AI-powered summary with a single click. There’s no need to copy links, switch tabs, or move between tools — everything happens inside YouTube. That’s the key thing to understand: Eightify doesn’t have a separate interface — it lives inside YouTube.
This makes it feel more like a native YouTube feature than a standalone AI tool.
🧪 Our Test
To test Eightify properly, we suggest something realistic — not a “perfect” video.
We opend a houre long YouTube video link into and click summarize and let it generate the summary without any additional input. You can choose from 4 different styles: funny, insightful, actionable, conversational. Also you can choose the length of the summary. We choose detailed because if you cheat and take a short road, don’t make it shorter!
What we looked at? Does the summary capture the actual point of the video? Are the key ideas clearly separated? Does it skip fluff and repetition? Are timestamps useful and accurate?
Eightify delivered a clean, readable summary that:
highlighted the main arguments
grouped ideas logically
removed filler and rambling
kept the original structure of the talk
It won’t replace watching a video you truly care about — but it’s incredibly effective for deciding whether a video is worth your time at all.
From a 60-minute video to a few key takeaways — summarized by Eightify.
Limitations to Keep in Mind
Like most summarization tools: nuance can sometimes be lost, tone and storytelling don’t always translate to text, very complex arguments may feel oversimplified. Still, for speed and clarity, Eightify does exactly what it promises.
Eightify summaries appear directly next to the YouTube video.
Final Thoughts
Eightify is not flashy — and that’s its strength. It doesn’t try to do everything. It does one thing very well: saving you time.
Eightify is especially useful when you want to avoid sitting through long videos that never quite get to the information you’re actually looking for. It can quickly save you time, reduce frustration, and help you filter content more efficiently.
That said, video is still video — and compressing tone, nuance, storytelling, or context into a few sentences is inherently difficult. Many YouTubers rely heavily on sarcasm, humor, or indirect storytelling, and this is where Eightify struggles the most. Subtle irony or playful exaggeration often gets flattened or misinterpreted.
Because of that, Eightify works best with informational, structured videos, and less reliably with opinion-heavy, sarcastic, or narrative-driven content. Choosing the right type of video is key to getting real value out of it. We are giving it a 4/5 on our LMAI scale.
Text generation | Image Generation | LMAI recommends |
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