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AI · TECH · STARTUPS
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In This Issue
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🎬 Google Vids Just Got Avatars That Walk, Talk, and Speak 24 Languages
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🪶 This Tool Shrinks Slack From 524MB to 8MB. 50,000 Stars and Counting.
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💪 Push-Up Arena Turns Your Workout Into a Dungeon Crawler
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⚙️ CrankGPT Runs AI With Zero Battery, Zero Internet, Just a Hand Crank
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🎬 GOOGLE VIDS · AI AVATARS · VIDEO
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Google Vids Now Turns Slides Into Videos With AI Avatars That Walk, Talk, and Speak 24 Languages.
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Google Workspace shipped a major Google Vids update that converts any Slides presentation into a full video in a few clicks. AI automatically generates the storyboard and script, then hands it to a custom AI avatar that can walk, talk, and interact with objects on screen via simple prompts. Voiceovers and avatars now support 24 languages with no duration limit on generated clips. It's free to try in the US right now, with international rollout coming soon. Vids already has over 7 million monthly users.
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📌 Free to try in the US today. No duration cap on the videos it generates, unlike most AI avatar tools that gate clip length behind paid tiers.
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⚡ 24-language support including major Indian regional languages puts this ahead of most Western competitors for global content teams.
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🔭 7 million monthly users already on Vids. Adding avatars at this scale puts real pressure on Synthesia, HeyGen and every dedicated AI avatar tool.
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Read the official announcement →
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🪶 PAKE · RUST · OPEN SOURCE
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Pake Shrinks Slack From 524MB to 8MB. Discord From 265MB to 9MB. Electron's Bloat Problem Just Got Solved.
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Chinese developer tw93 built Pake, a tool that turns any website into a tiny native desktop app using Rust and Tauri instead of Electron. The size difference is staggering: Slack goes from a 524MB Electron app to an 8MB Pake app. Discord drops from 265MB to 9MB. ChatGPT desktop goes from 260MB to 9MB. It's MIT licensed and fully open-source, with pre-built apps already available for ChatGPT, Discord, Gemini, Grok, YouTube, and X. One command installs any website as a native app. The project has crossed 50,000 GitHub stars.
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📌 MIT licensed. Build commercial products on it. No royalties, no restrictions, no approval process needed.
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⚡ One-command install for any website. You don't need to wait for a pre-built app, you can wrap your own tool in minutes.
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🔭 If RAM and disk usage matter to your team, audit every Electron app you're running. The Pake replacement might already exist.
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View Pake on GitHub →
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Talk to your AI tools the way you'd talk to a colleague.
You don't send a colleague a three-word brief. You explain the context, the constraints, what you've already tried. But typing all that into ChatGPT takes forever — so you don't.
Wispr Flow lets you speak your prompts instead. Talk through your thinking naturally and get clean, paste-ready text. No filler words. No cleanup. Just detailed prompts that actually get you useful answers on the first try.
Millions of users worldwide. Works system-wide on Mac, Windows, and iPhone.
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💪 PUSH UP ARENA · FITNESS · GAMIFICATION
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Push Up Arena Turns Every Rep Into Attack Points. 10 Dungeons. Horde Waves. Your Workout Is Now a Game.
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Push Up Arena is a new iPhone app that counts your push-up reps in real time and converts them directly into attack points inside a game. It features 10 dungeons, horde waves, and speed challenges, turning a basic bodyweight exercise into something that feels closer to a boss fight than a workout routine. The post that surfaced it joked about a Dark Souls crossover, and honestly the comparison fits.
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📌 Real-time rep detection via the phone camera or motion sensors converts physical effort into in-game currency instantly.
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⚡ 10 dungeons and speed challenges give it actual game depth, not just a single repetitive mode.
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🔭 Gamified fitness apps that actually nail the game loop, not just the badge system, are rare. This is one of the more committed attempts in a while.
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Learn more →
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⚙️ CRANKGPT · OFFLINE AI · HARDWARE
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CrankGPT Runs AI With No Battery, No Solar, No Internet. Just You, Cranking a Handle, Generating Tokens.
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CrankGPT, built by SqueezLabs, is a physical AI device that runs completely off-grid, powered purely by a hand crank. No battery, no solar panel, no internet connection required. You physically crank the device while it processes your prompt, and the creators describe genuinely feeling the computational load through the resistance in the crank as the model works. It's a playful, almost absurdist demonstration, but it makes a real point: as AI models get smaller and more efficient, the floor for what hardware can run them keeps dropping.
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📌 Zero external power source. The hand crank is the only energy input for the entire inference process.
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⚡ You can physically feel the model's compute load through the crank resistance. It's a tactile, almost visceral demonstration of inference cost.
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Watch the demo →
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June 19, 2025
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