In a lot of ways, Perplexity is one of the sleeper AI tools.  It doesn’t get as much attention as ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot but they are quietly building a solid product.

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Can you help me understand why I would use NotebookLM over something like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini?  I don’t want to make podcasts and I don’t see any other reason to consider it.~ Anonymous

Another prompting framework because, why not?

This one will hopefully be easy to remember for the right audience…

The framework is STAGE and here is the breakdown 

I know, I know, they are not technically called podcasts, but I feel like that’s how everyone knows them.  

I really like the voice modes on some of the AI chatbots - i.e., ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot (none with Claude yet…).

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Our group does a lot of video meetings and I want to improve my setup.  I don’t know which things matter.  Can you help?~ Zoe

Some of these are so weird, but then they work.  

If I haven’t mentioned it already, Google is winning the AI race, in my opinion.  And I have mentioned it before, a lot.

I’ll open with, I haven’t tried this one.  And I probably won’t.  I do think that it is interesting, though.

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Our team has recently switched to remote work and we need to start doing video meetings.  Which platform is the best for us to use?~ Joe