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There’s just never a week without any “hot” AI news, here we go again

Claude: Last week was all about Gemini by Google, this week Claude came back to steal the headlines again. Their newest model (let’s face it, there’s a new model every week), Opus 4.5 - is now the best for research, writing, coding and any other tasks that require advanced thinking.
It’s rated the highest across all internet benchmarks, but it doesn’t seem like the internet is as excited as Google’s launches. Something to probably keep an eye on.

Back to energy: While the entire world is running behind NVIDIA and its hardware to build AI models, big tech CEOs (Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai) agreed that there are certain elements to a “bubble” here.
What they’re essentially saying is that as we start accumulating more hardware to build better AI models, the energy consumption will increase exponentially. In a few years (maybe months), it won’t be about hardware anymore, but back to the basics - energy.
Until we figure out a way to better harness energy, companies can have all the GPUs or hardware they want, but it won’t help them one bit.

I had to write about Gamma this week. It helped me save over 20 hours (not joking) for a presentation I had to make.

Gamma is like having a barista who doesn't just pull your espresso - they design the whole café around it.

It’s an AI-powered presentation tool transforms your ideas into visually polished decks, documents, and webpages in minutes, without requiring design skills or wrestling with formatting.

It handles the brewing process so you can focus on what matters: your message.

Perfect for professionals who need to communicate quickly without sacrificing impact, Gamma eliminates the blank-page paralysis and design anxiety that usually derails busy teams.

You can dumb your rough thoughts, upload formatted and refined ones, or even use an existing presentation. Just drop it into Gamma and watch the magic happen.

All other tools here

Here’s an underrated feature of ChatGPT - creating your own custom GPTs.

Basically, if you see yourself going to ChatGPT for repetitive use cases, say writing work emails, formatting your content, pulling research from all across the internet, you’ll save tons of time with your own custom GPT.

Custom GPTs in ChatGPT bake in your preferences into the system prompt. Once created, it remembers your context, style, and output format every single conversation - no repetition needed.

This is how I created one to help me refine my content for Brew & AI.

Now each time I drop anything in the chat, it'll let me know if there's anything I need to change, and whether my latest content is in line with everything else I've written.

Try out your own custom GPT this week, and let me know how it goes.

More tips here

That’s it for this week’s brew. We’ll soon be moving to tutorials and more practical content, I’m also exploring converting the blogs to short-form video content, so stay tuned.

I’d love to hear what you think - what you liked, what could be better, or what you’d love to see next.

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