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Mastering Practical AI Upgrades: Key Features Business Leaders Need to Know This Week
Recent AI developments have shifted from hype to actionable improvements in core business productivity tools. This week’s advancements, from Chrome-integrated coding agents to persistent AI-driven document workflows, matter for anyone responsible for optimizing their team’s output or streamlining technical workflows. This feature breakdown clarifies what changed and why these updates specifically raise the bar on real-use business AI, eliminating superficial features in favor of true operational enhancements.
Chrome Extension AI Agents: Codex Arrives for Seamless Browser Automation
OpenAI’s Codex now integrates directly into Google Chrome through a new plugin. Unlike in-app browsers or disconnected agent experiences, this Chrome extension operates in parallel across tabs and actively engages with authenticated sites—think Gmail, LinkedIn, Salesforce—without forcing users to re-login each session or forgo existing Chrome extensions.
Business value:
Gaps between browser-based tasks (such as data entry, website navigation, and using proprietary apps) and AI-driven automation are closed.
The Codex agent intelligently chooses when to act within Chrome versus using plugins or built-in tools, streamlining context retention across workflows.
Accessibility for all paid ChatGPT plans (Plus, Pro, Business, EDU, Enterprise) enables companies of any size to integrate advanced coding and automation without switching toolsets or facing technical roadblocks.
Mobile Copilot CoWork: Agentic AI for Microsoft 365 Goes Truly Mobile
Microsoft’s Copilot CoWork, previously a cloud-based asset, now runs within the existing Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app for iOS and Android. This agent, built atop Anthropic’s technology, features reusable skills and plugin/connectors expansion and is available to Frontier Program participants, with general Enterprise release expected soon.
Business value:
Work delegation and management can occur immediately via mobile, allowing tasks to be offloaded and executed by AI agents even when away from a physical workstation.
Unlike local-only agents requiring a specific machine, this cloud-native approach enables persistent connectivity, which is specifically useful for professionals operating multiple devices.
Direct integration with Microsoft 365 data and workflows strengthens security and speeds up task completion for enterprise-grade mobile teams.
Finance Agent Templates: Anthropic’s Claude Delivers Ready-Made Vertical Solutions
Anthropic released ten prebuilt agent templates within the Claude Financial Services Marketplace targeting pain points in finance verticals, including pitch book builders, meeting preparers, earnings reviewers, and KYC screeners. These templates combine pre-engineered skills, connectors, and sub-agents, deployable as plugins in Claude CoWork/Code or as cookbooks for managed agents.
Business value:
Deployment time for finance AI agents drops from weeks or months to mere days or hours, as templates cover logic, data connectors, and approval routing.
Each template can be customized for unique modeling conventions, risk policies, and workflow approval requirements.
When paired with newly released Claude add-ins for Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, context seamlessly transfers between apps, eliminating data silos and manual reentry.
Google Docs Gemini Custom Instructions: Persistent AI Personalization for Documentation
Gemini in Google Docs rolled out persistent custom instruction capabilities, now retained across all documents—not only per individual project. Custom instructions apply to drafting, summarizing, rewriting, and new “Help Me Create” tasks. This enhancement is available for U.S.-based English users with Business, Enterprise, or Education accounts and active paid Gemini features.
Business value:
Teams drafting client work or internal documentation can set explicit voice, terminology, and style guidelines, ensuring consistent AI-assisted writing throughout the company.
AI-driven document assistance no longer relies on repeated manual setup, allowing for greater reliability and brand consistency across all written output.
Perplexity Personal Computer: Secure Hybrid AI for Mac Users
Perplexity’s agentic “Personal Computer” capability is now generally available for all paid Mac users, beyond the previous $200/month waitlist constraint. This hybrid local/cloud AI agent runs directly on a user’s Mac, interfacing with files, native apps, and the broader Perplexity platform.
Business value:
Unlike open-source agentic systems that require ongoing maintenance and frequent troubleshooting, this solution offers a smoother, more stable experience suitable for professionals who cannot invest in constant tinkering.
Enhanced security through local file execution combined with web-based model scalability, subject to subscription plan limits.
Microsoft Copilot Studio Agentic Workflow Builder: Natural Language Business Process Automation
The new Copilot-powered authoring experience in Microsoft Copilot Studio brings a natural-language-driven workflow builder, allowing users to describe processes verbally and have them generated automatically—much like a Zapier for Microsoft products.
Business value:
Process designers can construct automations such as email-driven reporting, announcement posting, and collaborative drafting across Teams, OneNote, and other Microsoft elements by simply describing the needed flow.
Reduces technical onboarding and error-prone manual node setup, enabling non-technical business roles to deploy robust, multi-app workflows rapidly.
ChatGPT 5.5 Instant Model: Improved Accuracy and Default Experience
A new “5.5 Instant” model now powers the default ChatGPT experience for all users (free and paid). OpenAI reports a 52% reduction in hallucinated claims for verticals like medicine, law, and finance, and the model now personalizes answers by drawing from past chats and connected files, including Gmail.
Business value:
More accurate, reliable quick responses for high-stakes professional queries—no manual selection of the optimal model required.
Consistency in corporate knowledge, as memory and context-pulling features now prevent repetitive context entry and allow continuity across discussions and projects.
These targeted upgrades support business leaders seeking efficiency and error minimization in daily operations. Companies adopting these precise innovations—Chrome-embedded AI for real browser automation, mobile agentic apps, sector-specific agent templates, persistent document instructions, and natural language workflow automation—will see faster onboarding, fewer workflow roadblocks, and improved reliability in machine-augmented workstreams. Each development streamlines the transition from AI pilot projects to real productivity.
Topics Covered in This Episode:
- Codex Chrome Extension Integration for AI Agents
- Unified Codex Platform vs Claude Comparison
- Copilot Cowork Mobile App Launch
- Anthropic Claude Finance Agent Templates Released
- Gemini Google Docs Custom Instructions Feature
- Perplexity Personal Computer for Mac Rollout
- Microsoft Copilot Studio Agentic Workflow Builder
- GPT-4.5 Instant Model Becomes ChatGPT Default
- ChatGPT New Memory and Personalization Features
- Anthropic Claude Adds Microsoft 365 Integration
Episode Transcript
Jordan Wilson [00:00:18]:
You know what most companies pitching AI agents aren't actually doing? Deploying AI agents. Sage just did the opposite at Sage Future. They expanded their AWS collaboration to put real AI agents into real finance workflows built on Amazon Bedrock agents core and available in the AWS marketplace. So that means enterprise grade AI for your finance team without the IT headache. Check it out at sage dot com. Everything got more powerful this week, even though we didn't get a new frontier, large language model over the past few days, what we can accomplish with our daily driver devices really did change. I mean, this week, your browser, your iPhone, your Google docs, and your physical computer all got a little more powerful because of some under the radar AI updates that you probably missed. So if you don't have hours every single day to check what's new and understand what new capabilities that you have, well, don't worry.
Jordan Wilson [00:01:33]:
That's what today's show in our new ish Friday features show is all about, where we bring you the new features in AI that you can actually start using today that are going to change your workflow. So on today's show, here's what you're going to learn. And, well, stick around, and you're gonna not only have a bunch of new workflows, but you're gonna understand why AI tech slop could be on the decline. Bless up. You're gonna find out the new way that you can copilot on the go, and the more secure and easier way to use an OpenClaw esque, agentic, system on your computer that now millions of more people are gonna have access to. Alright. If you're ready to get into it, into it, I am too. Let's go.
Jordan Wilson [00:02:25]:
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Jordan Wilson [00:02:54]:
Sign up for the free daily newsletter. We're gonna be recapping all seven tools from today's show, all those updates as well as all the other AI news that you need to know to stay ahead. Alright. Let's get to it. So first, let's get right into it. This one, Chrome extension that I've personally been waiting for for a very long time, and I think it's going to maybe open up a lot of people to codex. Because if you've been sleeping on codex, you are missing out. So here's what's new.
Jordan Wilson [00:03:31]:
OpenAI released a codex plug in for Google Chrome that lets the codex coding agents operate inside of the actual Google Chrome profile that you used. So this was announced just yesterday, and it can work in parallel across tabs in the background while the user keeps using the browser or read and act on sign in sites like Gmail, LinkedIn, Salesforce, whatever. So technically, this is not new capability because codex actually has a built in browser. And to even rewind a little bit more, because you might be wondering, like, what is codex? Right? If you've heard of Claude's desktop tools, right, they have ClaudeChat, ClaudeCoWork, ClaudeCode, all great and all, except those three things don't talk to each other. They have no clue that any of them exist. They don't carry context over. Codecs is a unified one platform, does it all, in my opinion, way better benchmarks for the most part, you know, hit or miss. Right? Depending.
Jordan Wilson [00:04:31]:
But I love codecs, and this makes it even better because, yes, before codecs did have an in app browser, which is bonkers, so good, so useful. Right? But sometimes I have all these Chrome extensions that I like to use. And, you know, one of the downsides of having a, in app, browser inside codecs. Right? The good thing is it well, it's way faster because it's all, contained kind of within the harness of codecs. But the downside aside from all of those, you you know, Chrome extensions that you don't necessarily get access to inside of codecs is just being able to stay logged in across sessions. So if you do, you know, close codecs as an example and go, you know, open up that in codecs browser, it doesn't stay logged in. So a lot of cool use cases, but, I'm actually gonna kind of scroll through here on the, Twitter thread that codecs, that OpenAI put out. So here's what they said.
Jordan Wilson [00:05:27]:
They said codecs now works directly in Chrome on Mac OS in Windows. It's even better at working with apps insights in Chrome and now works in parallel cross tabs in the background without taking over your browser. That's the big thing and what separates it, from anything, you know, sorry, anything Claude because Claude unfortunately does take over your browser. So it says with the new Chrome extension, codecs could quickly move through repetitive browser work, like navigating structure pages and complex data entry flows under the hood. It writes and runs code to navigate and complete tasks. If a task needs multiple tools, codecs chooses the best one for each step. It uses plugins when they can handle the job, Chrome when it needs a logged in website, and combines approaches as needed. To me, that's the coolest part.
Jordan Wilson [00:06:19]:
Right? So it's not always going to use right? Like, if if you're having it carry context, let's say, from your LinkedIn accounts, to Twitter, to your email, whatever. Right? I'm just, you know, naming out tools like a lot of you all probably use on a day to day basis. It's not going to go and use your g mail dot com if you have a Gmail connector inside of codecs. Right? So it's smart enough where it's going to handle the job. Another big advantage here. Right? And sometimes the advantage is you really only know them when you're comparing, you know, this new process or improved process versus its main competitor, which in this case, is Claude, via either computer use on the desktop program or in the Claude Chrome extension. So that's the other thing. The Claude Chrome extension doesn't talk to the Claude desktop app.
Jordan Wilson [00:07:13]:
Two different things. And when you close the, the cloud Chrome extension, it just loses history of whatever you were previously working on. I was actually using it, yesterday before this new update came out. And when this new update in codecs came out, I was like, yes. Finally. So this is a big one. So who has access? It's available, like I said, right now on Mac OS and Windows. You just install the plug in from the codecs app, and then you connect the Chrome extension.
Jordan Wilson [00:07:42]:
So codecs itself, it's not a separate plan. It's already included if you have any paid plan. So chat g v t plus pro business e d u and enterprise. Here's why it's useful and who's gonna find it valuable. So it removes the gap between codex and tasks that require a logged in browser, or if you use, Chrome extensions like I do and rely on them heavy heavily. I rely on my Chrome extensions very heavily. So that's great. So, you know, you can go and also for those, you know, apps that you use, on an ongoing basis or, you know, platforms that you use that don't have a connector, and maybe they don't even have an MCP, access, this is a great way that you can kind of juggle those tools.
Jordan Wilson [00:08:25]:
Right? Because the code codecs itself, being able to talk to your Chrome browser can decide, when it's gonna use the tools that it already has, not just the connectors, but the actual tools. Right? Running Python, you you know, APIs, etcetera, but also then navigating your browser as it needs. Alright. Our next big, announcement, and I'll say this one big. Some of these are under the radar, but I think this one is actually a pretty sizable one. That's because, Copilot Cowork has gone mobile. So if you don't know what Copilot Cowork is, right, Microsoft is a big investor in Anthropic, and Infropics Cowork has obviously been a very popular tool in 2026 so far. So this is essentially like Microsoft's version literally of Infropix co work.
Jordan Wilson [00:09:17]:
They are using Infropix kind of co work technology, but all of their, infrastructure on top of it. So the new Microsoft co work agent, is now in the Microsoft three sixty five Copilot mobile app. So this, was announced, alongside reusable co work skills and a plugger, plug ins connectors expansion. So here's who has access. You do have to be in the Frontier program, in Microsoft, which I know most enterprise companies are. So if you're an enterprise company, you probably already have access to this. And also Microsoft says broader availability is targeted around the July. So you do obviously have to be in the Frontier program and obviously have a Microsoft three sixty five Copilot's, premium license.
Jordan Wilson [00:10:07]:
So the actual mobile app that runs on iOS and Android, via the existing Microsoft three sixty five Copilot app. So, essentially, if you are already a, Copilot app user, essentially, this just brings in a bunch of new, kind of co work capabilities within, within that app. So here is kind of what Microsoft says about it. So they said work doesn't just happen at your desk, bringing co work to iOS and Android mobile. It says a key part of our copilot vision is bringing AI into the flow of work wherever that work happens. Cowork already runs in the cloud, so you don't have to worry about closing your laptop or if your PC is running. Now we're introducing Cowork on iOS and Android so you can delegate work the moment you think of it on your commute between meetings or away from your desk and come back to a finished outcome. Instead of completing those tasks, you can hand them off and keep going while the work progresses in the background.
Jordan Wilson [00:11:10]:
And then, obviously, they added support for, skills as well inside of Copilot's co work. So who here's why it's useful. Well, now you can do a lot of what you were accomplishing, in Copilot co work on the go. That's the biggest thing. Right? And if you haven't checked out Copilot Cowork, we did cover that, a couple of weeks ago in the Friday features section. It was actually one of our first, weeks that we covered, Copilot Cowork, after we kicked off this new weekly session. So, I mean, anyone that's gonna find it valuable. Right? So if you're a Microsoft three sixty five shop and you have access to Copilot co work, I mean, this is an instant upgrade in what you can accomplish on the go.
Jordan Wilson [00:11:51]:
You know, I don't know about everyone else, but I actually have multiple computers that I use. And this is one thing I always struggle with is, well, I don't have one, you know, at least on my phone, I can't, you know, connect to different computers. And that's the cool thing that's a little bit different about the Microsoft Copilot's co work version versus the, you know, anthropic co work version. The anthropic co work version, it requires your local machine. The copilot co work version is a little bit different. It works in Microsoft's cloud. So think of it as, in in this way, Copilot co work, if you haven't used it. Think of it as kind of like a virtual machine, right, that has access to all of your Microsoft three sixty five data that you can just it can run and do work in the background.
Jordan Wilson [00:12:33]:
So it's more like a virtual machine running Copilot co work, but now you have a remote connection to it with the iOS app. So, this one, it's kind of confusing because you first have to, you know, explain, well, this is different than normal Copilot, but it's in the three sixty five app. But it uses anthropics technology, but now it's on the go. So I actually think, right, this is better for people like me, because I was even giving a presentation last week, a keynote, on Copilot, or or sorry. On Claude Cowork, and I couldn't, really showcase certain, you know, phone to computer capabilities because it was originally synced to a different computer. So I'd have to unlink it and do all these other things. So, you know, pretty cool, especially if you're a multiple computer user. But regardless if you are a Microsoft three sixty five organization, if you're in the frontier program, Copilot, co work, I actually think it's a really good setup, and now you can, you know, always be connected.
Jordan Wilson [00:13:31]:
One more reason to keep working. Right? Sometimes I don't know about you guys. Sometimes all these tools and then it just to me, it's like, oh, man. Well, now I have to be more productive because all of a sudden, you know, I can talk to my Apple Watch and, you know, it's gonna start my computer and do all my work for me. Right? So it's almost like it's kind of like this concept of FOMAT, right? Fear of missing agent time that I talked about a couple of days ago. Right. But now it's just the ability to control all of these work processes is getting easier and easier and more agentic and coming to more platforms and more devices. All right.
Jordan Wilson [00:14:04]:
Our next feature that you might've missed. Claude has some new finance agent templates, and yes, we're covering templates this week because if you work in any of these kind of verticals, you are definitely gonna wanna use these. I think this is one area where Anthropic has really carved out a niche. Alright. People always say like, oh, you're hard on in Anthropic. No. I'm not. I just tell the truth.
Jordan Wilson [00:14:30]:
Right? Like, as an example, codex is just way better, than anything clogged code, clogged co work. And I think finally, the rest of the world has been figuring that out even though I've been saying it since the February. But one area where I think Infropic is continuing to clean up is just in these niche verticals. And that's why, you know, sometimes when they, you know, especially when they release the the plug ins, some of the original skills. Right? You saw some, some legacy SaaS companies really get hit on the stock market. So it'll be interesting. You know, these have only been out for a couple of days. It'll be interesting if we see a similar, reaction here as well.
Jordan Wilson [00:15:08]:
But let's talk about what's new. Anthropic released 10 prebuilt agent templates aimed at financial services. So the 10 templates are pitch builder, meeting preparer, earnings reviewer, model builder, market researcher, valuation reviewer, general ledger reconciler, month end closer statement auditor and KYC know your customer screener. So each template packages three things, skills, right? So that's kind of your workflow instructions paired with your domain knowledge. So skills, connectors, and sub agents. So who has access? So anyone, if you're on a paid claud plan, through Anthropics Financial Services Marketplace. So not your standard, you know, quad plan, but you have to go into the anthropic financial services marketplace on GitHub. So there's two deployment paths.
Jordan Wilson [00:16:02]:
So you can deploy these as plug ins inside of Claude CoWork or Claude Code, or you can do them as cookbooks for Claude managed agents, which are available on the Claude platform in beta. So Anthropic recommends pairing the templates with Claude Opus 4.7, you know, because why not? Now you can get through your, your I had to make a joke about this one. Now you can get through your weekly limits. Right? So let me actually just pick a random bone here, since we're talking about, like, oh, of course, Claude is or Anthropic's gonna recommend you use Opus 4.7. So one thing they actually did, which I found humorous, Anthropic had their dev day this week. And, you know, the big headline that came out of it was, oh my gosh. Anthropic doubled their limits. Right? Which I think still even at the doubling limit rate, I don't I still don't even think the maybe the $100 plan at double, quote, unquote, true double limits, but we didn't get it one second.
Jordan Wilson [00:17:00]:
Still, you might get what you get on the $20 a month CHT GPT plan, but I still think the CHT GPT plan gets more weekly limits than the $100 a month anthropic plan. Anyways, you didn't actually get double limits. You got, double five hour windows, but the weekly limit is the same. So, kind of the the the joke I made, it's like they're they're like, all of a sudden, it's like, oh, let's just say you're on a diet and you, are on a 2,000 calorie diet. Right? And they're like, okay. Now you can eat whatever you want at any meal, but the, you know, the $2,000 calorie, it doesn't change. Right? So it's like, oh, double the rate limits over a five hour period. It it actually doesn't matter.
Jordan Wilson [00:17:40]:
So because your limits don't actually go up. It's just a way for people to pay more money. It's a sneaky way. Right? Alright. Anyways, these agents though are actually really cool, and here's why it's useful. Because it compresses kind of the stand up time for a finance agent from many weeks to, well, maybe days or hours, since the workflow logic data connectors and approval flows are already prewired for you. So each template here's the thing that is important to keep in mind. They can be customized to your firm's own modeling conventions, risk policies, and approval routes.
Jordan Wilson [00:18:13]:
This also does pair with the brand new Claude add ins for Microsoft three sixty five. You know, so that's already out for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and then Outlook, I believe, is in beta. So then the context carries, from a model into Excel, into a deck in PowerPoint without having to reexplain it. So I think that's probably the big, kind of small print there. So, you know, especially if you're a heavy, three sixty five organization, obviously, I think it was a smart move for Microsoft to start offering both, in profit models and OpenAI models in their different products and services. But this right here, being able to use these, 10 different agents inside the actual platform where a lot of this work gets done, is a big step forward. So here is what Anthropic said about their release. So they said we're releasing 10 ready to run agent templates for the most time consuming work in financial services, building pitchbooks, screening KYC files, and closing the books at month end.
Jordan Wilson [00:19:13]:
Each one ships as a plug in in Claude Co work and Claude code and as a cookbook for Claude managed agents, so a team can put Claude on real financial work in days rather than months. Claude also now works across, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook coming soon through the Claude add ins for Microsoft three sixty five. Once the add ins are installed, context carries automatically between applications, so work that starts in a model can end in a deck without reexplaining anything in between. So pretty big news, especially if you work in the finance space, because I think this one is, again, gonna be one that is fairly popular, for people that work in those spaces. Alright. Next, kind of a very small one that even I almost missed, but I actually ran into this. I didn't even see the announcement from Google. I just showed it pop up in my Google Docs, and I'm like, okay.
Jordan Wilson [00:20:09]:
If you're a heavy Google Docs user like me, you've gotta know this one, and I almost missed it even though I'm constantly looking out for these things. So here's what's new. Sounds small. I'm loving it so far. It's custom instructions for Gemini in Google Docs. So here's what it means. Google just added persistent custom instructions to Gemini inside Google Docs. So users can set rules once and then have Gemini apply them to every interaction in Google Docs.
Jordan Wilson [00:20:40]:
Not just every you know, you don't just do it once per document. You set this up once, and then it is applied for any and every single doc that you work. So, this has been rolled out or will be rolled out gradually over the next few weeks. So instructions kick in on Gemini's existing doc tests. So drafting, rewriting, summarizing, and the new kind of help me create, kind of prompt that you may see pop up at the bottom of Google Docs. So who has access right now? This is US only and English only for now and is available to business enterprise in education accounts. And you have to have the Gemini alpha features enabled, which I think most companies do, but make sure you have that, and you do need a paid account for now. Quick pause.
Jordan Wilson [00:21:36]:
Wanna know where AI ROI actually lives? It's not the flashy demo. It's the work nobody wants to talk about. At Sage Future, Sage tackled the painful side of finance system rollouts, implementation, financial data migration, chart of accounts, mapping, configuration, the work that stalls real transformation projects. Sage is using applied AI to make that faster, more accurate, and auditable with humans staying in control. That's responsible AI doing real work that actually moves time to value. If your finance team is staring down a migration, check out Sage at sage.com. So here's why it's useful. Well, if you have used Gemini inside Google Docs, it's actually gotten really good.
Jordan Wilson [00:22:27]:
I think when they first rolled it out, like, a year and a half ago, it was pretty bad. It just didn't work. I actually did a bunch of, like, video reviews back when I was, you know, doing more kind of little snippet reviews on on YouTube. And I was like, this thing just doesn't work. And now Google, to their credit, has fixed it, and it's actually really, really good. So anyone who's a heavy, user of Google Docs and you've constantly find yourself like, I don't wanna leave to jump over to, you know, Gemini or Claude or ChatCPT or Copilot and then bring all this back in there because I know I need to have it ultimately, live as a doc. It's a big, a big plus. Although, you know, Google Gemini last week, which we covered, finally finally finally, has the ability now to create actual docs within Google Gemini.
Jordan Wilson [00:23:14]:
So that takes away one workaround. But for me, I still spend a lot of my time in Google Docs, whether it's writing things up for clients, whether it's you know, sometimes I just like to brainstorm and right? Sounds crazy. Right? Like, oh my gosh. This Jordan guy's weird. He's using a blank Google Doc. Yeah. Sometimes I'd like to look at a blank page. So it's nice to have this in there.
Jordan Wilson [00:23:35]:
So, yeah, if anyone who's drafting client work in Google Docs and you kinda want that consistent voice, you know, certain, words that you need to use, words you don't wanna use. I think it's just gonna help you get locked in a little bit quicker, and still be able to use Google Gemini and kind of, collaborate with yourself and, Google Gemini at the same time in your voice. Alright. I like that one. Might be a small one, but alright. Next one could be big. Well, we'll see how the credits go. But perplexity personal computer is now available to all Mac users.
Jordan Wilson [00:24:15]:
You know, what's crazy to me is when these things first get announced, like, I don't understand a lot of the companies, like, go to market with some of these splashing new features. Right? Because when perplexity released personal computer, right, they put all these resources behind it. Right? But it was only to max subscribers, which is, I'm guessing, a very small portion of their audience, and then they only released it via a wait list. So now all of that is gone. This is now personal computer that's open to all paid Mac users. No wait list. You don't want to be on the $200 a month. So if you're on the base $20 a month plan, but it was, like, one little blog post and then I think one tweet.
Jordan Wilson [00:24:57]:
Right? That's all. Where the original like, I don't I don't get that. Yeah. Like, I don't know if if if companies just wanna create all the hype, and then people just forget about it when you can actually use it unless you're, well, reading our newsletter every day or listening to our Friday features update. So you would have missed it, but now you can go check it out. So here's what Perplexity personal computer is, but now it's available. So we actually cover this one. So I'm gonna go through this one a little quicker.
Jordan Wilson [00:25:20]:
But it's essentially Perplexity's local cloud hybrid AI agent. So think of it like an open claw, but a little safer. Right? Because it is more refined, and it can run locally on a computer, and it can control your computer more or less. Right? So this is now just available in the perplexity Mac app. So, that's it's it's just going under the general perplexity Mac app. So if you have that, make sure you update it, and then you can check it out. So yeah. And this was announced, originally a couple of months ago, but like I said, it was only for those on the $200 a month, and you had to go on a wait list on top of that.
Jordan Wilson [00:26:01]:
So perplexity computer, essentially, just extends, sorry, personal computer, essentially, just extends perplexity computer onto the user's own machine. Let me, like, rewind and tell you what that actually means. Yeah. Kind of confusing because they're named kind of the same. So perplexity has something called computer. That is confusing because it's online, right? It's their web version of something like OpenClaw and AutonomousAgent that I think uses 19 different models, and it's actually really, really good. Right? So that's perplexity computer. It's a web version.
Jordan Wilson [00:26:39]:
And then personal computer is the version that runs on your machine and can run your machine. So that's what we're talking about here. But, essentially, per personal computer extends perplexity computer onto the user's old machine, and then it has access to all the local files, native Mac apps, connectors, the web perplexity servers, all that good stuff. Right? So, yeah, like I said, if you are on a paid perplexity plan and you're on the Mac, you can download it now, and, you know, give your computer agent capabilities if if you want. Right? It also brings that, you know, kind of that multi, model setup to your actual computer as well. But the downside of that is, well, you're gonna hit your limits on your perplexity $20 a month plan very, very quickly. So my guess is perplexity is rolling this out to everyone because it is very powerful. It is very safe.
Jordan Wilson [00:27:33]:
It's very smooth. Right? The big downside with OpenClaw is you could spend twenty hours on it a week and still be like, ah, it's broken again, or it's it's not really right. Oh, don't be wrong. It's amazing. It's open source. I set it up. But for me, I don't have that five, ten, fifteen hours a week to continually be tweaking and trying to improve it. So something to me, you know, perplexity's personal computer is appealing except the cost.
Jordan Wilson [00:27:58]:
Right? So it's you kind of have to choose. If you, you know, are concerned about cost, well, you can go the OpenClaw route, because you can use your own models. You can choose which model to use. You can have open source models. Right? I have a beefy Mac Studio, so I can use those. But if you use personal computer, you don't. Personal computer chooses for you, and you're gonna run out of your plan pretty quickly, and it's probably gonna encourage you to upgrade. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:28:24]:
So it's kinda you gotta pick pick your pick your path there. Alright. Two more for you. This one, another one that almost slipped under my radar, but it's actually really cool. So this was announced previously, but it is now starting to slowly roll out. I'm talking about Microsoft copilot studio agentic workflow builder. Talk about a mouthful. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:28:49]:
So any yeah. Like these last ones have been hard to, like, say the names, because I'm, like, getting confused between personal computer and perplexity computer and Microsoft Copilot Studio agentic workflow builder. Alright. Here's what it is. Well, I mean, visually, it just looks like something like a Zapier or a workflow builder, but obviously built on-site of Copilot Studio. So this is the new Copilot, powered authoring experience inside of Microsoft Copilot Studio that lets makers build workflows by describing them in natural language. So that's the cool thing is you can just, in natural language, type out some type of workflow that you might want in your head, and then it's actually going to build it for you. Right? Build all the nodes and the connectors and these kind of conditional statements powered by Copilot.
Jordan Wilson [00:29:39]:
Right? And then you can go in there and tweak them as you may. So, this essentially translates user intent into structured workflow logic and auto configured actions, triggers, and other components. So this is rolling to general availability later this month, but it has already started rolling out. So make sure you check your existing Copilot studio environment if you work inside of there. So this sits alongside the existing visual flow designer and the broader workflows public preview. So here's why it's useful. Well, it reduces the need for manual setup after you do get the technical configuration piece down the first time. You know, if you do wanna build those automation flows across different Microsoft products.
Jordan Wilson [00:30:29]:
So it does kind of compress the gap between, you know, describing what you want. You know? So as an example, when an email from my manager arrives, post the subject to the announcements channel and, you know, draft up a press release and save that press release in OneNote and then go into Teams and, you know, tag my colleagues to review it, something like that. Right? You can just describe that in natural language. It will then build out this workflow for you, and then you can go tweak the workflow, change, different aspects. So, really cool. So it's kind of like a a combination between just, well, like an autonomous agent, that can go off and do tasks for you, but with something like a Zapier. Right? Like an n a n, like a traditional workflow builder. So kind of something in between.
Jordan Wilson [00:31:21]:
Alright. Last but definitely not least, are we gonna have less AI tech slop? Well, maybe. That's because we did get a new GPT 5.5 instant model. So what does it is it important? Well, this is the new default model. So, you know, Chad GPT, the, the big, AI, the original OG chatbot that has nearly a billion weekly active users. Right? I don't know the exact percent that use the default model, but, you know, Sam Altman last summer did say it was something like 93%. So the majority of people use just the default model. They're not gonna go through the model picker, and that's really important.
Jordan Wilson [00:32:08]:
And that's why this update, even though it's technically didn't really grab any headlines, it's actually a big deal. GPT 5.5 came out last month. Right? But it's the default version was still running what was called the GPT five three instant. Confusing, I know, because before that, we had the GPT five four series. So the instant series was still on five three. So the five three model instant was not really good. Alright? And I said that when it came out, and I'm like, yeah, you just don't use it at all. And I still will always tell people and advise people, always use the thinking mode, even if you put it on light thinking, or standard thinking, depending on your plan.
Jordan Wilson [00:32:54]:
Right. I, I don't use instant models except to test them. But one thing I have noticed about GVD 5.5 instance, instant, yes, it did get much better benchmarks compared to 5.3, but the writing is actually really good. Right? Which by default, you don't really see a lot. And people will always have their opinions like, oh, Gemini is great by default. You know, Claude is great by default. Not really. Right? They all kind of sniff of, you know, yeah.
Jordan Wilson [00:33:21]:
This is just AI. Right? Just random amounts of sycophancy and, you know, you're absolutely right. Right? You still get those AI isms a lot. G p d five five instant, and I still think, you know, with five three instant, you still got that. You don't really get it. So I don't know. At least if you go look at all the kind of default non thinking versions of all the different models and, I don't know, just test it on writing in general, I think five five instant is actually the best now. Anyways, here's kind of the details of what's actually new.
Jordan Wilson [00:33:51]:
So the new default chat g b t model is rolled out, and it replaced five three instant. So it does sit alongside its thinking and pro counterparts that, were released in April. And then if you're looking for the API, it corresponds to chat latest. So this is already rolled out to free users, plus users, pro users, anyone. So it's already live as the new default model, and they do have, which is really cool. There's new memory and personalization features, that have been rolled out alongside. So now it can pull context from your past chats, files, and your connected Gmail. So that's pretty cool.
Jordan Wilson [00:34:31]:
And you can go and modify, modify the way it actually goes and retrieves that context as well, which is a new feature that they kind of rolled out with 5.5. So here's why it's useful. Well, OpenAI says that it produces 52% fewer hallucinated claims than five three instance. So that's the big one. So they said on that happened on, medicine, law, and finance, and then 37% fewer inaccurate claims in conversations users had flagged for factual errors. So it just gets things right a lot more often, which is refreshing, right, without having to think. And that's one of the downsides of using a non thinking model. Right? Sometimes it they're just not always that good because they're usually just trying to, as quickly as possible and as token efficiently as possible, be a helpful assistant for you for whatever you are asking them.
Jordan Wilson [00:35:27]:
So, you know, accuracy for any non thinking default model is always gonna be not as good as the thinking counterpart. So it's good to see, some of those benchmarks improve. And it's also smarter. OpenAI says at deciding when to search past chats, files, or your connected Gmail to personalize an answer instead of asking for the same context twice. That's the thing in my limited testing of g b d five five instance. Like I said, instance, I still usually always use the thinking version. It's like, okay. Well, what do you do for that extra twenty seconds? I read the chain of thought and think.
Jordan Wilson [00:36:01]:
Right? Anyways, I do see that it pulls a lot more when I want it to pull without even asking it and from other chat, you you know, history. So some of the times, especially, I think Claude is really not that good at this, at knowing or inferring when you do want it to go and look at your Gmail without saying, look at my Gmail. Right? Or, you know, we were chatting about this yesterday in a different conversation. You should just know. So sometimes with Claude, you have to be a little more explicit, and it does a good job when you do it that way. But the new g p t five five instant, I've found, not only does it just have a, I think, a better, you know, writing tone that's pleasant to read and is not like the rest of, you know, the default kind of AI slot that's out there, but it does just do a better job of knowing when and how, to traverse kind of your files, your past chat history, and your Gmail, which for me is refreshing. So who knows? Maybe I will, you know, use g b d five five instant a little bit more, but probably not for things that I would normally go in chat g p t for. I would probably start using this where things where I would normally use, like, you know, AI overviews.
Jordan Wilson [00:37:08]:
So which isn't a lot because I usually use AI mode, not AI overviews. But essentially, it's like this might just be my new quick Google replacement. Right? Whereas before, that was AI mode. But AI mode, I use it all day. Right? And even on a paid plan, I actually run out of the, the higher version of AI mode. So maybe this is just gonna be my next thing I kind of move inside of ChatGPT is and maybe I'll use AI mode less. I don't know. So that's it.
Jordan Wilson [00:37:36]:
Those are the, seven updates that you might have missed. I hope this out, this episode was helpful. Like I said, these might sound like small things, but, you know, if you're constantly using the default mode in chat g p t, this is big. Right? If you're in Google Docs all the time, this is big. If you're Microsoft three sixty five Copilot user and you're on the go, having Copilot co work on your mobile, that's big. So, yeah, even though these, you know, weren't the headline grabbing features that you might expect, they're actually AI upgrades definitely worth checking out this week. I I hope this was helpful. If so, if you're listening on the podcast, appreciate it.
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