AI is coming for the movies

Plus, five AI tools you may have missed

WELCOME

Happy Tuesday, legends. Welcome back to another edition of The Frontier — our weekly newsletter covering the best new AI launches on Product Hunt. This week, an AI that lets you direct the movies, a tool for generating lifelike characters, a new launch from Perplexity, and more!

TOP LAUNCHES

Become the director

TOP LAUNCHES

Odyssey is a research preview of real-time interactive video powered by a world model. It generates fresh frames in about 40 ms as you steer with your keyboard, so the scene adapts on the fly, think glitchy dreamscape over polished cutscene.

Tyce lives in your browser and digs through your old reports, contracts, and notes so it can spit out fresh drafts in seconds. Highlight a section and ask a question, feed it a template, or let it auto-fill based on everything you’ve already written.

OpenMemory MCP plugs into MCP friendly AI tools like Cursor, Claude Desktop and Windsurf to give them shared, persistent memory. You can host it on your machine or in a locked cloud. One dashboard shows what your agents remember between sessions and lets you edit or erase entries.

Perplexity Labs is a Pro-only mode that turns your to-dos into done. Drop in your goal, pick Labs, and in about ten minutes you get reports, spreadsheets, charts, or simple web apps complete with code execution, deep web digging, and asset downloads all in one project workspace on web and mobile.

Mirage Studio by Captions AI lets you conjure lifelike actors in seconds. Upload an audio track or type a scene description (or drop in a reference image), and it spits back a video of a virtual performer—blinking, smiling, even busting out a quick rap if that’s your vibe.

TRENDING DISCUSSIONS

To trust the bot or not to trust the bot

Replies split fast: skeptics worry about hallucinations and missing context; others love that bots never judge and remember everything; pragmatists point out online privacy is already blown; and a few admit they’ve poured their hearts out to a chat window by accident.

Trust isn’t one-size-fits-all. Worth a skim if you’ve ever confided in a bot.

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