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RIP Google?

• Comet by Perplexity is a browser that answers and acts. Highlight a line to get instant context with sources. Pop open the side panel and ask it to read, compare, or do the busywork. It can click, type, autofill and run tasks across sites like email, calendars, shopping and booking. 

• April is a voice EA for people who have work to do and zero patience for tab hell. Say what is urgent, approve a draft, punt a meeting, get a quick brief before a call. It reads, sorts, replies, and wrangles your calendar so you stop living inside email.

• Extra Thursday lets you run email by voice. Ask what’s urgent, tell it to draft a reply, clean out newsletters, or follow up on last week’s leads. You talk, it acts. No clicking through a hundred threads.

• Blink lives in Slack and your browser and does deep code sleuthing. Point it at your org and it reads across repos, spins up isolated workspaces to run tests, drafts pull requests, tracks tasks, and streams progress in-channel so the team sees what it’s doing.

• PersonaRoll turns your photos into multiple online personas that actually post. You upload a few shots, it matches them to trending topics, writes in distinct voices, and cranks out content on schedule so your feed stays warm without you living in it.

WHAT’S HOT

‘Imagine’ Another Elon Tribute Video

It’s hard to believe that X released Grok 4 less than six weeks ago. Remember the hentai-adjacent anime chatbot and the anarchic red panda? (Here’s a refresher.)

OpenAI’s launch last week of GPT-5 took some of the wind out of Grok’s not-quite-suitable-for-work sails. Despite its rocky rollout, ChatGPT sits at #1 on the App Store, while Grok has been struggling to stay in the top 5. (No shade—TikTok is #15). 

So Elon did what Elon does, and has been rustling up some attention.

No, we’re not talking about X temporarily suspending Grok’s account, which Musk called “just a dumb error.” We’re talking about leveraging one thing Grok has that ChatGPT doesn’t: image-to-video. About the same time GPT-5 came out, Musk announced Grok Imagine would be free to U.S. users “for the next few days.” It hasn’t been enough to move the needle past OpenAI, but it’s keeping Grok in the picture. 

Of course, the question for Grok users is: How long will they be able to keep using Imagine to make 12-second homages of Elon riding a horse into battle? It’s unlikely that the video generation tool will remain gratis forever, meaning that if you’ve just come for the videos but don’t want to stay for the anti-social behavior, you’ve got options.

We’ve been keeping track of text-to-video launches at Product Hunt. Here are a few:

Sora: OpenAI does do text-to-video and image-to-video within Sora, but its video generation model isn’t included as part of ChatGPT. There were some hopeful murmurings that V2 would be integrated into GPT-5, but alas, we’re still waiting to see it. Still, V1 won our Golden Kitty for AI for Video in 2024.

Runway: Gen-3 Alpha, RunwayML’s video-generation base model, took silver in the Golden Kitties last year. This year, Runway has already released Gen-4 as well as its Aleph video-editing tool. With the latter, you can add an image to influence how the video turns out, i.e., make the video take on certain characteristics of the image.

Veo: Our Golden Kitty bronze medalist last year, Veo won points for lasting longer than a minute. Another bonus: Google maximalists can use it as part of their Gemini subscriptions. Google intro’d V3 model this May with a powerful new feature competitors lack: sound. The frame-to-video feature, however, still has some kinks.

We could go on. Just this year: 

• Hedra released Character-3

• Luma announced a faster, cheaper model of its mobile-first model

• Higgsfield came out and began rapidly bolting on new features

• KLING AI launched V2.1

• And AI image pioneer Midjourney released its first video model Read the rest

TRENDING DISCUSSIONS

AMA: Coding by Prompt

Zach, founder of Warp, is opening the hood on what they call an Agentic Development Environment. Think shipping with agents that build features, fix bugs, and chase down crashes while you steer.

What to ask: why a native Rust app, how this differs from a terminal or an IDE, how cloud agents plug into local workflows, how prompts turn into PRs, and what the guardrails look like for privacy, latency, and logs. Team workflows, cost, CI, debugging, all fair game.