Happy Friday! In today's edition of the Leaderboard, we've got takes on: an Interstellar inspired note-taking app, OpenAI's Google killer feature, and an AI travel assistant that gets most things right. Let's dive in.

Tesseract: An Interstellar inspired note-taking app.

Interstellar is probably my favorite sci-fi film, and I’m guessing a lot of you might feel the same. So when a notes app inspired by the movie launches, you know I’m all over it. Tesseract lets you explore memories as if they’re floating in space, bouncing between sentences and giving your content a life of its own. It feels like a trip through time, guided by your notes. The only downside? Every time I use it, I can’t get the Interstellar main theme out of my head.

ChatGPT Search: Gives you fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sites.

I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say GPT Search is an industry-changing launch. It poses a viable threat to Google’s search monopoly and marks a big step forward in the integration of AI into the non-technical person’s digital life. I’ll be interested to see how this launch affects the bitter legal battles currently being fought over IP and AI crawlers. Will litigation prevent the formation of a new search monopoly in the AI era?

Smartrip AI: An AI assistant for planning your travel.

Smartrip is like having a personal travel guide that mostly gets it right. Adeva, the AI assistant, handles planning your trip, finding flights, hotels, and coordinating group outings—when it’s not getting tripped up by the occasional weird input or hiccup in recommendations. It makes things a lot easier, sure, but it’s still an AI, so sometimes it misses the mark or offers options that feel a bit… generic. Once you’re traveling, Adeva stays on standby to help, though if you’ve ever had a tech fail when you needed it most, you know there’s always a risk. It’s a solid way to simplify planning, even if it doesn’t totally replace the need for human judgment.