AI is teaming up with dolphins
gm, yes you read that title right. Happy Sunday! In today's weekly Roundup, we got OpenAI's new coding tool, Claude's new research tool, a new voice AI, Google's Dolphin AI, and a trending forum post about poop.
We asked 34 customers what Viktor does for them. Not one said chatbot.
They kept using words like colleague, coworker, team member. One CEO called it the glue holding their e-commerce business together, which is a lot, but alsoā¦ you see why. It lives in Slack and plugs into 3,000+ tools, so instead of jumping between tabs, you just ask for the thing. Pull Stripe against HubSpot, check Sentry alerts, spin up a campaign brief, build a landing page, send a report upstairs. It all happens there.
It has already hit top 5 on Product Hunt with 130 comments, is SOC 2 certified, and your data does not train models.One user said it was the first time AI felt like a real coworker, which is either exciting or slightly concerning depending on your week.
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Dolphins š¤ AI
Googleās newest AI projectĀ isnāt trying to pass the bar exam or write your emails. Itās trying to talk to dolphins.
DolphinGemmaĀ is a lightweight 400M-parameter model built to decode the squeaks, whistles, and clicks of Atlantic spotted dolphins. Itās part of a wild collaboration with the Wild Dolphin Project and Georgia Tech, and it runs on Pixel phones. Not to generate selfies, but to analyze dolphin sounds in the ocean. In real time. From a boat.
It works kind of like a language model. The AI listens to dolphin sounds and tries to predict what might come next. Like autocomplete, but for underwater whistles.
Even weirder? Theyāre testing two-way communication. Dolphins are trained to associate certain sounds with objects, and when they mimic those sounds back, the AI translates it. Basically, if a dolphin wants a toy, it can ask for it. Which is adorable and also mildly terrifying.
Sh*t that sells: From toilet tracker to business breakthrough
In this weekāsĀ Makerās Corner,Ā Matt CarrollĀ shares how he used humor to quietly market something serious. His project,Ā Purposeful Poop, lets you log every bathroom trip ā a joke at first glance, but it turned into a surprisingly effective funnel for his real product,Ā My FinancĆ©, a personal finance tool.
He talks about launching the app in just five days, obsessing more over shareable OG images than features, and using the project to test a personal theory: that funny and useful can coexist ā and convert. No viral moment, no flashy growth hack, just a creative way to get attention without hating himself in the process.
Mattās in the thread talking about fast launches, honest marketing, and why building something small and silly can sometimes lead to bigger things.
Was your launch a top 5 product of the day? Want to be featured here? Nominate your product in the comments onĀ this Forum thread.
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