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Robi: Your weekly AI dose is here. Grok 4 lands today with meme powers, multimodal upgrades, and just enough chaos to keep Twitter refreshing. But there’s more, a churn prediction side hustle that can earn you 3K–8K/month, OpenAI’s business-grade prompting course, a funding-focused webinar for AI founders, and 4 tools to build, ship, and stun with AI. Let’s dig in.

In a Nutshell:

• Grok 4 launches, ChatGPT tests Study Mode, and Perplexity unveils a creator plan

• AI Usecase: Build a 3K–8K/month churn prediction system for SaaS clients

• Meta’s bots DM you, AI detects deadly cancers, and Microsoft outperforms doctors

• 4 tools to generate videos, craft visuals, write decks, and code full apps

• Try OpenAI’s business prompt course, join an AI funding webinar, and spot the fake image

Latest AI News

AI Updates of the Week

1. Grok 4 Launches Today: Elon Musk’s xAI will unveil Grok 4 today, July 9, at 8 PM Pacific Time via livestream. The model promises major upgrades in reasoning, multimodal intelligence, and raw conversational power. Known for its uncensored tone, Grok 4 is expected to reach Premium+ users on X first. With this release, xAI signals its intent to accelerate innovation and directly challenge the dominance of mainstream AI players.

    Source: AINvest News

   Robi: Grok 4 is here; time to see if it’s a genius or just Grok 3 with swagger.

2. ChatGPT Tests Study Mode Feature: OpenAI is quietly testing "Study Mode" in ChatGPT, designed for focused topic review with memory tools. The feature summarizes material, creates flashcards, and offers adaptive Q&A formats. Currently in limited rollout, it may target students and professionals alike. No word on availability for free tiers. Study Mode continues OpenAI’s pivot into education and structured learning enhancements.
   Source: TechJuice

   Robi: "Finally, students can procrastinate in high-definition, AI-powered clarity."

3. Perplexity Launches Creator Plan: Perplexity introduced a 200/month Max plan granting creators unlimited access to Labs apps, dashboards, and web tools plus early access to the Comet browser and models like o3-pro and Claude Opus 4. This move positions Perplexity as a full-stack AI platform tailored for developers and researchers seeking experimental freedom, model variety, and utility without usage limits. The plan targets high-intensity AI use cases.
   Source: Tech Crunch

   Robi: "Perplexity went from answer engine to AI playground with a cover charge."

Learning Resources

The Great Knowledge Acceleration:

🚀 AI Day Special: Unlock Funding & Contracts for Your AI Startup
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🔍 Why You Should Attend:

• Discover hidden funding opportunities tailored for AI entrepreneurs

• Learn how to break into government contracting and tech accelerator programs

• Hear from experts working directly with AI startups

• Walk away with a roadmap to fund, launch, and scale your innovation

Top AI Tools

AI Tool For Professionals & Businesses

Other News in AI

Beyond the Headlines:

📩 Meta’s AI Bots Make the First Move: Meta’s testing AI bots that slide into your DMs before you even say hi. After just 5 chats in 14 days, they pop up on Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. Personalities like “The Maestro” bring quirky flair, and users can keep bots private or share them via AI Studio. It’s official. AI just got bold and social.
Source: Tech Crunch

🧬 Microsoft’s AI Outsmarts Your Doctor: MAI-DxO just crushed NEJM’s toughest cases with 85.5% accuracy doctors scored only 20%. Powered by a virtual panel of debating AI "docs," it’s faster, cheaper, and 4× more accurate. Microsoft’s calling it a leap toward medical superintelligence.
Source: MindStick

🩺 AI Detects Pancreatic Cancer Before It Strikes: MIT and Mass General just dropped a diagnostic bombshell. An AI that catches early-stage pancreatic cancer with 94% accuracy. It sees what radiologists often miss, turning one of the deadliest diagnoses into something we might actually beat.
Source: Medscape

⚡ AI That Sniffs Out Sparks: Whisker Labs’ Ting uses AI to scan 30 trillion signals per second from home outlets and predicted faults linked to the Maui wildfires and Spain’s blackout. With over 20,000 fire hazards flagged in 5 years, it’s quietly becoming the superhero of electrical safety.
Source: Bloomberg

AI Use Case

AI in Action: Real-World Use Case

Build an AI-Driven Customer Success Prediction System

🎯 Goal: Help SaaS companies and subscription businesses predict churn, identify expansion opportunities, and automate personalized retention campaigns using AI behavioral analysis. Turn customer data into proactive revenue protection.

✅ Pick a Niche + Format 

Target growing SaaS companies or agencies managing multiple clients:

• "Subscription Health Score System for B2B SaaS"

• "E-commerce Retention AI for Shopify Stores"

• "Agency Client Satisfaction Predictor Dashboard"

Offer as monthly analytics service, plug-and-play dashboard, or consulting retainer.

🛠️ Build the Intelligence System 

Leverage these AI-powered platforms:

• Mixpanel – Advanced user behavior analytics

• Segment – Customer data platform integration

• OpenAI API – Custom churn prediction models

• Retool – Build internal dashboards and admin tools

• Zapier – Automate alerts and intervention workflows

• Intercom – Trigger personalized outreach campaigns

✨ Add Professional Polish

• Observable – Create interactive data visualizations

• Luma – Host client onboarding and training sessions

• Notion – Build client portals with insights and recommendations

Custom health score calculators and intervention playbooks

📦 Launch Your Service Position and sell through:

• Stripe – Subscription billing for recurring clients

• Webflow – Professional service website

• Typeform – Client intake and needs assessment

• Testimonial – Collect video case studies

📢 Market + Scale Share anonymized case studies showing churn reduction percentages Guest post on SaaS blogs about predictive analytics Network in RevOps and Customer Success communities Offer free "Churn Risk Assessment" for qualified prospects

⏱️ Time: 8–12 hours setup, 3–5 hours/week per client

💰 Potential: 3K–8K/month retainers; 25K+ annually per enterprise client

AI Prompt

This Week’s Pick: Build Smarter Workflows with AI (for Business Pros)

If you’re in business, product, or ops and want to stop talking about AI and actually start using it, this course is for you.

“OpenAI for Business” is a free, hands-on course taught by Colin Fraser (ex-Airbnb) and Murat Ayfer (ex-Quora) that shows how to embed AI into real workflows to save time, speed up decisions, and stay ahead.

Here’s a quick tour of what you’ll unlock:
🔍 Deep Research: Let ChatGPT autonomously plan, research, and compile comprehensive reports perfect for market analysis and strategy planning
💻 IDE Integration: Seamlessly debug and ship code right from ChatGPT into your dev environment
🧩 Strategic Planning with o1 pro: Break down complex challenges like market entry using step-by-step reasoning
📁 Projects & Canvas: Keep context across files, design product prototypes, and turn messy inputs into polished business docs
🎙️ Vision + Voice: Use voice and image input on mobile to turn real-world content into insights

It’s browser based, fluff free, and built for busy professionals who want results, not just theory.

🔗 Source: OpenAI for Business – Academy

Socials

Trending on Socials

🧼 Unilever Uses AI to Make Soap Go Viral: Why sell soap the old way when you can go full AI? Unilever’s Dove brand used Nvidia’s Omniverse to create thousands of tailored product visuals and deployed them through a micro-influencer army across TikTok and Instagram. In one campaign with Crumbl Cookies, they pulled in 3.5 billion impressions 52% from new customers. AI marketing isn’t just hype it’s rinsing the competition.

🤖 Web Crawlers Gone Rogue: AI Bots Are Eating the Internet: AI companies' crawlers are bombarding sites like Wikipedia, Reddit, news publishers, and cultural archives sending millions of requests monthly and sucking up data with zero reciprocity. According to The Washington Post, one sports site saw 13 million AI hits but got only 600 real visitors back. Publishers are fighting back blocking bots, deploying pay‑per‑crawl tolls, or insisting AI firms pay for access.

🧬 ChatGPT Cracks 10‑Year Medical Mystery: A Reddit post is blowing up after ChatGPT spotted a gene defect that stumped doctors for over a decade. It analyzed MRI scans, CTs, and lab reports flagging a methylation block tied to a rare MTHFR mutation. As this X post shows, the story’s now everywhere. Months later, the patient’s symptoms eased. Second opinion? Try second algorithm.

Spot the Fake

Can you Outsmart AI?

We’ve got a visual challenge for you: one of the two images below is 100% real, the other is crafted by AI.
Think you’ve got the eye to tell which is which?

Take a good look... then cast your vote!

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