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• 🤖 Beyond the Demo: Why Most AI Implementations Fail and How to Build Ones That Actually Work

• 🎧 Weekly Podcast Updates

• 🚀Thinking Machines becomes OpenAI’s first services partner in APAC

• ❇️ Snapchat’s new Lens lets you create AI images using text prompts

• 😮 Google Photos upgrades its image-to-video feature with Veo 3

• 🤖 DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced AI models to its subscription plan

• 😎Pinecone founder Edo Liberty discusses why the next big AI breakthrough starts with search

 🤖Beyond the Demo:
Why Most AI Implementations Fail and How to Build Ones That Actually Work

I joined Warren Zenna on the CRO Spotlight Podcast for an in-depth conversation on the state of AI today—separating the hype from the real-world applications. I shared my insights on the challenges of product development, the critical role of effective prompting, and the stages of AI implementation: augmentation, automation, and orchestration.

Watch the full episode on YouTube.

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😮 Thinking Machines becomes OpenAI’s first services partner in APAC

Thinking Machines has become OpenAI’s first official services partner in the Asia Pacific region. The partnership aims to help businesses move beyond AI pilot projects to real-world impact through executive training, custom application support, and AI integration into workflows.

CEO Stephanie Sy emphasized that success requires leadership alignment, redesigned workflows, and workforce skills—not just technology adoption. Their approach centers on “human-in-command” collaboration, governance with auditability, and building local-first AI solutions that scale regionally.

The partnership will begin in Singapore, the Philippines, and Thailand, with plans to expand across APAC, focusing on industries like finance, retail, and manufacturing. The ultimate goal is to equip organizations with the vision, processes, and skills needed to transform AI pilots into lasting business value.

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❇️Snapchat’s new Lens lets you create AI images
using text prompts

Snapchat has launched Imagine Lens, its first open-prompt text-to-image AI tool. Available to Snapchat+ Platinum ($15.99/month) and Lens+ ($8.99/month) subscribers, it lets users create, edit, and re-create Snaps by typing custom prompts or using pre-loaded ones (e.g., “make me a comic” or “turn me into an alien”). The Lens combines Snap’s in-house and industry AI models and is accessible in the Lens Carousel or Exclusive category.

Read the full news here.

⚡Google Photos upgrades its image-to-video
feature with Veo 3

Google’s Veo 3, its latest video-generation model, to Google Photos. U.S. users can now turn still images into 4-second AI-generated clips directly in the app’s Create tab. While the existing “Photo to video” tool used Veo 2, Veo 3 delivers higher-quality results. The feature is free with limited generations, with expanded access for AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers. Unlike Gemini, it won’t support audio, but sits alongside other AI creative tools in Google Photos, like remixes, collages, cinematic photos, and GIF-making.

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💫DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced AI models to its subscription plan

DuckDuckGo has expanded its $9.99/month subscription plan to include access to the latest AI models through Duck.ai. Free users can chat with models like Claude 3.5 Haiku, Llama 4 Scout, Mistral Small 3 24B, and GPT-4o mini, while subscribers unlock advanced models such as GPT-4o, GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4, and Llama Maverick. The company highlights that these larger models offer better instruction-following, longer context, and more nuanced responses — all with enhanced privacy. DuckDuckGo plans to introduce higher-tier options with even more powerful models.

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👏 Pinecone founder Edo Liberty discusses why the next big AI breakthrough starts with search

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 (Oct 27–29, San Francisco), Pinecone CEO Edo Liberty will argue that the future of AI isn’t about ever-bigger models but about smarter search and retrieval. His session, “Why the Next Frontier Is Search,” will highlight how retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and vector databases enable faster, more scalable, and more effective AI applications by ensuring access to the right data at the right time.

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