Welcome (back) to AI Minds, a newsletter about the brainy and sometimes zany world of AI, brought to you by the Deepgram editorial team.

In this edition:

• 🎥 a16z Ranks the Top 100 GenAI Products

• 💸 The best (and worst) AI models for personal finance

• 🔍 Can LLMs detect bias in marketing?

• ⚡ State of Voice Report 2025: The Year of Human-Like Voice AI Agents

• 🐦 Social Media Buzz: Discussions break out over Altman’s upcoming Reasoning model

• 🎵 New Musical Production AI model garners hype

• 💻 Karpathy compares LLMs to command terminals on X

• 📲 Three new, trending AI apps for you!

• 🎙️ The AI Minds Podcast with Jonathan Hunt, Co-Founder & CTO at Elefant AI

• 🎤 Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis speaks on The Path To AGI

• 💾 The Beginner’s Guide to Machine Learning with Rust

• 🔊 Voice AI Agents Exposed: What is Conversational AI?

• 🧭 Graph Neural Networks (GNNs): A Deep Dive

Thanks for letting us crash your inbox; let’s party. 🎉

🎥 a16z Ranks the Top 100 GenAI Products

Video description: “This month, a16z’s Consumer team released the fourth edition of the GenAI 100 — a data-driven ranking of the top 50 AI-first web products and mobile apps, based on unique monthly visits and active users.”

🔍  Best (and worst) AI models for personal finance and How LLMs detect biases in marketing

Can AI Help with Your Personal Finances? - This paper explores the potential of LLMs to address key challenges in personal finance, focusing on the United States. It evaluates several leading LLMs, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Llama, to assess their effectiveness in providing accurate advice on topics such as mortgages, taxes, and investments.

Towards Equitable AI: Detecting Bias in Using Large Language Models for Marketing - This study examined bias in finance-related marketing slogans generated by LLMs (i.e., ChatGPT) by prompting tailored ads targeting five demographic categories: gender, marital status, age, income level, and education level.

⚡ State of Voice Report 2025: The Year of Human-Like Voice AI Agents

Check out the full 2025 State of Voice Report!

We at Deepgram have once again partnered with Opus Research to examine the state of voice AI.

Long story short, 2025 seems to be the year of human-like voice AI agents. If you’d like to take a look at the data, statistics, and analyses yourself, you can check out the full report here.

The key takeaways and TL;DR, meanwhile, can be found in this article.

🐝 Social Media Buzz: Discussions Break Out over Altman’s Upcoming Reasoning Model (and more!)

📲 Three new, trending AI apps for you!

Berries AI is a cutting-edge AI scribe designed explicitly for mental health professionals. This innovative tool aims to alleviate the burden of documentation by automating the note-taking process, allowing therapists to focus more on their patients. Trusted by over 1,000 clinicians, Berries AI offers an affordable, personalized, and HIPAA-compliant solution for mental health notes.

Boo.ai is an AI-powered writing assistant that helps you write faster and better. It uses advanced natural language processing to generate text, make suggestions, and provide feedback to improve your writing.

PandaChat-AI is an AI-powered platform that allows users to upload any data like documents, presentations, spreadsheets, images, websites etc. and ask questions about the content. It uses natural language processing to provide quick answers by analyzing the uploaded data.

🎙️ The AI Minds Podcast

Jonathan Hunt, Co-Founder & CTO at Elefant AI. Elefant AI—an intelligent companion for Minecraft players. Elefant AI automates tasks like mining, crafting, and building, so you can focus on creativity and strategy. With customizable AI-powered bots, you can enhance your gameplay and explore new possibilities. Transform the way you play Minecraft with Elefant AI.

🤖 Bonus Bits and Bytes!

• 🎤 Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: The Path To AGI, Deceptive AIs, Building a Virtual Cell - This hour-long podcast will bring you into the mind of Google DeepMind’s CMO and outline the path we may follow to AGI.

• 💾 The Beginner’s Guide to Machine Learning with Rust - Check out this coding tutorial to build your own ML program!

• 🔊Voice AI Agents Exposed: What is Conversational AI? - Conversational AI is the foundation for the future of productivity and perhaps even your own personal Jarvis. Here's what Conversational AI truly entails... and the secrets of its inner workings.

• 🧭 Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) - This article discusses GNNs, decoding their essence and unveiling their transformative potential across various domains.