AI Is Talking, Drawing, and Creating at Full Speed

Hey Creator,

Here’s what caught my eye this week in the ever-evolving world of AI:

🎬HANBAO turns ordinary shorts into epic stories
🖼️ AI gives visual design a creative edge
⚡ AI-tested ideas — faster, cheaper, better
🗯️ OhChat’s talking avatars change fan experiences
🤖 Agentic tools blur the line between audience and co-creator
🛠 Tool Spotlight: Napkin.ai — for instant diagrams, beautifully done

Let’s dive in — this one’s loaded 👇

Top AI News

AI Just Rewired Visual Design – Here's How

Israeli startup Weavy just raised $4M to bring smarter AI design tools to creators. Already used by teams at NVIDIA, Wix, and eToro, it's making everyday design faster, sharper, and way more intuitive—for both pros and beginners.

Digital Domain’s HANBAO Makes Short Videos Look Epic

Hong Kong’s Digital Domain dropped HANBAO—an AI video engine that crafts cinematic shorts by focusing on hero shots, editing, and key story moments. If you want polished, scroll-stopping content without a film crew, this tool just changed the game.

Forbes: Use AI to Validate Ideas in Days, Not Months

From testing content themes to refining ad copy, this new Forbes guide shows how founders can use AI to iterate faster, spend less, and grow smarter. Finally—a blueprint for AI-driven marketing that scales.

Agentic AI for Fan Engagement

Tapped-out creators are turning to “agentic AI”—digital assistants that respond to comments & DMs in their voice. It’s solving burnout, boosting engagement, and raising big questions around transparency.

Meet OhChat: AI-Powered Supermodels That Talk Back

This startup is building lifelike AI avatars—think digital supermodels—with personalities that flirt, chat, and never go offline. With hundreds of thousands of users on subscription, it’s redefining personalized fan interactions.

Tool Spotlight

Napkin AI

Napkin AI is a powerful tool that automatically turns your text that into clean, beautiful visuals — like:

• Flowcharts

• Mind maps

• Diagrams

• Infographics

• Concept visuals

It’s designed for non-designers who want to express ideas more clearly and visually — with no design skills or prompt-writing required.

How It Works

1. Paste or type your text into Napkin

2. Click the “Spark” icon or “Generate”

3. Napkin analyzes the text and suggests multiple visual formats (like flowcharts, hierarchy trees, or layouts)

4. Choose a layout and customize:

   • Font

   • Colors

   • Icons & connectors

   • Shapes or background

5. Export visuals as PNG, SVG, PDF, PPT—even editable PPTX

Why It’s Useful

• Saves time compared to manual design

• Great for non-designers who want polished visuals fast

• Helps boost content engagement—visuals convey ideas 60k× faster than text

• Customizable branding: choose fonts, colors, styles or upload your own

Best Use Cases

• Creating infographics to break up a long blog post

• Adding visuals to presentations or slide decks

• Summarizing complex workflows or processes

• Visual aids for teaching or team collaboration

Currently it’s in free beta state (as of late 2024), allowing unlimited use of all features. Right now it allows to create and edit only on desktop.

This Week’s Creator Toolkit: AI Edition

• Notion AI – Write, plan, and organize your creative world

  Notion is your all-in-one workspace for planning blog posts, journaling ideas, or documenting your journey. Its AI helps you summarize, rewrite, and generate drafts — perfect for emotional storytelling or content planning.

• Descript – Turn your voice into powerful stories

  Descript makes it easy to record, transcribe, and edit audio or video like editing text. You can narrate your letters or blog entries and create voice journals or podcasts with ease.

• Tella – Record videos that feel personal and polished

  Tella helps you create beautiful screen recordings or webcam videos — great for storytelling, tutorials, or simply sharing your voice with visuals (even for faceless content).

• Typefully – Share your thoughts in threads that grow

  Turn your longform writing into Twitter/X threads or short snippets for social media. Typefully helps you write clearly, schedule posts, and repurpose blog content for visibility.

• Repurpose.io – Reuse your content everywhere

  Turn your blog posts, videos, or audio recordings into short clips or auto-posted content for YouTube, IG, TikTok, and more — saving hours every week.

Creator’s Pro Tip

The more context you give AI, the better and more useful the results.

Creator’s Spotlight: AI Andy

Meet Andy Haffell— also known as AI Andy as he shows you how to use different AI tools.