Another Codex reset incoming 🎉https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2042067902392942790?s=20
Do you understand what @motion_so shipped? A lot of Nigerians are sitting on good products, good ideas, good businesses, but the presentation is weak. Not because they are not serious. Because life here is hard, time is short, and not everybody has money to hire one sharp motion designer to make their brand look alive. Imagine one girl selling perfumes in Abuja. Her product is good. Her packaging is clean. Customers like it when they buy. But online, her posts are dry. Just picture. Price. WhatsApp number. That is all. Meanwhile another brand with better motion, better visuals, better storytelling, will look more premium even if the product is not better. That is the painful part. In this country, many people are not losing because their work is bad. They are losing because attention is going to the person who presents better. That is where @motion_so enters. With good motion design, that perfume seller can make her product feel alive. The bottle can move in. The text can land properly. The colours can breathe. The whole thing can suddenly feel like a real brand, not just another hustle post. And once people perceive you better, they respect your price better. That one matters in Nigeria more than people want to admit. Because many times, customers are not just buying the product. They are buying confidence. Think about a tailor. A food brand. A skincare seller. A church event. A small fintech. A real estate agent. A teacher selling a course. A photographer. A logistics business. All of them need one thing. Attention. Not noisy attention. Good attention. The kind that makes people pause and say, “Wait, who made this?” That pause can become a click. That click can become a DM. That DM can become money. That is why @motion_so is useful. It helps ordinary businesses look more serious without needing a full creative agency. And for Nigerians, that can change a lot. Because too many smart people are invisible. Too many small businesses look small online even when they are doing big work offline. Too many founders know what they want to say, but they do not know how to make it land visually. Motion can close that gap. It can help one person with a laptop and small data create the kind of branded content that used to require a whole team. That is leverage. And in a country where survival already takes too much energy, leverage matters. A lot. The future will not only reward people who build. It will reward people who can package what they build in a way the internet cannot ignore. That is what motion really does. It turns quiet value into visible value.
NotebookLM just took their Gemini integration to the next level! Access all your personal unshared notebooks directly in the Gemini App + use your Gemini chats as sources in new or existing notebooks. Rolling out to Ultra Pro Plus on web today. 📒🎉 https://x.com/NotebookLM/status/2041982449387810962
Do you understand what @HeyGen just released? This is not just one fine AI demo. This can actually change how many Nigerians work, sell, teach, and show up online. Think about one small business owner in Lagos. Maybe she sells wigs. Maybe na skincare. Maybe na thrift. Maybe na food. Every day, people will tell her, “Post content.” “Show your face.” “Talk to camera.” “Be consistent.” But real life for Nigeria no be that simple. NEPA fit take light. Data fit finish. Noise dey everywhere. You fit tired. You fit shy. You fit no get time to dress up and record every single day. Now imagine say she records herself once. Just once. After that, she can create videos for her business anytime. New outfit. New background. New explanation. Same face. Same voice. Same mannerisms. That means one person can suddenly look like a full media team. And that is where this thing gets serious. Because for many Nigerians, the problem is not lack of talent. The problem is lack of time, lack of energy, lack of equipment, and the stress of always having to show up manually. This kind of tool can help a lot of people. The woman selling hair can create product videos faster. The realtor can explain house listings every day without shooting fresh content every day. The teacher can turn lessons into simple videos for students. The coach can answer common questions without sitting in front of camera morning to night. The founder can market without begging one video guy every week. Even people in diaspora can use it to speak to Nigerian audiences in a more personal way. That is the real power. It is not just “AI can make fake videos.” No. It is that your presence can now scale. You can be in more places without physically being there every time. For a country where hustle is constant and attention is money, that matters. A lot. Because the people who win online now are not always the smartest. Sometimes they are just the ones who can show up consistently. And consistency is hard when life is already beating you from every angle. That is why this matters. It gives ordinary people leverage. But it also brings one serious warning. If this kind of tech grows, trust becomes everything. Because if anybody can look and sound real, then Nigerians will need to become sharper about what they believe, what they share, and who they trust online. So yes, this is exciting. But it is also a new responsibility. The people who use it well will market better, teach better, and earn more. The people who abuse it will make the internet even more dangerous. That is why this moment is bigger than avatar videos. It is really about this question. Will Nigerians use AI to multiply honest work. Or will we use it to multiply confusion. That answer will decide a lot.
Last year, we integrated into the @GeminiApp by allowing you to upload your notebooks as sources. Now, we’re taking our relationship to the next level 🏠 ♥️ Starting today, you can now: — Access all of your personal, unshared notebooks directly inside the Gemini App — Use your chats with Gemini as sources in new or existing unshared notebooks We're rolling out notebooks in Gemini today, starting with Google AI Ultra, Pro, and Plus subscribers on the web. In the coming weeks, we'll expand access to mobile, more countries across Europe, and to free users.
Claude just launched Managed Agents in public beta! Pairs tuned agent harness with production infrastructure to build and deploy agents at scale. Prototype to launch in days. 🎉 https://claude.com/blog/claude-managed-agents https://x.com/claudeai/status/2041927687460024721