| WELCOME | Happy Tuesday, legends. Welcome back to another edition of The Frontier — our weekly newsletter covering the best new AI launches on Product Hunt. . | | TOP LAUNCHES | AI video just got less janky | | Runway Gen-4.5 is the latest version of Runway’s text to video model, built to handle real motion instead of just pretty loops. It focuses on better physics, smoother camera control, and more consistent action in longer clips, while keeping the same generation speed. It also works across different styles and sits at the top of community leaderboards for text to video right now. CyberCut helps you turn scripts and long recordings into videos you can actually post. It can build a marketing video from your idea, pull highlights out of long footage, add subtitles without the usual headache, and give you assets when you don’t have your own. The whole thing is built to cut out the chores so you can just make the thing you wanted to make. Marengo 3.0 is TwelveLabs' biggest update so far. It is a multimodal embedding model that pulls signal from video, audio, text, images and even composed queries like image plus text together. It is built for long clips, fast sports, noisy audio and multilingual content instead of short, polished samples. Calk AI gives you AI agents that actually work with your real company data without asking you to build workflows or map out diagrams. You connect your tools, describe the task, and the agent handles things like reporting, cleaning, writing and updating across your stack. It can schedule tasks, push changes back into your tools, and grow with extra abilities as you need them, all without forcing you to learn automation logic. Agenta is an open-source platform that helps teams build AI features without juggling prompts in spreadsheets or guessing what breaks in production. You get a shared playground for trying prompts and models, a simple way to ship changes without touching code, test cases to check your work before it goes live, and monitoring so you actually know how things perform once users hit it.
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| | SPONSORED BY | Okta | | Auth0 for AI Agents Is Now Generally Available – build AI into your apps securely
| As teams move quickly to ship AI agents, most start with frameworks and hard-coded API keys. Suitable for prototyping, but flawed for production. This grants AI agents with more access than necessary, poses risks, and lacks the essential authentication solution needed for robust security.Auth0 for AI Agents gives developers a secure, production-ready foundation so agents can connect to apps and data safely without slowing innovation. Here’s what you can do: | Authenticate users interacting with your agent Give agents access to user data (preferences, history, orders). Securely connect to apps on the user’s behalf, such as email and calendar Add human-in-the-loop approvals for critical actions Enforce fine-grained authorization for RAG based on user permissions
| Auth0 for AI Agents comprises four features you can use for B2B, B2C and internal apps: User Authentication, Token Vault, Asynchronous Authorization (CIBA), and FGA for RAG. | Start building now and ship your AI agents with confidence, precision, and real safeguards.
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| WHAT’S HOT | Shopping spree powered by AI | | Written by Jeff Benson | Is it still a personal shopper if it’s not a person? | Last Monday, OpenAI unveiled its “shopping research” feature. You say what you’re looking for — e.g., “decorations for a sheep-themed birthday” or “a Christmas gift for my father who hates gifts” — and ChatGPT delivers a buyer’s guide. | Not to be outdone before Black Friday, Perplexity put out its own AI shopping assistant. Want to buy the suggestions? Just click and complete the purchase with PayPal. Oh, and let’s not forget about Google’s AI shopping features, which came out in mid-November. Google even lets you see how prices have changed over time, kind of like you do when buying airplane tickets. | AI + shopping isn’t new, but the scope and scale might be. Here are some AI-powered tools from shopping sites; | Shop, Shopify’s AI shopping assistant that shows you results from any stores that use Shopify Agora, a “decentralized Amazon” that uses AI to scour ecommerce sites Amazon Rufus, which lets you have a conversation with an AI shopping assistant and get recommendations; it also launched Amazon Buy for Me, an agent that purchases items Amazon doesn’t have in stock.
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| FROM THE FORUMS | Who walks away with the crown? | | ICYMI yesterday: we announced the winners of the 2025 AI Dictation Orbit Awards. This first Orbit edition focused on real traction and tools that actually stuck in people’s routines, not just launch buzz. Wispr Flow, Willow Voice, MacWhisper, ITO, Alter, Aqua Voice, and Superwhisper all made the cut, so now’s a good time to see who walked away as the people’s champ and which ones you might want to pull into your own stack. | |
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