The transcription discusses the increasing presence of AI tools in daily life and the importance of discerning when to leverage AI technologies. It introduces a range of AI tools recommended for success in 2026, such as Hivelighter.ai, Microsoft co-pilot, Lovable, VioDev, Google Build Studio, 11 Labs, Suno, Clang, Google Vio, and Sora. The conversation highlights the significance of creative control in utilizing AI tools for audio and video generation, emphasizing the need to select tools based on project requirements and desired outcomes. The discussion underscores the evolving landscape of AI technology and its potential impact on productivity and creativity in various fields.
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you have to know when to use AI and when not to use it. They're just going to continue to become more part of our lives. 2025 was a lot about understanding what AI agents are. 2026 is going to be. (upbeat music) Hello and welcome to another episode of the AI Download. I'm your host, Cheryl Azar. So I'm so excited to do this episode because I really wanted to give you a good glimpse at the AI tools you need to know about to be successful in 2026. Now some of these you might know and you might have played around with but a lot of them you might not know about. And I really think along with my guest that these are the tools you need to have a sense of to be productive, successful and intentional going into the new year. These are ones that will impact how you work, impact your work and what you put out there to next level your productivity and creativity in 2026. Now before we get into all of it, a huge thanks to our series sponsor, a tool you need to check out, the first one, hivelighter.ai. They give you a super quick smart summary of your newsfeed and all the content you're trying to keep up with which makes seeing in the loop so much easier. And we even have our own AI download collection that you could check out and that link is in the show notes. Now my guest joining me for this very special episode is someone that doesn't just play around with these tools but creates next level pioneering content out of them. Paige Fiskin is here. She's an AR superstar and AI powered creator and the mind behind filters with over 300 billion impressions. She's collaborated with Netflix, Urban Decay, Carole G and Coldplay and she's basically rewriting the roles for creators in the AI era. I'm so excited to have her back. This is gonna be a good one. So sit back, get your notepad out or if you're driving or whatever, go back and listen back to this and get that notepad out, try out these tools and enjoy. - Paige, welcome back to the AI download. I am so excited to have you on for this one because I feel like you know about every tool. You get the access to it before everyone else. So this was one I had to get you on for. - Thanks so much, Sierra. I'm so happy to chat with you. I feel like there's been so many updates since we talked last. It's like every week there's a new tool. It's like totally different than it was the last time we chat. It's crazy, every workflow has changed and so many things that we do on a day-to-day basis have completely transformed because of AI. - Yeah, how would you describe this moment today towards the end of the year? I don't know when you're listening to this, whoever's listening. But we're at the end of 2025. What was the beginning of 2025 like when it comes to AI tools? And where are we now and where do you see it going? - Last year, at the end of the year, I was just kind of like softly integrating AI into like a lot of my art, my workflows and everything, just using it to create filters more efficiently to do light-level coding and to come up with inspiration for just like other work that I was doing. And it was more like I was using it for inspiration to like sketch out ideas and to like kind of like go back and forth with your chat, GPT for advice. And now it's so different that my work is transformed. I work now doing like commercial work using AI tools to create full-on content with AI, photo campaigns, album covers, music videos, stuff like that. And I'm also using AI in so many different aspects to my productivity. I'm using it to code, to vibe code, to create 3D models. Like it's like it's just so vast. It's like it's touched every part of the work that I do. I'm sure it's the same for you too. And I'm still, I feel like using it in a basic way sometimes. The one thing I want to get more into the flow of next year is how do I create more automation? Whether it be with maybe drafting emails, like kind of more assistant stuff, that would be really helpful. I feel like I haven't necessarily figured that out. I don't know if you have. It's insane. You can now use Gemini right inside of your inbox, like in your Gmail to help you like summarize your messages of the day, you can use it to help draft messages in your voice. It's accessing your whole inbox pretty much. And so it kind of understands how you want to write. It could also make suggestions. But you could also say, hey, that sounds too AI. Put it in my style. And it'll do a nice job for you. The one worry I have with the automation around that is when you're a business, I get it. It's when you're an individual. And you learn about people and you have your report through emails, et cetera, and that communication. And then you see that person. And while your AI's have been talking, you have it. And there's no understanding or like ability to go back and reference things. Nor in the email or like, there's part of getting to know each other in that way. And if we take it out, kind of worries me. I totally agree. It's like, you have to know when to use AI and when not to use it. And sometimes if it doesn't make-- if it's potentially making your work easier, sometimes those things can also be tough on-- I don't know, it can have drawbacks in other areas. Like, you want to be the one that's reading your emails and knowing what's going on. And I think that it's important to always be treating AI. Like, when it comes to emails and if it's writing emails for you, more like an assistant. Yeah. I just can't wait until it can tell not just the other person, but you, the person writing like, hey, that wasn't really nice. You might not want to be so combative. This is a bit passive-aggressive. That's helpful to me. And I know a lot of people out there I email and connect with. They could use a little bit of that awareness as well. And I think we don't be better friends. For real. I love that. That's a little bit of emotional intelligence emails. All right, well, let's get into it. We're going to start with number six. Going down to the top tool you need to know to be successful in 2026. Starting with AI search and research. We are not talking about chat GPT. I wanted to bring in here Microsoft co-pilot. Again, some of these tools might be basic for you and some of them might be new. But for me, co-pilot is great for research and search because it gives you references, which I think for search while we're doing it, we know AI's replacing search. But it's very unreliable at times. And I found Microsoft co-pilot to be the best, including again, at letting you know the links and where it's referencing that information from. So for research of all kinds for me, that seems to be at the top of my list. Yeah, I haven't really tried out co-pilot, and I'm really looking forward to it. I've heard some incredible things about it. And like you've said, it's incredible for any structure to that form of work and search. And it's just optimizing the search process. Like we've talked about before. I've heard such incredible things about perplexity as well. It seems like such a cutting edge way to browse. It's taking the chaos it sounds like out of the browsing experience where there's so many things we're looking up individually on a day-to-day basis, like from clothing, from gifts, from work related, from productivity, from just doing our own research. And a lot of that is just like just so spontaneous and done so many times throughout the day. But something like perplexity is able to sort that and consolidate it and give you an update of the things we're interested. I think that that kind of thing is we're going to see AI going in 2026 because there's a lot of chaos in things we do daily. We take tons of screenshots where we're saving so many things. And how often do we go back and look at all the screenshots we took, but we wanted something from that moment from them. So our browsing, our screenshots, all of that, there's things that we'd want to take from it each day and remember it and to go back to it. And tools that help us sort through that data, I think are going to be really powerful this next year. - So you're a fan of perplexity that is great. And I got to start using it and playing around with it too. And also this is a perfect time during the holidays or during your weekends to play around with something to see if it works for you, right? That's how you start navigating something and adding those tools to your tool belt. So at number five, we've got the natural language app builder. These are the app builders, the site builders that you don't need to know any code, but you could build your vision, it could help you do that. So my pick for this is lovable. I also happen to really like their team. I've gotten to know some of them. We have some work, some stuff we're going to be working on hopefully in 2026. And I just love how easy it is not just to make a site, but any sort of app or solution to a problem or a question you have. And you can go back in, go back and forth. Again, without knowing any sort of code, it's really all about knowing your concept and how to communicate that well. - Yeah, I've tried lovable before and it's amazing. I used it to create like a hormonal tracker app and it was so useful and it's so user friendly. Like it really does a beautiful job at creating UI. And even without much like information about how you want an app to look, it leans somehow into some really nice aesthetics, which makes it really really great for vibe coding. When I'm looking to make something that's a little bit more complicated, I love using VioDev. It's an amazing vibe coding app where you start with an idea and you could build up such a robust application, web or mobile and you can create really amazing products with it and you can integrate APIs right into it. So if you love APIs and you think they could be useful on your application, so many of them can be worked right into your tool and then you could create credit systems and charge or subscription services and you can create an amazing application with that. And Google Build Studio, which is right inside of Gemini, allows you to build some incredible apps using Gemini's Google APIs. So maps, photos, anything that's in Google API can be brought right into the Google Studio and created a really great harmony with every single tool that you're integrating. So I think that Google's build is agendic so it has a really good understanding of your requests, complex edits and also how to integrate its own APIs in a really smart and intelligent way. So I love using it to create tools for myself. Like for example, I use Nano Banana, which we'll talk about and like I use Google Vio and I also use Gemini like in all different areas. And so because I love their tools so much, they could be combined into applications. Like for example, if you wanna make a music video generator where you wanna make like an ad builder or fashion studio and you really like Nano Banana and you wanna use the technology from that, it could help you make little mini apps. Like I've created a dress up app where you're able to pick an outfit online that you like or chop a screenshot and it can do both search your screenshot and find you the products and allow you to try them on. And instead of just dropping a ton of stuff into Google's like Gemini chat feed and just having to keep asking the same structure over and over again, you can make many applications. So you just go in and drop the photo in the screenshot and you just bam, it's done. So I think that that's been very useful for me. Just basically building tools to just use day to day. - So Google builds, it seems to be like you're all about that. Then the Vio dev, how is it different? - Vio dev is much more robust at its development. I could be wrong, but it also allows you to integrate all kinds of APIs. I'm not sure if Google Studio has. I've not tried to integrate APIs from outside sources into it. But I know that Vio allows you to connect with tools like Fowl. It allows you to integrate all kinds of APIs from other sources. So you can integrate now to banana, but you can also integrate clinging into it and you can integrate like, yeah. So all stuff like that. - And this is of course, if you have an idea for something, vibe coding, that is, it was a trend of 2025. I think it's going to continue into 2026. But it's that you could code even if you're not a coder. That's what it's all about. That's really cool because I had not really heard about Google build or Vio dev. So awesome alternatives other than lovable as well to dive deeper and to build something. It seems like more sophisticated and robust. - Totally. - And number four, we're getting into the new voice economy. It's all about audio and how do you replicate your audio or create some other audio? Well, a tool that I love that I've tried and has helped me in many moments when my audio messed up in a studio and I needed to replicate it on the road is 11 labs. It's really good for cloning, dubbing, and also helping with narrations, training, audio summaries, accessibility tools. And you can turn anything into high quality audio instantly. So I'm really all about 11 labs, but then I would also say if you're into the music world for audio, sooner, it's getting a lot of controversial attention, but it's getting some attention. It just raised a bunch of money. It's worth like over $200 billion or something, but on the music end, Suno. So if you're more into the speaking and you wanna use AI, 11 labs, music, Suno. So what is your take page? - Damn, those tools are amazing. I love them both. I've loved playing with Suno and making music with it. I think it's amazing. And I think that their new tools allow you to have more creative control. I think that's what it separates. It is that level of creative control that you could have to have more of a ability to control the outcome of the music that you're generating because getting something in just one prompt it feels like a roulette sometimes. You just, you're testing again. You get a totally different result. You test again, totally different. There's not much like, it's fun. It's an novelty, but it wears off when there's a lack of control with it. So I think that Suno is making a lot of great moves by allowing us to have more control, breaking apart stems and playing with individual elements. I see 11 labs also is incredible. I use 11 labs all the time for creating sounds for my videos whenever I need to like layer sound, like from background sound to just like objects having their own sounds to creating audio for my characters, like realistic audio. It's just, it's amazing. I love being able to like prompt a character's voice. I feel like their voices are very realistic and have like really just normal sounding intonation and inflection. So I really love using that tool for creating characters. And I do like playing with the music side. It creates some really nice sounding EDM music. But the problem is, I feel like edits again, just more detailed control to be able to break apart certain things very on a very specific level would be very helpful for that. But I absolutely love using 11 labs for making EDM. And I've made a couple songs and posted them in Spotify. No way, through 11 labs versus Suno. Yeah. Just 'cause I've done some really like abstract EDM tech EDM songs, I like the prompting of 11 labs. There's like very big prompt bots where you could prompt a real like interesting background to the type of song you want to make. So like I'll go in and I'll be like, I want to create a song that makes you feel like you're on Mars during like a dystopian apocalypse rave. Like you get really wild with it. And just create like you could even ask it to do things like make the music vocals in an alien language. And it gets rid of that own caniness that sounds a little AI that sometimes AI music singing can sound like. So instead I'll do things like have it create an alien language. And just sing or just create background vocals in that style. And it's just it's so damn cool. So I highly recommend it. Well, from audio we're getting to video, the AI video generation. I feel like this is like an award show or something. There are awards. So this is a challenging one because you know, Sora is not readily available to the public. Of course, I feel like when you think about AI video, you think of Sora because of all those fake videos. So for this one, I'm going to go to you for this because again, I was debating about the video tool because Google Vio hyper realistic, probably one of the best expensive. What is it like 250 a month or something? Or I guess if you have Google business, it could be included in that. But let's get into it. What is your top tool for AI video generation? My favorite, honestly, still clang. I think the lesson we talked I might have even said, I love clang, but I love having a lot of control over the outcome and the high quality, just the high quality generation you get from clang. And even if it's just small clicks, you're like five seconds, 10 seconds, you can get really powerful close ups and really powerful like model fashion shoot videos. So for stuff like if you're doing like campaign visuals, I feel like clang gives you a lot of control, especially because you have start frame and end frame. You're creating it on a very high quality. Google Vio and Sora create very dynamic videos that have a lot of action in them. They're great for creating cinematic, I guess storyline content, but you have to get very creative with how you use it. I feel like it depends on going into it. It all depends on the idea. It's like if you have an idea for creating something that's like very dynamic where you're dealing with, like I recently created a zombie apocalypse mini clip. And I wanted to have a lot of action in it. So I tried using clang, it just wasn't giving enough action. There wasn't enough suspense and the zombie movements weren't very realistic. Even Google Vio wasn't able to create that kind of fear in the main character's eyes as zombies were chasing them. So then I went to Sora and Sora was able to do capable of doing very intense action sequences where like the zombies were chasing the person, the person looked extremely scared. So like each tool is different and you kind of have to like, before you jump into a project, I feel like it all starts with what the idea is and then you kind of like see which workflows gonna work best for that project, different for a music video, different for commercial, different for a cinematic piece. - Got it, but how do you blend them? Can you be making them in different products and then blending it? - Yeah, so basically what I'll do is I'll kind of storyboard out the piece that I'm looking to create. And then I kind of think which tool do I need to use to achieve the result I want? This is if I'm trying to get it done fast. And I'll go to each tool and kind of like test out the different parts that I need to use it for from doing close-up shots, like the person driving a car where I just need them to have a little motion in their eyes. I'll do that on clean, 'cause I know it's gonna be high quality and I'm gonna get a lot of focus on facial expressiveness. Then for like basic actions, like a person waking up in a house and looking around and trying to see like what's going on, where am I? I could do that with Google Vio and it can really create a lot of continuity where you have like a starter scene. You could prompt in it scene one, scene two and scene three and it'll show those cuts in different scenes, like your character from the side, from the front, from behind or whatever. And it'll put that into one eight second clip. Then in Sora, I'll go and I'll have the really intense action sequences where I have to prompt now with more detail because you can't use starter frames of people. You have to prompt the outfit that the person's wearing very specifically. So like if they're wearing a jacket, necklaces and stuff like that, like you really, it can mess up the continuity. So you just try to have your outfits on your car. Just be as simple as possible right now if you're gonna use Sora. I'll just prompt more complex scenes with Sora. And then I go into cap cut and I put it all together and edit it or Adobe After Effects. - Wow, yeah, Adobe's been really pushing hard around their AI tools, but haven't played as much with those there. - Yeah, yeah, they're also gonna be, I feel like their ability to like aggregate all those tools into like easy dashboards gonna be great for this next year. It's gonna bring a lot more people to use. It's gonna have a lot more people using AI than I think before because it's putting it front and center and there's millions of people using Adobe in the world. Like so it's gonna make it much more popularized. - We'll be talking more about Adobe in the next year. So if you're on the Adobe suites, look out for their AI tools and play around with them because that's gonna be definitely something top of mind and a tool to use. Then finally in the video category because I think it's worth an honorable mention has a tool is if you're looking to create a video avatar of yourself, right now the one that I've used that I feel like is the best and easiest to play around with is Hey Jen. So on the app you could just capture yourself, you move your head and you do a little bit of like a vocal thing so it learns about your voice. And then it could put you in any sort of script or scenario. And what's also cool is like perfect for vlogging or if you want to host a video. It now allows you to walk around where you could kind of also have you walking and talking and it's all built with AI. So for me like this is the one I'm looking out for to create videos for me for social. If I was gonna use any AI tool probably then because I want to script it but I don't feel like shooting it probably gonna use Hey Jen. - I've used Hey Jen before for creating videos and it's amazing your avatar looks so life like that people just really can never tell when I actually do share it or I have done some funny tests with it where I've shown how you could change your language and it sounds like you speaking other languages. And that's when people knew it was not me speaking because they're like oh my god, they know I don't speak Japanese and all these languages. But it's so cool and it's so useful. Like even if you have to just change like a couple words in a script you mess something up the pronunciation or something like where you want to add a line and you could do that now because Hey Jen makes it easier. It's just so so useful. And yeah, so play around with it, it's getting better. Every time they do an update it gets so much better. So excited to see what happens in the near with that one. At number two, image generation. Now this is a hard one because mid-journey, of course everyone uses very creative but I have yet to find that app. In meta AI sometimes you could put you and like add different things in meta AI but still doesn't always work. But recently Gemini came out with Nano Banana. It's on top of everyone's feeds and everyone's talking about if you're in the AI world. But let's talk about Nano Banana and why that is the image generation tool that people should be checking out. - Yeah, Nano Banana is insane. They just recently launched a brand new update a couple of days ago to the pro version and it can do anything. Like it's way more advanced with text and creating complex images. Digital try-ons are done so well with it. The materials look so good. So somehow I think that it understands visual references with much more precision and then it's able to understand a complex prompt. And I believe that that's called like multi-modal input. So it's able to look at both your inputs like what you want the model to do in text and what you want it to do with your images. And it's understanding much better how to present it in a new image for you. So whether you're looking to create a poster or like a bannerhead or something like that or any kind of like visuals, it really seems to be getting much more precision at understanding what you're looking for. And it's also just created doing text now so you can create actual graphic design images with text that looks pretty polished and good. - Gotta check that out. And also I always feel like I want to put myself into different scenes or take something away. And sometimes you could do that on actually Canva with their AI tools. But overall, I find any time I give it a prompt any of these platforms of like do this to this picture, it makes me into a character. Just doesn't do it. So I'm really excited to try out Nana Banana. - Yeah, I'm excited to see what you create with it. - And finally, we're moving to number one and we'll have some extras at the end because that's what we do here, you know? So we're getting into productivity and repurposing. And for this one, I do like OpusClip. We actually record this podcast on Riverside and they have a great clipping tool as well. But if you have maybe a long form video from a conference or any sort of video you've captured, of course, if you want to record a podcast, then Riverside for me is very easy. I like that but OpusClip love the team behind it again. That helps because you want to make sure they're doing good things and ethical things. They're just good people. And it's a great way to make long form content and to short form content and clips and ones that are viral that have good hooks and they even score them. They also have now an AI search where if you're looking for specific words or anything you want to highlight, you can even search it, right? So it's not just what they think is going to be viral or like what they clip it. You would also kind of give it prompts in terms of how you want it to clip your clip as well. That sounds amazing. I'm exactly what I need right now. So I'm right after this, I'm tailoring that tool. - I gotta give you a code and maybe I'll get a code for everyone. I'm gonna put all those links in the show notes and I guess it'll be a surprise which ones you get discount codes for. So it's the gift that keeps on giving. It's the holidays we're giving here. And what is your tool for productivity as well? - I love using FreePick. They just launched a new tool called Spaces. It's like if you mixed Figma and all your favorite AI tools in one platform, it's like the Figma for creating AI content. So you could create a basically like, you create like a flow chart like board with all of the different tools that you use into connecting them. So you don't have to keep using every individual tool separately. You could create like a flow chart of your process. And the cool thing about is it's not just for you to use but you could share it with your team. So if you have like a image that you're looking to create or you're looking to create like, you have a consistent workflow. Let's say for creating ads for your clients and you just want to change the model in the product. You could create a workflow and then you can pass it on to somebody from your team and they could jump in and swap the model, swap the product and they could just generate based off of the workflow you've already created. That would be to redo every single step. So I feel like that is a really hot tool right now and I think it's gonna be big for this next year as well because you're still creating this workflow yourself but you're just amplifying your efficiency with it. And you'll be able to replicate the same processes over and over again with that actually taking each individual step each time. - Yeah, I love that because it's overwhelming. The way my brain works, I like to see everything in front of me and it's sometimes hard and then to also share that with others especially your team. But then I have a question. It shows the workflow. Does it also then show the tool so meaning I could then go to the tool from that to use it to do that also? - Yeah, you could actually, so you could use freepix spaces to use your workflows, repeat workflows over and over again. You're basically interjecting a tool. Like you start with an image, then from there you're connecting an image generator. So maybe you're feeding the image generator or a picture of yourself in the outfit you wanna try on then you're creating a prompt with that and generating a new image. Then from there you could generate another image with that image as the reference. And so you could keep building upon a scene that way at a very high level and then you could make videos from it and you could also use tools on their platform like individually off spaces. If you wanna use any image model or video model it's all there. So freepix is a great, I feel like a great resource 'cause you have everything all in one place. It just makes it really easy to access all the models. - So cool, this is what I love doing these shows because I also learn new things with all of you. - It's great. - And finally, we've gone through our six tools, really six ways to use AI and the tools that we think that will help you get there to have a successful 2026. But we're gonna give you some Easter eggs because we are those people and we have extras. So one is around emotional intelligence and personal growth and support. I know everyone's using chat GPT and whatever you're using as your therapist, et cetera. And there are some problems around this. But I found one company that I love that I use that's helped me with my life, Rosebud AI. I had a whole episode about Rosebud with the CEO. One of my favorite and best tools so far, I've checked out that will help guide you and give you prompts, it's a journal. It's an AI journal and also references things from the past like specific quotes. We'll help you see patterns in your life and how you're doing things and also holds you accountable. So it's not just about venting and blaming the other person or the situation. It will tell you like what's in your control. Like what can you do right now to help yourself? So the AI journal to check out Rosebud. Then finally we did wanna get into agent AI, the AI agents. Again, I think that getting to know AI agents and these tools will help you in the new year. And I've, throughout the year, I was hired and I did some sponsored posts, but I also got to know these two tools. So I do think they're great depending on your need. So the two tools I will share with you that if you have a business in sales and you need a backend, a CRM, and you need an AI agent to help you with that or answer calls or messages, maybe you have a service business, a brick and mortar. High level is really good and I have a link to that. And then Snowflake AI is a company I recently partnered with. And they're really good if you have a lot of data if you're a company, it's a smaller enterprise. And you put your data in there and then it creates a front end for your team that you could all use that front end instead of you using all different things and it giving you different answers. And it can help you with everything from sales forecasting, marketing trends, it looks at everything and will actually provide you with a breakdown of where you're at with solutions and then it will have AI agents that will take action for you. So that's Snowflake AI. I think these are a bit deeper, right? The tools we talked about are I would say are a bit easier than the kind of the tools that you need to know. And I would say these are next level tools. What about you, Paige? Totally, I think that also that AI agents are gonna be like, they're just gonna continue to become more part of our lives. I feel like 2025 was a lot about understanding what AI agents are. 2026 is gonna be integrating them and it's gonna feel like second nature to us soon. It's not so much like a replacement of people as it is a way to increase your productivity and streamline processes even further. So you're still monitoring the whole process. You are still the agent, but you have these many agents type of workflows that are happening like in front of you to help you get to the results that you're looking for. And I find that there's two tools that I've been exploring. One is called Prodicle and it allows you to build AI agents and be able to distribute them as well. And there's also something called NADN, which is kind of similar, which allows you to create also in built AI agents for all kinds of processes for reading and summarizing emails or creating social content based off of research. And I think that that kind of work is great for seeking out an agent for us. So I think that it's very useful for people like me and I'm sure a lot of other people out there. It's amazing to have extra hands, you know, to turn tests that you have to do daily and to things that you could have an agent doing for you. A lot of us have to do a lot of research every day and it's great to be able to have an agent that helps with that. A lot of us also get a lot of emails every day. It's great to have something like that summarize, have emails drafted that you could review. Like these kind of things can make our lives a lot easier and I think that's gonna be very popular this year. Which is a tool where people can sell agents like it's a fiber for agents. - At Core Protocol, I know that you're able to create agents and you're able to actually let people use them like APIs. So instead of having to build it from scratch and stuff like that, you could license, I believe, or you could use the API key for an agent that already exists and build that into your system. So having that instead of like an API where you might have an API to create images for you or videos on an image generator platform or something like that, you could have an agent doing that and that agent is like the API instead of that individual tool. - This is awesome. So many things that are blowing my mind and I'm excited to learn more about page. Thanks for joining us any final words as we wrap up this year and anything you wanna share. - I'm so excited for the next year. I think that it's been such an exciting ride this last year in 2025. We're all curious to see where everything's going. So I feel like it's great to stay on the cutting edge or watching shows like your show and listening to your podcast and I feel like that's the best way for us to stay on the pulse of what's happening is to just like listen to different content creators, everybody's connected to different groups and communities and it's like because of that, you can get the information when it drops. I feel like that's really important. It's also important to focus on when not to use AI as well and when it's important to also do things on your own. I also see that there's a lot of like a revival of handmade crafts. So for people that are interested or have always wanted to create their own clothing line or create like a print business or create their own illustration business with hand drawn drawings or animations. Like this is a time for that too because there's a lot of interest in handmade art as well. So big interest in AI generated stuff and consolidating and using it for productivity amplification. But there's also big interest in handmade work as well. So wherever you are in this face right now, there's a place for what you do. - Oh, look at that. We ended with optimism. I so appreciate you. Thank you so much for taking time out of your holiday to join us. - Oh, thank you. I appreciate you. - It's great to have another woman in AI that is doing such amazing things that I look up to you and just you joining me here, it means a lot to me. So thank you. - Oh, thank you. I'm so honored to be here with you and I can't wait to watch your podcast in 2026 and see all the great guests you're gonna be talking to. - Yeah, see you then, too, baby, come on soon. - Thank you so much again to Paige Piscan for joining us. You gotta check out what she's up to. Go support her. Those links in the show notes, she's definitely worth a follow. And those were all the tools you need to know to be successful in 2026, baby a few more than six. But hopefully you enjoyed and you got a lot out of this episode as much as I did. Remember, you can check out links to all those tools in the show notes. And again, we couldn't do all of this amazing work if it wasn't for the support of my series sponsor, HiveLiter, another tool, of course, you gotta check out. 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Podcast Summary
Key Points:
AI tools are becoming more integrated into daily life.
Discussion on the importance of knowing when to use AI.
Introduction to various AI tools for success in 2026, including Hivelighter.ai, Microsoft co-pilot, Lovable, VioDev, Google Build Studio, 11 Labs, Suno, Clang, Google Vio, and Sora.
Emphasis on creative control in AI tools for audio and video generation.
Summary:
The transcription discusses the increasing presence of AI tools in daily life and the importance of discerning when to leverage AI technologies. ai, Microsoft co-pilot, Lovable, VioDev, Google Build Studio, 11 Labs, Suno, Clang, Google Vio, and Sora. The conversation highlights the significance of creative control in utilizing AI tools for audio and video generation, emphasizing the need to select tools based on project requirements and desired outcomes.
The discussion underscores the evolving landscape of AI technology and its potential impact on productivity and creativity in various fields.
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Tools like Microsoft co-pilot, lovable, and VioDev are recommended for productivity and creativity in 2026.
AI tools have transformed work processes, enabling tasks like commercial content creation, coding, and productivity enhancements.
Lovable and VioDev are user-friendly app builders that allow creating apps and solutions without the need for coding skills.
Tools like 11 labs and Suno are suggested for audio cloning, dubbing, music creation, and high-quality audio production.
Tools like Clang, Google Vio, and Sora are recommended for AI video generation, offering different levels of control and quality for various project needs.
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