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OpenAI enjoys massive boost on all fronts this week

INCLUDED: How ChatGPT surpassed Tiktok and other powerhouses as the most downloaded app for March

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Shawn Chauhan
April 12, 2025

🤖 Welcome back, AI enthusiasts.

đź“° In today’s Unbound:

  • 🧠 ChatGPT will now be able to remember everything you've ever said to it

  • ⚡ ChatGPT surpasses Instagram, TikTok as most downloaded app in March 2025

  • 🤖 How to Build an AI App in Minutes – No Code Required

  • ⏪ Rewind AI Helps You Never Forget a Moment As It Captures and Organizes Your Digital Life

  • 🔥 Trending AI Tools and Jobs

  • đź’° AI Finance and Funding

  • đź“° More AI & Tech News

🚀 LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

AI NEWS

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🔍 The Inside Scoop: ​OpenAI is enhancing ChatGPT with a powerful long-term memory feature, enabling it to automatically recall past conversations without user prompts. This builds on its existing memory capabilities and aims to create more personalized AI interactions over time, according to CEO Sam Altman.

🔑 Key Details:

  • ChatGPT can now reference all prior chats, even those not manually saved.

  • The memory upgrade includes both saved user-defined memories and AI-inferred chat history.

  • The rollout excludes EU, UK, and a few others due to regulatory concerns.

Why It Matters for AI Enthusiasts:

  • Enhances AI's contextual awareness and continuity across interactions, aligning with human-like memory.

  • Highlights ongoing tension between innovation and regulation in global AI development.

AI NEWS

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🔍 The Inside Scoop: OpenAI's ChatGPT app has become the most downloaded app globally across Android and iOS, driven by viral trends like the "Ghibli-fied" image generation. According to Appfigures, the app saw a combined 46 million downloads in March, surpassing TikTok and Instagram.

🔑 Key Details:

  • ChatGPT led Apple’s App Store with 13M downloads and ranked third on Google Play with 33M.

  • Its total of 46M installs made it the most downloaded app worldwide in March.

  • The Ghibli-style image trend played a key role in skyrocketing user engagement.

Why it matters:

  • Reflects explosive mainstream adoption of generative AI tools beyond traditional tech circles.

  • Demonstrates how creative, viral use cases can rapidly scale user onboarding and platform familiarity.

AI TUTORIAL

🤖 How to Build an AI App in Minutes – No Code Required

© Webdraw

🔍 The Inside Scoop: Want to create your own AI-powered app without touching a single line of code? With Webdraw, anyone can build smart, interactive apps using powerful AI models like GPT-4, Claude, DALL·E, and more — all through a visual drag-and-drop interface.

🔑 Key Steps

  1. Sign up on Webdraw – Go to webdraw.com and create a free account.

  2. Start a new app – Click “Create New App” and choose a blank canvas.

  3. Design your interface – Drag in a text input, button, and text output box.

  4. Add AI logic – Use the “Use AI Model” block to connect GPT-4 or another model.

  5. Write your prompt – Customize the AI prompt using the input field as a variable.

  6. Link your button – Make the button trigger the AI logic when clicked.

  7. Preview the app – Test your app by entering a prompt and generating a result.

  8. Deploy and share – Publish your app and get a live link to share or embed.

  9. (Optional) Monetize your app – Turn on monetization and start earning.

Why It Matters: Creating AI apps used to require coding skills — but using tools like Webdraw make it possible for anyone to bring smart ideas to life in minutes. Whether you're a creative, entrepreneur, or educator, this is your chance to launch something AI-powered without writing a single line of code.

AI TOOL REVIEW

© Rewind AI

🔍 The Inside Scoop: Rewind AI is your second brain—an AI-powered assistant that records, transcribes, and stores everything you’ve seen, said, or heard on your device. Designed for people who want to boost productivity, stay organized, and never forget a moment, Rewind runs privately in the background and makes your entire digital life searchable.

🔑 Key Features:

  • Smart Recall: Search your past screen activity, meetings, or conversations instantly using natural language.

  • Meeting Summaries: Get accurate, AI-generated summaries of your Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams calls.

  • Email Drafting: Automatically pull context from past interactions to write clear, informed emails.

  • Local Storage & Privacy: All data is compressed, encrypted, and stored locally—never in the cloud.

  • Cross-App Compatibility: Works across apps, browsers, and tools to build a complete memory archive.

đź”— The relevance: Whether you're leading teams, writing code, handling clients, or managing tasks, Rewind turns your daily digital activity into an effortless memory system. No more scrambling for meeting notes, digging through emails, or forgetting what was said—Rewind gives you instant, AI-powered recall so you can focus on what matters and make smarter decisions, faster.

🚀 AI EXTRAS

 

AI Tools đź› 

  • ​​MIOSN: An AI Tool that matches your task with the best AI models — based on real inputs, real outputs, and what you actually care about.

  • Video Ocean v2.0: Transforms your text and images into stunning videos with lifelike characters—perfect for ads, creative storytelling, and media production.

  • ​​Synthetiq: An advanced social media simulation platform that allows you to see how your content performs before you ever post it online.

  • ​Gan.AI: An AI platform for personalized video communication. It provides a free video recorder and a set of AI-powered personalization features.

AI Jobs đź’Ľ

AI Finance and Funding đź’°

  • Mira Murati doubled the fundraising target for her new AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, to $2 billion.

  • Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI startup led by OpenAI’s co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised an additional $2 billion in funding at a $32 billion valuation

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