Animate UI With Gemini 3

AI Product Launches & Updates

• Superhuman Vision Helmet: Theresanaiforit @theresanaiforit announced a lightweight helmet with swappable lenses offering day, night, and AR vision and audio amplifiers for battlefield use.

• AI-Driven Robot Phone: Theresanaiforit @theresanaiforit announced an Honor robot phone with a mechanical gimbal AI camera that tracks subjects, analyzes outfits, and interacts with environments.

AI Tools & Applications

• UI Animation with Gemini 3: Jason Zhou @jasonzhou1993 shared that Gemini 3’s hidden power is an Awesome UI Animator, demonstrating how to unlock popular animation libraries through precise prompts.

• AI Workflow Products List: Aakash Gupta @aakashg0 shared a curated list of practical AI products like Cursor, Granola, and WisprFlow that embed AI into specific workflows.

• Qwen Image Editing in ComfyUI: Alibaba Qwen @Alibaba_Qwen announced Qwen Image Edit 2511 & Qwen Image Layered are now live in ComfyUI for smarter, layered image control.

Product Management Insights & Strategies

• Automate Boring Work with AI: Dharmesh Shah @dharmesh shared a pro tip advising PMs to inject excitement by automating or optimizing routine tasks with AI, while cautioning to stay focused on direct customer value.

• Unpopular Opinions on Technical PMs: George Nurijanian @nurijanian shared hot takes arguing PMs should recognize engineering deflection tactics instead of just debating coding skills.

• Stakeholder Psychology Unpacked: George Nurijanian @nurijanian kicked off a thread revealing that every “difficult” stakeholder behavior has hidden logic, emphasizing the importance of understanding their incentives.

AI Industry Developments & News

• Early AI Chip Investment: Aakash Gupta @aakashg0 detailed how Social Capital’s $10M seed investment in Groq in 2017 secured a 33% stake, illustrating high-risk, high-reward AI hardware bets.

• Robotics Industry Acceleration: Aakash Gupta @aakashg0 shared that the robotics industry will compress a decade of progress into 18 months, driven by readily available motors and synthetic data.

• AI-Driven Economic Growth: Aakash Gupta @aakashg0 highlighted Elon’s forecast of 10%+ GDP growth in 18 months and elaborated on the math required to achieve it.

Product Management Insights & Strategies

AI-Powered Strategic Planning: Brandon Gell of Every Inc. built an internal chatbot that guides team members through quarterly reviews, annual strategy and Q1 OKRs, leveraging company data and a top-level strategic plan. This approach cut planning cycle time by 60% and improved alignment 3×. Outputs are consolidated in Notion and summarized via Claude, with plans to enable real-time querying in Discord—demonstrating how AI can streamline cross-functional alignment and operational planning.

Reliable AI Deployments Beyond Prototyping: Paweł Huryn shares a two-tiered pipeline for taking AI apps to production: a 10-minute “minimum setup” using GitHub branches, Supabase prod environments and Netlify, and a “full deployment” workflow with pull requests triggering automated frontend deployments and database migrations. He underscores the need for proper branching, persistent environments and rollback strategies, and points to additional resources on performance prompts and secure coding. Paweł also highlights an upcoming AI PM Certification cohort by Miqdad Jaffer starting January 26 (details in his post) for PMs aiming to specialize in AI.

AI Industry Developments & News

AI Website Builder Wars: Tal Raviv proposes that Lovable—an AI-first platform for small business websites—is siphoning top-of-funnel intent from incumbents like Wix and Squarespace. His theory: Lovable’s AI-driven awareness has enabled it to capture static site demand at scale. Sustained retention may hinge on mastering marketing channels and controlling the SMB segment, laying a foundation for future AI-powered offerings. Raviv invites the community to refine this model with additional data points.