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$1000/Month AI Art Side Hustle, AI Prompting & Productivity Tools

AI Stack Saturday – Week of July 26, 2025

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Tirupati Rao
July 26, 2025

Table of Content

  • How One Creator Earned $1,000+ With AI Art

  • Today’s AI Tool

  • 🚀 AI Pulse (New)

  • This Week’s AI Tool Updates

  • AI News Highlights

  • Productivity Tools

  • Useful Resources

  • Digital Products by itirupati.com

How One Creator Earned $1,000+ With AI Art

Here’s a quick income idea you can actually start this weekend.

An AI-savvy affiliate marketer can make $429 in one month and cross $1,000+ using AI-generated art for POD (print-on-demand) side hustle. The twist? You can use free or super cheap tools, ran 7+ stores across Redbubble, Etsy, Creative Fabrica, Zazzle, and more — and keep tool stack minimal.

Go-to tools:

  • Midjourney (favorite!)

  • Leonardo AI

  • Canva AI

  • ChatGPT

  • Printify (Beta)

  • Placeit for Etsy mockups

AI tip:

“You don’t need fancy $100 tools. Stick to simple, free or low-cost AI tools and focus on creating consistently.”

Today’s AI Tool: ChatbotKit

Build Chatbots, Agents & AI Widgets Without Writing Code

ChatBotKit is an all-in-one platform for building custom AI agents and chatbots across websites, apps, and messaging platforms like Slack, WhatsApp, and Discord. No OpenAI API setup required.

Why it’s 🔥:

  • Create and deploy AI Agents to automate business workflows

  • Use AI Widgets on your website for sales, support & lead gen

  • Integrate with Slack, Discord, Telegram, and more

  • Access SDKs, examples, tutorials, and live demos

  • Serve 40,000+ creators and process 10M+ messages/month

Use cases:
→ Gmail inbox assistant | → Financial modeling bot | → Fashion AI stylist | → AI for museums

Try it here: chatbotkit.com

🚀 Introducing: AI Pulse by itirupati.com

Want short, fresh AI updates without doomscrolling?

I just launched AI Pulse – a bite-sized, no-fluff AI news tracker that cuts through the noise.

What’s inside:

  • Daily mini updates from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity & more

  • Tool launches, funding rounds, model upgrades

  • All in 30-second reads

  • No logins. No distractions. Pure signal.

⚡ Check it out → itirupati.com/ai-pulse

This Week’s AI Tool Updates

1. Claude Opus 4 (Anthropic): Anthropic’s newly released Claude Opus 4 sets a new benchmark for coding and complex reasoning tasks. It achieves industry-leading scores (~72.5% on SWE‑Bench, ~43.2% on Terminal‑Bench), making it one of the most capable models currently available.

2. OpenRouter Adds Venice Provider: OpenRouter has added a new privacy‑focused provider called Venice, offering an uncensored model designed for developers needing flexible moderation and low-latency routing.

3. OpenRouter Free Tier Expanded: The platform also announced updates to their free tier, expanding access to top-tier models like GPT‑4o, Gemini 2.5, and Claude 3.5 without paywalls or rate limits.

4. Gemini Pro 2 Gains OpenRouter Integration: Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro is now accessible via OpenRouter, allowing users to leverage Google’s most advanced model with latency-aware routing and cross‑provider fallback.

5. Poe Supports Latest Llama 4 Scout & Maverick: On the Poe platform, users can now tap into Meta’s Llama 4 Scout and Maverick, giving access to advanced multimodal reasoning right from the Poe ecosystem.

AI News Highlights

Let’s talk big money, brainy moves, and billion-dollar bets 👇

  • Anthropic nears $100B valuation in new funding talks
    Investors are exploring a funding round that may value Anthropic above $100 billion amid surging interest in Claude Codex and enterprise AI tools.

  • Thinking Machines Lab lands $2B seed, reaches ~$10–12B valuation
    Founded by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, this startup closed one of the largest virgin rounds ever, backed by major investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Nvidia.

  • White House Releases ‘AI Action Plan’ 2025: “Winning The Race”: Trump wants the U.S. to move fast and lead the world in AI. His new plan cuts back on safety rules, makes it easier for companies to build AI tools, and pushes for more open-source development. It’s all about less red tape, cheaper energy, and making sure American AI stays on top.

  • Meta names GPT-4 co-creator Shengjia Zhao chief scientist for new Superintelligence Lab
    As competition heats up, Meta poaches top talent and builds up leadership to challenge OpenAI.

  • Meta hires more OpenAI researchers (Jason Wei & Hyung Won Chung)
    Adding to its hiring spree, Meta continues to attract top engineers structuring next-gen AI models.

  • xAI’s Grok 1.5 goes open-source but exhibits surprising bias checks
    New model available on Hugging Face; researchers note it may reference Elon Musk’s views before answering certain prompts.

  • UK flips the switch on Isambard‑AI supercomputer in Bristol
    Designed to power national AI research, this $300 M megacompute cluster begins operations this week.

  • ServiceNow co-invests in Thinking Machines Lab’s $2B round
    Enterprise heavyweight shows confidence in accelerating AI-powered workflows and automation.

  • Crunchbase reports June record-breaking unicorn births—AI leads wave
    New unicorns from Europe & Asia dominate: demand for generative tools grows at fastest clip since 2022.

  • UK pledges 20× compute boost by 2030 following Isambard launch
    £1 billion funding boost for AI hubs around Bristol signals national push on compute capacity.

  • Lovable.dev hits $100M ARR in 8 months—fastest ever
    Swedish "vibe-coding" startup achieved $100M in annual recurring revenue in record time; now valued at $1.8B after raising $200M this week.

  • Lovable becomes unicorn with $200M Series A at $1.8B valuation
    8 months post-launch, Lovable scored an oversized round led by Accel, fueling growth for its natural-language software builder platform.

Productivity Tools

  • Fireflies.ai
    An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings across Zoom, Google Meet, MS Teams, and more.
    fireflies.ai

  • Lanceboard –
    Post a project and this AI matches you instantly with the ideal freelance talent. Micro-task outsourcing made seamless.
    lanceboard.com

  • Willow Voice –
    Intelligent dictation software that formats text as you speak, removes filler words, and corrects grammar in real-time. Perfect for busy writers.
    willowvoice.com

  • Momen –
    Build custom AI productivity tools without coding. Create chatbots, report generators, or automation flows visually—integrates with Notion, Slack, Zapier, and more.
    momen.app

  • ChooChoo –
    An AI assistant designed to automatically execute business operations—from scheduling to lead follow-ups—letting founders focus on strategy and growth.
    choochoo.cc

Useful Resources

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