A Fat Olympia Update: Embracing Innovation and Enhancements
Tons of new features and functionality at Olympia this month.
We're excited to share a host of updates and improvements designed to streamline your experience and enhance your daily operations. Our commitment to user satisfaction is at the heart of everything we do, and we believe these new developments will improve your interactions with Olympia substantially.
Improved Display Controls on Conversations
We recently deployed a big improvement to how we can see the main feed of conversations. In addition to search, you can now filter by AI and human team members on your account, and sort by newest or oldest. The last two buttons on the right control whether any messages are shown in the conversation list.
Also, this main conversation feed had been notably missing from Olympia on your mobile phone, but we’re happy to announce that as of today mobile phone users can finally search and see conversations by other account users. It’s true that we don’t have a mobile app yet, but our user experience on mobile phone is now on par with desktop and tablets.
Partnership with Perplexity AI
All AI team members now have the ability to search for information in real time via our partnership with Perplexity. This feature complements our existing Google search capabilities, and leverages Perplexity’s cutting-edge online LLM technology.
To see her answer, check the full conversation, where I also ask her about top stories on CNN and ask her to give me more details about celebrities wearing red pins at the Oscars.
Claude 3 for Long-Form Content
Anthropic’s Claude language model is back in action at Olympia, now in its latest version: Claude 3 Sonnet and Opus. We will be giving you the option to set your desired Writing Model at an account level within the next few weeks. Until then, when you want to generate some long-form writing, open the settings dialog, where you’ll find the following dropdown control.
While Claude 3 Opus excels in tasks requiring detailed explanations, mathematical reasoning, and following complex user instructions, GPT-4 maintains its superiority in handling large context information and commonsense reasoning. Your choice between the two should depend on the specific requirements of your writing project or task, so please experiment and find out which works best for you.
Highlighted Conversations
You can now easily identify conversations with unread messages at a glance in your sidebar. They are highlighted in green with a green dot. The highlight automatically disappears once you read the unread messages.
You’ll especially want to keep an eye out for green highlighted messages from Eleni, our Customer Service Manager. Whenever you have an unread message from her, it’s because we have some sort of announcement regarding the system status or new features and offers.
Migration of Olympia Blog
We have migrated our blog from Substack to our own website at /blog. We’ll still be using Substack to send this newsletter, but from now on articles and long-form announcements will be posted on the blog instead of here.
Our blog currently features two brand-new posts, both written by AI consultants:
Beyond Code: The Symbiosis of AI and Human Ingenuity in Programming's Next Chapter Mike Nichols explores the collaborative future between AI and human programmers, delving into how this partnership is set to redefine the coding landscape.
Olympia and Perplexity: Revolutionizing Real-Time Information Access for Our AI-Powered Consultants Leticia Sanchez discusses the integration of Perplexity AI with Olympia, enhancing our AI consultants' ability to provide up-to-date, accurate information.
In addition, an interview with
came out on Founderoo. She shares her journey up until co-founding Olympia, and a story behind our startup. Dive in here!Case Studies Section Launch
We are thrilled to unveil another new section on the Olympia website dedicated to real-world case studies. This exciting addition is designed to showcase the tangible benefits and real-world applications of Olympia's services, offering our community deeper insights into the transformative potential of our AI-driven solutions.
Besides, keep an eye on our next update.
is the first-ever user of Olympia, and she is on top of our leaderboard among power users. Vic has tons of Olympia use cases and will be sharing them with you on our YouTube channel very soon! This way, we hope to help you see how to get the best out of Olympia and be more productive and efficient while running your business.File Upload Improvements
We're excited to announce significant improvements to our file upload process, specifically targeting XLS and other file types that were previously failing due to a broken two-step conversion. We understand the importance of seamless integration and efficiency in your workflow, and apologize for any previous inconvenience related to this defect.
Quick Bites
You can rename conversations in the prompt box using the /rename command. This feature has been around for awhile, but it would get overwritten by the AI if you continued chatting in the conversation and especially if you changed the topic of the conversation. Your manually set title will now persist until you change it manually again. We know that some power users are using this feature as part of their information organization strategy.
Google search is better than ever. We upgraded the component that summarizes search results to use Claude 3 Haiku. It’s not only smarter and much faster than GPT 3.5, but also boasts an orders-of-magnitude bigger 200 thousand token context, which means it’s much less likely to fail trying to process large search results.
You can ask AI team members to search Google Images for you. They will display results inside of the conversation, along with links to the source pages for the content. AI Vision and Image Generation features are in early development and will be rolled out within the next couple of months.
Memory recall got smarter last week with the introduction of alternate keywords. Sometimes, the reason that your AI team member can’t remember what you’re talking about is because the words you are using in your prompt match up very well with its search index. We now automatically fall back to rewording your prompt to include alternate keywords when the first memory recall operation comes back empty. It’s all part of an effort to make sure Olympia assistants are as helpful as possible.
Eagle-eyed power users noticed that there are some new AI professionals available. Did you spot the new assistants in the mix on our Professionals page? Chandell and Vash are part of our new crop of Human Augmented AI assistants (or “clones” if you want to sound cool). Yes, they are AI versions of real people! You can’t hire them for your team quite yet, but that feature is coming soon, along with a lot more information about how they work and what makes them different from our other AI team members.
Still don’t have an AI team at Olympia? It’s time to work smarter, not harder!