For a couple years, we've been watching from the sidelines to observe the best of what the Notions of the world could deliver with AI. At first, it was mostly gimmicks. But if there's one stable truth of the AI Era, it's that version numbers will keep on ascending, and every new version from the feuding four unlocks new possibilities.

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Why these four? Third-party LLM Leaderboards (like arena.ai's) make clear there's no single winner in the adolescence of LLMs. For better and worse, this is going to be a back-and-forth competition. As we've collected more-and-more examples of "high value LLM interactions," our AI wishlist finally got long enough that we had no choice but to implement the best ideas and share them with the community.

And so today, we're thrilled to announce the general availability of Ample Agent Pro!

link⚔️ The models will figure it out

How is Amplenote's approach to AI different from other note and task apps?

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The struggle is intense, it's no time to lose your noodle. Image generated by Ample Agent Pro

Our approach is all about the LLM models. Specifically, "which providers?" and "how outdated?" Every note app with AI has many features in common: summarization, proofreading, etc. Our users will come out ahead if the implementation of these features permits seamless access to every newly released LLM. Users can swap between providers, depending on what capabilities the task calls for.

Our approach ensures that, whatever the niftiest tricks LLMs are doing in their latest benchmarks, you can access the same powers from within Amplenote.

link🧐 What it does

Philosophy aside, whether an $8/month AI subscription is worth your time boils down to rather prosaic concerns: does it solve real-world problems?

While the plugin still has some rough edges, we believe this v1.0 launch is teeming with value. It starts with the breadth of features from AmpleAI, then adds a handful of special agents to help research, act, and organize.

Ample Agent's v1 feature lineup includes (✅ = core feature, free within monthly usage quota):

In semi-related news, we fixed colors not toggling between light & dark mode in published notes this month, and this author is feeling gluttonous with his formatting toolbar. 🥳

link🎁 What a subscription gets you

If you sign up for an Ample Agent Pro subscription, you'll receive:

link🪄 Conclusion

We're excited to finally submit our entry into the marketplace of brain-multiplying AI tools. For a more detailed rundown of Ample Agent Pro, or to purchase a subscription, click here to learn more.

We'll write a more comprehensive Amplenote update in the weeks to come, but you can always check out live product changelog if you're curious what else we've been working on. 😅

link🗄️ Footnotes

A little bonus content for niche audiences that want to understand how "Amplenote is thinking about AI strategy" in general, or developers who might want to profit from building/updating an Amplenote plugin.

link🌍 AI Strategy and Competitive Comparison

According to our deep research queries, there are a handful of note & task apps that currently allow access to the major LLMs:

These apps share our belief that 1) AI is essential to expediting work 2) different AI providers excel in different domains.

Variance between implementations comes mostly from two areas:

According to deep research queries, it seems that only Amplenote, and perhaps Capacities, ascribe to the principles:

1. The "right" update schedule is "basically immediate."

2. The most user-friendly price to connect with frontier models is $0.00.

Our solution does have its tradeoffs. Namely, that power users almost certainly will want to provide at least one AI provider API key of their own, to permit unlimited access to the highest-leverage features.

We think the "pros" far outweigh that con, because any power user already has accounts with multiple AI providers. The payoff is that you don't have to worry that Amplenote is going to send your high-impact questions off to some underpowered LLM. And, if the next release of any model places it firmly ahead of competition, you'll be able to tap into that power within days of its release.

link💰 Paid plugins

One reason that we opted to implement Ample Agent Pro as a plugin was to create a system that allows other Amplenote plugin authors to monetize their work. We already see a ton of value that Amplenote users glean from our directory of plugins; we can imagine that the quality of plugins will shoot much higher still if developers have financial incentive to build the best plugins imaginable.

Our guidelines for authors who want to author a paid plugin:

Given the breadth of possibility that exists at the crossroads of "Amplenote's Plugin API" (now featuring access to external calendar events, mood ratings, and everything seen on Mission Control Dashboard) and the possibilities that modern LLMs can enable.