Welcome to Lead with AI's practical Tuesday edition!

In this edition, I'm bringing you the latest must-know AI tools and stories:

1. Will Grammarly be the first AI-native writing environment? Turn a short post into a newsletter with Grammarly Docs.
2. Your AI Team: Google Drive’s video edit shortcut, Gemini Live, Excel’s COPILOT function and more.
3. AI Tools Recommendation: Copilot for Word, Gemini in Google Docs, Writesonic.
4. Must-read News: Meta partners with Midjourney, OpenAI’s $5 plan in India.

Let’s get started!

Last week, we ​mentioned​ Grammarly’s significant launch: ​9 new AI agents​ now built into its platform. This week, we took a closer look at these features and how they perform in action.

At the center of this shift is the new ​Grammarly Docs​. If you’ve used Notion or Coda, you’ll recognize the vibe. Here’s what you can now access directly in Docs:

• AI Chat for expansion, outlines, and revisions
• Reader Reactions to anticipate how your selected audience will perceive your writing
• Citation Finder to support or challenge claims with properly formatted sources
• AI Grader to align text with grading rubrics or expectations
• Proofreader, Paraphraser, Humanizer, Expert Review, AI Detector, and Plagiarism Checker, each serving a clear role in refining clarity, tone, and credibility

It’s powered by what’s called a “block-based editor,” which means instead of writing in one long, static text box, your content is broken into flexible sections (or blocks) that you can move around, expand, comment on, or revise independently. This makes it easier to structure ideas, collaborate, and apply different AI agents to different parts of your writing.

So what does that actually look like when you’re trying to get real work done?

To test it out, we picked one small but familiar challenge: taking a short post or quote and turning it into a polished, executive-ready newsletter.

You had a great one-liner on LinkedIn, which is smart, thought-provoking, something people resonated with. Great! Now, we will transform that one spark into an executive newsletter, complete with real examples, citations, and a tone that sounds exactly like you.

Here’s how to do it, start to finish.

1. Open Grammarly Docs and paste a short, bold thought, maybe a LinkedIn post or comment that sparked a few likes or DMs.  For example: “The smartest teams aren’t asking ‘How do we add AI?’ They’re asking, ‘If we remove this AI tool, what stops working?’ That’s the real adoption test.”
2. Ask Grammarly’s built-in AI Chat to do the heavy-lifting: “Expand this into a 300-word email newsletter for execs. Tone: clear, smart, conversational.”
3. Use Grammarly’s new AI Agent - Reader Reactions to simulate how a specific group will interpret the piece.
4. Based on the Reader Reactions in Step 3, this post can further benefit from real-world examples. Ask AI Chat to layer in concrete real-life use cases.
5. Use Grammarly’s Humanizer agent to make it sound more like you. Select a voice (or create your own), then tweak for pacing, clarity, and warmth. This last pass ensures the piece reads naturally.

Need a bit more detail? Check the ​full tutorial here​.

This is just one example of how AI can elevate your content, starting with a single spark. To go further and build systems around this, explore our ​​Build Your AI Team​​ course for practical guidance.

Your AI Team: Google Drive’s video edit shortcut, Gemini Live, Excel’s COPILOT function, and more

Every week, I report on the top updates to your favorite AI tools. This week:

Now you can edit videos on Drive

Google just made video editing part of your everyday workspace. With a quiet but meaningful update, Drive now includes a ​direct shortcut​ to Google Vids, its new AI-powered video creation tool.

What makes it special:

• Video editing starts from where your files already live. When you preview a video in Google Drive, you’ll now see a new “Open” button that lets you jump straight into Google Vids. It’s a simple change, but it shifts Drive from being just a file storage system to something closer to a lightweight creative studio.
• Vids is Google’s take on AI-powered video production. Once inside Vids, you can trim clips, rearrange scenes, add music, and overlay text right in the browser. And because it’s built on Google’s Gemini AI layer, you can expect more generative features to show up soon: think script drafting, scene suggestions, and automated visual polish.

This update lowers the barrier for anyone who needs to communicate visually, especially in internal updates, training videos, or async storytelling.

Quick Hits from your favorite AI tools:

• Gemini ​reads your docs aloud​ in Google Docs: You can now listen to your documents, Gemini turns text into expressive voiceovers right inside Docs. Accessible via Tools > Audio or embedded audio buttons, this feature enhances readability and proofreading, and lets you fine-tune playback voice and speed.
• ​Gemini Live​ links with your Calendar, Tasks & Keep: Now you can chat with Gemini Live and reference your real-time schedule, to-do list, or notes. It’s available for business accounts and lets you ask things like “What’s my next meeting?” or “Add this to my tasks.”
• Google Search’s ​AI Mode​ expands globally: Google’s AI Mode can now book restaurant reservations for you and is extending to over 180 countries in English.
• Meta brings ​AI-powered dubbing​ to Reels: Creators on Facebook and Instagram can now auto-translate Reels between English and Spanish with voice, tone matching, and lip-sync.
• Excel’s new ​COPILOT function​ makes AI part of your formulas: Microsoft rolled out a new function that lets you type plain-language prompts directly into Excel cells like “Classify this feedback” and get real-time summaries or categorizations.

Read more news at the end.

AI Tools Recommendation: AI for Writing

Instead of chasing the latest hype, I’m using this section to highlight the top AI tools in key categories, only those Lead with AI community members are actually using and relying on.

This week: AI for Writing

If you’ve ever felt blocked by editing software, production timelines, or the need to “just get something visual out,” these tools can take you from idea to video.

​Microsoft Copilot for Word​

If you already use Microsoft Word, Copilot fits right in. It helps you summarize long documents, rewrite paragraphs in different tones, and even generate first drafts based on a few bullet points. Ideal for reports, client briefs, or strategy docs when you’re short on time.

​Gemini in Google Docs​

Embedded seamlessly into Google Docs, Gemini can help you write, refine, summarize, and structure content, all within the editor. It offers contextual assistance like expanding ideas, creating images, summarizing emails or Drive files, and even stylizing your document layout.

​Writesonic​

Writesonic is a full-content creation platform geared toward blogs, marketing copy, and SEO workflows. It offers AI tools for article generation, paraphrasing, SEO optimization with real-time insights, keyword research, and even chatbot integration.

Meta partners with Midjourney, OpenAI’s $5 plan in India, along with more crucial AI stories

Every day, Daan, Wendy, and I read all the AI news so that you don't have to.

Here are the must-read stories of the week:

​Meta partners with Midjourney on AI image and video models​

Meta has teamed up with Midjourney to license its standout image and video generation technology, integrating it into future AI models and products to amplify creative features across its platforms.

​OpenAI launches a sub‑$5 ChatGPT plan in India​

OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Go in India, a budget-friendly ₹399/month tier (about $4.60) offering 10× higher usage limits, image uploads, and memory compared to the free plan, with local UPI payments supported.

​Addressing Gen AI’s Quality‑Control Problem​

Harvard Business Review explores how Amazon is confronting generative AI’s “hallucination” problem by implementing scalable human review systems and testing tools that maintain quality without breaking the budget.