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Name: Paul Long, President
\nBusiness: ANIÁN
\nYear founded: 2014
\nBased in: Victoria, Canada
\nSolutions: inventory management, order management, Shopify Shipping
Founded on the belief that clothing production shouldn’t negatively impact the world we live in, ANIÁN uses recycled natural fiber textiles from landfills to create timeless, lifelong clothing. Based in Canada, ANIÁN is on a mission to change the fast-consumption fashion industry, providing clothing that people can enjoy and feel good about.
\nANIÁN has two flagship retail locations in Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia, a presence in more than 150 other retail stores across Canada and the United States, as well as an online store. With a thriving business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) business model, the company, needed a way to simplify its supply chain operations. That’s when the company turned to Shopify.
\nANIÁN started using Shopify in 2014 and has scaled its B2B and B2C operations, thanks to capabilities that enable the brand to:
\nAs a circular fashion company that gives new life to textiles, ANIÁN sources a variety of materials that can be used to produce its high-end clothing. “We manufacture all of our own clothing,” says Paul Long, president of ANIÁN, “We design the materials and work with the mills. All of our clothing is made out of post-consumer waste … with no dyes.”
\nOnce manufactured, ANIÁN has to track and stock its inventory accordingly. But with numerous selling channels—wholesale, retail, and online—there’s a lot of management that goes on behind the scenes to get the clothing from the manufacturer to the warehouse, and into customers’ hands. ANIÁN not only needed a way to stay organized in the warehouse, but also a method for effectively managing and tracking shipments. With an average of 1, 100 weekly orders across Canada and the United States, ANIÁN needed a reliable way to manage sales and work with a shipping carrier that would meet customer delivery expectations. “The biggest attraction to Shopify was its inventory management capabilities—it’s a smooth way for us to manage inventory through multiple channels”—Paul Long, President, ANIAN.
\n\nThe biggest attraction to Shopify was its inventory management capabilities—it’s a smooth way for us to manage inventory through multiple channels.
To help streamline processes from the time clothing enters the warehouse through to delivery, ANIÁN turned to Shopify.
\nANIÁN has a centralized warehouse location to store and manage inventory. Once products are manufactured, ANIÁN uses inventory transfers in Shopify to track and import all its inventory data. ANIÁN manages approximately 10,000 variants at a time using Shopify, tracking all of the product details, including harmonized system codes, weight, and country of origin.
\n“Our supply chain is quite complex, but once everything hits our warehouse, it is logged by Shopify,” says Paul. “Having all of the product details in the platform and up to date is super helpful, because when you ship a product across the border, you sometimes need to pull up all of that information. They need to trace that good all the way back to exactly where we made it. Shopify allows us to do all of that.”
\nAs products are sold, Shopify automatically deducts the inventory quantity, ensuring inventory numbers are always up to date.
\nANIÁN also uses inventory transfers to manage outgoing inventory to its flagship retail stores and wholesale B2B customers, consisting of high-end tourism shops and over 150 retail locations across North America. They even use inventory tags to identify the B2B customer that inventory is meant for. Once the outgoing inventory is received, the recipient double checks that the quantities are accurate. With Shopify, ANIÁN has a complete history of inventory movement across their supply chain.
\n“Having one system to track all outgoing inventory makes it easy to see where inventory moves across our supply chain,” says Paul. “We even use Shopify’s inventory management in a creative way, where we’ll use transfers to identify inventory being used for a photo shoot or a tradeshow … meaning customers can’t purchase it, but it’s still tracked.”
\n\nHaving one system to track all outgoing inventory makes it easy to see where inventory moves across our supply chain
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With the ability to track inventory from the manufacturer all the way to wholesale, retail, or online store customers, ANIÁN has an up-to-date view of inventory quantities at all times. From there, getting orders out the door for shipment is a breeze, thanks to Shopify’s integration with FedEx and the company’s scheduled pickups. All of the necessary product information, such as product weight, code, and country of origin is recorded in Shopify, ensuring FedEx has all the information it needs to ship their products cross-border.
\nWhat’s more, Shopify enables ANIÁN to truly understand the numbers. The company can keep track of inventory cost, pull numbers required for accounting, and have full visibility into their business performance at all times.
\n“Shopify is more visual, and our team is all visual. We really don’t like seeing tons and tons of digital data sitting in spreadsheets, because it’s just not how our brains work. We do really enjoy that interface. Reporting visualization and inventory management was one of the original reasons that we went over to Shopify. I love the visualization and reports—the amount of data we can pull is awesome.”—Paul Long, President, ANIÁN
\n\nReporting visualization and inventory management was one of the original reasons that we went over to Shopify.
With Shopify, ANIÁN’s processes are more organized and streamlined, since everything is managed from one central location. From starting with the platform in 2014, to its scaled operations today, the future is bright for this environmentally conscious fashion brand.
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A new AI service for “parsing” music tracks.
\nThe Mikrotakt neural engine can split any track into vocals, instrumentals, bass, drums, and other audio tracks.
\nIn addition, you can upscale vocal tracks to clean up the voice and adjust the pitch. This feature is ideal for musicians and content makers.
\nThe new Chinese model DeepSeek-V3 becomes a competitor to ChatGPT:
\n– registration requires only your email and password
\n– the neural is quite fast: answers are generated in seconds
\n– Thinking mode, where AI turns into an academic on any topic
\n– the model can read diagrams and generate any texts
\n– files of different sizes can be uploaded
\n– the neuron is good at working with code
\n– absolutely free
\nHailuo AI from China can clone any voice without censorship in a few seconds. Its library includes more than 300 voices in different languages and intonations. The model also allows for full customization: you can change the tone, speed, and timbre and add sound effects.
\nThe Chinese have released a worthy competitor to ChatGPT.
\nThe Qwen2.5-Plus chatbot provides accurate answers, can read documents and images, and is completely free of charge.
\nKrea allows rotating models in its “Photoshop”
\nKrea developers have come up with an incredible feature for their neuro-Photoshop: you can drop any object and edit its position in 3D space.
\nThe Upscayl neuron has received a 16x upscale, so now it can save even the most hopeless photos. The download is free.
\nThe Wegic neural network has become even cooler.
\nNow websites are generated in seconds, and all your edits can be made with simple queries.
\nYou just throw in a promo and you have a perfectly(?) designed website.
\nA working AI meme generator.
\nThe Brainrot neuron follows trends, selects relevant images, and produces memes that are even funny to read. And all this is free.
\nGoogle has released a top free guide to AI agents.
\nIt contains everything: basic knowledge, tools, architecture, training methods, and a step-by-step recipe for creating agents on LangChain and LangGraph.
\nIt is a cool service for learning languages with an AI interlocutor.
\nThe Lingocat neuron imitates the native speaker, gives feedback, and has tasks to improve skills. And all this is free of charge.
\nThe free neural from the Chinese outperforms(?) ChatGPT.
\nA new model called R1 has been released that outperforms the best version of ChatGPT. R1 is twice as powerful as the previous version and it has literally everything you need: programming, math, rewriting, and everything else. It’s worth noting that if you look at the graph of how it “outperforms”, it doesn’t encourage you to switch from OpenAI to the Chinese neural.
\nUniversal AI photo editor.
\nGenerating, replacing, or deleting details, styling, changing the background, and upscaling – and this is not the whole list of functions of the new and free Dzine neural.
\nPrompt generator for ChatGPT
\nPromptEngine works according to the official recommendations of OpenAI. The service also supports other language models: Claude, Gemini, LLama, and Mistral, which can be selected from a list.
\nOpenAI President showed a feature for the o1 model.
\nAccording to Greg Brockman, the o1 model works a bit differently than other types of AI, and to achieve high performance, you need to follow a certain plan in writing promos:
\nthe goal, response format, warning, and context.
\n(The Anatomy of an o1 Prompt attached an example image)
\nChatGPT can now write first.
\nThe neuron will remind you of important things like a real assistant. For example, in the morning, it can provide a ready-made excuse for being late for work, and in the evening, a convincing explanation for a deadline shift.
\nSo far, only 10 regular tasks are available, but by the end of the week, all paid users will receive the new feature.
\nOpenAI offers free tokens for ChatGPT.
\nHowever, there is a caveat: in exchange, they ask for permission to use your promos to train models.
\nThe offer lasts until the end of February. Pro users can get up to 1 million tokens per day, and mini-version users can get up to 10 million!
\nTrump has canceled Biden’s decree on control over AI development.
\nThe document, signed in 2023, required developers to share test results with the government to reduce risks. However, Republicans insisted that this restricted freedom of speech and hindered progress. Now, AI development is unrestricted again.
\nChina will organize a competition between robots and humans
\nIn April, China will host the world’s first half marathon where people will compete with robots. The race will involve 12,000 runners and dozens of androids. Technology versus biology is a real race of the era.
\nAI tokens soar after the Stargate project announcement.
\nOn January 23, Trump announced a $500 billion investment from the private sector in the development of AI infrastructure in the United States. As part of this project, OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle will create a joint venture called Stargate. Immediately after this announcement, the AI and big data token market showed significant growth:
\n– AI16Z and AI Rig Complex (ARC) grew by 30% per day
\n– GRIFFAIN and ZEREBRO tokens doubled in price
\n– MetamonkeyAi (MMAI) showed an increase of 152.25%
\n– FLock.io (FLOCK) – by 57%
\nThe smartest o3-mini model will be free!
\nSam Altman said that this neural will be able to solve complex problems in programming, math, and data analysis – all for free.
\nFeatures of o3-mini:
\n– advanced analytical abilities
\n– accelerated data processing speed
\n– ease of use for everyone
\nThe release is planned for the near future.
\nOracle founder supports AI totalitarianism
\nBillionaire Larry Ellison stated that the total surveillance system with artificial intelligence based on cameras, drones, and police recorders will force citizens to “behave in the best way possible”.
\nOracle has recently entered into a partnership with OpenAI and Softbank. Digital dystopia is becoming a reality.
\nThe first Chinese base for robot training was opened in Shanghai
\nThey will learn to help around the house, play football, and assemble cars.
\nThe data obtained in the process will be shared with various companies.
\nCurrently, the center has more than 100 androids and plans to expand to a thousand by 2027.
\nChatGPT can now create any kind of application – a new Canvas feature has been released that runs the code right in the browser.
\n– There are no limits to ideas – we invent and ask AI to draw up a detailed project description.
\n– Copy and paste the request into the chat with the neuron, but add the “/canvas” command at the end.
\n– AI will produce a fully working application in React and HTML in a second – you can test it right away!
\n– There are no limits or restrictions – you can even clone YouTube in your browser.
\nThe feature is free.
\nTop 5 promos for working with any amount of information – the neural will squeeze out all the “water” from the source and give you only concise, verified facts:
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