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Founder at The Rundown AI.
Tools Rowan Cheung has publicly discussed or demonstrated using. Curated by Magpie's editorial team from podcasts, posts, and public stacks.
Rowan Cheung runs The Rundown AI, a daily AI newsletter to over 2 million readers. Tool curation is his profession; the newsletter and his X feed catalogue new releases and use cases continuously.
ChatGPT recurs in The Rundown's daily coverage. Cheung benchmarks each major OpenAI release for his 2M-reader newsletter and posts prompt patterns and behavioural notes that translate well to operator workflows. He treats ChatGPT as the canonical default consumer-AI product worth tracking against alternatives.
Cheung reviews each Claude release in The Rundown newsletter and on X with side-by-side prompts and use cases. He frames Claude alongside ChatGPT as the two reference points for what serious frontier-model journalism looks like and tracks Anthropic's product moves daily.
Midjourney is a recurring subject in The Rundown's image-gen coverage. Cheung documents version-to-version differences and uses Midjourney as the canonical generative-image reference point in his daily curation, alongside competing image models.
The Rundown has recurring Runway coverage in its video-gen reporting. Cheung treats Runway as the canonical AI-video primitive worth benchmarking against new entrants in the space, with side-by-side demos that influence the consumer-AI conversation.
Perplexity recurs in The Rundown's AI search coverage and Cheung uses it personally as research for the newsletter. He frames Perplexity as the cited-source answer engine in his journalist workflow alongside Claude and ChatGPT for synthesis tasks.
Last researched May 10, 2026
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