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GPT-5 first impressions: - AI code / app gen is defining the competitive landscape for models - Focus on FE web aesthetics hints at what kind of apps most people are building - Most consumers will see a huge improvement (since most have never switched the default model)

GPT-5 is here and is my new favorite AI engineer. I was given early access and tested this new model on @chatprd along with some of my favorite coding, business, and personal workflows. Here's a special How I AI deep dive on this new model, and what I love (and don't) about it 👇

Permissioned data access appears to be under siege. If data access becomes a closed-loop system, what breaks — and what is lost? I’ve met hundreds of B2B AI startups. Here's how I think this reshapes the landscape and how founders can respond 👇

The @elevenlabsio music model is super impressive (or I had extraordinary luck in my first few generations): It's able to generate obscure styles that the other models overfit, i.e. "1990s deep house" tends to otherwise get overfit as "EDM", which sounds like trash. This is *great* - check out my generated track below:

App generation is one of the fastest growing AI spaces. Cos are scaling to $100M+ ARR at record pace, seemingly in a race to dominate the market. But we think it won't be "winner takes all." The market will segment, with different winners in different areas. Our thesis 👇

a16z Speedrun comes to Israel! Hosting a few events below 👇🏼

Grok Imagine brings art to life👇🤯

Great product execution in grok imagine - very fast, constrained in the right ways, supremely satisfying to see images come to life in this way.