Today’s been an absolutely stacked day for AI news. In case you missed it: 1. GPT 5.6 Sol and Sol Ultra dropping tomorrow. Early reviews say it’s not as smart as Fable but very positive. 2. Grok 4.5 launches from Cursor / SpaceX that claims Opus 4.7 quality at 80tps and $2/M in $6/M out price. 3. Bytedance Seedream 5 Pro launches as an image ~#2# and nearly as good as GPT Image 2 at 4x cheaper cost: $0.045-$0.09/image, specializing in edits and infographics. Easily beats Meta’s Muse Image. 4. GPT-Live launches a full duplex non-turn based voice model which allows interactions while you’re talking seamlessly, a huge upgrade in audio AI for consumer Coming soon: 1. Seedance 2.5 Pro expected to launch soon (early July) to further extend Bytedance’s lead in SOTA video gen models. Will use Seedream 5 Pro as the frame generator. 2. Gemini 3.5 Pro launching soon (July 17). Google seems to have fallen quite behind frontier and people eagerly await to see what Google can put out here amidst a string of high profile departures. 3. GPT-6 rumored to launch soon (Polymarket spikes at August 14) with a new larger retrain, taking aim at Fable.

The New Media Landscape Attention. Distribution. Power. Taste. This is how the future of media will be built and there are already thousands of creators ahead of the curve, doing just this. We've just published the ultimate map covering creators building new media across tech, each one who you should be paying attention to, including: Going independent: @alexeheath, @EricNewcomer, @Emily_Sundberg, @TaylorLorenz, and @alexrkonrad. Startups & Venture: @TurnerNovak, @saranormous, @MollySOShea, @eladgil, @eostudiojiyoon, @siliconvalleymm, @bhalligan, @cleoabram, @jaltma, and @tbpn. Documentaries: @willsclips_. AI: @clairevo, @natebjones, @danshipper, @petergyang, and @azeem. Money & Careers: @cherie_luo, @benln, and others. The Creator Economy: @jlouderb, @ColinandSamir, @kyurieff, and @jasmineaenberg. Business: @thesamparr, @ShaanVP, @gregisenberg, @simonsquibb and others. Product: @lennysan, @emilykramer, @Kevin_Indig, @ElenaVerna, @majavoje and others. We just launched a brand new site where you can find the latest new media channels. This will become the largest and go-to home for new media creators over time: Don't see yourself? You can add yourself to the site now!

How are consumers using AI in their personal lives? New analysis across ~40k Claude conversations 👇 The biggest category is health / wellness, followed by professional / career. There's a big dropoff to #3# (relationships).

Ramp's monthly Top Software Vendors is one of the best signals for where to work, where to invest, or who to sell to. Here are May's breakout + fastest growing vendors. We observe that @tryramp customers with high AI intensity grow revenue ~4x faster. Great vendor selection is a critical part of being on the right side of the gap. Every month, @arakharazian publishes the playbook.

A few lesser-known products I love and use a ton: 1. for screenshots 2. replaced Loom for me, so clean 3. for frequent snippets 4. for emojis 5. for focus

of all RL environment companies in this market map, @benchflow_ai is the only one > angel funding only > no yc / a16z accelerator > no phd / former lab exp / no formal pedigree also solofounder yet we shipped two top tier researches, got 8-fig acquisition offers from unicorns

Jane Street hired this junior at $220k-$600k /year because he uses AI to analyse TRILLIONS of data in this 1-hour lecture - he show how to research trillion of data points thanks to his machine Bookmark & watch it, instead of Netflix to learn how to do the same!

We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity. This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.