AJ’s AI

Zero to $100M ARR in 8 months. Acquired by Meta today. Huge congrats to @Red_Xiao_, @hidecloud, and the entire @ManusAI team. I’ve personally helped oversee 122 events in 2025, but this one stuck out as my favorite. It was the day of our first event together. At 9:00 AM, OpenAI dropped “Agent Mode." Our event was at 5:00 PM. Every other startup would have been frozen like a deer in the headlights. The largest player in the AI space just dropped a feature that could make your startup obsolete. The @AICollectiveCo + @ManusAI team hopped on a call immediately. We pitched a narrative shift: "The Battle of the Agents." They didn’t hide from the news. They put it on the big screen. Manus showcased a LIVE demo of their agents vs. OpenAI’s release on stage that night. And the Manus agent won. Fast forward, and they achieved $100M ARR quicker than any startup in history. That level of fearlessness is exactly why they won. This was almost as fun as the first time we worked on their original product launch, but that’s a story for a different day. ;) Huge kudos to the team on this massive milestone!

if you’re in AI, pivot to world models

@dkundel Great to know, thank you! 😭

@AJs_AI That means you haven't updated your Codex for a while. We had to rotate signing certificates and after a month we had the old ones expire. This is just Apple's system message for that behavior. Downloading a new version should fix it

rumor has it that codex team didn’t ship today because of some major bugs *opens Codex to see what on earth it could possibly be*

SITUATION BREWING: Anthropic says it plans to release Mythos-class models to all customers in the coming weeks.

@BoxCrack1 Billion dollar question

@AJs_AI When 5.6?

Is Opus 4.8 a distillation of Mythos?

@mallexibra If you build this, send it my way!

@AJs_AI SWE-Bills is the benchmark every founder actually cares about 😂 Fast code is nice, but fewer production headaches is the real win.

opus 4.8 just spotted on Google Vertex gpt 5.6 also spotted on Codex rollout logs going to be a BIG day today…

Introducing Claude Opus 4.8: it builds on Opus 4.7 with sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors. Available today at the same price.

@vincent_koc you’re a monster 👀

9billion tokens in one day - hit my highest use per day on my macbook this week, aiming for 10 soon ;)

@OpenAI rage baiting us with this video could’ve posted this another day - WE WANT 5.6

@AJs_AI weird, I don't see it myself. but 4.8 does look like it should drop today as it was referenced in the latest claude code binary I think

it’s official

@ST_Automation Right… or deprecating old models is another sign too!

@AJs_AI Right there with you. The tell I watch after the selector appears is the pricing and docs pages quietly updating, usually a few hours before the blog post. Today feels close.

@itsmnjn it’s not looking likely

@AJs_AI No sonnet 5? :(

@chappyasel burn (token) burn!

@AJs_AI Let's gooo!

@MayaStone420 Only time will tell!

@AJs_AI Or a normal day, just massive hype nothing more

@Urke70933420 Polymarket's bet is by 5/31 at 81%

@AJs_AI Nah polymarket would have said something id that was true. If they don’t post then its not real.

@ST_Automation Exactly! Just a matter of time, fingers crossed for today!

@AJs_AI The Vertex sighting is the reliable tell. Every recent Anthropic model showed up in Google Cloud Console before the official post, so selector and rollout logs lead the announcement by a day or two. The leak is not really a leak, it is the staging step before the blog goes live.

@mallexibra Hahah this would be a wicked benchmark, called it 'SWE-Bills'

@AJs_AI If both drop today, I'm clearing my schedule to benchmark them. Need to know which one pays the bills faster.

@JKTorres02 @kumawashere1 cometapi.com/gpt-5-6-releas…

@AJs_AI @kumawashere1 @danizeres @gdb You said "rollout logs" where are they?