Alexandre

@user57085 ?

@sama woah, sol.

Good new first: Sol is a smart, efficient, and a significant step forward. It is the same price as GPT-5.5. Also launching in the GPT-5.6 family is Terra, with 5.5-level performance at half the price. Bad news: at the request of the US government, it is launching today in limited preview instead of the open access launch we were planning on. We are working with the government to get to general availability as fast as we can. I think it is quite reasonable to roll out models--especially as they reach significant new levels of capability--in this way. It fits with our long-held strategy of iterative deployment. But this isn't quite the process that we think is optimal. Now we will with the government to attempt to get to a transparent, reliable process for early access, and to ensure that as long as our safeguards work as intended we can release widely. We want to be a reliable, dependable partner that works with all stakeholders, and we also want to live by our mission of benefiting all of humanity. I believe the government shares most of our goals, and that they are overall doing a good job in a very difficult situation. We will work as quickly as we can to get this model in your hands and we hope you will love it.

well, we're back on x.

AI is transforming Vertical SaaS, unlocking markets that were once too “small” to target. For years, niche industries like laundromats, chiropractors, and veterinary services were overlooked because their market sizes seemed limited, and high customer acquisition costs (CAC) made them unprofitable to serve, @astrange and @jamdac, write. But with AI, that's changing. By automating labor-heavy processes like inbound sales and back-office workflows, SaaS companies can increase customer spending and significantly reduce CAC, transforming these small markets into highly profitable opportunities. This chart shows how AI replaces labor with software, expanding market sizes and increasing profitability for SaaS solutions. For example, a market of 10k customers paying $1k/month grows from $120M to $1.2B when AI enables new service offerings, like automated marketing and customer support. We believe the long tail of Vertical SaaS is now accessible like never before. For more from Angela Strange and James da Costa, check out the full story: a16z.com/vsaas-vertical…

So, did you try it?

we made a treehouse!

@AravSrinivas like an ill-fitting hoodie and lego adidas shoes? congrats on a truly great product!

hard to go back to doing it the old way haha

Reddit AMA with @sama, @markchen90, @kevinweil, @snsf, and @merettm starts now: reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comm…

The Solana ecosystem call hosted by Superteam is back. Join us!

Congratulations to @KeertiMelkote, @robertnishihara, and the entire @anyscalecompute team!

New high-fidelity AI tools are extending the creative impact of filmmakers, designers, animators, & photographers. This summer, a16z recently hosted a gathering of artists & technologists in New York to explore how AI's capabilities are enhancing their work. With the support of companies like @elevenlabs, @HelloCivitai, @krea_ai, @ViggleAI, @udiomusic & @ideogram_ai, artists were able to demo emerging features and experiment with creative new integrations.

How we're disrupting attempts by covert influence operations to use AI deceptively: openai.com/index/disrupti…

We're opening up access to our new flagship model, GPT-4o, and features like browse, data analysis, and memory to everyone for free (with limits). openai.com/index/gpt-4o-a…

Plus users will get up to 5x higher limits, and earliest access to features like our new macOS desktop app and next-generation voice and video capabilities.

Say hello to GPT-4o, our new flagship model which can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time: openai.com/index/hello-gp… Text and image input rolling out today in API and ChatGPT with voice and video in the coming weeks.