Welcome to our newsletter designed for the tech enthusiasts. Here you’ll find the latest updates, tool reviews, and insights from an excited founder turned investor, always eager to explore new innovations.
Hello everyone,
ChatGPT is set to introduce advertisements. This will roll out in a few weeks, starting in the U.S., and will affect only free users and those on the Go plan ($8/month). Here are the key points: ads will appear at the bottom of ChatGPT responses, but they won’t influence the content of the replies, and no personal conversation data will be shared with advertisers. Additionally, OpenAI has announced its 2025 revenue projections: $20 billion, which is more than three times the $6 billion forecasted for 2024. To put things in perspective, Meta’s revenue exceeded $180 billion, and Google made around $295 billion just from ads in 2025. While OpenAI remains relatively small, there’s significant room for expansion.
Claude Cowork is now accessible to Pro users (those on the $20/month plan). You can download the desktop app to take it for a spin.
Flux.2 [klein] is a compact, fast image generation and editing model that allows for fine-tuning. This makes it highly suitable for businesses needing a large volume of images created in a specific style, especially when alternative options like Nano Banana prove too costly.
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Learnfromlenny – A Twitter response bot that provides answers based on more than 320 transcripts from Lenny’s Podcast.
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Ami – Run multiple coding agents from your computer without disrupting your workflow.
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FastRound – Assisting founders in their fundraising efforts. Simply enter your X username to find potential investors who follow you and reach out to them. (see example)
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Open Responses – An open specification inspired by the OpenAI Responses API, aimed at creating multi-provider interfaces.
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Openwork – An open-source variant of Claude Cowork.
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opensync – Offers a searchable history, markdown export, and evaluation-ready datasets from your opencode/claude-code sessions. (view demo)
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claude-config by Brian Lovin – A GitHub repository serving as the definitive source for skills and settings. (here’s why)
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TranslateGemma from DeepMind – Features open models in three sizes (4b, 12b, 27b) that support 55 languages.
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GLM 4.7 Flash is a new open model from Z.AI, serving as an excellent alternative to GPT-OSS-20B, particularly for tool-calling applications.
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Recent research from Anthropic Fellows explores the limits of “assistant-like” behavior. As conversations extend, models are prone to transitioning into different personas, and they provide insights on how to mitigate this issue.
That’s all for today. We welcome your comments and thoughts. 👋
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