In 2026, I believe we'll see a Consumer AI Renaissance.
Consumer spending is the lifeblood of the US economy – representing more than 65% of US GDP.
AI is already rapidly transforming how we spend both our money and time.
In just the past 3 years, ChatGPT has become the fastest growing consumer product in history – reaching billions of users with engagement levels similar to social media apps like WhatsApp and Instagram.
And with recent advancement in AI capabilities, I predict we’ll see a new wave of breakout consumer AI applications.
We’ve seen major advances in three key areas:
1. Real-time voice AI - which allows users to engage with AI products in a natural, hands-free way
2. Advanced reasoning models - which improves the complexity of questions AI products can answer
3. Embedded Memory - which allows AI products to remember context between conversations, enabling more personalized responses
With these new capabilities, we can now build AI products that are 10x better than before.
I’m especially excited about products that use AI to make previously expensive services cheaper and more accessible, sometimes using human-in-the-loop to start.
This includes things like AI travel agents, personal assistants, matchmakers, therapists, tutors, and more.
We’ve already seen a number of early-stage teams working on these at @a16z@speedrun – and we’re excited to meet more.
If you’re building the next generation of consumer AI, we’d love to hear from you!
h/t to @Theresa_M_Horne@Avenir_Growth whose excellent research helped inspire some of these insights.
Learn more in our blog and tech report:
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🧵https://t.co/rJqz0yjDkm
This guy is using this huge 40,000 character Meta-Prompt to turne ChatGPT into Warren Buffett.
The prompt locks the model into acting as Warren Buffett by loading 40,000+ characters of his biography, routines, quotes, formulas, and case studies.
It injects complete valuation frameworks, decision trees, and linguistic patterns so answers echo Buffett’s style and logic.
i.e. from Prompt-engineering perspective, it's heavy persona priming, domain knowledge stuffing, strict output policing, and explicit step-by-step checklists that channel the model’s reasoning.
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New #ACL2025NLP Paper! 🎉
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We interact with AI every day, offering all kinds of feedback, both implicit ✏️ and explicit 👍. What if we used this feedback to personalize your AI assistant to you?
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@karpathy My + @viewerisland's POV is that there's 3 main ways to improve an agent:
1. System prompt
2. User prompt
3. Direct model iteration (SL/RL)
We've been focusing on 2 (through the above) and 3 (building out a platform for real-time RL / online model training)
@karpathy We do something very similar to this! Rather than iterate on the system prompt (we've found this introduces variance in output quality), we augment the user prompt in real-time w/ an LLM-as-a-judge. We found this works well for web agent tasks:
https://t.co/Etq8j9aCdu
change of plans: we are going to release o3 and o4-mini after all, probably in a couple of weeks, and then do GPT-5 in a few months.
there are a bunch of reasons for this, but the most exciting one is that we are going to be able to make GPT-5 much better than we originally though. we also found it harder than we thought it was going to be to smoothly integrate everything. and we want to make sure we have enough capacity to support what we expect to be unprecedented demand.
Another crazy week in AI 🤯
Genesis Project
ElevenLabs Flash
Tldraw Computer
Cursor Yolo mode
Kling AI new 1.6 model
Midjourney Moodboards
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking
GitHub Copilot in VS Code
ChatGPT calls and Desktop
Google Imagen 3 and Veo 2
Here’s what you need to know:
A Chinese influencer mimics Trump to promote a hotpot restaurant.
“川普火锅”都出来了!🔥🤣笑Crying……
这位华裔小伙儿在重庆吃潮汕火锅🍲,突然“川普附体”却毫不违和。坦白讲,这是我看过的最好的川普模仿秀之一!👍
川普已经成为一个百搭的文化符号!😄