openai is sprinting to delight users
anthropic is throwing crumbs
the gap between fable and gpt sol isn't nearly as wide as the gap in posture
one company builds like it wants you there. the other builds like you're lucky to be let in
our models are built to provide the best price for any given task.
if you're able to get better price/perf on any workload, would love to hear the details and look at it together — [email protected].
everyone's overpaying for attention on platforms built to hide intent, while the one platform built entirely on intent sits ignored
reddit: ~1.5 billion estimated monthly users. 80 million weekly searches. 62% of american internet users use it to research what to buy.
instagram shows you what people want you to think about their life.
tiktok shows you what an algorithm thinks will hold your gaze.
reddit shows you what people actually need because they typed it out, in detail, and asked strangers to help.
"best budget standing desk that doesn't wobble."
"switching from [competitor], what am I missing."
"is there a tool that does X without the Y bloat."
that's purchase intent in its rawest form. free. public. searchable. and most brands have never read a single thread in their own category.
the second layer is bigger: AI answers are built on reddit. when chatgpt or perplexity recommends products, reddit threads are load-bearing sources.
the conversations happening there today are the AI recommendations of the next five years.
so the choice: keep bidding on keywords against everyone else, or go be the most helpful answer in the room where your customers already are and let the machines quote you forever.
underrated doesn't even cover it.
decisiveness is wildly underrated as a happiness strategy
your intuition says keep options open. but options don’t compound. commitments do. relationships, skills, businesses everything that matters requires closing doors, not collecting them.
the people stuck in life aren’t the ones who chose wrong. they’re the ones still choosing
seven frontier model releases in 30 days. Fable 5, Opus 5, Grok 4.5, GPT 5.6, GPT 6, Meta back in the race.
we used to get one of these per year and it was an event. now it’s a tuesday.
intelligence is being commoditized faster than any input in economic history
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.
We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.