In today’s Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about our chat with Austin Campbell, and I offered up some unsolicited advice for the crypto industry.

Deepseek R1 is one of the most amazing and impressive breakthroughs I’ve ever seen — and as open source, a profound gift to the world. 🤖🫡

Here is everything that happened in AI Agents this week 🧵 (save for later)

MY MIND HAS JUST BEEN BOGGLED. I just tried the early release of OpenAI's new DeepResearch feature (rolling out later today to the $200/month Pro users). I've been working in the CRM software industry for 30+ years. It's not just that I've had court-side seats to the game,

Deep research update 🌍 It's now rolled out to 100% of all Pro users, including in the UK, EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland.

LEAKED: Illegal o3-mini prompts that literally turn your laptop into an ATM. Most people are missing out on the AI GOLDRUSH by not knowing how to use it. So I built ChatGPT o3-mini Mastery Course: 500+ prompts, 50 Masterclasses, including a complete step-by-step guide for

Apparently EU users don't get new AI versions till several months after US users, because AI companies have to get regulatory signoff first. Was the cost of overregulation ever so clear? Every user in Europe is several months behind, in a field that changes every several months.

we put out an update to chatgpt (4o). it is pretty good. it is soon going to get much better, team is cooking.

The significance of Grok 3, outside of X drama, is that it is the first full model release that we definitely know is at least an order of magnitude larger than GPT-4 class models in training compute, so it will help us understand whether 1st scaling law (pre-training) holds up.

After talking to an AI startup from Europe in the current YC batch, it's clear that the GDPR conflicts with AI in an unforeseen way that will significantly harm European AI companies.

xAI just launched Grok 3, and right now its FREE to try. But 98% of people are using it WRONG. That’s why I built Grok 3 Mastery, and the best part is, it’s COPY and PASTE. FREE for 24hrs only. To get it: 1. RT 2. Like 3. Reply "GM" and Follow me so I can DM you now.

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Two undergrads. One still in the military. Zero funding. One ridiculous goal: build a TTS model that rivals NotebookLM Podcast, ElevenLabs Studio, and Sesame CSM. Somehow… we pulled it off. Here’s how 👇

CURRENT STATUS: Just downloaded the new GPT-OSS model (20B) and have it running on my MacBook Pro. I'm like a kid in a computer store! (I don't like candy) There's something really magical about running local AI models that don't need any connectivity to the Internet. You can

Join @xAI and help build a purely AI software company called Macrohard. It’s a tongue-in-cheek name, but the project is very real! In principle, given that software companies like Microsoft do not themselves manufacture any physical hardware, it should be possible to simulate

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OpenAI just released the largest-ever report on how consumers are using ChatGPT. It looks at millions of (anonymized) messages over the last 3 years to analyze usage evolution over time. Key takeaways 👇

I don't expect that everyone will agree with these tradeoffs, but given the conflict it is important to explain our decisionmaking. Here is the text: Some of our principles are in conflict, and we’d like to explain the decisions we are making around a case of tensions between

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