Nick Trenkler
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if you're leading in AI, you're shipping every 3 days
release calendar (apr 1-15):
google - 5 days
anthropic - 5 days
xai - 2 days
openai - 1 day
big launches aren't enough anymore
silence is how you lose the lead
we keep watching
today @OpenAI released the gpt-5.6 family – sol (flagship), terra, luna. key facts: • sol is the new flagship, priced $5/m input and $30/m output • openai claims "
today @SpaceXAI released grok 4.5 – a model built around coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work. key facts: • trained across tens of thousands of nvidia gb300 gpus, with rl over
@Meta shipped muse image – an image model inside meta ai. the headline feature: @-mention anyone's instagram and generate images of them from their public photos. opt-out exists