GPT-5 Is Here. What Now?

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"Vibe Check: GPT-5" by Dan Shipper and the Every team/Vibe Check: OpenAI’s GPT-5 is blazing fast, simple, and dirt cheap. For this package, Every’s entire team weighed in on the brand-new model to deliver an honest assessment—in a time of endless hype—about what might be the single best AI model that 99 percent of the world can use.

"Vibe Check: OpenAI Drops Two New Open-weight Models" by Dan Shipper/Vibe Check: OpenAI released its first open-weight models since 2019—one that runs on a MacBook and another with a single GPU. It’s a big deal for privacy-conscious businesses who'd rather not send their sensitive data to the cloud. Read this to understand how OpenAI's strategic move keeps users in its ecosystem while letting them run models anywhere—even at 40,000 feet with no WiFi.

"Vibe Check: Genie 3, Claude 4.1, GPT-oss, and GPT-5" by Katie Parrott/Vibe Check: Four major AI models dropped in one week, and it feels like a game of “anything you can do, I can do better.” Google's Genie 3 lets you walk around in AI-generated worlds, Claude 4.1 perfects precision coding, OpenAI released its first open-source models in five years, and GPT-5 arrived to rule them all. Read this for a comprehensive breakdown of what each model does best and what industry insiders think about this AI traffic jam.

"I Found 12 People Who Ditched Their Expensive Software for AI-built Tools" by Lewis Kallow: Learning to code is so last year. Lewis Kallow found 12 people who used AI to build powerful tools without writing a single line of code themselves—tools that replaced $50,000 SaaS subscriptions, automated entire departments, and attracted venture funding. Read this if you want to see how regular people are vibe coding custom software in hours rather than months.