🍭 GPT 5.1 is HERE! 🤖

Good morning. The only thing scaling faster than AI models right now is the number of tabs you swore you’d “read later.”

Let’s dig in. 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• GPT-5.1 gets a softer, smarter upgrade

• New music app lets you label or block AI tracks

• Cursor grabs $2.3B just months after its last round

• Google Photos, NotebookLM, and LinkedIn add fresh AI powers

• Microsoft leans on OpenAI to patch its chip problem

• ToolBox™

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🧰 5 BRAND NEW AI LAUNCHES on PRODUCT HUNT

🧑‍🚀 Avaturn Live
→ Real-time AI avatars that blink, nod, and react like actual humans for support bots, training sims, and any app that needs a face, not just a chat bubble.

🎙️ Willow Voice
→ AI dictation that formats, cleans up, and transcribes your speech so you can write emails, docs, and prompts without touching the keyboard.

🕸️ Webjourney
→ Describe your product and get a launch-ready landing page that looks hand-built in Framer, without living inside a design tool all day.

🧠 OpenAI’s GPT 5.1
→ OpenAI’s latest flagship model. “Thinks longer on hard tasks and less on easy ones”.

✍️ Documenso
→ Open-source DocuSign alternative with an API, custom flows, and a cleaner UI for teams that want control over their e-sign stack.

OpenAI
🤖 GPT-5.1 Drops: Faster Brain, Better Personality

The Bite: OpenAI rolled out GPT-5.1, a mid-cycle update that feels less like a patch and more like handing your chatbot a second cup of coffee.

It’s sharper, quicker, and brings back some of the conversational charm people loved in 4o without the over-eager “you’re a genius, king” energy.

Snacks:

• Adaptive reasoning now adjusts to your task — casual for chat, more rigorous for complex stuff

• Speed upgrades across text, code, vision, and longer tasks

• Tone feels more natural than the early 5.0 release

• Users say it’s easier to steer, less likely to ramble

• OpenAI explicitly responded to feedback about 5.0 feeling “stiffer” than 4o

Why it Bites: OpenAI didn’t need another model this fast but here we are anyway.

The message is clear.
They’ll iterate in public, fix what annoys users, and keep tightening the gap between “AI tool” and “AI sidekick.”

If 5.0 was the serious one in the suit, 5.1 is the one that actually listens when you talk.

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Use it to design content systems, research workflows, or entire product ideas without staring at a blank input box.

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🧠 You Need to Know

🛠️ Cursor Raises $2.3B
→ The coding assistant pulled in a massive round just five months after its last one to keep developing its Composer model.

📸 Google Photos Adds Six New AI Features
→ Google rolled out half a dozen upgrades including automatic album creation, smart search boosts, and new editing tools.

📚 NotebookLM Gets ‘Deep Research’

→ Google’s note-taking AI now automates complex research tasks and supports more file types for bigger projects.

🔍 LinkedIn Adds AI-Powered People Search

→ Premium U.S. users get an upgraded search that understands natural language queries to find the right people faster.

💽 Microsoft Leans on OpenAI for Chips

→ Facing chip development setbacks, Microsoft plans to rely more on OpenAI’s custom silicon to stay competitive.

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🎛️ The First “Anti-AI Slop” Streaming App Just Launched

The Bite: A new music service called Coda Music is rolling out tools to flag, and even block, AI-generated songs.

While Spotify and YouTube are still playing catch-up on disclosures, Coda is going full TSA mode: scanning uploads, labeling anything synthetic and letting users filter it out entirely.

Snacks:

• New artists on the platform get manually vetted before going live

• Existing catalogs are being scanned and labeled when AI is detected

• Users can hide AI-generated music in search, playlists, and charts

• Tools aim at “AI slop” flooding smaller platforms

• Launching alongside deals with labels to keep human-made music visible

Why it bites: AI music is exploding, and most streaming giants are still shrugging. Coda’s move is a bet that listeners want control instead of a endless firehose of cloned voices and Franken-songs.

Whether this becomes a trend or a niche depends on one question:
Will people actually filter out AI… or will they just pretend to care while vibing to the robot Drake?