🍭 GPT-5 Drops Soon 🥳

Good morning. Sam’s flexing GPT-5, Elon’s exhuming Vine, and a scrappy factory-AI startup just told Big Tech to buzz off.

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🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• GPT-5: Hybrid brain lands very soon

• Elon bringing Vine back??

• Startup CVector tells big tech to buzz off

• 5 trending AI tools

• Everything Else you need to know

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OpenAI
📱 GPT-5 Is Coming. Again. Maybe For Real This Time.

The Bite: After months of delays, OpenAI’s next-gen heavyweight GPT-5 finally hits shelves this August.

CEO Sam Altman’s talking big game (shocker) is calling GPT-5 a hybrid model that mixes traditional smarts with slick new reasoning abilities.

Mini and nano versions coming soon to an API near you.


Snacks: 

• GPT-5 launch window = August, per Altman + Axios

• Features better coding + “reasoning” model fusion

• Mini and nano flavors coming for API devs + edge devices

• Red-teamers already testing it in the wild

Why it bites: This is either the iPhone moment for AI...

…or the Apple Maps v1 of generative models.

The U.S. is betting big to beat China in the AI arms race, but even OpenAI isn’t shipping its best math brain with GPT-5.

So... maybe hold the Nobel Prizes.
For now.

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Vine
🎬 Elon Wants to Bring Back Vine (But Make It AI)

The Bite: Musk dropped an 8-word tweet teasing an “AI version” of Vine, the six-second video app Twitter killed off in 2017.

That was all it took to spike memecoins and spark mass speculation.

Deepfake influencers?
Will it be AI-generated clips?
Just another vibe that never ships?


Snacks: 

• Vine originally launched in 2013, died in 2017

• Musk teased a Vine reboot once before (2022)

• No timeline, product, or team announced yet

• Memecoins tied to Vine jumped instantly

• Speculation = synthetic creators, AI clips, auto-editing

Why it bites: The only thing shorter than a Vine? Elon’s attention span.

But if this actually ships, TikTok might need to start looking over its shoulder…

…or at least over its for-you-page.

Big Tech
🏭 CVector to BigTech: “We’re Not F****n’ Selling!”

The Bite: Industrial AI startup CVector keeps hearing one thing from factory clients: “Are you gonna disappear after some BigTech acqui-hire?”

Their answer: absolutely not.

To prove it, they’re offering escrow, perpetual licenses, and this old-school thing called commitment.


Snacks: 

• Raised $1.5M pre-seed from Schematic Ventures

• Customers include gas utilities + chemical plants

• Stack includes F1 racing code + real-time weather data

• Founders have Shell + CERN pedigrees

• Software runs on dusty grid systems like COBOL + Fortran

Why it bites: CVector’s pitch isn’t flashy AI, it’s stability.

While most startups sprint toward exits, they’re building the “brain + nervous system” for actual infrastructure.

In a hype cycle where “AI for factories” usually means a blog post, these guys are shipping real code into real machines.

And that’s rare.

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Everything Else
🧠 You Need to Know

🧱 Nvidia Chips Smuggled Into China
→ Restricted B200s are now showing up in Chinese data centers. Black market GPU hustle = back online.

🧪 FDA’s AI Tool Invents Entire Studies
→ Elsa, the FDA’s in-house chatbot, reportedly made up fake research. That’s one way to hit publication quotas.

🛍️ Google’s Virtual Try-On Tool Expands
→ It’s like Cher’s closet from Clueless, but with better price tracking.

🧠 Cramer Says BigTech Is Underspending on AI
→ He claims the $320B AI spend still isn’t enough. We claim Jim Cramer would buy sentient Roombas if it meant another quarter point.

💻 Google Testing “Opal” Vibe-Coding App
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