Welcome back! Sam Altman said in 2024 that AI would make the one-person billion-dollar company possible. A guy selling weight-loss drugs from his living room in LA just proved him right. Elsewhere, OpenAI made its first move into media, Google dropped its most permissive open models to date and Perplexity shipped the most practical demo of computer-use AI we have seen so far.
In today’s Generative AI Newsletter:
Medvi: How did a solo founder build a $1.8B company with AI and $20K?
OpenAI: Why did an AI lab just buy a talk show?
Google: Can Gemma 4 break the Chinese grip on open-source AI?
Perplexity: Is a browser agent really about to do your taxes?
