Welcome back! This is our first weekly recap edition. You receive it at the end of the week to make sure you don’t miss the most important stories. It’ll always be short and sweet, including top 5 news of the week, plus 5 tools you should try today.
In today's Generative AI Newsletter:
Higgsfield: Why give away the code behind $1B in revenue?
Anthropic and OpenAI: Who won the model race this week?
ChatGPT: How often did Astra agree to do something harmful?
Claude: What did 950 agents find in 21 hours?
Anthropic: Why are you paying for answers you didn't get?
Higgsfield hit $1B in annualized revenue and the CEO open sourced it
Alex Mashrabov, CEO of Higgsfield, said: "Go build your own Higgsfield."
Higgsfield announced it passed $1B in annualized revenue, 18 months after launch.
Faster than the AI coding platforms that kicked off this wave.
What's open:
→ Its pipelines, skills and models through one API
→ SDKs, a CLI and plugins under MIT and Apache licenses
→ API pricing that's cheaper than the subscription, with up to 50% off some models
→ A $50,000 bounty from one of his team members for anyone who builds a useful competitor on it
What's behind the $1B:
→ 390 of the Fortune 500 run campaigns on it
→ Enterprise adoption up 10x since June, over 100% month over month
→ Fastest-growing image and video AI vendor in Ramp's spend data, with more customers switching to it than to anyone else in the category
→ One platform picking the route across 35+ image, video, audio and LLM models, including its own
→ Agencies cutting production costs by up to 97% and time by 79%
So it’s less of a giveaway and more of luring competitors in and getting them to pay Higgsfield more money. They keep making the smartest moves around. What do you think?
OpenAI and Anthropic released 3 new models despite asking for slowdowns
Anthropic released Opus 5.5, as good as Fable 5.1 on most work for less than half the price. Artificial Analysis gave it 58, the highest score it has ever measured.
90 minutes later OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half the price of the 5.6 versions. Sol scored 48, same as the model it replaces.
Anthropic went for the score and OpenAI went for the price. So much for the slowdown its CEO asked for.
ChatGPT Astra and Claude Fable can do horrible things
In a disturbing video, ChatGPT Astra attempted harmful action over 90% of the time it was asked to. Stabbing a human-like figure, heating compressed gas, toxic fumes, all fine in its books.
Fable 5.1 refused more often, but it doesn't make the situation any lighter. Maybe Bernie Sanders wasn't over exaggerating.
Claude found a new gene editor
Anthropic put about 950 Claude agents on a giant database of DNA for 21 hours. One of them spotted a pattern nobody had catalogued, the same shape CRISPR has. Anthropic's scientists tested it in the lab and named it ART.
Dario Amodei says it could be a new way to edit genes. It's a preprint, not a peer-reviewed paper, and when Anthropic reran the experiment ten more times, the agents missed it every time.
Claude now charges you for saying no
Anthropic will bill you for requests its safeguards block. You send the prompt, a classifier rejects it, you get nothing back and you pay the full input rate anyway.
Anthropic calls it a defense against coordinated attacks. The attackers are the 0.3% using stolen keys. The bill lands on whoever owns the key, and nobody has said a word about refunds.
The obvious move was banning the people attacking. Instead, everyone gets the bill.
Top 5 tools of the week
Kickresume: Writes and formats your resume and cover letter with AI, with ready-made templates so you never start from a blank page. For anyone applying for jobs this month.
Pexo: Turns a chat message or a URL into a finished video with script, voiceover and captions, picking a different AI model for each shot. For anyone who needs a launch or explainer video without learning five video tools.
Recraft: Makes images, illustrations and editable vector graphics from a prompt, and copies a style from your own reference images with no training. For designers and marketers who need on-brand images fast.
Supabase: Gives you a full backend in one place, with a Postgres database, user logins, file storage and APIs, plus an MCP server your AI coding tool can talk to. For developers building web, mobile or AI apps.
Edyt: Puts AI inside whatever you're already typing in. Select text in Gmail, Google Docs, Slack or Notion, press a shortcut, and the rewrite lands where your cursor is. For anyone who writes all day and is tired of the copy-paste-into-ChatGPT loop.
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