The Power of the Sun in My Hands

When AI Models Become Nuclear Reactors?

It’s so beautiful.

"The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand" - Dr. Otto Octavius

Vlad is watching every AI news to be the first

We're living in a moment where fiction becomes reality faster than we can document it. I mean it.

Every week, another AI company drops a model that makes last month's breakthrough look like a calculator. And just like our tentacled friend Otto, we're all grasping at powers we barely understand.

What's really happening is much more interesting. I’ve prepared a lot of useful (even scary) and intriguing things for this edition, so stick around until the end; there will be cheat codes for you.

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The AI Arms Race Goes Nuclear

Weekly Release Mayhem

Remember when software updates came yearly? Quarterly if we were lucky? Those days are as dead as dial-up internet.

The current AI release cycle looks like this: OpenAI → Google → Claude → DeepSeek → Meta → OpenAI/

And repeat. Weekly. Sometimes daily.

Here's the insider timeline nobody's talking about:

• Monday: OpenAI drops a model

• Tuesday: Google's emergency meeting

• Wednesday: Anthropic's "hold my beer" moment

• Thursday: DeepSeek surprises everyone (again)

• Friday: Meta remembers they're in this race too

• Weekend: Everyone's engineers don't sleep

This isn't just competition anymore. This is what happens when every major tech company realizes they're playing for the future of human civilization. As I discussed in "Replacing Governments," we're watching the birth of entities that could reshape society itself.

The Billion-Dollar Stakes

Training costs per model (insider estimates):

• GPT-4 class: $100 M+

• Claude Opus 4: $150 M+ (those safety measures aren't cheap)

• Google's Gemini Ultra: $200 M+ (they're throwing money at this)

• Meta's next play: $500M+ (Zuck's going all-in)

But here's the kicker: The cost to switch models for users? $0.

Bold truth: If you're not checking for new model releases daily, you're already using outdated tech.

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Why Everyone Wants the Crown

It's not about money anymore. Well, not just about money. When you control the most powerful AI, you control:

• The flow of information (worth $1T+)

• The automation of labor (worth $10T+)

• The enhancement of human capability (worth $100T+)

• The narrative of progress itself (priceless)

Exclusive insight from my source at a major AI lab: "We're not building products anymore. We're building the thing that builds everything else."

Reference to my "Expectations" newsletter: We expected flying cars, we got superintelligence instead.

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Anthropic's Bombshell: Claude 4 Family

The Models That Made Everyone Else Nervous

Yesterday wasn't just another model release. It was Anthropic saying, "Hold our constitutional AI, we're going full Doc Ock."

The benchmarks that broke the internet:

• HumanEval: 94.3% (GPT-4: 87.1%)

• MMLU: 91.7% (previous best: 88.2%)

• Real-world coding: 3.2x faster than Opus 3.5

• Context adherence: 99.1% at 200K tokens

The Keynote Moment That Changed Everything

In the final minutes of yesterday's Claude keynote, someone asked THE question: "When will we see the first one-person billion-dollar company?"

Anthropic's CEO didn't hesitate: "2026."

I felt that in my bones. As a creator, as someone who's been building and shipping, this is THE moment. And I want it to be one of you, my readers, who proves him right.

Here's exactly how to position yourself for this:

1. Master AI-first development (not AI-assisted, AI-FIRST)

2. Build distribution before product (audience is everything)

3. Focus on B2B SaaS with AI at the core ($10K+ ACV minimum)

4. Automate everything except vision and sales

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Want to use Claude Opus 4 without breaking the bank?

Here's the hack nobody talks about:

Step 1: Get AWS Startup Credits (seriously, they give away $1K-$10K like candy) → Apply here: https://aws.amazon.com/startups/credits

Step 2: Go to AWS Bedrock and request Claude 4 access (instant approval)

Step 3: Find your model ID in Cross-Region Inference tab