One month in, I'm excited to announce I've joined @a16z focused on consumer AI applications 🎉!.I’ve already loved working with a superstar team: @illscience, @omooretweets, @venturetwins, @kirbyman01, @zachcohen25 & more 🙌

Since OpenAI folks are live and listening, next time please roll out features to everyone right after the stream 🙏.

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GPT-5 for consumers:. 1. "No more model switching".2. "I picked my favorite chat color".3. "I trust it enough to let my mom ask about her health".

RT @dhaber: The kids are going to be alright! @a16z SF x AI summer intern event.

fascinating to see Shopify leaning into agentic ecommerce. for incumbents building native AI stacks, the secret sauce seems to be a strong top-down push.

RT @illscience: App generation is one of the fastest growing AI spaces. Cos are scaling to $100M+ ARR at record pace, seemingly in a race….

RT @JenniferHli: Fal just raised a $125M Series C. What you see on the platform today looks nothing like what they were building 3 years ag….

RT @omooretweets: New @a16z podcast - it's the battle of the agentic browsers! 🥊. I tested @diabrowser and @PerplexityComet for a week, to….

I might have ADHD but I’d be totally down for an AI tool that tracks and organizes all my information and task flows - then nudges me when I get lost in threads.

RT @sarahdingwang: Thrilled to back @miramurati and the world-class team behind ~ every major recent AI research and product breakthrough.….

This is super cool! Feel super pumped when research labs care about consumers and actually build things for them.

Hot take: most fun AI party in SF rn is researchers's birthday party. vibes fine-tuned by @_jasonwei

I’m bad at building habits unless there’s a plan and a little payoff. So i vibe-coded a personal planner (ty @lovable_dev ) that breaks goals into subtle, concrete tasks - finish one, earn a star. 100 stars = i get something cute. Vibe coding means you can personalize and

♟️ GenChess.Create custom, AI-generated chess sets - and play them against an AI. Choose between Classic and Creative modes, then generate a chess set inspired by whatever theme you want. I made one themed around Snoopy - it turned out so cute.

🍳 Food Mood.An AI-powered recipe generator that's playful and inventive. Start by picking a dish type, set how many people you're cooking for… then choose any two countries to fuse their cuisines - iterally any. You can also add ingredients from your fridge. I tried Heard

🎨 National Gallery Mixtape.Painters might be inspired by music - but what if you turned a painting into music?. This app lets you drag and drop artwork to live-compose melodies. AI analyzes visual style + emotion to generate music. You can even add "stickers" to tweak the vibe.

Google Labs is a hidden gem. Everyone knows NotebookLM, but the Labs team keeps quietly shipping delightfully weird, creative, and sometimes surprisingly useful AI experiments. If you're a builder or hacker looking for inspiration, their site is a goldmine. Here are a few

Curious if anyone else added ChatGPT to their Control Center - it’s surprisingly handy

RT @illscience: I joined @stevesi and @eriktorenberg on This Week in Consumer to talk about where AI is actually useful, especially at the….

Obsessed w/ AI app features that quickly learn and adapt to my context.

Overall: @diabrowser shines with a more polished UI/UX and user-centered features - like “Insert,” stronger video comprehension, and an intentional approach to building and learning context over time. @FellouAI, on the other hand, is far more powerful when it comes to task.