🏠 Google just dropped its strongest model ever

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Dropped an essay yesterday on how Claude, Codex, Cursor and Micro are competing to become the super app of the west. TLDR - whoever figures out context will win it all. You can read it here.

Speaking of super apps, we just released an amazing feature in Micro for heavy LinkedIn users that has never been done before. Can’t say more but you can see for yourself in Micro (sign up for a free month below).

a16z New Media just turned one year old and published a piece on what they've built and learned. The line that stuck with me:

"Launch Videos are a new (and we think, enduring) format for founders to make a statement at a critical moment, that's built for this new media environment where you don't have to ask permission to get on someone else's show or op-ed page: you can just make your own statement, however you like, and share it widely."

That's the whole thesis. You used to need a journalist, a podcast invite, or a PR firm to get your story out. Now you need a camera and a clear point of view.

The piece explains what a16z New Media actually does — in-house video and editorial teams, owned distribution channels with a million X followers and a quarter million newsletter subscribers, a concierge portco services team, and a talent network. The part worth sitting with: they're not just helping founders make content. They're helping founders win what they call the "battle for preferential attachment" — getting the right people to want to attach themselves to you, your idea, your product.

The insight underneath that: signal comes from people now, not brands. A founder with a great launch video and a point of view outperforms a company with a polished press release every single time. The founders who get this right build an audience that compounds. Every video adds subscribers, followers, brand. Every one that doesn't get made is a missed opportunity to tell your story before someone else tells it for you.

The piece also has a line worth sitting with: "One great launch video isn't a media strategy. Relentless volume is." Building a brand that compounds means showing up constantly, not just nailing one launch day.

Read the full piece here.

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Google released Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think and the benchmarks are genuinely strong.

The headline number: Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think scores 88.5% on GPQA Diamond, the hardest graduate-level reasoning benchmark. That's above GPT-5.5 Pro and above Claude Fable 5. On FrontierMath Tier 4 — the hardest math problems in existence — it scores 41.2%, also above both competitors.

The key features: a 2 million token context window (versus GPT-5.5's 200K), Deep Think reasoning mode that shows its work step-by-step, and native multimodal capability across text, images, audio, and video in a single call. It's live now on the API, AI Studio, and Vertex AI.

The context: this is Google's direct response to Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.5. Both launched in the last two weeks. Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think benchmarks above both of them on the hardest evaluations. The model race has never been closer — or faster.

The question that matters for founders: does winning benchmarks translate to better outputs for your actual use case? The honest answer is usually "sometimes." The 2 million token context window is the most practically useful feature for anyone building on long documents, large codebases, or complex agentic workflows. That gap is real and it matters.

Full release details here.

5 things on my mind this week:

Google just invested $75M into A24 to build AI tools for movie production. @DiscussingFilm

Last week's poll: 50% of you got it right. 33.3% voted Both, 16.7% voted Left. The right looked AI and it was. The thing is, real photos are getting harder to tell apart.

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