Welcome to Thursday’s Newsletter

In today’s scoop 🍨 

• $20K AI Agents? OpenAI Says Yes!

• AI’s Writing YC’s Code Now

• GibberLink AI's New Secret Language

• 5 Trending AI Tools

🤖 $20K AI Agents? OpenAI Says Yes!

OpenAI just dropped a major hint: personalized AI agents are coming—but they'll set you back about as much as a small car. Yep, we're talking a cool $20,000 each. 💸

Why the hefty price tag? These custom agents aren't your run-of-the-mill chatbots. OpenAI is offering businesses tailor-made AI assistants, hyper-specialized to tackle unique tasks, from handling customer support with surgeon-like precision to crunching data faster than your morning espresso hits.

Here's the breakdown:

• 🚀 Tailored Precision: Agents fine-tuned specifically for your business needs.

• 🛠️ Plug-and-Play Simplicity: No need for a PhD to deploy—these agents integrate seamlessly.

• 💡 Human-Level Decision Making: Think less Alexa, more Iron Man’s Jarvis.

But is it worth splurging $20K? Industry experts argue yes—especially for sectors where tiny mistakes equal massive losses (looking at you, finance and healthcare). Others think it's an elitist price tag, limiting game-changing tech to deep-pocketed players.

Either way, OpenAI is doubling down, hoping companies see custom AI agents as investments, not expenses. Could this spark an "AI arms race" among businesses? Time—and corporate budgets—will tell.

🔑 Takeaway 

Custom agents are the Rolex of AI— flashy, and expensive. The question is, will they become essential or just another pricey tech flex?

🚀 AI’s Writing YC’s Code Now

AI coding isn't just a vibe—it's taking over Silicon Valley. In Y Combinator’s latest startup batch, a whopping 25% of founders have handed the coding reins almost entirely to AI, with bots generating 95% of their codebases. Yup, the robots are finally coming for our jobs—but at least they’re saving us from endless typos and coffee-fueled all-nighters.

According to YC’s Jared Friedman, these founders aren’t rookies relying on AI crutches. They're skilled developers who, just a year ago, would've built their apps from scratch. Now, they're "vibe coding"—a concept popularized by Andrej Karpathy (ex-Tesla AI boss)—where developers use intuition and natural language to guide AI-generated code.

But don’t toss your coding bootcamp certificates just yet. AI-generated code still has quirks:

🐞 Debugging Drama

 AI code isn't flawless. It can introduce security vulnerabilities and occasional outages, leaving humans to tidy up after their digital teammates

🤔 Taste Test Required

YC’s Diana Hu emphasizes that successful AI coding still requires human judgment—knowing the difference between good code and garbage is crucial.

💸 VC Magnet

Startups like Bolt.new, Codeium, and Cursor have raked in hundreds of millions, proving AI coding isn’t just trendy—it's becoming the new norm.

🔎Bottom Line

If you're not vibe coding yet, you might just miss the next big wave. 🌊

🔊 AI's New Secret Language: GibberLink

Imagine two AI bots picking up the phone, exchanging pleasantries, and then—boom—switching to a series of beeps and boops that sound straight out of R2-D2’s dream journal. That’s GibberLink, a viral hackathon project that lets AI agents talk to each other in a secret robo-language incomprehensible to humans.

👨‍💻 Built by Meta Engineers

GibberLink was created by two Meta engineers, Boris Starkov and Anton Pidkuiko, during a weekend hackathon hosted by ElevenLabs and Andreessen Horowitz. The goal? Make AI phone calls way more efficient—because, apparently, even robots think human speech is too slow.

🔈How It Works

• When one AI detects it’s speaking with another AI, GibberLink kicks in.

• They switch to GGWave, an open-source sound-based communication protocol.

• Instead of words, they exchange data-packed sound waves—think old-school dial-up internet noises, but with an actual purpose.

• This cuts down computation costs and speeds up communication by an order of magnitude.

🚫 Humans Not Included

While it’s unlikely (for now) that two AI agents will randomly call each other, the tech could become crucial as AI-driven voice assistants start handling more tasks for us—like calling customer service so you never have to sit through "Your call is important to us…" ever again.

🚀 What’s Next?

For now, GibberLink is just a cool open-source project. But its viral status has sparked debate: should we let AI have private conversations? And if we do, will they start talking about us behind our backs?

One thing’s for sure—this is just the beginning of AI developing its own language. Time to brush up on your beep-boop translation skills. 

🔧5 Trending AI Tools

• 🛍️ Supergrid by Depict – Instantly create stunning Shopify storefront grids featuring editorial images, videos, and AI-driven product sorting to grab attention and boost sales—no coding required.

• 🎬 OpusClip ReframeAnything – Instantly resize any video for social platforms in just one click, using AI to automatically focus on key moments—no editing skills required.

• 📊 Quadratic AI – A modern, AI-powered spreadsheet that lets you chat directly with your data, build interactive charts, and extract instant insights—no coding or setup needed.

• ⚡ Lifestack – A smart AI calendar that uses health data from your wearables to schedule tasks when you're most energized. It helps you work smarter, avoid burnout, and boost productivity.

• 📱 Know Your Group – Effortlessly transform your WhatsApp or Telegram group chats into sleek, branded websites, enhancing your community's online presence and member engagement.

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