Nathaniel Whittemore

The information reported just a few weeks ago that it was set to be released, quote, in a few weeks.

Greg Brockman talked about it on the Big Technology podcast.

Dario forced their hand.

Total Anthropic victory.

Leo Synthwave DD simply says, lol.

Dax from OpenCode writes, this was already a thing since at least GPT 5.3, but now we have to suffer a cycle of confusing mystery and go through this whole, well, it was BS last time, but maybe this time is different.

We're all just caught between these two companies.

I think Dan Shipper nails it when he writes, the new status symbol is making a model so powerful you can't release it.

Here's something I haven't had to do often.

Turns out that we actually got more on Spud almost immediately after I finished recording.

Dan Shipper just tweeted, the Axios story floating around about OpenAI limiting the release of their newest model Spud isn't true.

Just spoke to OpenAI and it appears the story conflated two things.

They do have a cyber product they are testing with a trusted tester group, but this is not the same thing as Spud.

The Axios story has now been updated.

My friends, we are playing with live ammunition here, but since I caught this in time to update, I wanted to make sure we did.

Let's move on to our next story about Perplexity Computer.

In our show about how every AI product is turning into every other AI product, we covered Perplexity's computer and the general open qualification of the AI world.

Based on Perplexity's financial results, it seems to be working.

Between the combination of shifting to usage-based pricing and the launch in February of computer, the company's revenue effectively doubled in a single quarter.

The Financial Times reported that the company has 100 million monthly active users, tens of thousands of enterprise clients, and 450 million in ARR.