It's Thursday evening, and I have had a busy day in a busy week, and I am not feeling the urge for grandiosity. But OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman did announce some world-changing technologies this week. The article by Ben Thompson from Stratechery below lists them. Still, a list does not do justice to how much thinking decision-making, and execution OpenAI has accomplished in a short period.

The heart of the announcements is a newly scalable architecture that allows anybody to have their own “GPT”. Developers will be able to build both enterprise and consumer GPT applications, often with no code required.

Want the world's best chef and recipe source? Build it. Want an excellent tool for fixing a car? No problem. Want the world’s best physics teacher for 10th Grade… done. And so on.

Over the next 12 months, we expect to see an explosion of use cases for almost any human endeavor.

More interesting is that user interfaces will change dramatically. Form filling, browsing, searching, learning, creating, researching, building, and more will be done simply by interacting with an AI.

Productivity is about to explode. And investments, too.

Packy McCormick leads this week's Essays of the Week with ‘Tech is Going to Get Much Bigger’. And he means in value and scope. The idea that the world’s biggest company is worth a single-digit $ trillion will be history quickly.

When Kyle Harrison, in another essay of the week - Surviving the Death of Venture Capital - says:

So if you want to survive in the ever-changing world of funding innovation, there are a lot of things you can do. But one thing is for sure: the only thing that is certain? Change. Get used to it.

He could have been writing about OpenAIs developer day announcements.

There are many excellent pieces of writing in this week’s edition. The impressive interview with Charlie Munger explains why venture capitalists screw their customers. The videos with Satya Nadella and Lina Khan are great for Sunday listening or viewing. Warner Media CEO Jason Kilar on why Netflix has the upper hand in streaming and what it will take to compete is compelling also (hat tip to Steve Gillmor).

Enjoy.