☕🤖 Claude Opus 4.5 vs. GPT-5.1: The King is Dead? 👑

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Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your Thursday dose of AI!

It has been exactly three years since ChatGPT launched, changing our jobs forever. But today, we aren’t looking back. We are looking at the new king of the hill.

Anthropic just made a huge move with Claude Opus 4.5, and honestly? OpenAI should be worried.

Grab your coffee, this one is stacked.
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🔧 Fixing the Foundation
Adverity: Inconsistent formats, incomplete datasets, and duplicated records are undermining marketing performance with CMOs estimating that 45% of the data they rely on for decisions is incomplete, inaccurate, or outdated.

As AI becomes central to planning and activation, our recent report shows that 30% of CMOs now view improving data quality as their single most important performance lever.

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The Big Story: Claude Opus 4.5 takes the crown 👑

What Happened: While the world was waiting for another GPT-5 update, Anthropic quietly dropped Claude Opus 4.5. It’s currently crushing benchmarks in reasoning and coding.

The Analysis: We’ve been testing Opus 4.5 all week against Gemini 3 and GPT-5.1.

The “Reasoning” Gap: While GPT-5.1 is great for “warm” conversation, Opus 4.5 picks up on deep logic and coding nuance that feels a generation ahead.
The Memory: Unlike Gemini 3, which sometimes hallucinates details from long threads, Opus 4.5 holds onto context from the start of the conversation with near-perfect recall.

The Verdict:

For Coders: Switch to Claude immediately. It beats Gemini 3 on almost every code test.
For General Chat: Stick with GPT-5.1. It is still the fastest and most “human” to talk to.

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The Best of the Rest 🌎

🎂 ChatGPT turns 3: It’s been 3 years since the demo that broke the internet. Rest of World just published a fascinating deep dive on how ChatGPT changed the economy. (continue reading)

🧠 Perplexity gets a brain: They just launched AI Assistants with Memory. Your search engine now remembers your preferences (e.g., “Always format answers in tables”). (continue reading)

🎨 Flux 2 is here: Black Forest Labs released Flux 2. The photorealism is incredible, but the real upgrade is speed → it generates high-res images in half the time. (continue reading)

📞 Google makes calls for you: Google Shopping now supports “Agentic Calling.” You can literally tell Google “Find where this shoe is in stock near me,” and the AI will call the stores to ask. Wild. (continue reading)

Trending AI Tools 🛠

📧 InboxParser: Automatically extract specific data fields from messy emails into your database. (Best for: Ops Teams)

💬 Velt: Add “Google Docs-style” commenting to any live website or product you are building. (Best for: Developers)

🚀 Antigravity: Google’s new project for handling massive compute workloads seamlessly. (Best for: Engineers)

🌐 Plurality: A new network focusing on decentralized identity and AI governance. (Best for: Web3)

Career & Capital 💼

AI Job Board

🧠 Notion: Software Engineer, AI Product – $190,000 – $285,000 (view job)

🏥 Citizen Health: AI/Machine Learning Engineer – $150,000 – $300,000 (view job)

💻 Blueflame AI: Prompt Engineer – $82,000 – $142,000 (view job)

Investments in AI

💰 Procure AI: Raised $13M to automate enterprise procurement. (link)

🌱 Vertical Farm (Korea): Raised $6M to run urban farms using AI automation. (link)

🩺 Noteless AI: Raised $3.5M to help doctors stop doing paperwork. (link)

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