Ryan Allis

We decided today the name Lounge was too generic -- so we are now called AI Lounge. Over time we will have many Lounges (SaaS Lounge, CEO Lounge, etc.) -- but for now AI Lounge is our first and only Lounge.

So welcome to the AI Lounge! Thanks for being one of our first 2500 members!

Every Friday: what did you ship? A feature, a repo, a demo, a landing page, a model, a post.

Link it if you can and say what you'd like feedback on. Then try one thing someone else shipped.

118 new members joined since the last post, and today we shipped a shorter mastermind recap with a Best advice section, pinned posts, and a calmer For You feed.

• Mastermind recaps: each recap now has a designed Best advice section with the top advice, the quote and who said it, and the recap text is shorter.
• Email digests: daily digests now go to members who have opened a Lounge email or visited in the last 7 days. Everyone else gets the weekly digest, and queued digests are no longer sent twice.
• For You: unseen posts load from the start of the feed. Once those are more than a week old, posts you have already seen this week come back in between.
• Pinned posts: admins can pin posts to the top of For You until they unpin them. The weekly mastermind recap pins itself.
• Post cards: closer to Skool's look, with the level on the avatar, the space and time on a second line, a larger title, and a New comment link in the footer.
• Day-14 email: now asks what features to add and how to make Lounge better.
• Today in AI: a one-line strip on Home with the top headline and a link to AI News, which now holds the full swipe carousel.
• Research, deals and events: today's featured research, deal of the day and event cards sit right under the top post in For You.
• Lighter pages: the member map, profiles, Hall of Fame and topic spaces load faster, and long lists now show one page at a time.
• Ask: saved conversations with links open without an error.

New members to meet:

• Amir Boldo (@amirboldo), Co-Founder & CPTO at Above Security, Tel Aviv
• Adam Sari (@adamsari), Founder & CTO at Exara AI, London
• Nick Merich (@nickmerich), Founder at GRYT, Pittsburgh

Tell me what you want next, reply here or DM me.

With open weight models catching up to frontier models and there being a major privacy and cost benefit to using your own internal model, I'm guessing that Anthropic's revenue won't be able to grow that much more post IPO. I'm definitely not a buyer at a $2T valuation. Your thoughts?

I wouldn't be surprised if their rate of revenue growth drops dramatically in the next 24 years as large enterprises bring their models and harnesses in-house.