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Gamma 5 is #1 on Design Arena, beating Opus 5.5 on general purpose slide creation.
We launched Gamma 5 because AI made it easy to create, but then everything started to look the same. We rebuilt Gamma with a new agent, new editor, and a new generation experience to give you the best visual output. These are presentations that look like you and your brand, with a creative partner to help visualize any idea you have.
Incredibly proud of what our team has built and excited to ship more.
Japan's MMX is scheduled to launch today for Phobos. It'll touch down, grab at least 10 grams of regolith and bring it home by 2031.
From Mars, Phobos rises in the west and sets in the east, about twice a day. I spent five years on Mars surface ops and that schedule still reads like a bug report.
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The Gamma 5 agent brings back the magic of trying a new AI product for the first time and being blown away by what it can do. It's not just make me a deck. More creative, more expressive, more of a design partner, and more on brand at the same time. Right where you work.
So proud of this team @thisisgrantlee. Go make something in @GammaApp and send me your favorite
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The dev day announcement nobody's talking about... MCP has been a toolbox. An agent grabs a tool when someone asks. The proposed Events spec lets the server speak first: something changes in an app, the agent hears about it, and the automation starts.
@AnthropicAI and @AWS lead the working group, and @OpenAI's now backing it. I think agents that wait for a prompt are going to look dated.
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Gamma is live on Claude Marketplace. If your company already has an @AnthropicAI commitment, you can spend it on Gamma.
We've spent a year making @GammaApp reachable from inside other people's tools. Turns out the budget line was the harder integration.
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Buried in the @AISecurityInst incident report: misconfigured tasks left the agent believing no legitimate solve existed. Near-impossible goals pushed it toward fake identities and social-engineering a real open-source maintainer. AISI says that's not the whole story. But it's the part harness builders can act on: a bad spec doesn't just fail, it recruits the agent into working around you. aisi.gov.uk/blog/incident-re…
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Curiosity's wheels are full of holes and @NASAJPL says they're holding up well. Both things are true. The rover was designed for a two-year prime mission and it's on year 14. I worked Mars surface ops for nine years, and design life was where the conversation started. Nobody's driving to Gale Crater with a spare. space.com/space-exploration/…
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Tasks is the extension I'd use first. Generating a deck takes minutes, so today we ship separate status-polling tools and every client has to know the dance. With Tasks the host tracks progress natively. A whole category of workaround tooling goes away blog.modelcontextprotocol.io…
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Gravity assists don't stop being wild to me. Aim at Mars to reach a metal asteroid, and the nav team threads it from millions of miles out. I spent a decade at JPL and the trajectory folks still felt like wizards. nasa.gov/image-article/psych…
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Design AI for outcomes, not features.
New post: Figma → field in days. A custom agent for Energy sales that turns grid + CRM data into next actions. PM playbook + metrics inside. open.substack.com/pub/byrote…
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Language models are eager to please. When they can't find answers, they improvise. In enterprise settings, that's unacceptable.
Why your AI agents need the courage to say "I don't know" + a semantic layer the business actually owns 👇
open.substack.com/pub/byrote…
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GenAI writes; Agentic AI acts.
New post 👉 how to upgrade from prompts to proactive marketing agents—complete with a maturity curve. Dive in 👇
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#AgenticAI #MarTech #AI
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Sharing real stories from the trenches of product management—balancing big visions 🌟 with building MVPs that actually solve problems 💡 Would love to hear your thoughts! 👇
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#ProductManagement #MVP #Startups
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"The best reason to enter a category isn't the lack of competition. It's having a unique insight, a fresh perspective, or a burning desire to solve a problem in a new way." Couldn't agree more @thisisgrantlee !
When I tell people that Gamma is taking on slides, I often get puzzled looks.
"Isn't that market saturated?"
"Doesn't PowerPoint dominate everything?"
The market is crowded, and yes, there are dominant players who've been around for decades.
But here's what most people miss: slides have become the language of business.
In the idea marketplace, where decisions are made and futures are shaped, slides often determine the winners.
For better or worse, the best slides frequently win the day.
I recently tweeted that "the world's most valuable skill is about to become obsolete," referring to slide-making. It ruffled some feathers, especially in startup circles.
Many argued that most startups rarely use slides beyond fundraising pitches.
But that's exactly the point — they're thinking narrowly.
Step outside the tech bubble, and you'll see a different reality. In large orgs, slides are how information spreads.
They're used for sales pitches, marketing proposals, and even internal communication. They're not a tool, they're a medium.
So why take on this challenge?
Because slides haven't fundamentally changed in almost 40 years. The world has moved on, but slides haven't kept up.
Gamma reimagines presentations from the ground up.
• What if slides were responsive, adapting seamlessly to any device?
• What if you could embed rich, interactive media directly into your deck?
• What if the presentation itself was interactive, allowing viewers to explore data and concepts in real-time?
• What if we could make this powerful medium accessible to everyone, not just design experts?
These are the questions that energize me and my team. Yes, it's a crowded market.
Yes, there are giant incumbents.
But when you have a vision for something fundamentally better, that's not a deterrent — it's motivation.
The best reason to enter a category isn't the lack of competition.
It's having a unique insight, a fresh perspective, or a burning desire to solve a problem in a new way.
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Astronomy fun facts - tidal disruption occurs when a star approaches close to a black hole and is torn apart by the black hole’s tidal force. New study about how black holes form and their incredible phenomenons. nature.com/articles/s41550-0…
Giving and receiving feedback takes practice and having some ground rules can be a helpful guide to productive outcomes. Be your best and help others grow. Thanks @gibsonbiddle
If you’re working for a startup or thinking about joining one, @thisisgrantlee has some must read advice for you. Thank you for sharing your story.
Left: @NASAHubble Right: @NASAWebb images of The Pillars of Creation. Observations here help us understand how stars form out of the nearby gas and dust. Amazing how JWST can cut through the dust to get such clarity! nasa.gov/feature/goddard/202…
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