Matt Schlicht's AI Newsletter

I know. You are reading this title and you are already thinking that this is ridiculous. You're right. But it's true. In 2026 someone is going to make $1B and they are going to do it as a one-person team. And 2026 is the first year this is going to be possible. How is a one-person team going to make $1B in 2026? Why is this suddenly possible when previously it wasn't? What skill will this person have that others don't? How can you put yourself in position to be this person?

Let me know if you are building this or interested in building this exact thing. It is definitely possible to create this with today’s technology and is something I would personally use. This is an AI Agent idea that I would love to invest $200k in via my AI fund Theory Forge Ventures (especially if it's the first check). You can call it at anytime to just rant or give updates, it doesn't respond. This is to make giving updates to your AI as efficient as possible.

Whenever I have wanted to become super smart on a topic I always start by doing the same thing: I go find every single piece of content written on the topic, I print them out, and I read every single one of them. Every time I do this I feel like there is a high chance that I am the only person in the world who has done so for that particular set of articles. Now, the only issue with this plan (although it does work, try it), is that a lot of the articles you read end up being low quality.

Many personal AI devices have been announced over the past 6 months. From pins you put on your chest, to glasses that can talk to you, and pendants you wear around your neck that listen to everything you and those around you say. And then there is the Rabbit r1, the little orange hand held device that looks like a Pokedex, and for only $199. Over 50,000 preorders after a very splashy announcement. The promise? ChatGPT in the palm of your hands.

For the past few years I have been creating mini AI teammates to help me with everything imaginable: Writing drafts for blog posts Analyzing business decisions Brainstorming social posts Learning new topics Assistants for customers etc And it’s been amazing, I now have a website I’ve built myself where it has a list of all of my AI teammates and I can one click into them to assign them their tasks. Some of them I code myself, and a lot of them I use OpenAI’s custom GPT builder.

Hey AI people! This week I was surprised to find out that OpenAI featured one of my GPTs in the #1 spot in the ChatGPT app store (thanks team!). The GPT is really unique and explores an interesting use case of ChatGPTs and LLMs that I haven’t seen much innovation on. I’m going to give you my prompt for it and I think you should try play around and make something of your own. My GPT is called “Escape the Haunt” and it is a chat based choose your own adventure game.

There have always been two types of content creators on the internet. Media: People who produce written (blog posts, tweets, etc), spoken (podcasts), or visual content (photos, videos). Programmers: People who code software (social networks, tools, games, etc) And for the longest time these two groups stayed in their own lanes. The media people produced media and the programmers produced software.

A world with super-intelligent AI everywhere is going to be much different from today’s. We’re only just beginning to adopt it. For example. Right now if I browse the web and go to an ecommerce store, I am there by myself. It’s lonely. I click around the website, I look at a product, I’m probably a bit in a hurry, and there is nobody there to help. But in a future where AI is cheap and everyone’s using it, the store would never let me shop alone.

Hey everyone! It’s only been a week since OpenAI announced that you could build apps for ChatGPT called GPTs and already thousands of GPTs are being made. Why? Because 100,000,000 people use ChatGPT every week and if you make an amazing GPT then there are A LOT of people who could potentially end up using it! And OpenAI said they are going to pay you if your GPT is being used by a lot of people.

Hi everyone! This Monday I was lucky enough to attend OpenAI DevDay in person. The energy was electric and I left feeling excited, and eager to tinker with the new APIs (128k context window omg) and GPT creator. I’ve been hacking away all week and I made you something. One of the major announcements was the GPT creator and upcoming GPT directory, and as of 10 minutes ago these are available to everyone with ChatGPT+. So what is a GPT?