Notion revenue up 50% YoY
Ben cited that Notion increased its revenue by approximately 50% year over year, driven largely by AI feature adoption within its platform.
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Anthropic won the AI race, OpenAI gives Codex for free, xAI Grok Build & Claude cancel culture | GMP EP13
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May 16, 2026
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Voice Cloning, Grok Skills, and the Ethical Grey Zone
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Notion Opens Its Walled Garden to AI Agents
Notion launched a full agent SDK, CLI, webhooks, and database sync — positioning itself as the enterprise knowledge layer for AI agents. With 50% YoY revenue growth already, Notion is moving from business tool to AI agent platform. The risk: if businesses already have all their context in Notion, they won't migrate to native AI tools even if they're better.
Voice Cloning is Solved — and That's Terrifying
Voice cloning is now good enough that people are using it to keep talking to ex-partners, and Matt noted he's surprised there aren't more scam cases impersonating loved ones. The tech is indistinguishable from real voices. xAI launching its own voice cloning just brought this capability further into the mainstream at lower cost.
Peter Levels Runs Startups Cheaper Than a Notion Subscription
Peter Levels' infrastructure stack for his portfolio of startups costs less than a single Notion subscription per month, despite generating roughly $1 million in monthly revenue. The key: bare-metal VPS with Hetzner, Cloudflare for heavy tasks, and switching email from Resend to a native Cloudflare worker. AI now makes this level of lean infrastructure accessible to non-experts.
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