Sam Altman shared a short update about GPT 5.1. Almost as strong as o3 (a year old model). But, 300x cheaper to run.

Most people shrugged at it. The reaction made sense. On the surface, it looked like small progress after a long wait.

I read it differently.

It showed exactly where OpenAI spent the last year. They aimed almost everything at cost reduction.

That choice fits their reality. They serve billions of requests. Every answer creates a real bill. Investors want returns. Scaling a model at that size forces careful decisions. So they optimized for cheap intelligence to lower their cash burn. This is the cost of being beholden to investors.

Google had space to do something else.

Their business prints money. Their AI team has room to chase the hard problems without thinking about daily burn.

So they spent the same year pushing the frontier forward.

→ Stronger reasoning.
→ Longer context.
→ Better performance on real tasks.

Now, Gemini 3 Pro is considered the current SOTA model (state of the art) and ahead of GPT 5.1

People keep assuming AI progress slowed because OpenAI did not make the leaps they had previously hyped. The Gary Marcus’s of the world celebrated, convinced this proved AI was hitting a wall, unaware they were just misreading the signal - OpenAI were in cost engineering mode.

But, the pace never changed. The center of gravity did.

→ OpenAI focused on cost.
→ Google focused on capability.

This moment helps creators.

→ You get cheap models for high-volume work.
→ You get frontier models for heavy thinking.
→ You get a mix that lets one person build at a speed that used to belong to full teams.

The next year will make this even clearer. Both companies are pushing hard, and every step becomes another tool in your hands.

This is a great time to build because the foundations keep getting better.

Join us on Patreon and let's build this together.

https://www.patreon.com/evolutionunleashedvip

A web app is just a simple website that does a job for someone. You type something in, it processes the input and gives you something useful back. That is the full concept.

This matters today because Gemini 3 and AI Studio make the whole process fast. You can describe what you want the app to do in plain language and get a working version without touching code. The tools handle the technical parts so you can focus on the actual problem you want to solve.

The easiest way to start is to pick a small, annoying task you deal with often. Write out what goes in, what the app should do and what the output should be. That one paragraph becomes the full blueprint for your first build.

Once the app works, you have options. You can use it yourself, share it for free to build attention or turn it into a small paid product. Many of the best ideas grow from simple tools that solve everyday friction.

I just released a full workflow inside the nine dollar Patreon tier that walks you through building a web app in Gemini 3 and AI Studio in under an hour. It gives you the exact structure so you can follow along and ship your first version quickly.

Web apps are one of the easiest ways to create something real with AI. One clear problem, one simple flow and the tools do the heavy lifting. This is the perfect starting point for anyone who wants to move from ideas to working products.

Here’s a link to the workflow in Patreon:

The Unleashed Entrepreneur…decoding what's coming next. If this resonated, share it with someone ready to build.

See you next week,

~ Stu