Current Friday Status: I'm taking my dog Zeus for a long rainy walk, ordering an uncomfortably large pizza, and diving into the new Zelda game. I have zero complaints at the moment.

LLMs dominate the discourse because they can seemingly do basically anything with text inputs and outputs. How long will that be true? Now up on Deepgram: "The Underdog Revolution: How Smaller Language Models Can Outperform LLMs" by Andy Wang blog.deepgram.com/the-underdog-r…

I'm thankful for cloud backups. I had my phone set up on the ledge of my terrace for some time lapse photography. (dumb, I know) Well, there was a gust of wind, and my phone fell 6 stories onto concrete. 2 hours after buying a new phone, it's like that never even happened.

Now up on Deepgram: @erin_scherf and I trace the academic journey of Language AI from Turing's Imitation Game to GPT-4, in 11 papers. So glad to have the opportunity to work with Erin again. deepgram.com/learn/11-paper…

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Congrats to Ponder on its exit to SnowflakeDB! It was great having the team on Startup Row at PyCon US 2023 in Salt Lake City. snowflake.com/blog/snowflake…

It’s a week like this that I kinda miss being an in-the-trenches reporter. Separately, I’m considering framing the supplement to Wired’s October 2023 issue spotlighting OpenAI. Uncannily prescient:

Microwaved take: The constrained spectrum that makes Apple Vision Pro's passthrough color rendering look flat is a feature. You take the thing off and realize the world is suddenly vibrant and full of color. EDIT: for Grammar

Scheduled Send should be built into any messaging system. Just because I'm up late and surfing around and lacking self-control to draft a message and send it in the AM doesn't mean folks need to be subjected to it, like, **tonight**.

SEC Filing Watch: 20VC Fund III, L.P. targets as much as $400M, >2x AUM over the firm's most-recently announced pair of funds. Best of luck to Mr. Harry Stebbings. sec.gov/Archives/edgar…

Today in tech history: Google went public 20 years ago on August 19, 2004

SEC Filing Watch: SV Angel appears to have closed $330M for SV Angel Growth II, L.P. The firm's first Growth Fund raised approximately $270M in 2022. sec.gov/Archives/edgar…