We just had one of the biggest weeks for AI and Robotics of the entire year. Huge announcements from OpenAI's GPT-4o, ChatGPT Voice, Apple Eye Tracking, Project Astra, Gemini 1.5 Flash, Unitree, and more. Here's everything that happened and how to make sense out of it:

Our (first) DocETL preprint is now on Arxiv! "DocETL: Agentic Query Rewriting and Evaluation for Complex Document Processing" arxiv.org/abs/2410.12189 It has been almost 2 years in the making, so I am very happy we hit this milestone :-)

how come nobody is talking about how much shittier eng on-calls are thanks to blind integrations of AI-generated code? LLMs are great coders but horrible engineers. no, the solution is not “prompt the LLM to write more documentation and tests” (cont.)

As the year ends, I wanted to provide an update on our quest to build the best new housing in America. The purpose of this project is not to claim, or be given, this title with objectivity, but rather the pursuit itself. If we aim high, we may well fail, but we will fail well

Yes, we did shut down Salesforce a year ago, as we have many SaaS providers—an internal estimate is about 1,200 SaaS shut down. Not the end of Salesforce; might be the opposite. Here is what actually happened and how/why we originally intended to NOT share it publicly:

A good reminder why you can pick up GenAI - and you probably should. Real story: Small company, 5 devs. Last time they hired was 12 years ago. AI comes out: company wants to add AI feature. But they don't have the expertise. So hire an AI agency. Agency spend 3 months planning:

Today is the start of a new era of natively multimodal AI innovation. Today, we’re introducing the first Llama 4 models: Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick — our most advanced models yet and the best in their class for multimodality. Llama 4 Scout • 17B-active-parameter model

On April 17th the U.S. Trade Representative's office is expected to impose fees of up to $1.5M per port call for ships made in China and for $500k to $1M if the ocean carrier owns a single ship made in China or even has one on order from a Chinese shipyard. 🧵 1/

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Cricket Is an Inexact Sport In Football, a goal is a goal. In Tennis, a game point is a game point. In sprints, one microsecond is one microsecond. Once a goal is scored or a foul is done - the argument ends. The scoreboard becomes paramount. Football, tennis, athletics - these

Yesterday Mark Cuban reposted my work, DM'd me, and told me to keep telling my story. So here it is. I'm a Master Electrician. IBEW Local 369. 15 years pulling wire in Kentucky. Zero coding background. I didn't go to Stanford. I went to trade school. Every week I'd show up to

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The PM playbook was built on an assumption that the technology underneath your product is roughly stable With the current pace of model progress, this is no longer true. Here's how we've evolved the PM role:

3/ Revisit features with new models Every model release, go back through your list of features that were too hard for the previous model and test the ideas again. Also, remove the extra scaffolding that is no longer needed.

Introducing Chroma Context-1, a 20B parameter search agent. > pushes the pareto frontier of agentic search > order of magnitude faster > order of magnitude cheaper > Apache 2.0, open-source

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