Do you ever feel that older cities are just more interesting than new ones? Well, it isn't just because they're old. It's because of something called "vernacular architecture"...

Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week. So, I summarized everything from Nvidia, OpenAI, ByteDance, Google, Figure, Mistral, Replit, Borg, Apple, Meta, and more. Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it:

HUGE: OpenAI o3 scores 394 of 600 in the International Olympiad of Informatics (IOI) 2024, earning a Gold medal and 18 in the world. The model was NOT contaminated with this data and the 50 submission limit was used. We will likely see superhuman coding models this year.

This is BIG Robotics will accelerate Unitree Robotics, the Hangzhou based firm behind the viral G1 robot, has open-sourced its algorithms and hardware designs, mirroring the collaborative ethos that propelled AI breakthroughs such as DeepSeek’s open source models.

A big reason why innovation thrives in SF / bay area is how open everyone is towards sharing their ideas and knowledge. You'd regularly see even competitors sharing what they know as they understand execution is key. Knowledge has network effects, creating more knowledge.

I like Deedy's work but but this take misses context Sarvam-M isn’t a vanity fine-tune; it’s India’s first open-weights 24 B Indic-centric LLM built under brutal GPU & data scarcity. Judging it by few hours of HuggingFace stats badly misses the point. Most people outside

The biggest challenge with AI agents isn’t hallucination. It’s consistency. One CTO told me: “It’s brilliant—until it’s not.” Smart orgs aren’t chasing perfection. They’re obsessed with guardrails, monitoring & HITL. That’s how you scale trust.

It's wild that Google wrote the Transformers paper (that birthed GPTs) AND open sourced Chromium.. Both of which will (eventually) lead to the downfall of their search monopoly. History lesson in there somewhere.

🚨 Anthropic just solved the problem every AI agent engineer’s been screaming about for a year. Every agent today burns tokens like fuel every tool call, every definition, every intermediate result jammed into context. Now Anthropic’s introducing the fix: code execution with