@aymericroucher - AI Dynamics

Verso AI launches engine to simplify slide editing for LLMs

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12 April 2026 9h26

Today we launch Verso AI: the mission is to solve PowerPoint!

In short, we've made an engine to represent slides (horrible OOXML language) into one language that's easier for LLMs to edit ; that was a long work, but now it's paying off, because on our benchmark, Verso beats… pic.twitter.com/21l1zWYYt7
— m_ric (@AymericRoucher) 12 avril 2026

Today we launch Verso AI: the mission is to solve PowerPoint! In short, we've made an engine to represent slides (horrible OOXML language) into one language that's easier for LLMs to edit ; that was a long work, but now it's paying off, because on our benchmark, Verso beats

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12 April 2026

Henry Cavill dominating AI video models, need more James Bond and Suits

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06 April 2026 19h28

It seems Henry Cavill is taking over the AI mindshare for "handsome man in a suit" : all text-to-video models I tried (Kling, Seedance, Veo) like to converge to his face. If anyone knows video training engineers, tell them to have models watch more James Bond or Suits. Thank

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6 April 2026

Peon-ping mod for Claude Code prevents distractions and boosts productivity

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27 March 2026 11h53

My largest productivity gain this month: peon-ping, a Warcraft III mod for Claude Code I wait for my agent to be finished => i get distracted by brainrot feeds => "Work, Work!" => Oh, let's go back to work! Give it a try!
brew install PeonPing/tap/peon-ping

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27 March 2026

Claude Code excels over Codex/Gemini in new “Bullshit Bench” study

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17 March 2026 14h06

I've long preferred Claude Code over Codex or Gemini, because it seemed much more reliable, but couldn't explain why : now Bullshit Bench by @petergostev provides compelling numbers. It measures bullshit as "when given false premises disguised in jargon, will the model go with

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17 March 2026

Lending stochastic parrots term, refining critique

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13 March 2026 18h10

Yeah, we’ve got to say it! (Well, after that, I did lend him the term “stochastic parrots,” which he doesn’t use, thanks @Fabien_Mikol
, I need to refine my critique)

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13 March 2026

Me and my agents after 83 commits in a day

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11 March 2026 13h24

Me and my agents after I clocked 83 commits in a day

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11 March 2026

Qwen AI dominance and Alibaba leadership shakeup

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04 March 2026 1h45

Qwen team:
*each new model family obliterates SOTA*
*bonus vision*
*dense models are ngmi? Not on my watch*
*literally own the Pareto frontier for years*
*ultra based capybara mascot* Alibaba:
*nuke leadership*

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4 March 2026

Smolagents creator discovers unauthorized Product Hunt launch

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03 March 2026 17h38

A similar thing happened to us with smolagents : within hours of publishing, someone congratulated me for the good launch on Product Hunt. I didn't do any. Turns out someone had created http://
smolagents.org and launched that for us. At first I feared a crypto scam, but

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3 March 2026

Request to recreate an image of Thierry Breton showing a laptop

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02 March 2026 19h29

@grok redo this image but it's Thierry Breton showing off a laptop and saying "wow this is an impressive piece of innovation"

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2 March 2026

Computer Use moving from research to production with impressive demos

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02 March 2026 17h09

We're soon going to see Computer Use move from research to production use cases.

Standard Intelligence's demos are stunning, the model seems to have a very natural way of interacting with the computer. It can even drive a car through a webapp!

And Anthropic is working on it as… pic.twitter.com/FeGvZVFNeN
— m_ric (@AymericRoucher) 2 mars 2026

We're soon going to see Computer Use move from research to production use cases. Standard Intelligence's demos are stunning, the model seems to have a very natural way of interacting with the computer. It can even drive a car through a webapp! And Anthropic is working on it as

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2 March 2026