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Google AI Leaders Reflect on Year and Future Outlook
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Google Expected to Release Gemma 4 Models
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Google is likely about to release Gemma 4 today, as "Google's Gemma models family" collection got updates just recently. F5F5F5 https://
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Claudius AI Model Upgraded to Sonnet 4.5 With New Tools
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To boost Claudius’s business acumen, we made some tweaks to how it worked: upgrading the model from Claude Sonnet 3.7 to Sonnet 4 (and later 4.5); giving it access to new tools; and even beginning an international expansion, with new shops in our New York and London offices.
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Amazon Recruits Leading AI and Robotics Expert Pieter Abbeel
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OpenAI’s Deep Research Leader Joins Tencent as Chief AI Scientist
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Big AI leadership news @ShunyuYao12 Shunyu Yao (姚顺雨), a rising star in AI agents and one of the key minds behind OpenAI’s Deep Research and Computer-Using Agent (CUA), has just been appointed Chief AI Scientist at Tencent. Tencent builds WeChat, China’s super-app used
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The AI Money Machine: Understanding the Capital Loop
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The AI Money Machine – simpler than it looks, bigger than it feels At first glance, the AI economy looks impossibly complex.
In reality, it’s a surprisingly tight capital loop and it’s already being priced in. Here’s the simplified flow:
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Lack of bleeding edge AI doomed startup against well-funded rivals
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Really what doomed it was it didn't have bleeding edge AI so couldn't get investors to believe it had a shot against Tesla, Figure, and all the other big companies that were already well funded.
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Tesla has best world models for training robots
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Yeah, world models are being used to train robots. Awesome, huh? And who has the best world models? Tesla.
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Amazon Hires Top AI Researcher Pieter Abbeel for Leadership
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Unlike Meta, Microsoft or Apple, Amazon now has one of the best AI researchers in the world leading its AI efforts. Great move – and godspeed, @pabbeel
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Model Convergence Shifts AI Differentiation to Data Foundations
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On @TBPN
, Databricks CEO and co-founder @alighodsi joined @johncoogan and @jordihays to discuss how model capabilities are converging, and why differentiation increasingly comes from strong data foundations and reasoning over proprietary data. They also talked about how