The Rise Of AI Scientists: Is Agentic AI The Future Of R&D #ArtificialIntelligence is dramatically #transforming how companies approach #research and #development, with some organizations already seeing 10X productivity gains. Arthur D. Little's latest report reveals how #AI
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Ellison’s Oracle Links Stargate Project and TikTok Acquisition Talks
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Context this urgent & important @nytimes scoop doesn’t note: Larry Ellison is CTO & cofounder of Oracle, which is involved w/ the $500 billion Stargate project Trump announced w/ OpenAI & SoftBank. Oracle also manages TikTok’s U.S. data & reportedly is in talks to buy the app.
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone Failure Against Apple iPhone
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This was Steve Ballmer at his finest! After the launch of the Windows Phone 7 in 2010, a group of Microsoft employees held a mock funeral for the iPhone Between 2011-2013, Microsoft sold 30-50 million phones, while Apple sold more than 347 million iPhones during the same
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Tech Leaders Respond to DeepSeek’s Rapid Rise in AI
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Tech leaders respond to the rapid rise of DeepSeek
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OpenAI raises $40 billion funding round at $340 billion valuation
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OpenAI is in early talks to raise up to $40 billion in a funding round led by SoftBank that would value the ChatGPT maker at $340 billion. https://
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Google and Meta dominate AI model pre-training landscape
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Thanks! Yeah seems like so far Google/Meta are the only two adtech horses in the race for pre-training. (I'm curious if any ML engineers with Llama/Gemini experience also have ad-tech experience.) Would love to hear more what you're doing with post-training though!
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Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5 Max surpasses DeepSeekR1, free video test
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#DeepSeekR1 drives the world crazy but no, it's not the best Chinese #ChatGPT! @AlibabaGroup just released its AI, Qwen 2.5 Max, and it's just crazy. I test it in my latest video right here → https://youtube.com/watch?v=zE_dM7DwPQw … Everything is free… Even generate videos.
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Technology diffusion accelerates exponentially across society
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In The Coming Wave I argued a core attribute of technology is its tendency get cheaper, more efficient + diffuse ever wider. It's a deeply entrenched historical pattern, it’s shaped our world at a profound level + it’s still going today…this is what we’re seeing. At warp speed
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DeepSeek Shifts: China Advances, Open Models Commoditize AI
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The buzz over DeepSeek this week crystallized, for many people, a few important trends that have been happening in plain sight: (i) China is catching up to the U.S. in generative AI, with implications for the AI supply chain. (ii) Open weight models are commoditizing the
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Design and UX as competitive advantage against incumbents
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I agree, but I also believe that with so much competition and so many entrenched incumbents, design/craft/user experience is going to be an increasingly big lever for disruption/differentiation.