Many great talks from @sequoia
's AI Ascent conference. They’re all here → https://
inferencebysequoia.substack.com/s/ai-ascent
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Sequoia AI Ascent Conference Talks Now Available Online
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IndiaAI Startup Program Drives Global Impact for Cohort I Startups
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I have 300 million users and 111,902 customers The SaaS services I replaced with AI are used by all those users and customers!
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SarthhakAI Wins Top Spot at BuildAI Pitch Event with AI Solution
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Proof Left: reviews inside EU, immediately rejected with [ Not published ] Right: reviews outside EU, published fine! Crazy huh?
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AI game creation disrupts traditional gaming pipeline
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The gatekeepers are cooked.
— God of Prompt (@godofprompt) 5 mai 2026
For years, making games meant code, teams, funding, and pain.
Now it’s:
idea → AI game → play with friends → go viral.
Astrocade raising $56M isn’t just funding news.
It’s a warning shot at the entire old gaming pipeline. https://t.co/lrA6SK9gugThe gatekeepers are cooked. For years, making games meant code, teams, funding, and pain. Now it’s:
idea → AI game → play with friends → go viral. Astrocade raising $56M isn’t just funding news. It’s a warning shot at the entire old gaming pipeline. -
Startup Event Showcases Innovative AI Solutions with 450+ Applications
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Oh awesome will add this now! Thx
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MiniMax M2.7 Runs Fastest on SambaNova Cloud Platform
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Thank you @ArtificialAnlys for verifying our speeds, as always @MiniMax_ai M2.7 is running the FASTEST on SambaCloud. Try it now: http://
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OpenAI Spending Grew Massively Since 2017’s $30 Million
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Contrast this with 2017, when Brockman said OpenAI spent around $30 million. Wild.
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Anthropic Internally Uses Claude Mythos Opus 4.7, Toned-Down Release Planned
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Anthropic’s Boris Cherny:
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) 5 mai 2026
– Internally, they use the same models as everyone else + a bit Claude Mythos, mainly Opus 4.7
– A toned-down version of Claude Mythos will be released in the foreseeable future (but that was to be expected). pic.twitter.com/E9K2DLGEr7Anthropic’s Boris Cherny: – Internally, they use the same models as everyone else + a bit Claude Mythos, mainly Opus 4.7 – A toned-down version of Claude Mythos will be released in the foreseeable future (but that was to be expected).
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Astrocade Lets Non-Developers Build Games With AI Tools
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Fei-Fei Li is on the founding team. That alone tells you that Astrocade is not a Roblox clone.
— AI Highlight (@AIHighlight) 5 mai 2026
With 5M monthly players, Astrocade is not "AI generated games." It is the first time non-developers had a tool to build the games they always wanted to play. https://t.co/YAqTfpI9LpFei-Fei Li is on the founding team. That alone tells you that Astrocade is not a Roblox clone. With 5M monthly players, Astrocade is not "AI generated games." It is the first time non-developers had a tool to build the games they always wanted to play.
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Inworld AI Launches Realtime TTS-2 Text-to-Speech Model
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announcement: https://
inworld.ai/blog/realtime-
tts-2?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tts-2
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