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Perplexity AI CEO Arav Srinivas on Humanity-Scale Curiosity
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BAIR alum and @perplexity_ai CEO @AravSrinivas seeks to cater "… to curiosity at the scale of humanity…"
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OpenAI kills startups with its new image system
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Well, it's 2 AM and I've been non-stop on OpenAI's new image system for 5 hours. My opinion: In short, I love it when OpenAI kills startups. Managing to include products in images, converting photos into a certain style, etc… I was skeptical
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Napster Acquired for $207M to Build Music Metaverse
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Napster Snapped Up for $207 Million to Build Music #Metaverse (via @decryptmedia
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Upstage Launches DocParse, Outperforming Leading OCR Models
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Introducing @upstageai's top-performing model, DocParse. It surpasses the performance of recent models such as @MistralAI OCR, @llama_index, and @UnstructuredIO on DP Bench, huggingface.co/datasets/upst…. Our product's users are consistently amazed and continue to use it. We offer our product in various ways, such as API, AWS Marketplace, and On-Prem. Try it out on the Upstage Playground at upstage.ai/products/document….
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CEO Policy Adjusted for AI Product Builders
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I love how many people know that policy I have/had! I've adjusted the policy to allow CEO who (1) are legends like @bchesky @tobi @ivanhzhao @Benioff and (2) are building a product everyone is talking about, like Bolt, v0, Cursor, etc.
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CEO Policy Adjustment for Legendary AI Product Builders
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I love how many people know that policy I have/had! I've adjusted the policy to allow CEO who (1) are legends like @bchesky @tobi @ivanhzhao @Benioff and (2) are building a product everyone is talking about, like Bolt, v0, Cursor, etc.
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AI CEO Podcasts: Bolt, Lovable, and Replit Leaders
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Here are the pods that are already out, and the rest coming over the next two months: @EricSimons (CEO of Bolt): https://
youtube.com/watch?v=L22DtA
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… @antonosika (CEO of Lovable): https://
youtube.com/watch?v=DZtGxN
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… @amasad (CEO of Replit): https://
youtube.com/watch?v=Bp_h67
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AI Leaders Discuss Latest Platforms and Technologies
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Very excited about the upcoming (and recent) AI leaders on the pod:
– @kevinweil (CPO of OpenAI)
– @8enmann (co-founder of Anthropic)
– @mntruell (CEO of Cursor)
– @_mohansolo (CEO of Codeium/Windsurf)
– @rauchg (CEO of Vercel/v0)
– @EricSimons (CEO of Bolt)
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Snorkel AI Named Among America’s Greatest Startup Workplaces
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#SnorkelAI has been recognized by @Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Startup Workplaces for 2025! This reaffirms our dedication to building an innovative, people-first company. Read the full article: https://
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