2024

• Cursor vs GitHub Copilot builder.io
• OpenAI Details Plans for Becoming a For-Profit Company nytimes.com
• TSMC begins mass production at 1st Japan chip plant in Kumamoto produces logic chips with 12 to 28 nanometer process technologies for use in cars and image sensors for customers such as Sony Group Corp. and auto parts maker Denso Corp. english.kyodonews.net
• Google is using Anthropic’s Claude to improve its Gemini AI techcrunch.com
• Transitioning From Postman to Insomnia dzone.com
• ‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years…Geoffrey Hinton says there is 10% to 20% chance AI will lead to human extinction in three decades, as change moves fast theguardian.com
• The Paper Passport Is Dying wired.com
• Cybersecurity stories in 2024 techcrunch.com
• “…Today, a software engineer’s primary desktop is their editor. What is the Mission Control for a software engineer in the era of autonomous development?…” backchannel.org

Watch Nadella describe SaaS apps as nothing more than a CRUD database with some business logic, but once the business logic moves to AI agents, SaaS is over: pic.twitter.com/oWwHS1o2V1

— Marcelo P. Lima (@MarceloPLima) December 18, 2024

YC and a16z's 2025 request for startups: pic.twitter.com/JeIwa9Z3HZ

— Ben Lang (@benln) December 23, 2024

• Google releases its own ‘reasoning’ AI model…The new model, called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental… techcrunch.com
• Navigating the AI Frontier: A Primer on the Evolution and Impact of AI Agents weforum.org
• In just 4 months, AI coding assistant Cursor raised another $100M at a $2.5B valuation techcrunch.com
• AI-powered search engine Perplexity has reportedly closed a $500 million funding round, valuing the startup at $9 billion techcrunch.com
• Grammarly is buying Coda to expand AI offerings axios.com
• Sony’s gaming and network services segment accounts for around 37% of its revenue bloomberg.com
• New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality arstechnica.com
• ‘World’s first’ grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant announced in the US edition.cnn.com
• Japan Sees Nuclear as Cheapest Baseload Power Source in 2040 financialpost.com
• Do Autonomous Vehicles Outperform Latest-Generation Human-Driven Vehicles? waymo.com
• The brain microbiome: could understanding it help prevent dementia? theguardian.com
• IOT: Z-Wave LR standard’s range of up to 1 mile and operate on mesh networks that can support as many as 4,000 devices pcworld.com
• Apple reportedly won’t launch an iPhone subscription service theverge.com

Introducing Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, an experimental model that explicitly shows its thoughts.

Built on 2.0 Flash’s speed and performance, this model is trained to use thoughts to strengthen its reasoning.

And we see promising results when we increase inference time…

— Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) December 19, 2024

• Google’s NotebookLM AI podcast hosts can now talk to you, too theverge.com
• Google Cloud launches Agentspace to create, deploy agents constellationr.com
• Google’s new Jules AI agent will help developers fix buggy code theverge.com
• What Is (or Was) ‘Perks Culture’? nytimes.com
• Intel executives say a manufacturing spinoff is possible finance.yahoo.com
• Introducing Gemini 2.0…Gemini 2.0 is the next chapter for Google AI blog.google
• Incident Report for OpenAI status.openai.com
• Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft wired.com
• Palantir EVP: “Modern war cannot be won without software“ calcalistech.com
• AI Coding Assistants Landscape promptpatterns.substack.com
• “…The other was Heschl’s gyrus, a fold on the upper temporal lobe which hosts the auditory cortex (the cortex is the outermost layer of the brain). Better reading ability was linked to a larger anterior part of the temporal lobe in the left hemisphere compared to the right…” theconversation.com

• OpenAI announces full “o1” reasoning model, $200 ChatGPT Pro tier…o1-preview successfully solved 83% of problems in the International Mathematics Olympiad qualifying exam, a sharp improvement from GPT-4o’s 13% success rate… arstechnica.com
• Copilot Vision, Microsoft’s AI tool that can read your screen, launches in preview techcrunch.com
• Amazon Web Services announced it’s launching a new AI supercomputer built from its own machine learning chips that could be one of the largest used to train AI models—and tries to rival chipmaking giant Nvidia. forbes.com
• Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond by Werner Vogels allthingsdistributed.com
• AWS re:Invent Videos youtube.com
• The levels of code AI sourcegraph.com
• Apple Prepares Three-Year Modem Rollout to Outdo Qualcomm bloomberg.com
• “…xAI plans to expand its Memphis, Tennessee, supercomputer to house at least one million graphics processing units (GPUs)…the move represents a massive expansion for the supercomputer called Colossus, which currently has 100,000 GPUs to train xAI’s chatbot called Grok…” reuters.com
• Music sector workers to lose nearly a quarter of income to AI in next four years, global study finds theguardian.com

we just launched two things:

o1, the smartest model in the world. smarter, faster, and more features (eg multimodality) than o1-preview. live in chatgpt now, coming to api soon.

chatgpt pro. $200/month. unlimited usage and even-smarter mode for using o1. more benefits to come!

— Sam Altman (@sama) December 5, 2024

• “…the Big Four hyperscalers have spent $200 billion in capex, and nearly half of that money goes directly to Nvidia…” theregister.com
• Who’s winning the AI race axios.com
• OpenAI gets new $1.5 billion investment from SoftBank cnbc.com
• Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Standups dzone.com
• What is an AI agent? blog.langchain.dev
• Australia’s Social Media Ban for Under 16s to Become Law bloomberg.com
• Amazon Develops Video AI Model, Hedging Its Reliance on Anthropic theinformation.com
• Denmark will plant 1 billion trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest apnews.com
• Former Android leaders are building an ‘operating system for AI agents theverge.com
• Leica Just Recorded the Highest Revenue in Its Entire 100-Year History petapixel.com
• Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model techcrunch.com
• Meta plans to build a $10B subsea cable spanning the world techcrunch.com
• “…According to researchers at Fujitsu, the number of parameters in AI systems is growing 32-fold approximately every three years…” theregister.com

• Qwen2.5-Coder Series: Powerful, Diverse, Practical qwenlm.github.io
• Google Develops AlphaQubit to Identify, Correct Quantum Errors thequantuminsider.com
• The Department of Justice asks court to force Google to spin off Chrome edition.cnn.com
• Nvidia (NVDA) Q3 2025 Earnings Call Transcript fool.com
• Companies aren’t prepared for AI-powered bot attacks axios.com
• “…Under the new Windows Resiliency Initiative, Microsoft is working to create a new recovery environment for Windows that will help devices come back online faster if they’re knocked offline…” axios.com
• AI Agents Market Landscape aiagentsdirectory.com
• Elon Musk’s xAI Startup Is Valued at $50 Billion in New Funding Round wsj.com
• iOS 18.2 beta 4: Here’s what’s new 9to5mac.com
• NASA wants SpaceX and Blue Origin to deliver cargo to the moon theverge.com
• AI eats the world ben-evans.com
• Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 arrives with a “full digital twin” of Earth arstechnica.com

HUGE news about enterprise LLM usage!

AI spend in 2024 has gone from $2.3B to $13.8B, a 6x increase.

Anthropic with 24% has been catching up to OpenAI's lead at 34% on driven by how its proficiency at code, which makes up >50% the spend!

Read the full report from Menlo here: pic.twitter.com/3XgPMdKDSf

— Deedy (@deedydas) November 20, 2024

Architecture Diagramming Tools

Over the years I have moved from 3->2->1
Which tool do you like most and why?

1. Excalidraw – https://t.co/83OmtzP1fH
2. Lucidchart – https://t.co/CaWpnQzPU6
3. OmniGraffle – https://t.co/ZtdoPY4CmU
3. Draw_io – https://t.co/IDiEbdJVL9
5. Eraser…

— Bilgin Ibryam (@bibryam) November 18, 2024