2026-02-26
Perplexity just became the the first Al company to truly go head-to-head with the Bloomberg Terminal... Using Perplexity Computer (with no local setup or single LLM limitation), it was able to build me a terminal with real-time data to analyze $NVDA using Perplexity Finance: [video]
The Deep View
Perplexity launches Perplexity Computer, “a general-purpose digital worker” that can route work across 19 AI models, available initially for Max subscribers
Claude Code and OpenClaw have taken 2026 by storm by offering the first glimpses of personal AI agents.
2025-01-26
> be an electric engineering student > team up w/ cracked classmates > start quant trading *we're so cracked* > founded a quant firm in his 30's > makes ¥100B trading with ai/ml *we're even more cracked with ai* > buys thousands of Nvdia GPUs > creates DeepSeek as a side project [image]
MIT Technology Review
Rather than weakening China's AI capabilities, US sanctions appear to be driving startups like DeepSeek to innovate by prioritizing efficiency and collaboration
The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model. — The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek …
> be an electric engineering student > team up w/ cracked classmates > start quant trading *we're so cracked* > founded a quant firm in his 30's > makes ¥100B trading with ai/ml *we're even more cracked with ai* > buys thousands of Nvdia GPUs > creates DeepSeek as a side project [image]
Financial Times
Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits
China is pulling the same trick. — www.ft.com/content/747a... Mastodon: Brian Kung / @briankung@hachyderm.io : “There's a pretty delicious, or maybe disconcerting irony to this, ...
2025-01-25
> be an electric engineering student > team up w/ cracked classmates > start quant trading *we're so cracked* > founded a quant firm in his 30's > makes ¥100B trading with ai/ml *we're even more cracked with ai* > buys thousands of Nvdia GPUs > creates DeepSeek as a side project [image]
VentureBeat
Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones
If you hadn't heard, there's a new AI star in town: DeepSeek, the subsidiary of Hong Kong-based quantitative analysis …