AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since December, completing complex projects with minimal oversight, meaning “programming is becoming unrecognizable”
AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since December, completing complex projects with minimal oversight, meaning “programming is becoming unrecognizable”
It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the …
YC's Garry Tan launches “Garry's List”, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting “moderate/pragmatic” political candidates and pro-growth policies in California
New operation is part-PAC, part-blog, part incubator for Silicon Valley politics — and latest entry in big-money network
Andrej Karpathy's talk on “Software 3.0”, with LLMs enabling programming via natural language, the decade of agents, LLMs as “fallible people spirits”, and more
Andrej Karpathy's keynote at AI Startup School in San Francisco. Slides provided by Andrej: https …
How DeepSeek outpaced OpenAI at a fraction of the cost: open source, pure reinforcement learning, no supervised fine-tuning, and building on DeepSeek-R1-Zero
DeepSeek R1's Monday release has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what's required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance.
DeepSeek's iOS app tops the App Store's Top Free Apps chart in the US, beating ChatGPT, stirring doubts in Silicon Valley about the strength of the US' AI lead
- App's lower-cost model upends premise for AI spending boom — Stocks of chip gear makers ASML and Advantest plunge
Gemini 2.0 Flash LLM early impressions: spatial reasoning performance is impressive, and its new streaming API is one of those “we live in the future” moments
Huge announcment from Google this morning: Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era.
Google debuts Gemini 2.0 and plans to test the model in search and AI Overviews, saying it enables “agents that can think, remember, plan, and even take action”
Company expects AI assistants will follow its users around the web — Google debuted a new version …
Sources paint a bleak picture for startup founders in China; IT Juzi report: only 1,202 startups were founded in the country in 2023 compared to 51,302 in 2018
Venture capital finance has dried up amid political and economic pressures, prompting a dramatic fall in new company formation X: @carnage4life , @tonytassell , @michaelxpettis , @...
Some investors say YC's winter 2024 batch was stronger than in previous years, noting consumer AI as a key trend; YC says ~50% of this batch is working with AI
A look at some exciting startups from day one of YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day, including those using AI for creating music and helping lawyers review documents
out pops a professional-quality song with your custom lyrics. Britton Winterrose / @bwinterrose : irl YC demo day was just as incredible as i hoped it would be founders, new friend...
A look at some exciting startups from day one of YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day, including those using AI for creating music and helping lawyers review documents
out pops a professional-quality song with your custom lyrics. Britton Winterrose / @bwinterrose : irl YC demo day was just as incredible as i hoped it would be founders, new friend...
A look at some exciting startups from day one of YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day, including those using AI for creating music and helping lawyers review documents
out pops a professional-quality song with your custom lyrics. Britton Winterrose / @bwinterrose : irl YC demo day was just as incredible as i hoped it would be founders, new friend...
A look at some exciting startups from day one of YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day, including those using AI for creating music and helping lawyers review documents
out pops a professional-quality song with your custom lyrics. Britton Winterrose / @bwinterrose : irl YC demo day was just as incredible as i hoped it would be founders, new friend...
Reddit closed up 48%, at $50.44/share, in its NYSE debut, valuing the company at ~$9.5B on a fully diluted basis, just shy of its $10B valuation in August 2021
even for y'all. Rat King / @mikeisaac : apparently Reddit's IPO included the first bell-ringing carried out by a “non-human entity” — in this case, the alien Snoo [image] Trevor Sc...
Reflecting on Reddit's history: Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian pitching a food app, wanting to use snoo.com, and seeing traffic explode after Reddit launched
Reddit closed up 48%, at $50.44/share, in its NYSE debut, valuing the company at ~$9.5B on a fully diluted basis, just shy of its $10B valuation in August 2021
even for y'all. Rat King / @mikeisaac : apparently Reddit's IPO included the first bell-ringing carried out by a “non-human entity” — in this case, the alien Snoo [image] Trevor Sc...
Waymo plans to debut its Waymo One robotaxi service in LA on March 14, gradually onboarding from a 50K+ waitlist, and in Austin commercially by the end of 2024
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