My takeaways from Sam Altman's interview
Notes on Sam Altman’s two-hour interview — OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, board saga, computational power and high-stakes AGI competition.
Notes on Sam Altman’s two-hour interview — OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, board saga, computational power and high-stakes AGI competition.
Reaction to Apple’s iMessage 'quantum‑secure messaging' pitch and the “harvest now, decrypt later” concern — marketing move or real security?
Self-teaching LLMs: AlphaZero precedent; self-generated reward models tested on Llama 2 70B outperforming Claude 2, Gemini Pro, GPT-4 (report).
Quick take on how Perplexity and SearchGPT change search economics: data owners get paid, marketplaces add AI, and paid search models emerge.
Practical steps to cut AWS costs: spot instances, Savings Plans, optimisations and ways to claim up to $100k in AWS credits (e.g., Spendbase promo).
DeepSeek V3.2 and V3.2‑Speciale (685B) match GPT‑5/Gemini in reasoning; open weights and aggressive pricing reshape AI product economics.
Former Snap manager raised $4.8M for Butterflies — an app where users create AI "butterflies" that autonomously post; author tested Placy and Sailor Joox.
Gartner predicts 25% drop in search volume by 2026 as users move to ChatGPT/Claude — marketplaces face bot-first traffic, pushing SEO/AEO over TV ads.
Examples of growth experiments by Airbnb, PayPal, Canva and Facebook/LinkedIn; a quote on learning how to grow a business and a FirstRound link.
One-day AI Forum in Limassol on Nov 24 with speakers from Microsoft, EPAM, HPE and more; promo code Placy20 for 20% off.
Brief note on Diella, Albania’s AI 'minister' for public procurement — a PR-forward GovTech experiment that raises transparency questions and GPT limits.
Sergey Osipov on how US strengths (chips, cloud, VC) and China’s power capacity (coal, hydro, nuclear) shape AI infrastructure and geopolitics.
Apple focused on local intelligence: unified memory, Neural Engines and clustered Mac Minis as an affordable approach to AI compute.
Sergey Osipov outlines three UX schools for AI assistants—natural conversation, button-driven UX, and hybrid genUI—and invites input on Placy onboarding.
Trump signed an order to integrate AI into US education: certifications, teacher grants, classroom tools; The 2025 Future of Jobs warns of mass reskilling.
Two AI assistants from Placy: a free consumer-facing product and Placy Pro, a white-label AI for real estate pros; 10 companies set to test it.
Mitra Geranin, ex-CEO of a top car classifieds site, shares marketplace growth, remote-CEO life and marathon stories in the first Naturally Artificial filmed episode.
Data shows equal 50/50 splits fell below half in 2025; 3-founder equal shares were 27.3% and 4-founder equal splits jumped—chart included.
On backlash to AI in games after Unreal Engine 5.8 adds editor AI; Sergey calls the reaction “technophobia” and links a Playsense comment.
Short take on Valve's Steam Machine: semi-custom AMD Zen 4 + RDNA3 specs, questions whether it's true 'AI hardware' or PR for a €1.5k price tag.