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“get them to use chat GPT um and you know yeah yeah and just until it's tangible people it's this existential threat but but once it's a tangible oh I can just it's it's feels like a search engine kind…”
“Claude 3.5 through Cursor is what I use to assist me in programming.”
“practical advice on how to get the best out of Claude.”
“cloud code is fant Fantastic. Since quad 4 release, it's become and and ask me again in a few months, I may use something different. But the tools are evolving really rapidly, but I think uh cloud cod…”
“or you know sometimes I do perplexity just depending on just the the formulation of my questions and I just start learning from there”
“I'm going to show you exactly how I'm using OpenClaw.”
“30% of Fortune 10,000 companies are using Lovable today as well.”
“you will be able to use codex as both your teammate and a competitor so everyone's going to get access to some number of queries to codecs while doing python programming challenges”
“important products that product builders should be aware of and should probably start playing with.”
“I use chat gbt I use Claude Ai and I use Gemini as well”
“Lang chains is a developer framework that makes it easy to build llm applications”
“we use streamlit streamless awesome it was really easy to get started - who was in Cabin ce128 we can ask a question we can press submit it should hopefully run in the background we'll get back an ans…”
“you can go into AI Studio today, for example. You can try the models. You can even fine-tune a model”
“Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models”
“Each episode will have a companion story, which we’ve generated with GPT-4 to spark discussion. You can find these stories down in the show notes.”
“I think Google's notebook thing is super cool. -Yeah. -What do they call it? -NotebookLM yeah. I was like, I woke up early this morning and I was like looking at examples on Twitter and I was just lik…”
“Uhhh... @grok @AskPerplexity this can’t be true, is it?!”
“oh yeah so I guess if you've ever used um the Gemini API or AI Studio notebook LM or any of VO any of these things these are products that we've kind of worked on from Labs”
“Refer to the [Next.js docs](https://nextjs.org/docs/getting-started) to learn more.”
“You can just install Ollama, download DeepSeek, and play with it to your heart's content.”
“I made it using grock the gro image generator and I posted it tell us about it to my profile seek for efficiency”
“I'm really inspired by systems like deepmind's alpha fold uh which i has you know sort of you know either solved or made hugely significant progress on the protein folding problem and that really is a…”
“Now that I have those how profoundly different will my design be so if I have to create the next notion the next superhuman the next figma my bed is that Sterling is going to look completely different”
“I'm going to show you this account that I'm using with cowork. There's no, there's no tasks there because this is sort of like not my burner, but it's my, uh, it's my external account. Uh,”
“Certainly almost all of them are trained with PyTorch. So that's another open source tool produced by by Meta.”
“we've gone on to found this company versell where you're the CEO and um you really have built a remarkable reputation for just super high quality work throughout the software industry”
“If you go through the trouble of maintaining Twitter accounts you might as well speak your mind”
“GitHub co-pilot uh when when when they moved away from the weight lless to the paid version they just thought had like hundreds of thousands of people paying from the first day”
“what do the big AI Labs not understand about companies themselves do you think I think that's such an important question I mean there is just the products being released are just super weird I think t…”
“We're going to be talking about codeex which is OpenAI's coding agent.”
“this there's this engine underneath XJ called react and react created a way of sharing user interface components almost like Lego bricks”
“the only way to truly have free speech to truly be censorship resistant is to work on open protocols and there are only two at scale that I'm aware of which is Bitcoin for money and Noster for um for …”
“if you're doing Quantum kkit is the obvious choice”
“Granola: https://www.granola.ai”
“- Install [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/)”
“Oh and I have one of those Substack things all the weirdos do these days I guess.”
“I started using computer and boy it's good uh it's a really strong start uh allowing me to do repetitive tasks very similar in some ways to co-work from claude”
“so people can go to perplexity Ai and run searches on the open web where you they get uh very good results”
“I do use Cursor, Windsurf, and some other things.”
“And of course we're using Open AI.”
“Used [v0](https://v0.dev) to generate all initial UIs”
“Lang chain Lang Smith Lang graph pushing on all of them lots of cool stuff related to a lot of the stuff that we're going to talk about today probably yeah”
“What was the last major technology company founded by academics? Google. At Perplexity, we get accused of trying to kill Google a lot. (Laughter) But trust me, we're not really trying to kill things.”
“Instead of going to your notion, instead of going into your Gmail, instead of pulling up your calendar, you ask it, 'Hey, what's on my schedule this week?' It brings it to you.”
“The Gemma model is a new open-source LLM by Google. As far as benchmarks go, it should be the best available on the market.”
“You can just install Ollama, download DeepSeek, and play with it to your heart's content.”
“Framer is a no code website builder that gives your team the power to design, publish and manage your entire site without relying on engineers.”
“if folks have looked at open router before like it was the most high token volume usage model like on on open router which again is like a reasonable proxy for model usage in some in some contexts”
“I really would encourage anyone that don't believe it is possible to Simply go to uh the GP GPT engineer uh and try it out you can get started in very you know few minutes”
“They had set up app iPads with Nano Banana and you could enter a prompt to create an image and have it very photorealistically printed on a cookie.”
“GPT-5.4 is really good at spreadsheets; a few finance people have finally said things to me like "huh I guess this AI thing is real"”
“Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more”
“experience abroad or be able to like gain as much of experience and knowledge from places that you can internet to like online courses and stuff and talking with people I think like connecting through…”
“Now that I have those how profoundly different will my design be so if I have to create the next Notion the next Superhuman the next Figma”
“Introducing: Cohere Transcribe – a new state-of-the-art in open source speech recognition.”
“but the thing is that team ended up go going to work on co-pilot and codex you know our code generation models and we just realized that digital space is moving so much faster right”
“NemoClaw. You said NemoClaw. This may be even bigger. I start my morning with NemoClaw.”
“I'm interested in like ai and ethics and i got an award for like my perusal into this space by venturebeat and i'm just wondering what you've learned because i'm sure in the way that you've deployed t…”
“we've seen Devon we've seen Sierra these other these other companies start to emerge um in in the agent space”
“Relativity is the AI platform for legal work, delivering defensible AI that handles the tedious tasks so judgment stays where it belongs, with you. Learn more at Relativity.com forward slash. WSJ.”
“Replicate (@replicate) Reference to Video https://replicate.com/wan-video/wan-2.7-r2v”
“over 41,000 businesses have future prooof their business with Netsuite by Oracle the number one Cloud Erp bringing accounting financial management inventory HR into one fluid platform with one unified…”
“third if that's not enough you can make a GPT um ... make a GPT for yourself ... it's super easy takes seconds”
“Additionally, don't forget to cite Keras if you use these models.”
“One of the skills is being able to go into our sales database which is in pipe drive.”
“I learned about Shor's algorithm.”
“npm i -g @tobilu/qmd”
“Linus Torvalds recently actually built a repository. And recently, he said he vibe coded it with Anti-Gravity. So he actually built some-- his most recent Git repository he did. And I guess the thing …”
“Yeah. So in total now Jamaa has like all of the YMA based models have over 500 million downloads. Uh but yeah so when we launch new models we want to make sure that people can use the models with thei…”
“I mean things like open evidence too for medical information where doctors are now really using that as a trusted resource like you Harvey for legal you're really starting to see AI emerge as one of t…”
“similarly like stable diffusion and mid Journey were all like pretty competitive with Dolly 2 and actually probably making more money than DOL do”
“And this is a special shout out to school and Sam. I'm taking all the learnings that he put in the school news and I'm trying to make them public because I think they're awesome.”
“Didn't expect this great analysis @thisisgrantlee, gamma is great btw.”
“And and you know we have we now have a new package called deep agents which which is • what we would call an agent harness by the way all these things stack on top of each other so like langraph power…”
“Landing AI has a product called Vision agent that led the way in this image processing Revolution Trend”
“GPT-5.5 is now available on Perplexity for Max subscribers.”
“we've seen Devon we've seen Sierra these other these other companies start to emerge um in in the agent space”
“If you want access to my AI tool stack - Dovetail, Arize, Linear, Descript, Reforge Build, DeepSky, Relay.app, Magic Patterns, Speechify, and Mobbin - grab Aakash’s bundle .”
“and GitHub.”
“If you want access to my AI tool stack - Dovetail, Arize, Linear, Descript, Reforge Build, DeepSky, Relay.app, Magic Patterns, Speechify, and Mobbin - grab Aakash’s bundle .”
“I learned about Grover's algorithm for searching giant databases [...]”
“Can you, again at a high level, how AlexNet worked?”
“now that the the Deep research things are out I mean you guys have yours in kind of um which has been very good and now because of open AI I'd like to play a little bit more with deep research”
“there's a vzer for medicine called open evidence that is built with NEX shs and verell”
“deep seek just mugged all of us...this company with like a pretty lean team you know $10 million or less in like training budget and was able to like build”
“Amgen has been, like, a top customer of GPT-5, for instance.”
“Apple Intelligence comes to Apple Vision Pro today with visionOS 2.4”
“How he uses Cowork to detect team misalignment in Slack”
“it depends on the product but I mainly use canva”
“So right now the most popular place to use codeex is in your IDE. So like in VS Code, bunch of people pop it up.”
“there's a great project GPT researcher um which which has some really interesting kind of like architectures around agents”
“I actually think I'm not alone. Just judging from the Twitter feedback, I think people are really realizing how great of a combination Codex CLI and GPT-5 are.”
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“I personally have never been able to. So, we basically only saw a few animated gifts about that, but that will definitely be one of the first things that I try when I get my hands on Gemini 3.”
“Use those image URLs as reference images or init images in Seedance 2.0 / Seedance 2.0 (Fast)”
“Find out more → https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-flash-tts/?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=&utm_content=”
“I use brave search for searching the web and firecrawl as well for searching the web.”
“And Sora was one of them.”
“Moltbook is the new Reverse Turing Test.”
“when Slack was coming up a few competitors to slack were actually giving you IRC as a service with some UI”