Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI in the last week: Figma Make brings AI “vibe-coding” to design workflows - official announcement Figma just launched "Make" - their AI-powered prototype generation tool that aims to deliver on the promise of converting designs and ideas into functional code. It lets designers transform their work into interactive prototypes via text prompts or convert existing Figma designs directly into working code. This is a meaningful...
10 days ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI in the last week: LLMs secretly manipulated Reddit users’ opinions in an unauthorized experiment - article, follow-up Researchers from the University of Zurich just got caught running a massive unauthorized AI experiment on r/changemyview, where they unleashed AI bots that posted 1,783 comments over four months without anyone’s consent. The bots were programmed to be maximally persuasive by adopting fabricated identities...
19 days ago • 5 min read
Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI and tech in the last week: Google’s Android XR re-imagines glasses and headsets for the Gemini era - review The AR glasses race just got a lot more interesting with Google showing its hand. They recently released a TED demo demonstrating real-time visual processing and AI assistance, showing off real-time translation of signs from English to Farsi to Hindi, visual memory capabilities, and navigation with 3D map overlays...
25 days ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI in the last week: Anthropic’s Claude expands with Max Plan, Research feature, and Google Workspace integration - announcement Anthropic just dropped a trifecta of updates that significantly expand Claude’s capabilities and target different user segments. The new Research feature transforms Claude from a static model into an autonomous agent that conducts multiple searches building on previous findings, exploring different...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI in the last week. Meta’s Llama 4 brings multimodal power and benchmark drama - announcement Meta just dropped their Llama 4 family and it’s a mixture-of-experts (MoE) party with some impressive specs and equally impressive drama. The headliner is Llama 4 Maverick with 17 billion active parameters but a massive 400 billion total parameters spread across 128 experts. This MoE architecture means only a fraction of the...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI in the last week. OpenAI launches next-generation audio models in the API - OpenAI Blog OpenAI has released a new suite of audio models that dramatically improve both speech-to-text and text-to-speech capabilities for developers building voice agents. Standing out is the new gpt-4o-mini-tts text-to-speech model that allows developers to “instruct” not just what to say but how to say it. Imagine telling the model to “speak...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI in the last week Gemini 2.0 Flash now generates images natively - no more Imagen - blog post Google just dropped a significant update to Gemini 2.0 Flash, bringing native image generation directly into the model. Previously, Google relied on a separate system (Imagen) to handle image generation the same way ChatGPT relies on Dall-E3. But now Gemini can create (and edit) images on its own without any additional models,...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader, Sesame’s voices cross the uncanny valley, leaving users “freaked out” - Demo & Research I tried Sesame’s new voice model this week, and wow - it’s frankly unsettling in its realism. If you look at just one thing from this newsletter, check out the link above. These aren’t your standard robot voices; they laugh, stumble over words, take breaths, and are imbued with a whole lot of 'character'. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke wasn’t exaggerating when he tweeted it’s “absolutely insane”. Sesame...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader, Here are three things I found interesting in the world of AI in the last week Claude Code is gaining traction - docs Released at the same time as Claude 3.7, it is now my default AI coding interface and I am seeing a lot of devs adopt it. It is sooo good. I found it a bit spendy on the credits initially, but that rapidly improved as I learned how to use it better. I reckon it has increased my dev speed by 2x compared to previous workflow and I know I can tune it further, which is a...
3 months ago • 3 min read