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Pim from General Intuition spun out Medal (12M-user game clipping platform) to raise $134M seed from Khosla for training world models on gameplay footage
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Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson's World Labs launched Marble, a generative world model creating editable 3D environments from text, images, and spatial inputs for games, film, VR, and robotics
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Tenex co-founders reveal model paying AI engineers for output rather than hours, enabling some to earn $1M+ annually with 10x productivity gains
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Deedy Das discusses his journey from Glean (enterprise search scaled to $7B AI-native company) to Menlo Ventures and early investment in Anthropic before revenue
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Jared Palmer (SVP GitHub, VP CoreAI Microsoft) launched Agent HQ, new collaboration hub for coding agents and developers after success with v0 coding agent at Vercel
Jared Palmer
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Jed Borovik (Google Labs) building Jules, ambitious coding agent running on Google infrastructure, managing 2M token context windows with developers using agent for hours/days
Jed Borovik
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Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg (Biohub founders) specialized from broad CZI philanthropy toward frontier AI + biology research with focus on building virtual cell models and virtual immune systems
Mark Zuckerberg
Priscilla Chan
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Malte Ubl (Vercel CTO) introduced Workflow Development Kit bringing durable execution to serverless functions, enabling agents to pause, resume, and wait indefinitely without cost
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Emily Glassberg Sands (Head of Data & AI, Stripe) oversees payments infrastructure powering $1.4T annual transaction volume (~1.3% global GDP), creating massive AI optimization opportunity
Emily Glassberg Sands
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OpenPipe pivoted from distilling GPT-4 into cheaper models to RL-based agent training as frontier model prices dropped, addressing why 90% of AI projects fail due to reliability rather than capabil...
Kyle Corbitt
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OpenAI launched AgentKit enabling developers to build, deploy, and optimize AI agents with visual Agent Builder allowing customer support agent creation in 8 minutes and live deployment within ChatGPT
Christina Huang
Sherwin Wu
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Dylan Field (Figma CEO) explains how Figma Make enables designers to build with AI, positioning design as ultimate moat in 'vibe coding' era
Dylan Field
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Sourcegraph's Amp Code achieves 15 shipping cycles per day with no code reviews through effective dogfooding and best-in-class coding agent architecture, rejecting subagents and prompt optimizers a...
Quinn Slack
Thorsten Ball
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Context engineering moves beyond simple RAG by addressing context rot, retrieval quality, chunking strategies, and memory structuring
Lance Martin
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Gorkem and Batuhan from Fal.ai (raised $125M Series C, crossed $100M ARR) discuss technical history of generative media and model impact on inference
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Ari Morcos (Datology) argues data curation is most impactful and underinvested area in AI, with effective filtering, rebalancing, sequencing, and synthetic generation outweighing architecture focus
Ari Morcos
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Modern vector databases differ fundamentally from information retrieval systems; Chroma prioritizes context quality and preventing 'context rot' as systems grow rather than just adding more embeddings
Jeff Huber
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OpenAI continues scaling RL for reasoning, moving beyond offline learning with online interactions and sample-efficient human curation; wall-clock time limitations in training remain an engineering...
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Nathan Lambert discusses evolution from RLHF to RLVR (Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards) in Tulu 3 paper for tasks with clear success criteria
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ChatGPT processes 2.5B prompts daily and will match Google's search volume by end of 2026; AI agents require structured, queryable data unlike human browsing patterns, creating new AI SEO/GEO industry