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Release of Groq

Over the past few weeks, there has been a significant announcement in the world of AI happening every day The latest, from today, is the announcement of Groq (not to be confused with the name given to the chatbot for X AI): GroqA GroqLabs AI Language InterfaceGroqChat The inference speeds

Things I've found interesting this week

A perspective on AR/VR In this post, Brian Cho shared his thoughts on the present and future for AR/VR. I share them below for readability Video interpolation using Sora 0:00 /0:18 1× 0:00 /0:18 1× My posts I've been writing more actively

The lessons we should learn from Figma

Figma is the most widely used design tool for websites, apps and pretty much anything digital. At this point, I'd be hard pushed to find a tech company or startup that doesn't use Figma in some way, and that's evident in the $600m in

Dreams (PS4)

I've recently been digging into Dreams on PS4. At first glance, it's a video game, but I believe calling it such is a bit of misnomer. It is actually more akin to a game engine, but focused on maximising creativity, while trying to prevent the UI

What is the goal of education?

This is a question that myself and the team asked ourselves often while I was working on Stairway. Not only did we ask ourselves, but we asked other people too; those who were actively engaged in education. We spoke to hundreds of students, teachers, parents, academics (researching education) and more,

Top tech companies for those looking for a new role

I recently came upon this website, and found it to be one of the best resources for someone looking for a role in tech: Career-changing startups to join right now“The Michelin Guide for Startups.” It's great because I felt it was accurate in identifying some of the

The age of the Product Generalist

As technology becomes increasingly abstracted, generalisation becomes more important By this, I mean that as more and more generalised technical challenges are solved, it will become increasingly important for founders and software engineers to become generalists We've already seen this with the emergence of 'Full Stack Engineers&

Best examples of Sora - OpenAI's text-to-video model

OpenAI has just announced their text-to-video model, Sora. Sora: Creating video from text Here are some of the most impressive early videos that I've seen, generated by it 0:00 /0:08 1× 0:00 /0:17 1× 0:00 /0:17 1× https://t.co/qbj02M4ng8 pic.

Trends I'm thinking about in 2024

I saw that recently YC posted a renewed Request for Startups on their website, and it inspired me to write down some of the trends and emerging areas that I'm thinking most actively about. Broader tech trends 3D and immersive content will become more mainstream With the release