Umang Jaipuria
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Schlep-ing. Built products and product teams @ Plaid, Twitter, Amazon, Zynga. Leave me anonymous feedback here: https://t.co/8rLZAruyGg
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Joined April 2008
What is the India AI Mission up to? What's more important — compute or data? What are the constraints in building for the AI future in India? Is building a domestic foundational model a NatSec issue here? Got to chat about these and more at an incredible event hosted by @nixxin and the Medianama team, and wrote up my reactions as a now-outsider (link in replies, ugh). India's AI Jugaad:
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TIL I’m an AI
A shortcut for detecting if something is written with AI is they all use this symbol "—" throughout the writing. It's relatively rare when a human uses it, maybe once or twice, if that. But AI chats love using it. No clue why.
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And incase you're wondering how this compares to all job postings:
Software developer job postings over the last five years Hard to find a crazier chart
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this is one example, but it's easy to think of a few more
ConEdison is asking for massive electric and gas rate hikes from customers, a small but not insignificant part because the utility has to pass along the costs of its workers using lots of Ozempic.
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fascinating
ConEdison is asking for massive electric and gas rate hikes from customers, a small but not insignificant part because the utility has to pass along the costs of its workers using lots of Ozempic.
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So there is no GPT-5?? Seems like 5 will be an aggregation of CoT and existing models: > We will next ship GPT-4.5, the model we called Orion internally, as our last non-chain-of-thought model. > we will release GPT-5 as a system that integrates a lot of our technology
OPENAI ROADMAP UPDATE FOR GPT-4.5 and GPT-5: We want to do a better job of sharing our intended roadmap, and a much better job simplifying our product offerings. We want AI to “just work” for you; we realize how complicated our model and product offerings have gotten. We hate the model picker as much as you do and want to return to magic unified intelligence. We will next ship GPT-4.5, the model we called Orion internally, as our last non-chain-of-thought model. After that, a top goal for us is to unify o-series models and GPT-series models by creating systems that can use all our tools, know when to think for a long time or not, and generally be useful for a very wide range of tasks. In both ChatGPT and our API, we will release GPT-5 as a system that integrates a lot of our technology, including o3. We will no longer ship o3 as a standalone model. The free tier of ChatGPT will get unlimited chat access to GPT-5 at the standard intelligence setting (!!), subject to abuse thresholds. Plus subscribers will be able to run GPT-5 at a higher level of intelligence, and Pro subscribers will be able to run GPT-5 at an even higher level of intelligence. These models will incorporate voice, canvas, search, deep research, and more.
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This is a brilliant speech, and an even better exhortation. — serious US muscle flex — without being obnoxious — doesn't hesitate in firing shots back home at OpenAI and Google for policy missteps (starting at 8:50) — also at China and Huawei — also at GDPR (and EU, indirectly) — provides solid air cover for US companies operating internationally (if you've worked for a great manager, you know what this looks like and what it can unlock)
can you imagine tim walz delivering this speech? america has this uncanny ability to surface & select the inevitable individuals when history demands it.
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This captures everything that is wrong with the startup industrial complex
first, murakami talks about how he set out to do a novel, not to be a novelist the nuance here is nontrivial: the end point is not in the being, but rather in the doing, and the finishing
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JP Morgan too (chat gpt, but 4o): j.p. morgan pulled off financial moves so massive they’d still be jaw-dropping today. here are a few that stand out: 1. Bailed out the U.S. government (twice) •in 1895, the u.s. treasury was running out of gold during a financial crisis. morgan, with a private syndicate, personally lent the government $65 million in gold (about $2.3 billion today), preventing a national default. •in 1907, during the panic of 1907, he single-handedly stabilized the financial system by forcing banks to cooperate, securing loans, and even locking bankers in a room until they agreed on a rescue plan. 2. Created General Electric •morgan bought up thomas edison’s electric companies, merged them, and turned GE into an industrial giant. •the deal crushed competitors and secured GE’s dominance in electrification—a market that still moves trillions today. 3. Built U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar company •in 1901, he orchestrated the merger of Carnegie Steel, Federal Steel, and others to form U.S. Steel with $1.4 billion in capital (around $50 billion today). •this made it the first billion-dollar company—bigger than the entire U.S. federal budget at the time. 4. Monopolized Railroads •he took control of railroads, including the New York Central, Southern, and Northern Pacific, by buying and restructuring them. •this basically made him the gatekeeper of American industry, since railroads controlled supply chains. 5. Tried to own the Titanic (and much more) •his company, White Star Line, built the Titanic as part of a strategy to dominate transatlantic shipping. •he also backed AT&T’s telephone empire, meaning he had his hands on finance, steel, electricity, railroads, shipping, and telecommunications. morgan was the financial system. even today, a single person or firm pulling off anything at this scale would be insane.
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This was a great ad (Except for the byline: “all progress has a starting point”. The title of the YouTube video is better)
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Saw the coolest thing on the streets of San Francisco last night. It appears to be walking on its own with its maker (?) walking behind.
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"California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent"
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Same dietary restrictions, and paneer (an Indian spin on farmer’s cheese) is a great way to get protein as part of normal food (not supplement or weird shakes etc). Apart from the obvious Indian recipes, you can use it as taco filling, sandwich add-on, pizza topping, etc. It’s quite versatile, can marinate, add different kinds of seasonings depending on how you want to use it…
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Pretty sure they've got the Gen X , Millennial, Z, etc. labeling wrong. It should just be by your punctuation habits.
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