Archive - The Strange Review

November 2024

Anthropic moves beyond the chatbox — into your computer.

Meta plans $10B cable project, Alibaba, Ai2, Stability make more open source moves, Perplexity mulls getting into hardware.

Nov 29 •

The Race — And Power Struggles — Towards AGI

This week: Nvidia shares eye-popping 94% YoY revenue growth, Perplexity gets shopping.

Nov 22 •

Physical AI — the next inflection point?

This week: OpenAI inches towards agents, and more large funding rounds with PI raising $400M and Writer raising $200M

Nov 15 •

AI companies 🤝 defense contractors

This week: more advancements and funding for robotics.

Nov 8 •

Product is key to distribution in AI

Where these models meet users—through interfaces—is where true value is unlocked. In this week's news: Anthropic gets heat for reg gatekeeping, Runway's…

Nov 1 •

October 2024

Can AI Really Think?

A grade school math problem might have just clarified some of AI’s current limits.

Oct 25 •

How I Built a Live Website in 2 Hours (and Skipped Figma)

In other news: Moar big funding rounds in AI. Tesla shows off more mockups of its Cyber Cab. Crowd seems unfazed.

Oct 11 •

Great UX unlocks insane user growth for Google and Open AI

This week, OpenAI raises big money that puts them at the same market cap as Uber, AT&T, and Goldman Sachs. Pika gets cake-fied. Coding copilot Poolside…

Oct 4 •

September 2024

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