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The Future of Software Is AI That Writes Itself
Could AI-powered coding tools evolve into agents that build, debug, and optimize software systems in the background in real time?
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Tara Tan
What drives DeepSeek?
A dive into its low-profile founder, Liang Wenfeng.
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Tara Tan
Agents are here. Open Source model R1 outperforms.
The product team's dilemma: the pressure to keep pace with user expectations and new capabilities.
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Tara Tan
Static Software Will Die Out Faster Than You Think
The next breakout companies will build dynamic software. Products that shape itself to you over time.
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Tara Tan
And we’re back. To the future?
The year of physical AI. Waymo hit 22% market share in SF in 6 months.
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Tara Tan

December 2024

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.
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Tara Tan
The Race — And Power Struggles — Towards AGI
This week: Nvidia shares eye-popping 94% YoY revenue growth, Perplexity gets shopping.
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Tara Tan
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
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Tara Tan
AI companies 🤝 defense contractors
This week: more advancements and funding for robotics.
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Tara Tan
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…
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Tara Tan
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