Weekend Musings: Brief Brilliance for Your Saturday (January 11)
Here is a quick run down of some stories that I found interesting during the week.
The 2025 AI Engineer Reading List
We picked 50 paper/models/blogs across 10 fields in AI Eng: LLMs, Benchmarks, Prompting, RAG, Agents, CodeGen, Vision, Voice, Diffusion, Finetuning. If you're starting from scratch, start here.
Google's Search Results are Infested, and Open AI is Using Google's Playbook from the 2000s
This is the fork in the road. There are entire industries waiting to see the direction this goes in. If Open AI goes the way of Google with tons of choices and mental fatigue, it can still be successful, but will be battling to be king of the hill.
Apple promised next-gen CarPlay in 2024, so where is it?
We still haven’t seen the “next generation of CarPlay” that Apple first announced in 2022 and continues to say on its CarPlay webpage is arriving in 2024, as MacRumors points out. And barring some spectacular surprise, it’s not coming today or tomorrow. What gives?
OpenAI Admits It Needs Vastly More Money Than It Thought
In an announcement Friday, the ChatGPT maker argued that by creating a for-profit corporation to control its commercial enterprises, it can make the dough it needs to keep up with other leading AI developers.
The Best Moments Of Modern Wisdom (2024)
Expect to learn Andrew Huberman's best advice on how to become a morning person, why Oliver Burkeman thinks you should stop trying to control your life, the reason Eric Weinstein thinks more young men are becoming Right Wing, Dr Mike Israetel's most important advice for choosing muscle-building exercises, Alex Hormozi's advice on why everything worth doing is hard and much more...
Have a wonderful weekend!