Progress update — 13 months of Placy
Placy founder update: 15 people, $1.5M raised, Placy Pro live in Cyprus, Greece and UK, 700 LinkedIn followers and first B2B subscription revenue.
Placy founder update: 15 people, $1.5M raised, Placy Pro live in Cyprus, Greece and UK, 700 LinkedIn followers and first B2B subscription revenue.
Google's NotebookLM generates two‑voice AI podcasts; an episode has hosts concluding they're a simulation and raises questions about machine rights.
Summary of Sam Altman's $60M UBI trial: $1,000/mo reduced stress and food insecurity in year one, but effects faded in years two–three.
Sergey notes Sesame/Maya — a billion-parameter voice AI — released under Apache 2.0 with no paywalls or permissions; demo runs in your browser.
Short tech-market notes: Perplexity at ~0.5% share, AI search ~6% now and possibly 14% by 2028; Perplexity projects $40M revenue for 2024.
A candid first-person account of deploying Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees, inflated metrics, and corporate buzzwords around AI enablement.
Notes on Sam Altman’s two-hour interview — OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, board saga, computational power and high-stakes AGI competition.
Reaction to Apple’s iMessage 'quantum‑secure messaging' pitch and the “harvest now, decrypt later” concern — marketing move or real security?
Self-teaching LLMs: AlphaZero precedent; self-generated reward models tested on Llama 2 70B outperforming Claude 2, Gemini Pro, GPT-4 (report).
Quick take on how Perplexity and SearchGPT change search economics: data owners get paid, marketplaces add AI, and paid search models emerge.
Practical steps to cut AWS costs: spot instances, Savings Plans, optimisations and ways to claim up to $100k in AWS credits (e.g., Spendbase promo).
DeepSeek V3.2 and V3.2‑Speciale (685B) match GPT‑5/Gemini in reasoning; open weights and aggressive pricing reshape AI product economics.
Former Snap manager raised $4.8M for Butterflies — an app where users create AI "butterflies" that autonomously post; author tested Placy and Sailor Joox.
Gartner predicts 25% drop in search volume by 2026 as users move to ChatGPT/Claude — marketplaces face bot-first traffic, pushing SEO/AEO over TV ads.
Examples of growth experiments by Airbnb, PayPal, Canva and Facebook/LinkedIn; a quote on learning how to grow a business and a FirstRound link.
One-day AI Forum in Limassol on Nov 24 with speakers from Microsoft, EPAM, HPE and more; promo code Placy20 for 20% off.
Brief note on Diella, Albania’s AI 'minister' for public procurement — a PR-forward GovTech experiment that raises transparency questions and GPT limits.
Sergey Osipov on how US strengths (chips, cloud, VC) and China’s power capacity (coal, hydro, nuclear) shape AI infrastructure and geopolitics.
Apple focused on local intelligence: unified memory, Neural Engines and clustered Mac Minis as an affordable approach to AI compute.
Sergey Osipov outlines three UX schools for AI assistants—natural conversation, button-driven UX, and hybrid genUI—and invites input on Placy onboarding.