2026-02-07
A lot to grasp from this section if you're someone who likes learning stuff. [image]
Evjang.com
A look at the state of AI agents, the evolution of thinking models, the staggering need for inference compute in the coming years, automated research, and more
— Dr. Vannevar Bush, As We May Think, 1945 — If we consider life to be a sort of open-ended MMO, the game server has just received a major update.
2024-01-05
Yeah, I finally got around to replacing right-click “Search with Google” with “Search with Perplexity” using a Chrome plugin. Google just hasn't done enough to combat blog spam while simultaneously overrunning their interface with nonsense. Congrats @perplexity_ai!
Wall Street Journal
Perplexity, which offers an AI-based “answer engine” with ~10M MAUs to compete with Google, raised $74M at a $520M valuation from IVP, Jeff Bezos, and others
if they continue on their current trajectory, I bet Google buys them for $2B within the year. Talia Goldberg / @taliagold : In October 2022, I wrote a piece about a trillion dollar...
2023-08-23
Pretty great to see movement on this front. 8x the cost of the base model, however, so eke out all you can with better prompts. We'll probably wait until GPT-4 fine tuning is available since we're not building on 3.5-turbo at all, though who knows!
TechCrunch
OpenAI adds fine-tuning to GPT-3.5 Turbo, letting developers customize models with their own data to make them perform better for their use cases for a fee
OpenAI customers can now bring custom data to the lightweight version of GPT-3.5, GPT-3.5 Turbo — making it easier to improve …