Gm. It’s been about a week and a half since I got my Vision Pro, and let me tell you guys now, I’m keeping this thing. The cost is worth seeing the future.
🏠 AI
Google Keeps Shipping
Because of all the hoopla on Friday over OpenAI’s text-to-video model Sora, I wasn’t able to cover Google’s latest AI advancement, Gemini 1.5.
So, that’s what we’re doing today.
10 days ago Google released Gemini Ultra, their best model to date. It was a pretty big deal, as it was anywhere from slightly worse to slightly better than GPT-4.
Well, just 10 days later and Google already has a new best model.
Gemini 1.5 is as good as Gemini Ultra, except that it has a 1 million token context window.
In English, it can work with a f*** ton of content. I’m talking like 700,000 words, 30,000 lines of code, and 10 hours of video. Basically, you can feed this thing Shrek, Oppenheimer, and Barbie and still have 3.5 hours left over.
In more practical terms, it means you can feed it entire books. Legal documents. Your entire email inbox. Codebase. Notion, or literally anything else you want, and the model will be able to analyze and assist you.
Combine that power with the power of agents that can run your computer for you, and it becomes clear that we might be in the first inning of a massive productivity boom.
The Big Picture: Summarizing things just got even easier.
🤝 THE LATEST IN…
TECH
Zuck is not a fan of the Apple fanboys.
Apple’s foldable phones have not yet met testing standards.
Fortnite is finally coming back to the iPhone…in the EU.
AI
Reddit has signed a deal with an undisclosed major AI company to sell their user content.
SoftBank wants to get into the AI chip game.
Anthropic is trying to prevent mass election misinformation.
SCIENCE
There might finally be a drug to stop peanuts from killing me.
Japan is launching the world’s first wooden satellite. The goal is to stop space pollution.
How does an unhackable computer chip sound?
I’m not sure 3D-printed chocolate would taste too good.
CRYPTO
Revolut is creating a crypto exchange for advanced traders.
Crypto VC funding is creeping back up.
BAYC creator Yuga Labs has acquired Moonbirds creator Proof.
Uniswap V4 is tentatively scheduled for Q3.
🏃♀️ QUICKIES
Raise: K2 Space, a startup of SpaceX veterans building monster satellites, has raised $50M.
Stat: $80B: How much OpenAI is now worth, nearly triple what it was 10 months ago. Just wait until Sam raises $7T.
Rabbit hole: Altman’s Ambition (Don’t Worry About The Vase)
🤩 MONDAY MOTIVATION
Be determined and everything else will fall into place.
🧠 POLL
Guess I’m staying in Delaware.
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