“Character.AI lets you create Characters and talk to them…” You can also choose characters trained to be Elon Musk, Tony Stark, Alan Turing, Plato, and more. | learn more
This has come up a couple times in conversations as a potential solution for the not-enough-lithium problem that society faces. “Sodium-ion batteries are a potential alternative to lithium-based battery technologies, largely due to sodium’s lower cost and greater availability.” | learn more
Leading up to their IPO, they published 1,000 articles in 12 months to significantly grow their organic traffic from 100k to 1.2 million monthly organic visitors. | learn more
“The big play from Impulse is that battery prices are declining, while the act of installing batteries are continuing to be non-trivial in the built environment. A lot of kitchens do have 220V connections, however, and that’s where Impulse is […]
The latest developments in AI are blowing my mind. Plenty of examples in this article. “It’s fantastically talented but still prone to producing cogent waffle and misinformation.” | learn more
Part 3 of the series by Matthew Ball covers bandwidth, latency, and reliability of networks. “If we want to interact in a large, real-time, shared, and persistent virtual environment, we will need to receive a superabundance of cloud-streamed data.” | learn more
The open-source AI image generation tool keeps getting better. This version has better text interpretation, enhanced resolution, better depth handling and more. | learn more
“For a sample of 1,107 US-based VC-backed unicorns, 595 exited as of October 2022. At exit time, an average (median) unicorn was valued at $3.3 billion ($1.5 billion).” | learn more
“In the mid-2000s, many startups invested their excess cash reserves in instruments called Auction Rate Securities. ARS produced a steady stream of interest payments, like savings accounts, with a higher return.” It seemed great, until it wasn’t anymore. | learn more
Elad Gil: “Every tech wave results in a different split of startup vs incumbent value.” | learn more