Not sure I understand how this is strategically aligned for Stripe but certainly an interesting comparison.

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> SubQ does seem to be able to handle a lot of text at once. The model has a context window (roughly akin to a working memory) up to 12 million tokens long. Most top models today have context windows one million tokens long. In a demo that Whedon ran for me, he asked SubQ to perform a task that required it to reason about information contained in 400 documents. It responded in seconds. When he gave Perplexity—a popular LLM-powered search engine—the same task, it failed to load all 400 documents.

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I’m increasingly thankful Zulip exists as an open source alternative to other collaborative platforms. In the age of agents, it feels like a huge advantage that folks can take a robust platform as a base and customize it to their needs (and hopefully contribute back)!

Also, thanks for sharing about your experiences with agent-based contributions, both internally and externally. Super fascinating.

Be well!

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> By the end of last year, Medvi had reached $401 million in annual sales and amassed 250,000 customers. It produced 16.2 percent in net profit, or $65 million, with spending going to the fees for telehealth platforms, marketing and then software. Hims, by contrast, had a net profit of 5.5 percent last year.

> Manufacturing output, meanwhile, has risen, because workers now produce far more per hour using better and more sophisticated equipment. Today a given number of autoworkers can make, according to my calculations, three times as many cars in a year as they could 50 years ago.

> The problem is that consumers do not want three times as many cars. Even as people get richer, they increase their spending on manufactured goods only modestly, preferring instead to spend more on services like travel, health care and dining out. There are only so many cars a family can own, but that’s not the case for expensive vacations or fancy meals. As a result we have fewer people working in auto factories and more people working in luxury resorts and the like.

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Hope this new iteration is exceptionally successful.

The advice is correct: don’t use AI to file your taxes!

But what the article misses is that the uplift we’ve seen across models is incredible. Don’t be surprised if next year the headline reads “A.I. newest trick: Filing your taxes”.

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We’re updating everything to use SSO so we can do BeyondCorp-style auth on SaaS platforms. Vercel wanted to charge >$10k / year to get on their enterprise plan for SAML access, vs bill prior to that was ~$2.5k / year. The migration took ~30 mins and we expect our bill to drop to $500 / year. the toughest part was making sure we didn’t miss any build variables / secrets.

Is this as cheap as running base metal? No. But 30 mins to save $10k / year was worth it. And maybe the bigger point: what value are they really adding if it’s this easy to migrate off?

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