Dave Davies

The Twitter profile of Dave Davies, covering SEO/GEO and AI.
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[Dave Davies @OnlineInference]

@jp54362 I'd probably just wait the 3 days for Claude 4.9. :D

[Google Gemma @googlegemma]

Meet Gemma 4 12B!

A unified, encoder-free multimodal model designed to bring high-performance intelligence directly to your laptop, and released under an Apache 2.0 license.

Bridging the gap between edge efficiency and advanced reasoning. Here is what’s new with Gemma 4 12B: 👇

[Dave Davies @OnlineInference]

Love seeing @cohere - an amazing Canadian company - on display in the #YYC airport. :)

Next stop ... Boston for @smx !

[Dave Davies @OnlineInference]

Link: https://t.co/LnfdEQCt3S

[Dave Davies @OnlineInference]

🎉 Google is finally giving us what we've been asking for:
📊 AI performance reporting in Search Console
🚫 A toggle to block content from AI Overviews & AI Mode
The catch? No click data. 🫥
And it's UK-only 🇬🇧 for now.
Better than nothing, though. Details in comments.

[Dave Davies @OnlineInference]

@Nixous @RiseOfAlberta And in this world, when all your eggs are in one basket (the US), how do you fare if they elect a President who decides that climate change is a thing and should cut back on fossil fuel use? How about with 20 or 30% tariffs?
BC is a have province. We'll be OK.

[Dave Davies @OnlineInference]

It's going to be an amazing show, and I'm looking forward to leaving with a slough of actionable insights.
Hope to see you there!

[Search Marketing Expo @smx]

🚨 SMX Advanced starts TOMORROW in Boston!

Join the brightest minds in SEO, PPC, AI, and analytics for advanced sessions, networking, meetups, and SMX After Dark. Tickets are still available, but time is almost up.

Register now: https://t.co/BqtwMx455L

[Dave Davies @OnlineInference]

@Nixous @RiseOfAlberta So you're just going to ignore the tarriffs you'd face, and hope nobody you're hoping to dupe catches on.
Gotcha.

[Dave Davies @OnlineInference]

@kennyhyder We all use IDEs and/or AI-IDEs (my preferred is Cursor), and I'm working in Railway at present on a larger-scale app I'm building, but sometimes you need a quick answer to a simple question, or you're on your phone. For those, you use the UI.

[Dave Davies @OnlineInference]

I'm constantly bouncing between Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude in the UI. I don't really have a formal "use model X on task Y" list, so I have to wonder how I intuitively select which will work better for whatever task I'm on.
And am I right?

[Dave Davies @OnlineInference]

@kennyhyder So tell us, oh wise one, what is the best UI-based LLM to use when one is looking for a quick answer or brainstorming?
I really want to catch up to where you must be.
Thanks in advance.

[Dave Davies @OnlineInference]

I'm looking forward to taking the stage at @smx in later this week (Thursday, June 4 at 1PM ET to be specific)!

You'll walk away with strategies you can use and even a couple Colabs to help you explore how to improve your visibility in ChatGPT and AI Overviews.

See you there!

[CoreWeave @CoreWeave]

The rumors are true 👀

Proud of the CoreWeave engineering team and our partners (like @Dell) who are the first to have a fully working @nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72, achieving yet another major milestone in bringing next-generation AI infrastructure online.

Stay tuned, there is so much more to come...

[Dave Davies @OnlineInference]

I have to give a BIG BIG shout out to the fine folks at @ScrunchAI for the great work they did on their MCP Server.

I've been working in it for the last few hours, and it's a really strong value-add to their product, helping me surface insights far faster and more intuitively.

[Dave Davies @OnlineInference]

Good news everybody!

[Weights & Biases @wandb]

The W&B MCP server is officially LIVE!

Coding agents could always read your code. Now they can read your experiments, monitor training, and drive their own research loops.

20 tools, hosted on every W&B deployment, plugs into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini-CLI, and LeChat.

[Dave Davies @OnlineInference]

Is Gemini really SO bad at coding, that when asked to brainstorm ideas for a colab example, it suggests old versions of Claude and GPT as superior if I was to vibe-code? :D

[Dave Davies @OnlineInference]

@wandb Planning a GEO tracking tool that uses W&B to store the model outputs and key metrics.

Once that's done, my next project gets really interesting. :)

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

Introducing Gemini Omni 🔮........ Omni is our new model that can create anything from any input — starting with video (think Nano Banana but for video). Available in the Gemini App, Flow, and YouTube, with API support coming soon!

[Dave Davies @OnlineInference]

@CyrusShepard The doc read like they prompted Gemini with:
"Knowing the stock advice we've given webmasters on SEO for 20 years, adapt that to generative engines and format it for our blog."
Predictable and pretty much useless "advice". :(

[Dave Davies @OnlineInference]

Never bet against the incumbent. :)

[Bindu Reddy @bindureddy]

The Gemini Pro model is rumored to be a GPT 5.5 level coding model 🧐

The catch - it will be more than 50% cheaper at $12/1M output token

Gemini will take the lead over both GPT 5.5. and Opus 4.7 on the price-performance curve