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I work on the parts of your phone you'll never see and the AI models nobody's heard of. Both more interesting than they sound

[Zodiac @Zoddiacc]

Ever wonder why Netflix, YouTube, and TikTok load instantly, even on a slow connection? 🎬📱

It's not magic. It’s a genius combination of tech that brings the content to you before you even press play. Here’s how it works. 🧵

Netflix: The Next Door Neighbor,
Netflix's Open Connect CDN is a decentralized network of Open Connect Appliances (OCAs). They place these servers directly inside ISP data centers in different countries.
They cache popular content like Wednesday locally. When you press play, the video travels a tiny distance via direct peering, not from a data center across the world.

Prime Video: The Local Warehous,
It uses AWS CloudFront, a global CDN with edge locations near major population centers.
They cache popular content at these edge locations and use efficient video codecs like H.265 and AV1. This allows them to deliver high-quality video with smaller file sizes, all while leveraging the massive scalability of the AWS cloud.

YouTube: The ISP Kiosk,
YouTube uses Google Global Cache (GGC)—their own servers placed directly inside ISP data centers.
This is why a viral video loads instantly, but a random 10-year-old cat video might take a second longer. The viral video is in the local cache; the old one has to be fetched from a central server. They also use VP9 and AV1 for efficient compression.

TikTok: The Mind Reader,
TikTok uses a hybrid model of its own servers and third-party CDNs like Akamai and Cloudflare.
The secret sauce is their AI-driven pre-fetching. While you watch one video, the AI predicts the next few videos you'll swipe to and pre-loads them in the background. This creates that seamless, endless-scroll experience.

Instagram Reels: The Sneak Peek,
Reels, run on Meta’s global CDN, uses a smart pre-fetching strategy. While you're scrolling through photos and stories, it’s quietly downloading and caching popular Reels in the background.
By the time you get to a Reel, it's likely already sitting on your phone, ready to play instantly, thanks to mobile-optimized compression.

The Shared Secret Sauce:
1) CDNs & Edge Servers: Keep content physically close to you.
2) Caching: Storing popular videos locally.
3) Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABR): Adjusting quality on the fly instead of buffering.
4) Video Compression: Making files small without losing quality (H.265/AV1).
5) Prediction & Pre-fetching: Knowing what you want to watch before you do.

So next time you're binge-watching, remember:
You're not pulling a movie from a server on the other side of the world. It’s already been copied, compressed, and placed on a server that might be just down the street. 🚀

[Zodiac @Zoddiacc]

Anthropic just launched Claude Fable, the public version of its Mythos-class model. it's the safeguarded build of the architecture that was previously locked to controlled institutions, now with added guardrails for dual-use tasks. pricing lands at roughly 2x Opus, steep, but half the original Mythos rate. limited rollout for now.

[Zodiac @Zoddiacc]

Google just shipped Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a new audio model doing real-time translation across 70+ languages. low latency, auto-detects multilingual input in one session, and preserves pitch and pacing instead of flattening voices. in public preview now via the Live API and AI Studio.

[Google AI Studio @GoogleAIStudio]

introducing gemini 3.5 live translate, our latest audio model:

- low-latency translation across 70+ languages
- auto-detection for multilingual inputs in a single session
- native audio processing that preserves pitch & pacing
- robust noise filtering for loud environments

try it in public preview via the gemini live api and ai studio

[Google AI Studio @GoogleAIStudio]

introducing gemini 3.5 live translate, our latest audio model:

- low-latency translation across 70+ languages
- auto-detection for multilingual inputs in a single session
- native audio processing that preserves pitch & pacing
- robust noise filtering for loud environments

try it in public preview via the gemini live api and ai studio

[Zodiac @Zoddiacc]

The much-awaited, most hyped, and highest-scoring model on benchmarks is set to be released anytime soon - Anthropic Mythos.

[Zodiac @Zoddiacc]

The new Apple Foundation Models are built on Gemini technology, but Apple fine-tunes, distills, and runs them within its own privacy stack, so the shipped models aren't stock Gemini.

[Zodiac @Zoddiacc]

The new Apple Foundation Models are built on Gemini technology, but Apple fine-tunes, distills, and runs them within its own privacy stack, so the shipped models aren't stock Gemini.

[Zodiac @Zoddiacc]

@TTrimoreau

[Zodiac @Zoddiacc]

@Pallavi_345 I was using it until I meet @claude_code

[TeslaZoa @TeslaZoa]

🚨Jensen Huang gifted Faker a one-of-a-kind graphics card personally signed by him.

“Only one in the world. This might be worth a million dollars. I might have to keep this now.”

The king of AI handing a legendary gift to the king of League. A truly iconic moment.

[Zodiac @Zoddiacc]

My app has been live on the Play Store for months but Google waited until now to ask for a demo account. Great timing as always 😂

[Zodiac @Zoddiacc]

@claudeai Opus 4.7 still felt new and 4.8 is already here. the pace is genuinely hard to keep up with, and same price every time makes it impossible to complain.

[Zodiac @Zoddiacc]

@googledevs After a long year, we're all excited for today's Google I/O. Hope it's worth the hype.

[Zodiac @Zoddiacc]

@CodeByPoonam Isn't it an old video?

[Zodiac @Zoddiacc]

@KaiXCreator I was, I can, and always ready to.

[Zodiac @Zoddiacc]

Everyone talks about running local models, but what are you actually using them for day to day?

[Zodiac @Zoddiacc]

@GamewithDave

[Zodiac @Zoddiacc]

@TTrimoreau No, Sticking with Claude Code right now

[Zodiac @Zoddiacc]

Google owns 6% of spacex.
Google's tpus get launched by spacex rockets.
Anthropic rents spacex GPUs
Spacex about to IPO at 1.75 trillion
the AI bubble found a way to escape earth

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: Google $GOOGL in talks with Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch data centers in space.

[Zodiac @Zoddiacc]

Open weight model in second place beating every closed model except one somewhere a moat is evaporating ✨

[Google Gemma @googlegemma]

The latest ChessBench results are out. ✨

It's fun to see Gemma 4 ranking in the top 3!

[Zodiac @Zoddiacc]

This is exactly the unification moment I was talking about going into I/O.

Text coherence inside generated video has been the hardest watermark of "still not there yet" for every video model so far, Sora, Veo 3, Kling, all of them choke on it. If Gemini Omni is actually rendering legible math equations being written in real time, that's not an incremental bump, that's the architectural shift landing. The shared latent space hypothesis just got a lot more credible.

@GeminiApp

[Chetaslua @chetaslua]

Holllllyyyyyyyy @GeminiApp cooked 😳😳

🚨 Gemini Omni: New video model

Here is the first output and see the text coherence , if this is not nano banana moment of video then what is ??

direct link for those who believes otherwise in comments