pranay ahlawat

Enterprise Software Executive Driving Product Focus, Execution, and Scale for Growing Companies

[pranay ahlawat @ahlawat]

OpenAi’s move to kill ChatGPT’s 4o AI model saddened loyal users, but the model also has been criticized for being overly sycophantic and tied to cases of chatbot users developing psychotic delusions https://t.co/OD5ZXVrEHs via @WSJ

[The New Stack @thenewstack]

.@AnthropicAI is opening up its Agent Skills spec, following the same playbook that turned MCP into an industry standard. https://t.co/oPJuY0kvqW

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Well, there goes the metaverse! https://t.co/8wMlH3IWSN

[The Information @theinformation]

Big Tech keeps announcing layoffs—but history shows those cuts rarely lead to lasting workforce declines at companies like Meta, Google and Microsoft. https://t.co/lHSgdFkQYl

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

AI agents will be a big part of how we shop in the not-so-distant future.

To help lay the groundwork, we partnered with Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target and Walmart to create the Universal Commerce Protocol, a new open standard for agents and systems to talk to each other across every step of the shopping journey.

And coming soon, UCP will power native checkout so you can buy directly on AI Mode and the @Geminiapp.

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

Anthropic: Here is Claude 4.5 Sonnet, a model that can reason.

IBM: Here is a rebadged model wrapped in 47 layers of governance that only runs on a specific flavor of OpenShift.

Gartner: Clearly, IBM is the superior innovator.

Do @Gartner_inc analysts buy pre-shat pants?

[Eyad @eyad_khrais]

https://t.co/i5L6UIPgH8

[Google Cloud @googlecloud]

Here's an overview of our latest custom silicon advancements—including the Ironwood TPU, Axion CPUs, and the Willow quantum chip—all built upon a multi-decade legacy of pioneering research and development in specialized hardware ↓

[AJ Investment Research @alojoh]

In this thread I want to give you an idea just how insane the current government spending is and how far we drifted away from any sustainable fiscal spending.

This is all based on reported numbers and there are no assumptions/forecasts.

In the current fiscal year, the government already spent $4,159 billion. This is for the first 7 months and the fiscal year ends in September.

The latest available data is as of April. The already accrued deficit amounts to over $1 trillion: $1,049 billion.

You can see in the chart how net interest expense has become the #2 largest spending category at $579 billion (for 7 months) after social security ($907 billion) and even exceeded national defense ($536 billion), health ($555 billion), and Medicare ($550 billion).

The deficit is 34% of total receipts! (1049/3110)

In other words: the government spent 34% more than it took in.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Elon Musk says he’ll unveil a Tesla robotaxi on August 8 https://t.co/hCFwQrsehz

[Google Cloud @googlecloud]

Introducing MedLM, a family of foundation models fine-tuned for the healthcare industry.

Built on Med-PaLM 2, MedLM is now available to allowlisted Google Cloud customers in the United States in the #VertexAI platform.

Read more about MedLM ↓ https://t.co/Z13YjKTGHW

[MarketWatch @MarketWatch]

Broadcom now ranks among 10 largest U.S. companies after big 2023 stock gains https://t.co/hTTMNgE1KN

[pranay ahlawat @ahlawat]

Let the new era of multi-modal apps begin

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Today developers can start building with our first version of Gemini Pro through Google AI Studio at https://t.co/rCsWHcHvEe. 

Developers have a free quota and access to a full range of features including function calling, embeddings, semantic retrieval, custom knowledge grounding, chat functionality and more. It supports 38 languages across 180+ countries. Gemini Ultra is coming early next year. We’re excited to see what you build! https://t.co/6rUrrgKvKe

[MarketWatch @MarketWatch]

Treasury yields plummeting after Fed officials lower 2024 rate projections https://t.co/gAGHMpCKrC

[pranay ahlawat @ahlawat]

Open app stores anyone? This is a landmark deal.

[Bloomberg Technology @technology]

Google’s legal defeat at the hands of Fortnite maker Epic Games threatens to roil an app store duopoly with Apple that generates close to $200 billion a year and dictates how billions of consumers use mobile devices https://t.co/1uGfZWoPxn

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Mistral AI, a Paris-based OpenAI rival, closed its $415 million funding round https://t.co/kgovvZDMFf by @romaindillet

[a16z @a16z]

a16z is thrilled to announce our Series A investment in @MistralAI. Mistral is at the center of a passionate open source AI developer community. We think this is the most promising path to achieve widely adopted AI systems, and that Mistral is the leading team on this path. https://t.co/7J8zwJutTQ

[pranay ahlawat @ahlawat]

Google Gemini video was staged and I can understand why this video was taken out of context, but the potential of MLLMs is unquestionable.

https://t.co/YO4M6bXwLp