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[Conviction @Convictionvn]

"What I say today could be completely different next week because in the AI race, only those who improve with every new tech breakthrough stay in the game."

That was how Hiep Nguyen, COO of AI Hay, opened his keynote "2025: A Turning Point for AI and Vietnam’s Chance to Leap Ahead" at Conviction 2025. From AI Hay’s journey that scaling from launch to 100M+ questions/month, joining AWS GenAI Global Cohort & NVIDIA Inception, he distilled three lessons:

1️⃣ The future is multi-model
No single model will rule them all; the winners will be those who can integrate and leverage multiple models effectively.

2️⃣ Breakthroughs cascade from model to application layers
Every leap in model capability unlocks new product possibilities, from AI IDEs to app builders.
3️⃣ Architecture defines survival
If your product architecture evolves with each state-of-the-art release, you’re on the right side of history; if not, you’ll be left behind.

Hiep Nguyen also pointed to Vietnam’s unique leverage points - a dynamic local market, lessons from global AI builders, and the right product vision for the right era that making now the moment to leap ahead.

Core message: In AI, adaptability isn’t just an advantage, it’s the only way to win.

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

🎯 An ex-OpenAI engineer shares his thoughts about OpenAI

Has lots of insights on OpenAI’s day-to-day life, unlike anything I have read before.

He joined OpenAI as a software engineer on the applied side, spending about 14 months building the Codex coding agent and related internal prototypes. Most of his time went into writing Python, tuning GPU budgets, and sprinting with a small team to take Codex from first commit to its public launch in 7 weeks.

He left because of his own craving for founder freedom, yet calls the year the most eye-opening move of his career.

🚀 Culture shock

OpenAI ballooned from 1,000 to 3,000 people in 12 months, so everything from reporting lines to launch flow is in flux. Slack is the office, email basically vanished. Ideas flow bottom-up, and whoever ships first usually decides the standard. Leadership measures worth by shipped code, not slide decks. The place stays secret because the outside world watches every move.

🐍 All roads lead to Python

The author says OpenAI’s code lives in one giant monorepo that is “~mostly Python”. Most backend endpoints spin up with FastAPI, so each team can publish a new service just by writing a few async functions. Request and response bodies flow through Pydantic models, which give runtime checks and lightweight type hints, handy when hundreds of engineers push code every day.

He adds that a handful of Rust and Go services handle network-heavy edges, but they are exceptions. Style guides are loose, so you bump into everything from polished, Google-style libraries to quick Jupyter prototypes. That variety makes the repo look messy, yet the FastAPI + Pydantic duo keeps data contracts stable and lets teams ship fast even as headcount rockets past 3,000 engineers.

⚙️ Building at break-neck speed

A tiny crew built Codex in 7 frantic weeks. He says

“The Codex sprint was probably the hardest I've worked in nearly a decade. Most nights were up until 11 or midnight. Waking up to a newborn at 5:30 every morning. Heading to the office again at 7a. Working most weekends.”

GPU bills dwarf every other cost. The stack is a Python monorepo on Azure, peppered with Rust and Go. Breaking tests, duplicate libraries, and a dumping-ground monolith show the pain of hyper-scaling, but bias to action wins. Heavy hiring from Meta keeps infra talent high.

🎯 It matters

OpenAI blends Los Alamos-style research with a viral consumer app mindset. Safety work focuses on real-world abuse, not sci-fi doom. Leadership answers Slack threads directly. A huge ambition plus meritocracy can pull off 630,000 code PRs in 53 days.

[baomoi @baomoi]

Vietnam just got a new map 🗺️, AI Hay wants to help you keep up 💁 https://t.co/OKNm8szyIs

[baomoi @baomoi]

Been using AI Hay a lot lately — a Vietnamese-built AI that helps me find answers fast, even from social media. Quietly impressed. Worth a try https://t.co/xlbr1uhyqV

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

NEWS

Scarlett Johansson has just issued this statement on OpenAI.

I have confirmed its authenticity directly with her publicist.

"Last September, I received an offer from Sam Altman, who wanted to hire me to voice the current ChatGPT 4.0 system. He told me that he felt that by my voicing the system, I could bridge the gap between tech companies and creatives and help consumers to feel comfortable with the seismic shift concerning humans and Al. He said he felt that my voice would be comforting to people.

After much consideration and for personal reasons, declined the offer.

Nine months later, my friends, family and the general public all noted how much the newest system named "Sky" sounded like me.

When I heard the released demo, I was shocked, angered and in disbelief that Mr. Altman would pursue a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine that my closest friends and news outlets could not tell the difference. Mr. Altman even insinuated that the similarity was intentional, tweeting a single word "her" - a reference to the film in which | voiced a chat system, Samantha, who forms an intimate relationship with a human.

Two days before the ChatGPT 4.0 demo was released, Mr. Altman contacted my agent, asking me to reconsider. Before we could connect, the system was out there.

As a result of their actions, I was forced to hire legal counsel, who wrote two letters to Mr. Altman and OpenAl, setting out what they had done and asking them to detail the exact process by which they created the "Sky" voice. Consequently, OpenAl reluctantly agreed to take down the "Sky" voice.

In a time when we are all grappling with deepfakes and the protection of our own likeness, our own work, our own identities, I believe these are questions that deserve absolute clarity. I look forward to resolution in the form of transparency and the passage of appropriate legislation to help ensure that individual rights are protected.”

[SpaceXAI @SpaceXAI]

Announcing Grok!

Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!

Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don’t use it if you hate humor!

A unique and fundamental advantage of Grok is that it has real-time knowledge of the world via the 𝕏 platform. It will also answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems.

Grok is still a very early beta product – the best we could do with 2 months of training – so expect it to improve rapidly with each passing week with your help.

Thank you,
the xAI Team

https://t.co/iPqreWxmQh

[Jason H. Karp @humankarp]

One of the best and most powerful speeches I have ever heard. Whatever side you are on right now, this message will help us all.

[Nathan Baschez @nbaschez]

Five pieces of advice for those building in AI right now:

[baomoi @baomoi]

@arvindhsv @AravSrinivas @ylecun @GaryMarcus https://t.co/HskBXfEHKk

[baomoi @baomoi]

@SJosephBurns Trials May Not Fail (시련은 있어도 실패는 없다) by Chung Ju-Yung the founder of Hyundai

[Stewart Butterfield @stewart]

My day job (also: night job) is CEO of Slack, a publicly traded company with investors to whom I am a fiduciary, 110k+ paying customers of all sizes, and thousands of employees I care about very, very much. The last few weeks have been 🤯😳😢 Here’s what it's been like. [Thread]

[baomoi @baomoi]

@chiakokhua This source is on a list of known fake news sites

[NBC News @NBCNews]

NEW: 1,000,000 California residents file for unemployment amid coronavirus pandemic, officials say. https://t.co/5S4R9ke8aQ

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

Coronavirus Update: A World Health Organization (WHO) Official Says The United States Has The Potential To Become The New Epicenter Of The Coronavirus Crisis As A Large Acceleration Of Infections Is Occurring In The Nation

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Webcast of Falcon 9 launch now live → https://t.co/gtC39uBC7z https://t.co/71JYsrUycu

[CNBC @CNBC]

New York Gov. Cuomo slams CDC coronavirus response: 'absurd and nonsensical' https://t.co/CybPy2spdn

[Eric Schmidt @ericschmidt]

https://t.co/nAAwU4LzYZ

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

Today we take an in-depth look at AMD EPYC performance on key benchmarks. https://t.co/sDRE3sFSYq

[CGTN @CGTNOfficial]

💔Wife of dead Wuchang Hospital director gives emotional farewell to her husband, who died from #COVID19. She is also a medical worker who has been working on the front line.

[Lijian Zhao 赵立坚 @zlj517]

Retweet this good news! The number of confirmed cases reported daily in provinces other than Hubei dropped consecutively for 8 days from 890 on Feb 3 to 377 on Feb 11, a drop of 57%, indicating that our prevention & control measures are working. The turning point will come soon!