Jared Rand

Founder at Skillenai. AI Blogathon organizer. Submit an article about AI to compete for prizes. Weekly winner earns $100. Total blogathon prize pool: $5000.

[Elvis @elvissun]

https://t.co/DotZ3V6XhJ

[Jared Rand @RandJared]

@sama It's coding skills in Cursor feel like a big jump

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Apps in ChatGPT are starting to roll out today to Free, Go, Plus, and Pro users outside of the EU.

More pilot partner apps and availability coming soon. https://t.co/bsrSUosBio

[Jared Rand @RandJared]

@athleticKoder This is an opportunity for leadership not a reason to reject a job offer. This is common and not surprising: Engineers often do not think like scientists (measure and experiment).

[Akshay 🚀 @akshay_pachaar]

Now, let's make this more practical. We're going to build a browser automation MCP server using Stagehand.

With this, we can navigate websites, click buttons, fill out forms, and extract data using natural language commands.

Check this out👇

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

The Unified MCP is finally here.

One MCP to rule them all!

Rube is the first MCP I’ve seen that routes your query to the right MCPs, in real-time.

Integrated into Cursor, Cline, Claude, etc.

Watch it analyze thousands of tweets on ChatGPT + organize by pain point in a sheet.

[Jiawei Zhao @jiawzhao]

Introducing DeepConf: Deep Think with Confidence

🚀 First method to achieve 99.9% on AIME 2025 with open-source models! Using GPT-OSS-120B even without tools, we reached this almost-perfect accuracy while saving up to 85% generated tokens.

It also delivers many strong advantages for parallel thinking:
🔥 Performance boost: ~10% accuracy across models & datasets
⚡ Ultra-efficient: Up to 85% fewer tokens generated
🔧 Plug & play: Works with ANY existing model - zero training needed (no hyperparameter tuning as well!)
⭐ Easy to deploy: Just ~50 lines of code in vLLM (see PR below)

📚 Paper: https://t.co/jnBnRzQczh
🌐 Project: https://t.co/kGq1kATTu0

joint work with: @FuYichao123 , xuewei_wang, @tydsh

(see details in the comments below)

[Vision Transformers @vitransformer]

New blog post by @AmanGokrani:
Everyone says Claude Code "just works" like magic.

He proxied its API calls to see what's happening.
The secret? It's riddled with <system-reminder> tags that never let it forget what it's doing.

(1/6)

[🔗 link in final post with system prompt]

[Leandro von Werra @lvwerra]

Excited to release: Jupyter Agent 2

The agent can load data, execute code, plot results inside Jupyter faster than you can scroll!

🤖 Powered by Qwen3-Coder
⚡️ Running on Cerebras
⚙️ Executed in E2B
↕️ Upload your files

All videos are in *real time*!

https://t.co/AYnJJenGXN

[Jared Rand @RandJared]

@hyakkalog This must be AI generated? How did you get all this info before all other sources?

[roadmap.sh @roadmapsh]

Generate a custom course in seconds—completely free. Our new AI Tutor creates personalized learning paths on any topic. 🙌 This is just the start of how we’re transforming developer education with AI. Try it now 👉 https://t.co/29P73fCYWe

[Jared Rand @RandJared]

Play my Galaga-inspired chatbot 👾
https://t.co/DC9mc60vnm

Built for the  @AIMakerspace AI Engineering Bootcamp challenge.

Code available here: https://t.co/Lak47bo36w

[Jared Rand @RandJared]

Idea Frontier #1: Orchestrated Distributed Intelligence, Rhythmic Sharing, and Technofeudalism https://t.co/Ief6PFnqC6

[Jared Rand @RandJared]

@alexsssaint I'll one up that: offered $5000 to use my app, only have 1 user 😂

[Jared Rand @RandJared]

March Madness? How about AI Madness! Win $500 for the best AI blog post: https://t.co/YGjF6O3USl

[Sports @Sports]

BRACKETS ARE OPEN 🚀

make your picks and make history in the #XBracketChallenge presented by @UberEats

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

It sounds like a boring topic, but air conditioning is more important than you realise.

First: there are 2 billion air con units in the world and they account for 10% of all electricity we use.

Second: it has revolutionised architecture and totally reshaped global politics...

[Prakash @8teAPi]

Outrageous OpenAI Gossip

Wed Apr 24

> Sam said “GPT6” for the first time ever in a serious sense at Stanford MS&E 472
> was a standing room only crowd with an overflow
> lines stretched 3 city blocks to the famed Oval
> it was the largest gathering of AI engineering talent since Covid-19

This coming on the heels of “95% [of AI startups] must die. We will steamroll you” @HarryStebbings podcast

> “GPT5, or whatever we choose to call it, is just that it’s going to be smarter”
=> confirms the name/potential architecture shift from “GPT”
> “we can say right now, with a high degree of scientific certainty, that GPT5 is going to be a lot smarter than GPT4, GPT6 is going to be a lot smarter than GPT5 and we are not going to get off this curve”
=> indicates GPT5 must be in final stages pre release as early research team has dialed off to GPT6 already

Hearsay
> indicated “true innovation lies in defining the paradigm shift beyond GPT4”
=> again confirming architecture shift for GPT5 beyond GPT
> “providing free, ad-free ChatGPT is how OpenAI positively influences society while pursuing their objectives”
=> Note the strong aversion to ad supported

See Zuck earnings call earlier this week on AI spend
> “we have a strong track record of monetizing effectively… by… introducing ads or paid content into AI interactions”

Here we see the core almost generational difference between the two leaders.
> if you believe in AGI
> you want AGI to be as honest as possible
> you do not want the AGI to be persuadable with a little bit of cash
> to make you buy Tide detergent
> or vote for Biden/Trump
> or because it wants a little more compute
> or decides to make paperclips

Zuck sells ads because Meta doesn’t believe AGI is possible.
Sam doesn’t because he does.

Who is right ? Who has moral fiber and courage ? Or is just out for buck?

The above was excerpted from my newsletter for next week. Subscribe link below. 👇

[Barsee 🐶 @heyBarsee]

It's been an insane week for AI (part 2)

Here are 14 most impressive reveals from this week:

1/ China just released OpenAI’s Sora rival “Vidu” which can create realistic clips in seconds.

[Chief AI Officer @chiefaioffice]

a16z just released an enterprise AI report after speaking to dozens of Fortune 500 companies.

Thanks @sarahdingwang for this.

Here are 8 insightful slides:

1. For production use cases, OpenAI still has dominant market share.

[Luke Barousse @LukeBarousse]

"The $900,000 AI Job Is Here" -WSJ

BUT there's just one BIG problem...

These jobs "are still low when compared with engineering and data-oriented tech roles."

So although we are seeing gen AI jobs at an all-time high, it's still not a big change compared to these other roles... well, yet, at least.

@RandJared and I have been following the demand for gen AI skills in data science jobs, and unfortunately, companies still seem hesitant to request these skills. 📉

Our analysis found that 𝗟𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗡 𝟮% of data science jobs requested gen AI skills. 

It's crazy to think, with how much time these tools can save by automating parts of our jobs, you'd think companies would want to take advantage of this. 🤔

Curious to track this into the future.