Alexander Barge

Applied AI & Cloud Architect @AWSCloud. Building scalable systems from prototype to production. Field CTO for Startups. Prev CTO & Co-Founder @dStudienfinanz.

[Rahul @RHLSTHRM]

https://t.co/inqlgZ7yAK

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

New art project.
Train and inference GPT in 243 lines of pure, dependency-free Python. This is the *full* algorithmic content of what is needed. Everything else is just for efficiency. I cannot simplify this any further.
https://t.co/HmiRrQugnP

[Werner Vogels @Werner]

A collection of open source #AWS MCP servers is available at #awslabs https://t.co/hYIv1n9t2y

[Amazon Science @AmazonScience]

Meet Amazon Nova Act — an effortless way to build AI agents that can reliably use browsers 🧑‍💻

With our new model, compose robust steps into complex workflows; handle everything from bookings to QA testing. Getting started takes just 3 lines of code.

See what Nova Act can do 🧵👇

[PJ Ace @PJaccetturo]

What if Studio Ghibli directed Lord of the Rings?

I spent $250 in Kling credits and 9 hours re-editing the Fellowship trailer to bring that vision to life—and I’ll show you exactly how I did it 👇🏼

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

From the AI breakthroughs of the last few months, a wave of new startup opportunities have been unlocked.

Here are some of the ideas we think will be especially interesting to build now: https://t.co/QCIz6DnQnN

[Werner Vogels @Werner]

If you want to run DeepSeek R1 on #AWS, these are two starting points: 1) Bedrock notebook steps: https://t.co/vXucRjh8v2 2) load into Sagemaker https://t.co/AVMlJXP0Od (thanks to @DGallitelli95). As always, consult your legal team before doing so...

[Ben Lang @benln]

Everything they teach at YC in one page:

[Chip Huyen @chipro]

In many conversations, I noticed several common misperceptions about generative AI.

1. Technologies behind GenAI are new

While many applications made possible by GenAI are new, the technologies surrounding it are not.

- Retrieval, the backbone of RAG, is also the backbone of search and recommender systems. The first information retrieval system was described in the 1920s.
- Vector search has been around since the early 2010s.
- Language modeling was first introduced in 1951.
- The attention mechanism was introduced in 2015.
- Inference optimization techniques (quantization, low-rank factorization, distillation) have been around for a while.

While many temporary fixes will become outdated, the fundamentals will remain important. The trick is to separate the temporary fixes from the fundamentals.

[Ben Lang @benln]

YC on why vertical AI agents could be 10X bigger than SaaS:

[Tim Dettmers @Tim_Dettmers]

All of this means that the paradigm will soon shift from scaling to "what can we do with what we have". I think the paradigm of "how do we help people be more productive with AI" is the best mindset forward. This mindset is about processes and people rather than technology.

[Alexander Barge @realAlexBarge]

@adrian_horning_ crunchbase

[Allie K. Miller @alliekmiller]

Not sure if you're behind or ahead in AI adoption? I created this guide to help you benchmark.

↓ ↓ ↓

* many who think they're behind are actually on track, and some who think they're ahead are not
** these insights are my own opinion based on years of work with hundreds of companies across various industries

Is your company on track?

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Insurtech Getsafe acquires a student loan platform to meet its future clients upstream https://t.co/WoSOEqFYgR

[Alexander Barge @realAlexBarge]

What a journey with @bastiankrautwal, @MavidDeyer and a great team building @dStudienfinanz! ❤️

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Insurtech Getsafe acquires a student loan platform to meet its future clients upstream https://t.co/WoSOEqFYgR

[Alexander Barge @realAlexBarge]

Startup in Berlin, Germany? Couldn't make it to AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas? Don't worry, we've got you covered.

Join us on Friday, Jan 26th for an exclusive opportunity to network and to stay up-to-date on the latest AWS releases: https://t.co/QvuH6uiRKi

#aws #startups

[Alexander Barge @realAlexBarge]

Exited for the AWS GenAI Day (new global virtual event) happening tomorrow, September 14th, 2023! 🤖💬🦄

Sign up here: https://t.co/jUI6zKdTnB (you can also attend only some bits and watch recordings later)

#aws #cloud #GenAI

[Gregor @ghohpe]

This should be reposted every week

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Many ask why I am vegan, it's because I hope that compassion is a scaling law of intelligence.

A personal preference. You do you.

[AWS Startups @AWSstartups]

For our own delight, the copy and images you are seeing were generated by AI.
What do you think of these deepfake characters? #AWSGenAIDay

Registration is now open for AWS GenAI Day. https://t.co/HDHCVSGWrP