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[The Poast @thepoast]

@photomatt 🏴‍☠️

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg. This is more than five times the $1.3 billion valuation from OpenRouter's funding round just 82 days ago.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Just shared some changes we’re making to the teams at @GoogleDeepMind.

@DemisHassabis is stepping up to become Chair of @GoogleDeepMind & Chief Scientist of Alphabet, in addition to leading @IsomorphicLabs. He’ll be able to dedicate his time and focus on shaping the future of AGI and scientific discovery. It’s work that is vitally important to Alphabet and humanity, and I can’t imagine a better person than Demis to do it. He’ll stay closely connected to Koray and the GDM teams.

@Koraykv will become the SVP, @GoogleDeepMind, responsible for all aspects of model development, GDM research, and @Geminiapp & dev teams. Koray has been at GDM for 13 years and is a world-renowned expert in the field, starting our deep learning team and driving breakthroughs like WaveNet & DQN. GDM is in great hands!

Excited for this next chapter. You can read my note along with the message Demis sent to @GoogleDeepMind here: https://t.co/mvsvrDUai7

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Tomorrow will be my last day at Google after 27 years, and watching it grow from 25 people to 190,000+ has been an amazing journey. Below is a note I shared with many people internally at Google today. An excerpt is:

It has been an absolute pleasure to work with you and to help build some of the most widely used and impactful products of all time. As a kid, I dreamed of helping build software that would be used by many people, and Google now has thirteen products used by more than a billion people (amazing!). Our work has had a tremendous impact in the world, and I have been lucky enough to collaborate and form friendships with many colleagues that I deeply admire, respect, and enjoy. It still brings me joy every time I see people out in the world using our products to find information, handle email, translate documents, watch videos, learn new things, navigate and understand the physical world, browse the web, use their phone, run large-scale computations on our infrastructure, ride in an autonomous vehicle, or perform complex tasks with the help of our AI systems. I hope you all share this sense of joy, because it is a shared accomplishment! Thank you to all of my colleagues at Google over many years!

Now I'm excited to go start @DiscoLoopAI with my longtime friends and colleagues @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML, and @quocleix.

(Updated post: slightly redacted to not have some personal info)

[Tenobrus @tenobrus]

demis is ousted as deepmind CEO and jeff dean + sanjay are leaving google to start a ~neolab.

they're all being very careful to frame these as positive shifts. but there's no way in hell demis would have accepted this willingly, and there's no way Sundar happily accepted Jeff doing this as a totally independent new PBC rather than a bet under alphabet.

tough to see an interpretation other than jeff losing confidence in working on AGI under google.

very bad day for alphabet overall

[Manik Gupta @manikgupta]

There are pitch decks and then there is this.

[Mark Zuckerberg @finkd]

Releasing Muse Code in beta today. It's a terminal coding agent that takes on complete software engineering tasks across large repos: planning changes, writing code, validating the results. Powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model update.

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Announcing Discovery Loop!

I am very excited to announce that, along with my longtime friends and collaborators @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML and @quocleix, we are founding Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI), a Public Benefit Corporation whose mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress. The four of us have worked together for 14 to 30 years, and have helped build some of the world’s most used products, infrastructure and AI models, and we’re excited to turn our attention to this ambitious endeavor.

♾

Learn more at: https://t.co/Rv3LMdLluK

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@Mdekker859131 if you try to phish me i swear to god.

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Rolling strong. Haven't lost a bet since Windows 95.

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@huepro78 hi van hue

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dentist: try to drink less coffee
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@Nnylazzahs that makes two of us:)

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@inicavest I could never

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@paulg Paul youve been getting dragged lately by some men whose mothers never loved them. Are you ok?

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@elonmusk an edit button, but for my life.