so just to recap this week (so far)
- musk industries is real (spacex, tesla, xai merger)
- clawdbot explosion leading to a bankrun on mac minis but then anthropic released their own version
- tesla dropped the bomb they’re halting production on model s and x to scale 1M optimus humanoid robots this year instead
- china dropped the mother of all open source models kimi k2.5 that turn video into production-ready apps but then google dropped a gemini update ON THE SAME DAY that does the same thing gg
- google said fuck it and also launched the worlds greatest world model genie and switched on gemini for 3.8B chrome browser users AND released alpha genome model that one-shots 1M dna base pairs for 3000 researchers across 160 countries AND teased new veo model
- microsoft crushed earnings, launched a new ai chip but stock still tanked 10% because they *only* grew rev 39%
- anthropic round 2X oversubbed raised to 20B 🏌️
- openai raising another $100B, 750B val 🏌️
- intel leaked they’re gonna help produce nvidias next gen feynman gpus - hello americas tsmc
- a robot (built by figure) washed the dishes with zero human interaction
- apple acquired stealth startup for $2B that can lip read - integrating their tech for new ai consumer airpods with cameras and mics
- demis confirms google glass 2.0 coming this summer
fckin hell
What I envy most about BLR folks is their community.
Someone just launches anything a startup, a chai stall, a newsletter, or even a Google Form and the whole city hypes them like they just IPO’d.
Communities and those solid friend circles are what make Bangalore feel like its own little universe.
And one more thing… Why does EVERYTHING come to BLR first and then the rest of India gets it later?
BLR, you’re special. I’ll give you that
If you actually play footy irl you’ll know for a fact that you can’t “purposely miss” in such a high intensity counter.
It’s just unfortunate that this was saved.