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“If you use Claude Code before or products like Cursor, Windsor for others, um Claude is basically the go-to model for a lot of developers writing code in their day-to-day.”
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“but I think actually chatspot by HubSpot I know damesh there one of the founders like he's been noodling on stuff and he loves doing that and I think I don't even use HubSpot but the example of that j…”
“To help, you know, again, the ecosystem to be able to train the model, so we are not only open sourcing the model itself, we are also open sourcing data, which is right now, at this point, it's 7,000 …”
“And towards this end, we are also basically make, you know, Neurac, which is neural reconstruction, as a tool to be available to public soon. Not yet, but in the next few weeks.”
“And as part of the, you know, Nurex open-source effort, we also open-sourced Fixer.”
“Music AI Sandbox is a suite of experimental tools that we offer to help creatives do their work. We allow people to use music AI sandbox to not only generate different samples and sounds but upload th…”
“I was crying inside because that was one of the best agents AI products. Really useful AI products out there. And I was using it quite a lot for brainstorming, for more complex stuff, for research, wh…”
“Spark Capital. Okay, Spark. Okay, Spark Capital. Who invested in them? Prior investments are Twitter, Slack, Amir, Discord Anthropic Oculus Cruz Coinbase Tumblr uh Trello, N nine uh nine tick and then…”
“If you ask how something like GPT-4 was trained or Gemini 2.5, or Anthropic's Claude, I better not be biassed here. If you ask how they're trained, you have many copies of the same model looking at di…”
“Try out an algorithm called Copali, which is the most widely used approach for multi vector image retrieval.”
“And they're all partnering with us to integrate Nemo, the NemoClaw reference design, the NVIDIA Agentic AI toolkit, and, of course, all of our open models.”
“And they're all partnering with us to integrate Nemo, the NemoClaw reference design, the NVIDIA Agentic AI toolkit, and, of course, all of our open models.”
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“And it was because of physics, Using this Newton solver that runs on top of NVIDIA Warp that we jointly developed with Disney and with DeepMind that made it possible for you to be able to adapt to the…”
“So my team built Olmo, and through that, we developed model flow, which we call it the full development cycle of the whole process, including the data, all the model weights, all the infrastructure, a…”
“/cso in GStack is no replacement for a penetration test but it will help”
“Then you learn to use agentic document extraction or AD a tool designed by lenai to automate this entire workflow for you.”
“the next one, Gr00t. Human or robotics physical AI. We are at the frontier on all three of those.”
“So what is copilot kit before we get started? Well, C-Pilot Kit is the framework for building AI co-pilots, which are userfacing agentic applications. We're open source. We have 30,000 GitHub stars, 2…”
“So a great example of a SAS co-pilot is the Breeze assistant inside of the HubSpot CRM.”
“So a great example of a SAS co-pilot is the Breeze assistant inside of the HubSpot CRM.”
“I love this idea we had a company called reportive • pitch at the open Angel form which is doing sort of CRM on top of your Gmail account so you can sort of find out I think they use rap Leaf to go f …”
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“Cosmos is the most downloaded physical AI model in the world.”
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“At the core of Contexthub is a very lightweight CLI tool called Chub. CH hub.”
“Traditionally, algorithms like Google congestion control or GCC have handled this task.”
“We built Moby on top of WebRTC, an open- source video conferencing platform.”
“You mentioned Google Flow. So this is something Andrew has um used extensively and made a fantastic 10-minute short film. Um so yeah, let's switch the topics and talk about Google Flow. Andrew, what's…”
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“back in 2000 or 2001 there was a site a website called fuckcompany.com and all it did was track layoffs and uh companies going out of business and every day there were new • new entries and it just fe…”
“on the level of quantum circuits there's the circ library that can represent efficiently these these operations and also has some logic in it baked into to add these noise to the circuits”
“circ then ties into some several quantum simulators including qsim which allows us to actually do the quantum trajectory simulation or or optionally other kinds of simulations as well”
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“Can I can I start by kind of asking you about um about one of your quotes, right, from one of your your signature talk, The Machine, right?”
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“MySpace was that was the big music platform. Um it had a it it was it was it was great for artists. It was great for users.”
“So, I'm going to read this question from Dr. Doudna. Okay. So she says crisper, the gene editing technology that she pioneered, can now target nearly any DNA sequence”
“I know that you wrote like Parallax which was um ejects um framework in some sense Library”
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“there's fireworks and and other companies like that I think I think those are really interesting”
“i'd point out some of the work that we've done at linkchain with elastic for example they have kind of like an elastic assistant an elastic agent in production”
“All the industries here. Spotify is here, Apple Music's here, Amazon Music's here, all the record companies here, all the agencies are here.”
“Emergent is a platform that lets anyone build and ship production ready software using AI agents.”
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“All the industries here. Spotify is here, Apple Music's here, Amazon Music's here, all the record companies here, all the agencies are here.”
“one piece of software that I love is the lenya that's that's based on The Game of Life”
“what one was Linux and Apache open source”
“I have used pyro a bunch and I've gotten a chance to look at some of the other uh publishing programming languages that are utilized”
“- [Agent Skills open standard](https://agentskills.io)”
“They're using Tik Tok Um theyre using like in or um Instagram reels and and YouTube shorts and things like that and they're just building um you know they're putting their music out and they know how …”
“To install [curated](skills/.curated/) or [experimental](skills/.experimental/) skills, you can use the `$skill-installer` inside Codex.”
“This time he's got a new demo to show us. It's called Claw Chief.”
“I was so attracted to what you do is because it could sound corny to say I want to create a billion coders. You know, you're like, okay, Silicon Valley, typical mission, put a billion in front. Yeah. …”
“I would say do the same thing that you've always done. You know, get a job, find an industry you like or you're interested in and go into that. And what you're going to find is massive inefficiencies.…”
“And there's a really we we built this experience which if folks haven't tried this before artificial.studio.google.com/live has this like real-time live experience where you can actually share your s…”
“Last time he was on, he showed us AntFarm, his open source tool.”
“right you can't just go like this and pray that Unix versus Windows right so if you go back to the history of the internet there was a similar story where uh back in 1992 when uh built into an Al Gore…”
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“highway they went to see uh you know the big uh communication companies like ATT and ATT told them oh you know leave it to us we'll build the stuff it's going to be you know ATM and ISD enter the home…”
“highway they went to see uh you know the big uh communication companies like ATT and ATT told them oh you know leave it to us we'll build the stuff it's going to be you know ATM and ISD enter the home…”
“I would say do the same thing that you've always done. You know, get a job, find an industry you like or you're interested in and go into that. And what you're going to find is massive inefficiencies.…”
“I've been using Hermes agent pretty significantly over the last few weeks. I do think it is a very strong tool.”
“We use all of open AI models Google Gemini and the main Workhorse is anthropics Claud model for writing the code”
“And one of them that's sort of still sticks out to me is the folks at Source Graph who who sort of make a a developer platform and they have Cody, which is an AI coding assistant.”
“Oh, one of my favorites also is Alpha Genome. Yes.”
“If you could have your all your blood results from Superpower or Function Health or any number of people who are doing that. And in the Whoop app, they have labs. So they're going to be adding that pr…”
“Beehive, a company we've talked about on the show quite a lot. Yeah, we use them. They're incredible for our newsletter. Yeah, big fan. Um shout out to Tyler Denk.”
“Oh, and I would write essays and people would read the essays and I would have this link interested in starting a startup apply to Y Combinator right. So that probably got more people to apply but the…”
“demonstrating that neural-network-based approaches can be a powerful tool for the automated characterization of hole spin qubit arrays.”
“i would like to thank the organizers for the opportunity to speak at the quantum summer symposium today i'll talk about something very basic surface codes”
“When your website or your app goes down, you just want to fix that problem as quick as possible. And that's why there's Sentry application monitoring software that's essential for over 4 million devel…”
“one of the first things I used to do was this was called so now I think it's Adobe Flash but it used to be macromedia flash”
“I'll give a very concrete case study is this company resend that went through the batch on winter 23 is a email sending client and when you ask a question on chbt or cloud or pretty much all of the ma…”
“I think one company that's doing a lot of interesting work with developer docs is Mlifi that you work with Harsh.”
“Speaking of email, there's another YC company that's very relevant to this conversation. There's there's a YC company called Agent Mail that makes inboxes for AI agents.”
“so we rely on our in-house snake optimizer originally developed by our colleague paul klimov which leverages graph traversal and does a step-by-step incremental optimization across the processor”
“experience abroad or be able to like gain as much of experience and knowledge from places that you can internet to like online courses and stuff and talking with people I think like connecting through…”
“sntools is a neutrino event generator for supernova burst neutrinos, originally developed to study supernova model discrimination with Hyper-Kamiokande. Work to add support for pre-supernova event gen…”
“one of the things I've picked up is just the Google tools which weren't ones that I had used a lot before and are pretty powerful so I've been happy about that”
“My name is Jessica Berg and I am a PhD student at new york University today, I'm going to present snicket a query driven distributed tracing system.”
“so so yeah definitely check out the teaching teaching kits.”
“The deep learning teaching kit, this was the second kit that we built.”
“accelerated data science we started this one about four years ago and it's been through a couple of updates built this one with professors at Georgia Tech back in prayer vanm. So this one's largely…”
“Uh we have a kit around edge AI and robotics. This one's based on our embedded systems platform, the Jetson or Nano.”
“So this is using the physics nemo platform. It's a physics MLbased platform for accelerating all types of things within science domains like computational fluid and and and biio medicine um and all …”
“Jennai teaching kit this one might be the one we're most proud of for a couple of reasons.”
“Um open USD has to do with 3D graphics and simulation. There's some fundamental aspects of of physical AI in this one as well.”
“We perform full spectral modeling on the near-peak-light optical and NIR spectra of the SN Ic 2014L to quantitatively constrain helium and other outer-ejecta properties, using the radiative transfer c…”
“Anthropic's Project Glasswing - restricting Claude Mythos to security researchers - sounds necessary to me”
“So I mean, one of the things that I'd probably recommend doing is just using a coding agent out of the box.”
“What's your favorite tool? >> Uh, probably SDS drill. >> What's an SDS drill? >> It's just a It's a drill that has a lot more power to it than a regular power drill. could go through rock walls.”