absolutely insane week in AI, just to recap:

- a man saved his dying dog using chatgpt to create a cancer vaccine
- then another guy used chatgpt to sell his house in <5 days (0 real estate agents)
- andrej karpathy launched an AI that autonomously does AI research (self improve) - 100% open source
- NATO is equipping Live cockroaches with AI spy-gear and deploying them in the military
- NVIDIA is launching an openclaw competitor (nemoclaw)
- Elon said xai is building human AI agents, launching a Terafab (ai chips) and hired cursors top product people (i’m fucking PUMPED for xai chapter 2)
- Meta might ditch their ai model for google and lay off 20,000 people
- 500M PokemonGO players accidentally trained the world’s best AI navigation system, accurate to within centimeters.
- Travis Kalanick (uber founder) is back building AI robots for Mining, making food and transport
- microsoft launched a Claude competitor… powered by fucking claude.
- Yann lecun raised $1 Bill to kill LLMs with world models
- Google dropped Ask Maps, an AI intelligence layer on top of google maps
- a new high school that teaches kids using AI is guaranteeing they’ll make $1 million by graduation or refund their tuition fees….
next week: NVIDIA GTC conference, expect a LOT of frontier news. see you then