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🧨 Product Hunt 2024 KITTY Awards are in!
🧨 Anthropic CEO is a royal ass kisser

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🗞️ The Key to Surviving Supply Chain Chaos in 2025
🗞️ Defense Startup Secures $100M for Hypersonic Weapons
🗞️ Elon Musk Announces Tesla's Self-Driving Service in Austin by June
🗞️ Gemini AI Transforms Spreadsheets into Visual Insights

BUILDER BYTES
⭐️ LangGraph Functional API Overview
⭐️ Get started with JAX using NNX
⭐️ Nvidia EAGLE: Advancing Multimodal Large Language Models

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🤩 AI Agents, Next Level in Gaming, Chris Covert from Inworld AI
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🧨 PRODUCT HUNT 🧨

2024 KITTY Awards are in!

Every year product hunt lets you vote - it’s the people’s choice awards of product. With heavy influence from builders and makers, the ranking provide a good look at peer reviewed products from a crowds who is can be considered early adopters. Well, the results are in so let’s get that summary!

1. Best Product:
   Cursor AI wins - the AI code editor to improve a developer’s workflow.

2. Runner Up:
   Supabase - a back end as a service using PostGresDB.
   OpenAI o1 - if you haven’t heard this, get out from under the rock.

3. NoteWorthy Mentions
   PostGres has product mentions with Supabase, Supabase AI, and PostGres New (ai sandbox for database).
   ElevenLabs is the #1 solution for voice AI.
   VoiceNotes is an AI tool to record your meetings (free-$9/month).

Check out the results for this years Kitty Awards by Product Hunt.

🧨 Anthropic 🧨

A note from the CEO of Anthropic - Dario Amodei.

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, argues that recent developments by China's DeepSeek highlight the critical importance of maintaining stringent U.S. export controls on AI-related technologies. He contends that these controls are essential to ensure democratic nations remain at the forefront of AI innovation.

• Scaling Laws in AI
  Amodei emphasizes that increasing investment in AI training leads to progressively better performance across various tasks.

• Efficiency Innovations
  He notes that continuous improvements in AI architectures and hardware efficiency shift the performance curve, enabling more advanced models at reduced costs.

• Paradigm Shifts
  The integration of reinforcement learning to enhance reasoning capabilities marks a significant evolution in AI training methodologies.

Amodei clarifies that while DeepSeek's recent AI models demonstrate notable efficiency and performance, they align with expected industry trends but do not represent a fundamental breakthrough. He warns that without effective export controls, China could amass the necessary resources to develop AI systems that rival or surpass those of the U.S., potentially leading to a shift in global power dynamics.

🗞️ NEWSROOM 🗞️ 

What’s hot in tech right now?

The Key to Surviving Supply Chain Chaos in 2025
AI tackles supply chain disruptions by optimizing inventory, modeling risks, boosting cybersecurity, and improving resilience against geopolitical and climate-driven challenges.

Defense Startup Secures $100M for Hypersonic Weapons
A defense manufacturer has raised a $100 million Series A to develop affordable, mass-produced hypersonic long-range strike weapons, aiming to enhance non-nuclear deterrence capabilities.

Elon Musk Announces Tesla's Self-Driving Service in Austin by June
Tesla plans to launch a paid, fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Austin, Texas, by June 2025, utilizing its own fleet of vehicles without drivers. This initiative marks a significant step toward

Gemini AI Transforms Spreadsheets into Visual Insights
Google's Gemini AI now enhances Google Sheets by automatically generating charts and providing data insights, streamlining data analysis within Workspace.

⭐️ LEARNING ⭐️

DeepLearning AI

Deeplearning.ai has a rich course selection of FREE content to keep you updated and learning. With companies like AWS, Langchain, Microsoft and strong support from top Universities like PennState, you can find excellent curated educational content.

⭐️ BUILDER BYTES ⭐️

What’s hot for builders right now?

LangGraph Functional API Overview
Demonstrates building AI workflow agents using LangGraph's new Functional API, emphasizing minimal code changes for efficient development

Get started with JAX using NNX
Introduces NNX, a Pythonic library simplifying the building and training of machine learning models with JAX. Hosted by Paige Bailey.

Nvidia EAGLE: Advancing Multimodal Large Language Models
Model drop - Nvidia has released new Vision-Language Model that have state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. View them on Huggingface too with demos on Github.

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