Greetings friends particularly those in India which celebrated multiple festivals this week such as Lohri, Pongal, Makar Sakranti As evident by the torrent of content posted on the Telegram group and thus reposted in this newsletter, this week has kept curators such as yours truly busy with Anthropic's release of Claude Cowork, Salesforce launch of their Slackbot AI agent, updated image models from Zhipu and Black Forest Labs as well as other news. This week's edition of the newsletter is in ...

Greetings friends particularly those in India which celebrated multiple festivals this week such as Lohri, Pongal, Makar Sakranti As evident by the torrent of content posted on the Telegram group and thus reposted in this newsletter, this week has kept curators such as yours truly busy with Anthropic's release of Claude Cowork, Salesforce launch of their Slackbot AI agent, updated image models from Zhipu and Black Forest Labs as well as other news. This week's edition of the newsletter is in ...

Wishing everyone and their loved ones a very Happy New Year Steve Yegge's 37 minute Youtube video linked below is what I've been sending to many engineers alongside Andrej Karpathy's and Boris Cherny's (creator of Claude Code) tweets to get them to understand the shakeup that is coming in AI assisted coding Deepseek's paper which gives a hint at what is likely to come with Deepseek v4 as well how Chinese open weights/open source models might evolve in 2026 is exciting many people Whilst unrel...

Wishing everyone and their loved ones a very Happy New Year Steve Yegge's 37 minute Youtube video linked below is what I've been sending to many engineers alongside Andrej Karpathy's and Boris Cherny's (creator of Claude Code) tweets to get them to understand the shakeup that is coming in AI assisted coding Deepseek's paper which gives a hint at what is likely to come with Deepseek v4 as well how Chinese open weights/open source models might evolve in 2026 is exciting many people Whilst unrel...

Quiet week in terms of model releases with Anthropic's Opus 4.5 being the major one followed by Black Forest Labs Flux.2. Number of AI tools, subscriptions offered Black Friday discounts. I expect there will be a final push of some model updates before the end of the year with a lot of expectations for an updated model from Deepseek Below is my personal website which aggregates links to many of my socials as well as content and community that I curate. Feel free to share this link to others w...

Quiet week in terms of model releases with Anthropic's Opus 4.5 being the major one followed by Black Forest Labs Flux.2. Number of AI tools, subscriptions offered Black Friday discounts. I expect there will be a final push of some model updates before the end of the year with a lot of expectations for an updated model from Deepseek Below is my personal website which aggregates links to many of my socials as well as content and community that I curate. Feel free to share this link to others w...

The big news this week in the world of AI is OpenAI's release of the various variants of its GPT-5.2 model, Presidents Trump allowing Nvidia to sell H200's to "approved customers" in China and the creation of the Agentic AI Foundation. Readers who think others in their family, friends and acquaintances who have a curiosity in knowing more about rapidly evolving AI tools/services/use cases would benefit from being subscribers of this weekly newsletter are encouraged to share this publication l...

The big news this week in the world of AI is OpenAI's release of the various variants of its GPT-5.2 model, Presidents Trump allowing Nvidia to sell H200's to "approved customers" in China and the creation of the Agentic AI Foundation. Readers who think others in their family, friends and acquaintances who have a curiosity in knowing more about rapidly evolving AI tools/services/use cases would benefit from being subscribers of this weekly newsletter are encouraged to share this publication l...

Engineering leads and Engineering Managers should definitely read Kaari Saarinen (CEO of Linear) X article entitled 'The disappearing middle of software work' as well as Addy Osmani's 'The Next Two Years of Software Engineering' Drama this week revolved around the unfortunate layoffs at Tailwind with the community rallying back with massively increased sponsorships as well as Anthropic tightening their rules which disallowed competing agentic harness such as Opencode as well as competitors su...

Engineering leads and Engineering Managers should definitely read Kaari Saarinen (CEO of Linear) X article entitled 'The disappearing middle of software work' as well as Addy Osmani's 'The Next Two Years of Software Engineering' Drama this week revolved around the unfortunate layoffs at Tailwind with the community rallying back with massively increased sponsorships as well as Anthropic tightening their rules which disallowed competing agentic harness such as Opencode as well as competitors su...

This week in terms of news and information about models and AI tools has been akin to drinking water from a firehose. We've tried to curate as much as possible in the group (Grok 4.1, Grok 4.1-Fast, Gemini 3, Gemini 3 Pro Image aka Nana Banana Pro etc) but I think a lot of news slipped past the cracks I would like to encourage readers to write to me with their feedback about the content that I curate. Even short messages are appreciated Below is my personal website which aggregates links to m...

This week in terms of news and information about models and AI tools has been akin to drinking water from a firehose. We've tried to curate as much as possible in the group (Grok 4.1, Grok 4.1-Fast, Gemini 3, Gemini 3 Pro Image aka Nana Banana Pro etc) but I think a lot of news slipped past the cracks I would like to encourage readers to write to me with their feedback about the content that I curate. Even short messages are appreciated Below is my personal website which aggregates links to m...

Week 49 was relatively quiet with just Deepseek-3.2 being the big model announcement. Rumors are strong that Week 50 might have GPT-5.2 from OpenAI and Grok-4.20 from xAI released Below is my personal website which aggregates links to many of my socials as well as content and community that I curate. Feel free to share this link to others who you think may find this content/community useful to themgoolamabbas | Instagram, TikTok | LinktreeChief Knowledge Officer @ Animoca Brands. Also assists...

Week 49 was relatively quiet with just Deepseek-3.2 being the big model announcement. Rumors are strong that Week 50 might have GPT-5.2 from OpenAI and Grok-4.20 from xAI released Below is my personal website which aggregates links to many of my socials as well as content and community that I curate. Feel free to share this link to others who you think may find this content/community useful to themgoolamabbas | Instagram, TikTok | LinktreeChief Knowledge Officer @ Animoca Brands. Also assists...

Steady releases of news about AI tools/services this week and rumors of an impending Gemini 3 release grow stronger. Not ruling out any surprises from the Chinese frontier labs who are showing exceptional performance with their models even though constrained by compute capabilities I would like to encourage readers to write to me with their feedback about the content that I curate. Even short messages are appreciated Below is my personal website which aggregates links to many of my socials as...

Steady releases of news about AI tools/services this week and rumors of an impending Gemini 3 release grow stronger. Not ruling out any surprises from the Chinese frontier labs who are showing exceptional performance with their models even though constrained by compute capabilities I would like to encourage readers to write to me with their feedback about the content that I curate. Even short messages are appreciated Below is my personal website which aggregates links to many of my socials as...

Greetings to all those who celebrate Christmas. Zhipu and Minimax delighted fans with updated models such as GLM-4.7 and Minimax-M2.1 which show great results in early testing and bode very well for open source and open weight models. Andrej Karpathy ended the week with a banger of a post on X talking about the challenges programmers face today in unlearning old habits as well as keeping up with a much more complex mental model around tooling. Readers who think others in their family, friends...

Greetings to all those who celebrate Christmas. Zhipu and Minimax delighted fans with updated models such as GLM-4.7 and Minimax-M2.1 which show great results in early testing and bode very well for open source and open weight models. Andrej Karpathy ended the week with a banger of a post on X talking about the challenges programmers face today in unlearning old habits as well as keeping up with a much more complex mental model around tooling. Readers who think others in their family, friends...

Amongst this week's model releases were Nvidia's Nemotron 3, OpenAI's ChatGPT Images and Google's Gemini Flash 3. Rumors are strong that GLM-4.7 and MiniMax 2.1 are imminent in their release. wrt tooling, Wispr Flow is now offering in India Purchasing Power Parity pricing of ₹320 ($3.5) per month instead of $12 per month Here's my referral link which gives you one month of free Pro subscription https://wisprflow.ai/r?YUSUF2 Readers who think others in their family, friends and acquaintances w...

Amongst this week's model releases were Nvidia's Nemotron 3, OpenAI's ChatGPT Images and Google's Gemini Flash 3. Rumors are strong that GLM-4.7 and MiniMax 2.1 are imminent in their release. wrt tooling, Wispr Flow is now offering in India Purchasing Power Parity pricing of ₹320 ($3.5) per month instead of $12 per month Here's my referral link which gives you one month of free Pro subscription https://wisprflow.ai/r?YUSUF2 Readers who think others in their family, friends and acquaintances w...