Alexander Appelbe ⚡️
@pelby
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Joined January 2009
Shopify teams are using AI to announce their internal tools is one of the most delightful side effects of the AI age. This one is too fun not to share
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The counter dynamic to the AI model doing everything is that, at least in enterprise, bridging the AI models’ capabilities to the customer’s environment still requires a tremendous amount of long tail work. The gap between an AI agent working for 90% or 95% of the solution and
My AI investment thesis is that every AI application startup is likely to be crushed by rapid expansion of the foundational model providers. App functionality will be added to the foundational models' offerings, because the big players aren't slow incumbents (it is wrong to
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New data insight: How does OpenAI allocate its compute? OpenAI spent ~$7 billion on compute last year. Most of this went to R&D, meaning all research, experiments, and training. Only a minority of this R&D compute went to the final training runs of released models.
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I Am Voicepilled. A major step forward in human–computer interaction won’t come from bigger models alone, but from how we talk to them, natively, with our voices. More thoughts:
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voice AI + MCP interaction with Notion notes. Cool demo. Opens up lots of new utility as these capabilities mature.
We're adding MCP capability to Realtime API, I'm very excited about how well MCP tools work over voice. Here's a demo using a Notion MCP --
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The https://t.co/uop4XiFxan microsite is live! Think of it as a README for agents: a simple, open format for guiding coding agents. It’s been awesome to work alongside peers from @AmpCode, @cursor_ai, @julesagent, @FactoryAI, and @roo_code to bring this to life!
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AGENTS.md is a simple, open format for guiding coding agents. Think of it as a README for agents.
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Notion is putting itself in contention to be the single hub where you run your autonomous organisation out of via agents
Agents are getting more powerful. But without a way to use your tools, they can’t actually get much done. That’s why we’ve launched Notion’s hosted MCP server — so AI agents like @cursor_ai + @claudeai can work directly in your workspace. Here’s the inside story…
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Calling London founders and AI builders 🧱
Trying to do the same for London! If you’re around and want to join the invite list for the next event with other builders and founders, drop me a note or comment if this could be interesting to you!
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This aged well! ⚡️
Made a little CLI that just pipes my programming questions to GPT-3, so I now can ask it stuff when I'm in the command line! LLMs are better than Stack Overflow now — I just ask it, and it gives me a comprehensive answer in one shot, right there in my terminal, in a couple secs.
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Dictation on your mobile is about to get much better ⚡️
Introducing Kitten TTS, a SOTA tiny text-to-speech model - Just 15M parameters - Runs without a GPU - Model size less than 25 MB - Multiple high-quality voices - Ultra-fast - even runs on low-end edge devices Github and HF links below
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Love this onboarding flow!
Conversational AI makes building voice agents easier than ever before. Make a Conversational Agent for your business in seconds, with https://t.co/fIkfNsiyLC
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Conversational AI makes building voice agents easier than ever before. Make a Conversational Agent for your business in seconds, with https://t.co/fIkfNsiyLC
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Big news for businesses using Microsoft stack
Excited to team up with Microsoft to bring Vibe Coding to the enterprise. Now every team member—not just engineers—can turn ideas into software with Replit Agent, no code required. We’re aligned with Microsoft on a shared mission: empowering every person and organization to
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Introducing Shortcut — the first superhuman Excel agent. Shortcut one-shots most knowledge work tasks on Excel. It even scores >80% on Excel World Championship Cases in ~10 minutes. That's 10x faster than humans. Our early preview is live. Just comment for an invite code.
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Looks amazing wow, can't wait to try Shortcut AI for Excel! This looks amazing. https://t.co/DI5bnr8zqF
tryshortcut.ai
Automate Excel tasks with AI. Build financial models, generate formulas, and save 10-15 hours per week on reporting.
Introducing Shortcut — the first superhuman Excel agent. Shortcut one-shots most knowledge work tasks on Excel. It even scores >80% on Excel World Championship Cases in ~10 minutes. That's 10x faster than humans. Our early preview is live. Just comment for an invite code.
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AGI is going to be achieved by a product, not necessarily a “model”.
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Projects are becoming really useful now, particularly for enterprise clients with Enterprise Connectors. Very exciting
Projects Update 📝 We’re adding more capabilities to projects in ChatGPT to help you do more focused work. ✅ Deep research support ✅ Voice mode support ✅ Improved memory to reference past chats in projects ✅ Upload files and access the model selector on mobile
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The next London AI Tinkerers event is on Wednesday June 25th! Each month we bring together 100 of the top builders including the founders of top YC startups, engineers from leading scale-ups (Synthesia, Wise, Revolut) and the best AI labs (DeepMind, Anthropic, OpenAI, and
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Latest @cursor_ai v1.1.0 now has "To Do List" - This allows agent to use To Do Lists to track progress on tasks
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ChatGPT can now connect to more internal sources & pull in real-time context—keeping existing user-level permissions. Connectors available in deep research for Plus & Pro users (excl. EEA, CH, UK) and Team, Enterprise & Edu users: Outlook Teams Google Drive Gmail Linear & more
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