The newsletter for the technically curious. Updates, tool reviews, and lay of the land from an exited founder turned investor and forever tinkerer.
Hey folks,
Elon has his own Wikipedia now - Grokipedia. v0.1 of Grokipedia has almost a million articles generated by Grok (impressive vs Wikipedia 7M English articles). Articles on Grokipedia aggressively cite sources from the web, with most generated pages at 200+ citations. Though it mostly looks like they created a million keywords and ran deep research reports for them.
Anthropic is turning Claude into an Excel monkey, releasing Claude for Excel as a research preview (available to the first 1000 Max, Enterprise, and Teams users). It’s also expanding Claude for Financial Services (an Enterprise plan) with connectors for real-time market data, pre-built Agent Skills, and more.
Every is hosting a workshop this Friday with ME - Droid Camp. Danny and Kieran from the Every team will show how they are shipping products using Droid, Factory’s CLI agent (here’s a tutorial to get you started). ps: We’re also hiring at Factory AI for our Business Operations team (in-person in SF).
With automatic enrichment, call intelligence, AI agents, flexible workflows and more, Attio works for any team and only takes minutes to set up. Industry leaders like Granola, TaskRabbit, and Flatfile are already experiencing what’s next. Try Attio Pro for free.*
🌐 What I’m consuming
Fork your data like you fork your code. How Tigris brings Git-style workflows to datasets, letting you clone massive buckets instantly for experimentation.*
Amjad Masad and Marc Andreessen on AI agents, AGI, creativity, and reasoning.
Why we built TLDW - A tool that helps people learn from long YouTube videos.
On policy distillation - The best of both SFT and RL with an order of magnitude lower cost. (by Thinking Machines)
LangChain Essentials - Learn the basics of LangChain, the open-source framework.
A quick review of vibe coding in Google AI Studio.
Why Stagehound is graduating from Playwright.
⚙️ Tools and dev resources
Voice AI that’s on brand and human? See how BMW did it with Voices. Join Voices.com’s product launch Nov 13, 1PM ET to learn how.*
v0 - Vercel’s vibe coding tool is now available on iOS as well.
TypeOS - Write, edit and format Google Docs with AI. Cursor for Google Docs.
Gumloop Agents - Build agents that can decide which tools and workflows to use to complete your tasks.
React Grab - Select an element, give it to AI as context and make a change to your page.
Kimi CLI - Open-source hybrid of a shell and a coding agent written in Python.
Tinker by Thinking Machines now also supports gpt-oss models and DeepSeek v3.1
📊 Charts you should see
MiniMax-M2, another model from China, scores just a little shy of Sonnet 4.5 and it is also open-source.
Making GPT-5 safe - OpenAI updated GPT-5 earlier this month with guidance from mental health experts. The new model performs as desired 91% of the time vs the old average of 77%. Also in the post: about 0.15% of weekly active users of ChatGPT talk about suicide related topics—that’s more than a million people.
🍦 Afters
Windsurf has a new stealth model, Falcon Alpha.
This new study claims that organic traffic from LLMs is not just “low quantity”, but it’s low quality as well, underperforming everything except paid social media content.
US Department of Energy signed a $1B deal with AMD to build two supercomputers.
That’s it for today. Feel free to comment and share your thoughts. 👋
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