🗣️ “Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of most people when they are enjoying a conversation.” - Peter Elbow Hello Reader, This past Monday I presented at the Christchurch AI Meetup. We meet the 2nd Monday of every month at EPIC Innovation. If you are a local, you can join our Meetup group to get notified of upcoming events. You can watch the replay here. We had 3 speakers presenting on...

📊 “I honestly think ChatGPT Voice is one of the most important technology advancements of our lives.” - Alex Finn Hello Reader, If you tried ChatGPT Voice before, and you were unimpressed, try it again. The previous Voice experience was interesting, but awkward. It interrupted pauses. It misread the end of a sentence. It responded too quickly when you were still gathering your thoughts. Talking to it felt like you had to manage an over-caffeinated friend, who was too enthusiastic to...

🏆 "Kimi K3 is the best performing model on http://nextjs.org/evals, ahead of Fable, reaching a comparable success rate in less time. This is the first time that an open model is ahead of all proprietary ones for this comprehensive web engineering benchmark." - Guillermo Rauch Hello Reader, The conventional wisdom has been: open-source models are 3-6 months behind frontier models. If you wanted best-in-class reasoning, you had to pay for your tokens through a Frontier model. You could pay...