Links Justin Sends 2/28

Happy Friday!

My co-founder Aaron and I did a fireside chat about the intersection of energy and AI last night at NJIT as a prelude to us testifying at the New Jersey State Legislature about the same topic this upcoming on Monday.

With AI advancing as rapidly as it is, we need to make sure our power grid can keep up to the ongoing demands.

We'll let you all know how it goes in next week's Links Justin Sends!

Now on to the links you've came here for:

⚡️ Stripe: Agent SDK. Check out all of the functionality Stripe’s able to empower agents with.

🍎 Apple: Apple investing more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years. The biggest part of this announcement is that Apple silicon chips will be manufactured in the U.S., including phone processors and M-series chips that excel at local AI.

🐙 OctoTools: Stanford introduces OctoTools—an open-source framework for complex reasoning.

🔨 Minions: Introducing Minions. Pairing local small models with large cloud models to optimize for cost, accuracy, and efficiency.

🤖 Convergence: Open-source release. Convergence announced the release of ProxyLite 3B, an open-source model designed for web navigation.

🖥️ SaaS: All-in guide on how to code a SaaS from zero to product, leveraging AI. Three-hour video from Mark Lowe on how AI can enhance programmers' broader impact.

✨ Anthropic: Launching a new model. Claude 3.7 is Anthropic’s most advanced model yet, though some developers report mixed experiences for coding tasks.

💰️ Lovable: Raised an additional $15 million. Lovable is an exciting AI code generation tool—looking forward to what they deliver next.

🖥️ Framework: Framework released a tiny desktop powered by Ryzen AI Max processors. For $2,000, you can get 128GB of shared memory with a capped-out AI Max processor.

🌱 Perplexity: Announces a $50 million seed and pre-seed fund, aimed at backing cutting-edge early AI technologies.

🔖 Mark: Say hello to Mark, an AI-powered bookmark that helps readers remember what they read.

💸 CoreWeave: CoreWeave is considering filing for a $4 billion IPO.

🌐 Ocelot: Amazon announces new quantum computing chip, Ocelot.

👓️ Aria Gen 2: Meta introduces Aria Gen 2, AI-powered glasses for the next generation.

💡 GPT-4.5: OpenAI releases GPT-4.5. I've tested it already, and it's pretty impressive.

👋 Diffusion LLM: First large diffusion-based LLM. Typically, LLMs use transformer-based architecture, but this one uses a diffusion approach.

Have a great weekend!

-Justin

aka the guy with great AI links

Co-founder & Head of Technology @ BetterFutureLabs

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