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Happy Friday!

BetterFutureLabs hosted our 3rd AI Night with TechUnited last night and we had some amazing demos from the AI startups Syncrux, RegKey, and Cookd!

My cofounder Aaron and I also did a fireside chat about a variety of AI topics.

Big thank you to Jared Sorin and Brown Rudnick for hosting us in their NYC office!

The next AI night is going to be in Hoboken on April 17th. Use the code `BFL_GUESTS` to register here for a free ticket: https://lu.ma/aidnights4

Now on to the Links you came here for 👇️ 

🤏 AMD Supports Tiny Corp: Tiny corp is leading the way in cross compatible GPU AI inference — a huge boost to AMD since their chips can’t use Nvidia’s proprietary CUDA interface. Shocked it took this long for AMD to notice the value Tiny Corp can add to their product stack — it really should be an acquisition target for them.

⛰️ PlanetScale Metal: Enables you to run databases on a cloud provider’s compute rather than separate storage. This means you can run on the fastest NVMe and have blazing fast high throughput data loads.

🎱 Mozilla Ocho Launches Llamafile: Combines everything you need to run an LLM into a single-file executable.

🗣️ Cartesia Raises Series A: Raised $64 million led by Kleiner Perkins to build next generation voice models.

🤖 OpenAI API Agents: OpenAI launched their own agentic ai framework for developers to use. It’s very immature compared to AG2, Autogen, and CrewAI as well as a lot of key capabilities for amazing multi-agent orchestration are missing — but it is a great step forward on enabling less researchy developers to create their own AI agents.

🌐 OpenAI Web Search: This was OpenAI’s golden update of the week in my opinion — exposing the great web search functionality integrated in their applications for general use is HUGE.

🪛 Gemini 2.0 Robotics: Google launched their newest robotics models designed to bring AI into the physical world.

🛩️ Gemma 3 Models: Google released their next generation of open Gemma models — I am a huge fan of the Gemma model family, it has a great efficiency to capability ratio. Looking forward to testing out this next generation over the weekend.

💻️ CoreWeave Lands OpenAI deal: CoreWeave closed a $11.9 billion deal for OpenAI to expand their GPU capacity — interestingly enough the deal includes OpenAI acquiring $350 million of CoreWeave stock as well.

🪖 State of the Art Military AI Application: This press release reads like a buzzword salad, but it’s one of the first large scale deployment of state of the art AI systems in the US Military.

Have a great weekend!

-Justin

aka the guy with great AI links

Co-founder & Head of Technology @ BetterFutureLabs

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