Gradient Ascent
Sairam SundaresanGradient Ascent is your weekly guide to AI, trusted by Silicon Valley's top tech firms and the best academic labs worldwide.
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Agent Skills, DeepMind Reads a Model's Mind, and GitHub's One-Word Repo Leak: The Tokenizer Edition #34
Hey there! Alibaba can now turn flat satellite photos into a 3D city you fly through, at about ten minutes per square kilometer. A security researcher got GitHub’s coding agent to hand over a private repo by slipping one ordinary word into...
Vercel's Agent Framework, Netflix's Generative Homepage, and a Repo That Writes Less Code: The Tokenizer Edition #33
Hey there! Netflix now builds its entire homepage with one model and serves it about 20% faster than the pipeline it replaced. The best coding agents still can’t finish a playable game more than 41% of the time. And one of the fastest-growi...
The PM’s Guide to Managing AI Debt
AI debt is more than technical debt. It’s options debt: losing your ability to respond when AI systems break in production. This is Part I of a series that describes the tools PMs and AI product owners can use for managing AI debt.
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Groq on Endless Compute, Inside Claude's Mind, and GLM-5.2 Open Weights - The Tokenizer Edition #32
Hey there! This week was about reading what models do under the hood and paying less to run them. Anthropic found a way to read a model’s internal state as plain English. Groq’s founder explains why cheaper AI only grows the compute bill. A...
Spotify's Agent Context Layer, DeepMind's Nine Erdős Proofs, and GitHub's Spec-Kit - The Tokenizer Edition #31
Hey there! This week, the scaffolding around the model did more work than the model itself. A 20B search agent beats a 30B rival by storing its memory in the harness. Spotify’s data assistant handles 13,000+ conversations because domain exp...
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