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[State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
- ▶ 19:28 unnamed speaker I went to Microsoft, or? 2 times in the scene
One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
- ▶ 1:44 David Soria Parra And then like, you had this like inflection point around April with like Sam Altman and Satya and Sundar and all, um, posting about like MCP and that they're going to adopt MCP at Microsoft, at Google.
- ▶ 12:00 David Soria Parra We literally just spent the last two days at the Google offices with a bunch of, like, scene engineers from Google, Microsoft, AWS, Anthropic, OpenAI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:32 David Soria Parra You know, Google has a different set of problems, like Microsoft and, and a lot of it comes from like just the ways of building things.
- ▶ 1:33:57 Jim Zemlin So it wasn't clear what the abstraction layer for cloud computing was, but once the market started sort of piling on to Kubernetes, you know, like, oh, now Microsoft joined cloud-native computing
- ▶ 1:35:53 David Soria Parra Like if I really take a neutral look at like what just happened in the industry with creating this, it's like you have Google, Microsoft, Amazon, um, uh, Block, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, OpenAI, Anthropic.
Steve Yegge's Vibe Coding Manifesto: Why Claude Code Isn't It & What Comes After the IDE
- ▶ 29:35 unnamed speaker You had Microsoft, like, all pointing guns at each other.
SAM 3: The Eyes for AI — Nikhila & Pengchuan (Meta Superintelligence), ft. Joseph Nelson (Roboflow)
- ▶ 2:57 Pengchuan Zhang I have been working in, uh, MSR for five years and then kind of moved to meta-reality lab to work on, uh, egocentric foundation models, uh, on AI glasses for a while.
The Future of Email: Superhuman CTO on Your Inbox As the Real AI Agent (Not ChatGPT) — Loïc Houssier
- ▶ 16:48 Loïc Houssier I was looking for like a, I was at a conference, they shared with me like a PowerPoint link and it was like six months ago 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:25 Loïc Houssier So we rely on Gmail and Outlook, of course, because they do, they are doing like some great stuff that we don't want to do, spam detection. 3 times in the scene
World Models & General Intuition: Khosla's largest bet since LLMs & OpenAI
- ▶ 18:11 Pim de Witte Yeah, like Flight Simulator, you get like, you know, the joystick and all, all the things.
⚡️ Building the AI Hardware Engineer with Matthias Wagner, Co-founder of Flux
- ▶ 14:43 Matthias Wagner We use Azure for that.
⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
- ▶ 0:04 unnamed speaker Alright, we are here for a very special edition of Lanespace with my buddy, Jared Palmer, uh, SVP at GitHub and VP at CoreAI at Microsoft.
- ▶ 16:33 Jared Palmer And, you know, one of the things that Microsoft has done really well is by putting things that are, um, alike closer together.
- ▶ 16:40 Jared Palmer And so you think about the new core core AI organization, you've got Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, GitHub, and parts of Azure, all in one.
- ▶ 18:30 unnamed speaker Um, just a side tangent on this, uh, so one of the things that Microsoft also owns, I don't know if it's Microsoft or GitHub, is dev containers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:17 Jared Palmer And just like some of his, he's got some Excel spreadsheets and, uh, for like accounting, like, like, uh, financial accounting or managerial accounting, I guess. 2 times in the scene
⚡ Inside Google Labs: Building The Gemini Coding Agent — Jed Borovik, Jules + AIE CODE Preview
How Zyphra went all-in on AMD + Why Devs feel faster with AI but are slower — with Quentin Anthony
- ▶ 2:52 Quentin Anthony Then moving to Zyphra, there were a lot of companies, um, smaller clouds like, uh, TensorFlow, for example, um, and then larger players like, you know, Azure and whatnot were starting to move more to AMD, specifically on inference serving,…
- ▶ 21:27 Quentin Anthony If I was sort of in house, maybe, um, XAI is a good example of this, or Microsoft is another one where they kind of know the model architecture a priori, um, then they absolutely should make an ASIC that is custom designed for that model…
Building Jamba 3B: the tiny Hybrid Transformer State Space Reasoning Model - Barak Lenz, CTO of AI21
- ▶ 20:33 unnamed speaker Like the DeepSpeed team from Microsoft is like, uh, is doing good stuff.
Taste is your Moat (Dylan Field of Figma)
- ▶ 42:47 Dylan Field These idiots, like, how do you short this thing?
⚡️Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Anthropic's roadmap for Agents and Developers — Mike Krieger, Anthropic
- ▶ 5:00 Mike Krieger Once we added file creation capabilities to Claude, um, so it can, you know, create PowerPoints and create Excels, et cetera, is I have a very specific thing, which is research Nintendo, I don't know why I have Nintendo on my mind, I…
- ▶ 5:00 Mike Krieger Once we added file creation capabilities to Claude, um, so it can, you know, create PowerPoints and create Excels, et cetera, is I have a very specific thing, which is research Nintendo, I don't know why I have Nintendo on my mind, I…
- ▶ 6:21 Mike Krieger So if you're going to make an Excel file, it's not just correct, which is obviously really important, but it also, you know, matches the style of, you know, that was requested.
- ▶ 6:28 Mike Krieger If you're going to make a PowerPoint deck, make it something where you're going to talk to be a hundred percent right off the bat, just like code wasn't a hundred percent right off the bat, you know, a year and a half ago.
Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes
- ▶ 44:14 Thorsten Ball And then you say like, well, at the heart of this new personal computer, the Pentium three, whatever, there's a weird op from outer space. 2 times in the scene
⚡️No, Don't Do Palantir for AI - Brendan Falk, Hercules (AUDIO FIXED)
- ▶ 17:33 Brendan Falk It's in a Word document, and you'd click on the Word document, and there was an Excel spreadsheet embedded
- ▶ 17:33 Brendan Falk It's in a Word document, and you'd click on the Word document, and there was an Excel spreadsheet embedded 2 times in the scene
⚡️Launching Ona: Coding Agent with Fully Sandboxed Cloud Environment
- ▶ 3:26 Johannes (Johannes Landgraf) Extensions that is not hosted by Microsoft.
Better Data is All You Need — Ari Morcos, Datology
- ▶ 47:15 Shawn Wang Uh, what I was really referencing was, uh, this is the Microsoft V papers, right?
Long Live Context Engineering - with Jeff Huber of Chroma
- ▶ 41:21 Jeff Huber We all remember running defrag on our Windows machines in a Gen.D.A.
The AI Agenda: GPT5 leaks and the business of AI News — Steph Palazzolo, The Information
- ▶ 5:01 Stephanie Palazzolo And so we have reporters who are covering like the major tech companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, but then we also have reporters that are covering like cloud more broadly or chips or like crypto.
- ▶ 9:16 Stephanie Palazzolo So you're like a knockoff Amazon or like a knockoff like Azure or Google cloud, um, which is like a bit derogatory.
⚡️OpenCode: Claude Code but Open Source, with Any Model, and frontier TUI - with Dax Reed (@thdxr)
The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)
- ▶ 7:05 Nathan Lambert So like when it's searching for a niche piece of information, it, you can't know what the next actions are without whatever feedback from my Bing searches is what they say they use.
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 24:24 Varun Mohan So it seems like I would really love to see what the product looks like there, because there's a lot of text there, you know, looking at Bing, Bing AI, like, I mean, it's, it's pretty cool, but it seems like
- ▶ 36:11 Varun Mohan And this is kind of like what, what Bing search is looking like, right?
- ▶ 36:15 Varun Mohan Or Bing chat is sort of looking like where it's like the model is probably, there's probably some model that's saying, I want this information.
- ▶ 2:09:04 Varun Mohan Let's take a product like Office three 65. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:09:06 Varun Mohan I will say a lawyer at Codium uses Microsoft Word way more than I do. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:10:31 Shawn Wang Very, very hot and popular, especially from like the Microsoft research point of view.
- ▶ 2:14:16 Varun Mohan Lots of different environments that we're going to improve performance on, and I think we would love to hear from folks across the gamut, like, hey, like, if you have this environment, you use Windows in X version, it didn't work, or this… 6 times in the scene
AI is Eating Search
- ▶ 33:28 Robert McCloy How can I, like, use Excel to build my financial model?
⚡️ARC-AGI-3: The Interactive Reasoning Benchmark
- ▶ 30:56 Shawn Wang And, and even OpenAI, I think in their current communications, they no longer say like, at least not in the public ones, you know, with whatever they have with Microsoft, you know, it's like, if we like make a hundred billion dollars in…
⚡️The Future of Notebooks - with Akshay Agrawal of Marimo
- ▶ 8:43 Akshay Agrawal It's just based on variable declarations and references, kind of like Excel in some sense, right?
- ▶ 9:03 Akshay Agrawal It's Microsoft Paint in a Marima notebook.
Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
- ▶ 10:07 Saoud (Saud) Rizwan No, I, I actually like pity anybody that has to fork VS Code because Microsoft makes it like notoriously difficult to maintain these forks. 2 times in the scene
Information Theory for Language Models: Jack Morris
- ▶ 10:43 Shawn Wang Honestly, try to reach out to the DeepSpeed team at Microsoft.
⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes
- ▶ 43:49 Zach Lloyd But they might be like, we have a internal Azure based open AI LLM endpoint, and we don't want you going to the public endpoint.
- ▶ 49:57 Zach Lloyd It's free to try on every platform, Mac, Linux, Windows.
The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
- ▶ 1:14:16 Chris Lattner Um, just, just this morning, a person from Microsoft published a paper, uh,
Quadratic: The AI Spreadsheet
- ▶ 6:28 David Kirkos Uh, we have similar formula set to Excel and Google Sheets. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:44 Shawn Wang Like, you know, I always say that the big three categories of business apps, it's docs, it's slides and sheets, which obviously maps to Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel.
- ▶ 8:44 Shawn Wang Like, you know, I always say that the big three categories of business apps, it's docs, it's slides and sheets, which obviously maps to Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel.
- ▶ 10:28 David Kirkos Yeah, today we support MySQL, Microsoft Server, Snowflake, Postgres.
- ▶ 21:43 David Kirkos I think they often don't have time to mess around in Excel and they see AI as like, oh, AI is gonna, you know, help me do this really quickly.
[AIEWF Preview] Containing Agent Chaos — Solomon Hykes
- ▶ 21:11 unnamed speaker Like I've had this exact same call, same problems with the Microsoft team and they're pushing dev container and obviously dev container is not enough, but whatever that, you know, they want to build around it. 4 times in the scene
⚡️Multi-Turn RL for Multi-Hour Agents — with Will Brown, Prime Intellect
- ▶ 0:51 Shawn Wang Like Monday was Microsoft Build, Tuesday, Wednesday, Google, and then today is Claude.
Why Every Agent needs Open Source Cloud Sandboxes
- ▶ 13:21 Vasek Mlejnsky You want to create a, uh, Excel sheet.
- ▶ 54:30 Shawn Wang Windows. 2 times in the scene
Tiny Teams: $6m ARR, 5m users with 4 employees — Sid Bendre, Oleve (Quizard AI/Unstuck AI)
- ▶ 22:30 Sid Bendre One, because we got a shit ton of credits from Azure, like, about, like, okay, and credits, but on top of that, it's also because 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:10 unnamed speaker I mean, I mean, what, what it comes down to is that you are necessarily the multi-model now and you cannot just be Azure opening credits, right?
SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute
- ▶ 9:41 Evan Conrad So if you're, you know, selling to Microsoft or something, or OpenAI. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:08 Michael Swix (Swyx) So why didn't NVIDIA or Microsoft, both of which have more money than CoreWeave, do CoreWeave, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:04 Michael Swix (Swyx) You opened up Microsoft Word and you did some serif.
The Creators of Model Context Protocol
- ▶ 1:17:40 unnamed speaker One is done by Microsoft.
The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot
- ▶ 5:42 Dharmesh Shah That's the Microsoft one.
- ▶ 38:32 Dharmesh Shah But I think what's going to happen is that in the same way you might collaborate with a team member on Slack or Teams or whatever you use,
- ▶ 1:39:01 Dharmesh Shah I mean, I'll get on Zooms with Teams, but no one-on-one meetings, no one-on-one, uh, it just doesn't scale.
Building Manus AI (first ever Manus Meetup)
- ▶ 20:55 unnamed speaker Actually, one year ago, we, we build our own browser use, given before browser use, and our browser can interact with other apps, like, you can just export a page into Excel, yeah, things like that.
- ▶ 34:13 unnamed speaker Yeah, if there are some software that needs to run on Windows, uh, or maybe on Android, yeah, so things like that.
[Lightning Pod] Evals: How to Improve AI Consistently — with Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar
- ▶ 20:34 Shreya Shankar It's yeah, like there's no like Excel like equivalent, you know, that everybody's going to find is the perfect way to look at their data. 2 times in the scene
Browserbase: Browser Infrastructure For Your AI Agents
- ▶ 49:33 Paul Klein Like, I think that there are some applications that only run on Windows operating systems and 3 times in the scene
Raycast: Your AI Automation Assistant
- ▶ 18:36 Thomas Paul Mann Like our future is basically turning Mac OS and we also now expanding the windows and iOS and really like a AI native operating system.
The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- ▶ 2:43 Bret Taylor And then, and then when I left, it was like Microsoft, IBM, and then the two startups that I applied to were VMware and Google.
- ▶ 5:10 Bret Taylor They had made a Windows app called Expedition, which had beautiful maps. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:32 Bret Taylor And then we, because of Lars and Yen sort of like setting the bar of this windows app, we're like, we need our maps to be draggable.
- ▶ 13:20 Bret Taylor But see the word XML there, to be fair, the way you made HTTP requests from a client to server was this object called XML HTTP request because Microsoft in and making Outlook web access back in the day made this and it turns out to have…
- ▶ 17:40 Bret Taylor I think most people listening probably use, uh, copilots to code like Cursor or Devon or Microsoft Copilot or whatever.
- ▶ 23:20 Bret Taylor So open AI and Microsoft, Anthropic and Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, XAI, which is very well capitalized now.
- ▶ 1:07:00 Bret Taylor I always use the metaphor where like a bunch of accountants and Microsoft Excel was just invented. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:21 unnamed speaker Um, the, uh, the, the Microsoft offer was real, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:15 unnamed speaker The reason I bring up Microsoft is because, I mean, obviously huge backer. 7 times in the scene
Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
- ▶ 56:35 Samuel Colvin It's basically like worse than Excel or similarly bad to Excel. 3 times in the scene
The Agent Reasoning Interface: Claude, ChatGPT Canvas, Tasks, Operator — with Karina Nguyen, OpenAI
- ▶ 48:56 Shawn Wang We'll, we'll like make PowerPoints.
OpenAI o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point)
- ▶ 21:21 Dan McAteer We have a chat bot that you can deploy through teams or slack.
Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
- ▶ 32:08 comfyanonymous (Comfy) Try to remove the least amount of modelings that are already loaded, because it spans, like, Windows, driver, and another problem is the NVIDIA driver on Windows by default, because there's a way to, there's an option to disable that… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:50 comfyanonymous (Comfy) Because that's, once the, once we have our V one release, which is because it'd be the package comfy wide with the device interface and easy to install on Windows.
2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- ▶ 43:47 Shawn Wang And I think it's like quite useful, like windows as well, rolling out RWKB. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:07 Shawn Wang And RWKB, of course, is rolling out on Windows.