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Simulating Humanity: from Generative Agents to 8 Billion Digital Twins — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
- ▶ 1:10:28 Joon Sung Park Many of them actually come from places where we have personal connections with, so many of the members are from Figma, Notion, RV, and so forth, but also more broadly from the companies that we as a team have really admired.
⚡️Every product of the future will be a living system — Ronak Malde, Trajectory.ai
- ▶ 29:37 Ronak Malde You can imagine like the Airtable, Notion, those sort of companies.
⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founder, Chatbase
- ▶ 26:16 Yasser Elsaid We have this document on notion called the go to market manifesto.
Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
- ▶ 0:27 Sarah Sachs Notion is dedicated to being the best system of record for where people do their enterprise work. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:40 Shawn Wang We're back in the beautiful studio that Alessio has set up for us with Simon and Sarah from Notion.
- ▶ 1:48 Shawn Wang Congrats on the launch recently, custom agents. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:05 Simon Last There wasn't really the word agent yet, but, oh, we'll give it access to all the tools that notion can do. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:15 Sarah Sachs Is really what will set notion apart for every new capability is we have like two skills that are crucial when it comes to frontier capabilities. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:48 Alessio Fanelli With Notion, it's almost like more of the expertise is at the edge because you as a platform, you're like so horizontal that the end user is not really the same. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:37 Sarah Sachs And when you do that, then the second rule of engineering leadership is like, you need to build a team that's comfortable deleting their own code and is very low ego and is driven by what's best for the company and doesn't write design… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:34 Sarah Sachs That's more for people that aren't directly working on the project, feeling like they have the time to pause and learn how to make themselves more productive or how they would use Notion custom agents to build something or
- ▶ 17:30 Sarah Sachs I mean, that's how we shift image generation and notion now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:28 Sarah Sachs And then every team that has a product service at Notion that a user can interface with owns the tool that the agent interfaces with, the editor team.
- ▶ 20:07 Sarah Sachs Something to understand that's really unique about Notion, one of the reasons I joined, we're super lucky, is no one uses Notion in their job as much as people that work at Notion. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:04 Sarah Sachs So, you know, if we're going to do image generation in Notion, all of a sudden the way that we do attachments and the way that we, um, our LLM completion, like Cortex talks and expects tokens back and now it's getting images back.
- ▶ 26:54 Sarah Sachs And so we spent a lot of time thinking about what Notion's last exam looks like, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:11 Shawn Wang Is there a date or no software engineers at Notion? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:38 Shawn Wang Um, and we try, try is a big word, like since day one, Latent Space has been on Notion, but this is the, this is the new thing. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:57 Sarah Sachs Like, that's like one of the first things that we built internally, I think, and it's completely changed the way that Notion functions as a company.
- ▶ 38:29 Sarah Sachs Well, they use the system of record, which is Notion. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:43 Alessio Fanelli So when I was setting this up, uh, I connected my inbox and it was like, do you want to use Gmail or Notion Mail? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:51 Alessio Fanelli I'm curious how you think about, you know, Notion Mail, Notion Calendar, all of these kind of UI UX interfaces.
- ▶ 39:57 Shawn Wang Full stack notion. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:40 Sarah Sachs I'll add two more perspectives, not from it working well for Notion, but how Notion like commits to both platforms.
- ▶ 44:23 Sarah Sachs And particularly because our custom agents are using usage-based pricing, we think of pricing as like the barrier of entry for use of our product, and we're quite committed to making sure that it's not wasteful.
- ▶ 45:38 Sarah Sachs Do you mean for when we ship Notion capabilities or when we add capabilities to Notion AI? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:38 Sarah Sachs Do you mean for when we ship Notion capabilities or when we add capabilities to Notion AI? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:03 Simon Last And a big, a big learning in that version is we were catering way too much to what made sense for Notion and Notion's data model versus what the model wants. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:30 Simon Last It's not in custom agents yet, but it will be like, like next week, a week after. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:33 Simon Last So, um, there's now like over a hundred tools just for all, all the crazy notion stuff.
- ▶ 1:02:46 Alessio Fanelli How do you think about, so you have Notion credits as a payment for this, which is like separate from the usual tokens that the model generates. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:32 Sarah Sachs I feel like they are just getting more and more capable and more and more expensive, which is fantastic for the use cases of when people want to do really complicated things on Notion. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:34 Sarah Sachs And that's where, again, having, um, more public system prompt is like beneficial to Notion, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:48 Sarah Sachs It kind of breaks our block model entirely, um, where all blocks are nested in each other. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:48 Sarah Sachs It kind of breaks our block model entirely, um, where all blocks are nested in each other.
- ▶ 1:19:14 Sarah Sachs I think what's really powerful about it is, again, Notion is the system of record of where and how you work. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:00 Sarah Sachs I think it's like, it's a, it's a mechanism and it, it, one of those needs to work really well with Notion. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:29 Sarah Sachs So like if you're entering like a conference, um, being able to like do like look at your CRM and do things like that, um, and you can utilize the Notion agent to do that.
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 43:00 Felix Rieseberg Um, I myself like spend a little bit of time working in Notion, right?
Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
- ▶ 20:08 Simon Eskildsen It started getting really painful in like mid-twenty-twenty-four, because we were closing deals with, um, um, Notion actually, that was running in AWS, and we're like, trust us, you, you really want us to run this in GCP?
- ▶ 21:17 Simon Eskildsen You're like connecting your own like data center or whatever, but it's like, it was uniquely just a pain with Notion because the, um, the, or like most of the, like if you're buying in Ashburn, Virginia, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:14 Shawn Wang Which is like, they, I mean, Notion is a database company. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:48 Simon Eskildsen Like notion does a ridiculous amount of queries in every round trip, just because they can't.
- ▶ 36:15 Shawn Wang When you had cursor, you had notion, you had no funding. 3 times in the scene
⚡️Context Graphs: according to the authors — Jaya Gupta, Ashu Garg, Foundation Capital
- ▶ 0:40 Jaya Gupta Like, it was, like, literally right after ChatGPT, and I think the only things that really existed were Langchain, Llama Index, and, like, Perplexity were, like, sort of the three companies that came out right after, and so anything that…
Artificial Analysis: The Independent LLM Analysis House — with George Cameron and Micah Hill-Smith
- ▶ 47:48 Micah Hill-Smith Based on it, the things that, like, I find most impressive currently that I am somewhat surprised work really well in late 25 are that I can have models use Superbase MCP to read only, of course, run a whole bunch of SQL queries to do…
The Future of Email: Superhuman CTO on Your Inbox As the Real AI Agent (Not ChatGPT) — Loïc Houssier
- ▶ 44:57 Shawn Wang Pursuing this, like notions, trying to go after it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:00 Shawn Wang Then obviously they really care about AI.
- ▶ 45:00 Shawn Wang Then obviously they really care about AI.
⚡️ Building the AI Hardware Engineer with Matthias Wagner, Co-founder of Flux
- ▶ 42:29 Matthias Wagner It's very, like, similar to, like, Notion or Figma's go-to-market motion here, right?
Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
- ▶ 1:04:41 Shawn Wang Notion has like this notion speech thing.
⚡️ The State of AI Engineer Hiring: Cheating, AI Adoption,Junior Devs — Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank
- ▶ 39:56 unnamed speaker Notion has it.
The Agents Economy Backbone - with Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Data & AI at Stripe
- ▶ 1:00:36 Shawn "swyx" Wang You guys use Notion as well.
Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes
- ▶ 42:29 Quinn Slack And frankly, it confounds me that people, more people don't do this and make it so that my Google docs and notion and linear and GitHub issues are all accessible to my agent.
The AI Agenda: GPT5 leaks and the business of AI News — Steph Palazzolo, The Information
- ▶ 1:00:57 Shawn Wang It's, it's basically granola and notion.
⚡️Composio: 10,000+ tools that evolve for Agents — Karan Vaidya and Soham Ganatra
- ▶ 11:33 Karan Vaidya So like create a notion doc and send a meeting invite just in natural language and we'll do that in the backend.
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes
- ▶ 9:51 Zach Lloyd I have notion.
The AI Coding Factory
- ▶ 18:06 Matan Grinberg Slack, Notion, linear, like Datadog, Sentry, PagerDude.
- ▶ 35:16 Shawn Wang When you started saying things like, oh, we can pull in from Notion, we can pull it from Slack, like that sounded like a lot of context.
DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
- ▶ 28:50 unnamed speaker Do you, do you guys intend, is this like part of, it looks like the Notion page is no longer shared.
The #1 SWE-Bench Verified Agent
- ▶ 18:36 Guy Gur-Ari So we have GitHub linear notion that, that we use, uh, internally, and then we have several others.
Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith
- ▶ 43:28 Shawn Wang Because right now, you know, we like to say like, oh, use Notion has Notion AI, and we have the little thing there, and there's, or like some other, any other platform has like the sparkle magic wand emoji, like that's our AI feature, use…
- ▶ 43:28 Shawn Wang Because right now, you know, we like to say like, oh, use Notion has Notion AI, and we have the little thing there, and there's, or like some other, any other platform has like the sparkle magic wand emoji, like that's our AI feature, use…
Raycast: Your AI Automation Assistant
- ▶ 2:07 Thomas Paul Mann And they're like thousands of extensions now, like ranging from linear or notion to zoom.
2024 in Post-Transformer Architectures: State Space Models, RWKV [Latent Space LIVE! @ NeurIPS 2024]
- ▶ 35:13 Eugene Cheah Let me do a database search, two search, just like us humans, when we can't remember the article in the company, we do a search on Notion.
The State of AI Startups in 2024 [LS Live @ NeurIPS]
- ▶ 7:20 Pranav Reddy The kind of data that a text editor had, or that like something like notion or coda that's somewhere in the volume of a couple thousand dollars to create that volume of tokens.
[Paper Club] Weight Streaming on Wafer-Scale Clusters (w/ Sarah Chieng of Cerebras)
- ▶ 11:36 Sarah Chieng Um, I have a notion doc of all the notes that I, um, wrote up and I'll present the notes next to the paper.
- ▶ 43:33 unnamed speaker You can also, uh, just open it up to Q&A, but first of all, um, also have applause for great presentation and also drop the notion.
Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
- ▶ 23:41 Florent Crivello Airtable or Notion, basically the entire no-code space is very horizontal.
- ▶ 25:38 Florent Crivello It is going to be the same sort of community as what, yeah, Webflow, Zapier, Airtable, Notion, to some extent.
- ▶ 46:17 Florent Crivello I mean, one very small example, again, at a small scale is we used to have everything on Notion. 2 times in the scene
Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
- ▶ 25:58 Stanislas Polu Maintaining connections to Notion, Slack, GitHub, all of them is a lot of work.
- ▶ 35:01 Stanislas Polu By creating those assistants that cover those small parts of that weekly meeting, slowly we're getting to, in a world where we'll have a weekly meeting assistant, we'll just call it, you're going to prompt it, you don't need to say…
- ▶ 45:15 Stanislas Polu And the reality is that if you look at Notion, Airby does the job of taking Notion and putting it in a structured way, but that's a way that is not really usable to actually make it available to, to models in a useful way. 5 times in the scene
Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
- ▶ 16:07 unnamed speaker Uh, the logos are Instacart, Stripe, Zapier, Airtable, Notion, Replit, Brex, Versailles, Coda, and the Browser Company of New York.
- ▶ 26:03 Ankur Goyal If you look at some of the really early AI adopters like Notion, for example, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:20 Ankur Goyal But, you know, very, very iterative company, like Ivan and Simon and a couple others, like hacked the first, uh, versions of Notion AI.
- ▶ 39:47 Ankur Goyal You can share it, and it's collaborative, kind of like Google Docs, Notion, Figma, etc.
Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting — with Shunyu Yao of OpenAI, Harrison Chase of LangGraph
- ▶ 1:10:53 Shunyu Yao Some people use Google Doc, some people use Notion, some people use paper and pen. 3 times in the scene
High Agency Pydantic over VC Backed Frameworks — with Jason Liu of Instructor
Personal AI Meetup - Bee, BasedHardware, LangChain LangFriend, Deepgram EmilyAI
- ▶ 6:29 unnamed speaker I want to share my shortcut as well, so my shortcut is, I wrote some code to do it, but when I press my action button on Apple Watch, it also starts recording, and, ah, it listens to what I say, and saves it locally, ah, and then I, I, ah,…
A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
- ▶ 32:43 Ben Firshman Um, so we documented the API in an Ocean document, like our internal API in an Ocean document, and, like, messaged this person being like, hey, you seem to have found our API. 2 times in the scene
The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
- ▶ 34:37 Shawn Wang Um, and I, you know, as you, as you mentioned, you know, all these, these sort of connections, and I, I, it does remind me that you're running up against Zapier, um, you're running up against, uh, maybe Notion in, in, in, in the distant…
- ▶ 35:22 David Hsu If you're, like, building a sales ops tool, you're probably not considering Notion if you're a developer.
Powering your Copilot for Data - with Artem Keydunov from Cube.dev
- ▶ 26:15 Alessio Fanelli You know, we had Linus from, from Notion on the pod, and one of the ideas he had that I really like is kind of like thumbnails of text, kind of like, how do you, like, compress knowledge and then start to expand it?
RAG is a hack - with Jerry Liu of LlamaIndex
- ▶ 33:44 Shawn Wang How many people actually are there with it versus just like, let's just dump a whole company notion into this thing.
- ▶ 39:59 Jerry Liu Which is, um, you know, a collection of different data loaders of, like, unstructured and unstructured data, um, like PDFs, file types, like, uh, Slack, uh, Notion, uh, all that stuff.
- ▶ 55:12 Jerry Liu Um, and then I think maybe it's like one of Slack or Notion. 2 times in the scene
RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- ▶ 1:34:57 Eugene Cheah And, and I would say, like, Notion, probably, it's like, probably one good example of how they use it, because we know underneath the hood is OpenAI, but it's, you really use OpenAI.