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Michael Nuñez
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Everyone's racing to build better chatbots.

Alembic just raised $145M betting that's the wrong race.

Their thesis: As models converge, proprietary data + causal reasoning = the only moat that matters.

My story on why they might be right: venturebeat.com/ai/alembic-m...
November 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Anthropic's Claude AI now integrates directly with Excel for financial modeling — its biggest play yet for Wall Street and enterprise finance customers. 💼📊

Full Story venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic... #AI #Finance #FinTech #Excel
October 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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"The first superintelligence will be a superhuman learner" — Researcher at Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab challenges Big Tech's bet that scaling alone will get us there. 🧠💥

Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/thinking-... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #MachineLearning
October 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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I’m at Research @ Google event today. If you’re here come say hi! 👋
October 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Kai-Fu Lee’s brutal TED AI 2025 warning: The U.S. is already losing the AI hardware war to China. 🤖🌏

Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/kai-fu-lees…#ArtificialIntelligencec#ChinaTechc#AIHardwarer#VentureCapitalal
October 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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One of the co-creators of the transformer architecture behind ChatGPT says he's "absolutely sick of them"—and he's walking away to find what's next. 🤖💥

Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/sakana-ai...
#AI #MachineLearning #GenerativeAI #Transformers #Innovation
October 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I’m at the Masters of Scale Summit - if you’re here come say hi!
October 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Echelon emerges from stealth with $4.75M to replace enterprise consulting giants like Accenture and Deloitte with AI agents trained on real expert knowledge. 🤖📊

Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/echelons-... #ArtificialIntelligence #EnterpriseSoftware #FutureOfWork
October 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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OpenAI just shipped Codex into production — and it might be the most important DevDay 2025 update you missed. 🧠 It builds the tools that build everything else.

Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/the-most-... #AI #Codex #DevDay2025 #GPT5 #EnterpriseTech
October 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Jony Ive helped create the iPhone.
Now he wants to fix what it broke. 📱🤖

My latest for VentureBeat:
venturebeat.com/ai/heres-wha... #AI #OpenAI #ProductDesign #JonyIve
October 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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From chatbot to platform, ChatGPT is becoming the OS of AI - and yes, hardware is coming.

My full report from OpenAI Dev Day 2025: venturebeat.com/ai/openai-de... #AI #OpenAI #FutureOfWork
October 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Me 🙋🏻‍♂️ (Michael Nunez) speaking with Andy Warhol about artificial intelligence and what it means for art.
October 3, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Jeff Koons’ Ballon Dog escapes the Art Institute of Chicago 🎈🐾🐶💨🏛️
October 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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The Wizard of Oz: A Marionette Adventure 🍿🎥🌪️🌽🌈
October 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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I can't stop thinking about Sora... 😅🙈 Here are some of my favorite creations so far:

2001: A Space Odyssey - A Marionette Cinematic Event 🍿
October 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Anthropic's new AI can code for 30 hours straight without losing focus—think of it as your tireless AI coworker that never needs coffee breaks ☕🤖

Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic...

#AI #Coding #ArtificialIntelligence #Claude
September 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Rivals unite: Snowflake, Tableau, Salesforce, dbt_labs (with BlackRock) launch a vendor‑neutral Open Semantic Interchange to fix AI’s $1T data‑definition bottleneck. 🧩🚀

Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/the-usd1-... #AI #Data
September 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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I interviewed Microsoft’s Amanda Silver on new AI agents that plan, refactor, and test legacy Java/.NET apps — aiming to erase decades of enterprise tech debt 🎙️🤖🏢

Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft... #AI #Microsoft #GitHubCopilot #Azure #EnterpriseSoftware
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Surprising moment: Key figures from rival companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Thinking Machine Labs appear in collaborative video message, hinting at a new era of AI partnerships // Left to right: Bill Gates, Mira Murati Dario Amodei, & Kevin Weil #MSBuild
May 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Day Zero kicks off at Microsoft Build with CTO Kevin Scott and Cief communications officer Frank Shaw #MSBuild
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May 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Each Ironwood chip delivers:
🔹 192GB HBM
🔹 7.2 Tbps bandwidth
🔹 4,614 TFLOPS

At scale:
⚡ 42.5 exaflops
⚡ 2x the performance per watt of Trillium
⚡ ~30x more efficient than Google’s first TPU
Comparison chart of Google’s TPU hardware generations from 2022 to 2025. TPU v4 (2022): 4,896 chips per pod, 32 GB HBM at 1.2 TB/s bandwidth, 275 TFLOPS peak performance per chip. TPU v5p (2023): 8,960 chips per pod, 95 GB HBM at 2.8 TB/s bandwidth, 459 TFLOPS peak performance per chip. Ironwood (2025): 9,216 chips per pod, 192 GB HBM at 7.4 TB/s bandwidth, 4,614 TFLOPS peak performance per chip. Each TPU generation is accompanied by an overhead image of the respective chip hardware.
April 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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March 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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In his Reddit AMA, Sam Altman revealed OpenAI is discussing releasing model weights and admitted the company was "on the wrong side of history" on open source. He also acknowledged DeepSeek's rise, saying OpenAI will "maintain less of a lead."

🔗 Full story: venturebeat.com/ai/sam-altma...
February 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Welcome back (?) Klay Thompson #GSWarriors
November 13, 2024 at 7:05 AM