If there's one thing that politicians and strategists understand as much if not better than business people it actually is stuff like this. Most people never don't deal with high stakes situations at certain levels where everything is fungible(the law, media statements) and fuzzy (intelligence). Dealing and negotiating with nation states or figure heads who are adversarial/allies and at same time trade partners/enemies etc. They have certainly sold this situation as one that fits the regime for this.
Super intrigued by this - large scale automation using LLMs is quite annoying due to deprecation cycles of models from frontier labs and cost of running your own being prohibitive when you have a blend of them.
I wish people could read through the puffery more easily - this company does nothing except prompt frontier models and act as if they are discovering or inventing capabilities. Their previous announcement completely misappropriated the concept of autonomy with human in the loop regardless. The harness they alleged to have created here is a commodity and as byproduct of more capable and frontier models, there is not really anything they have contributed. Otherwise you wouldn't just see monotonically increasing scores with better models
Like Airtable - they probably started seeing revenue growth/acceleration plummeting due to vibecoding being able to replace the product and are pulling plug early instead of letting it grind out to 0.
This would be incredible for innovation if we can bring this back domestically. It's very hard given lack of raw materials and the supply chain around it often also requires robust network but hopefully this spurs something.
This is something that takes real expertise though, kind of a moonshot for an inexperienced team unfortunately. Would be cool if had mission driven backers otherwise will just end up being hobbyist material. Relying on defense (bubble?) gives at least some breathing room as not actually competing against china for better prices.
Agreed. For this to work the entire supply chain has to support it. There are starts like mouser and digikey, but the raw materials and production capabilities are even more important.
We believe starting with defense will give us capabilities that we can then bring to other verticals, and will help us make optimizations that bring the cost down. It's impossible to beat china off the bat though.
Can someone give me an example where this is truly and uniquely useful? I've seen so many of these things and I can't tell if part of it is like mostly for enabling nontechnical folks to do more things or if it's some unlock and additive value. At end of day beneath it all things are just prompts, and then you can provide tools and context, but even then that's not even something I've found that useful to keep because context windows are still limited and bias propagations often need to be constantly corrected, especially when digital artifacts are not perfect representations of the real world.
kuzudb was sunsetted. I think for graph workloads duckdb is best bet, even though this is just a community plugin the upstream duckdb has really robust community doing a lot of heavy lifting and updates.
