Jasmine Sun

2 months ago | read.substack.com | Jasmine Sun |Timothy Lee |Zvi Mowshowitz |Kevin Xu

On January 21, President Donald Trump stood by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as they unveiled Stargate, a $500 billion investment in data centers and infrastructure to power AI. Like many, I balked at the cost—but that’s what Altman insisted was necessary to scale up superintelligent artificial intelligence.

2 months ago | exponentialview.co | Azeem Azhar |Jasmine Sun |Dylan Patel |Steven Sinofsky

My WhatsApp exploded over the weekend as we received an early Chinese New Year surprise from DeepSeek. The Chinese AI firm launched its reasoning model last week, and analysts belatedly woke up to it. The firm’s consumer app jumped to number 1 in the Apple AppStore and American stock markets, overly indexed on big tech, are taking a pounding. We’ve been tracking DeepSeek for a while.

Nov 25, 2024 | whyisthisinteresting.substack.com | Jasmine Sun

We’re pubbing two issues this week as to not get lost in the email flood. Happy Thanksgiving if you are stateside. -CJNJasmine Sun is a writer and technologist. She is building a new media venture launching in early 2025. She cofounded Reboot and Kernel Magazine, and until recently, was a product manager at Substack. Tell us about yourself. I am a writer and technologist in San Francisco.

Sep 30, 2024 | lxer.com | Mark Surman |Jasmine Sun

Look around. There are buses driving alongside cars on the road. Some of your packages are delivered by private couriers, others are delivered by the national postal service. You can flip the channel on your TV back and forth between public broadcasting and commercial networks. And when you access the internet, you can choose between a commercial or nonprofit-backed web browser. Private and public initiatives have existed side by side for a long time.

Sep 30, 2024 | blog.mozilla.org | Mark Surman |Jasmine Sun

Look around. There’s a bus driving next to the cars on the road. Some of your packages are delivered by private couriers, others are delivered by the national postal service. You can flip the channel on your TV back and forth between public broadcasting and commercial networks. And when you access the internet, you can choose between a commercial or nonprofit-backed web browser. Private and public initiatives have existed side by side for a long time.