Artificial Ignorance

1 week ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

Midjourney launched its first video generation model this week, and perhaps the most remarkable thing about the launch was how unremarkable the output is. The big picture:A year ago, video like Midjourney's would have been astounding - but the last few months have seen launch after launch of models capable of jaw-dropping video outputs.

1 week ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

There's no shortage of predictions about AI's impact on software development. But while everyone is debating whether AI will replace programmers, my teammates at Pulley and I are using it daily, and as a result, we've become a tiny team that's punching well above our weight. For context, we build equity and token management software - cap tables for startups, token management for crypto companies, and additional services.

2 weeks ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

Meta has invested $14.3 billion in AI data company Scale AI for a 49% stake, and hired its CEO to lead a new AI lab. The big picture:Meta is building a "Superintelligence" lab and stocking it with top AI researchers from other companies, signaling a serious push into the AGI space. Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly been personally hosting AI researchers at his Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto homes, and has already poached Jack Rae from Google DeepMind and Johan Schalkwyk from Sesame AI.

2 weeks ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

It's been less than a week since I wrapped up my third AI Engineer conference in San Francisco (now known as the AI Engineer World's Fair) brought to you by . While I missed the agent-specific summit in New York earlier this year, the SF version proved to be remarkably multifaceted, both in terms of tracks and content. The conference returned to the Marriott Marquis in downtown San Francisco, this time overlapping with Snowflake Summit (with a whopping 20,000 attendees).

3 weeks ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

This week, Anthropic cut off Windsurf's direct access to all Claude models via the API (and declined to make Claude 4 available to begin with), due to Windsurf's rumored acquisition by OpenAI. Between the lines:The move appears strategic rather than technical - other major AI coding tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot still have direct access to Claude 4.