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Zavo (@zavopay) is building the first agentic point of sale for restaurants and retail. Payments, POS, and AI agents in one platform to build the future of autonomous commerce. Over 400 businesses already use Zavo to accept payments and manage operations. https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1978158867499331586
Amazon is developing smart glasses allowing delivery drivers to work hands-free https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/smart-glasses-amazon-delivery-drivers
We joined the @salesforce team at Dreamforce to talk about conversational agents – and to share the news that ElevenLabs is part of powering the voice of Agentforce. https://x.com/elevenlabsio/status/1978525111004041493
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: “We’re relying a lot on Alibaba’s Qwen model. It’s very good. It’s also fast and cheap… We use OpenAI’s latest models, but we typically don’t use them that much in production because there are faster and cheaper models.” The valley is built on Qwen?”” / X https://x.com/natolambert/status/1980657338726887662
AI trading in real markets https://nof1.ai/
They should have broken the 10k to 10-100 stacks of $100-1k and given them to the identical copies of the same model to be able to see anything remotely meaningful. Right now we are looking at noise!”” / X https://x.com/abeirami/status/1980434468398883076
Anthropic, Google in Talks on Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Deal – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/anthropic-google-in-talks-on-cloud-deal-worth-tens-of-billions
Expanding our use of Google Cloud TPUs and Services \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-our-use-of-google-cloud-tpus-and-services
Today, we announced that we plan to expand our use of Google TPUs, securing approximately one million TPUs and more than a gigawatt of capacity in 2026.”” / X https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1981460118354219180
The expansion, worth tens of billions of dollars, dramatically increases our compute resources as we push the boundaries of AI research and product development. Read more: https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1981460119742533848
Meta lays off 600 from ‘bloated’ AI unit as Wang cements leadership https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/meta-layoffs-ai.html
Meta’s Alexandr Wang reorgs superintelligence lab https://www.axios.com/2025/10/22/meta-superintelligence-tbd-ai-reorg
Today, we’re one step closer to AI as an operating system. A computer you can talk to, that can see what you see, and take action – all with your permission, all more intuitive than ever. Vision now GA globally + more on today’s @Windows blog: https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/1978808627008847997
Uber Giving Some US Drivers Option to Earn Money From Tasks Like Uploading Menus – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-16/uber-giving-some-us-drivers-option-to-earn-money-from-tasks-like-uploading-menus
AI has a cost problem. The @GroqInc and @IBM partnership will solve this: watsonx agentic platform on Groq – 5x faster, at 20% of the cost. Also enabling @RedHat vLLM on Groq. Thanks to @JonathanRoss321 and @sundeep https://x.com/robdthomas/status/1980239227955683598
We’ve raised $6M from General Catalyst, EQT Ventures, and founders of Lovable, Hugging Face, and Supabase. Here’s why the browser is the greatest platform for running AI agents 🧵 https://x.com/charles_maddock/status/1977997685585060048
Sharing some news…LangChain just raised a $125M Series B at a $1.25B valuation 🔥Along the way, our frameworks have grown to 85M+ monthly downloads with 35% of the F500 using one of our products. If you’re interested in joining us, we’re hiring!: https://x.com/amadaecheverria/status/1980687050174287876
LangChain has raised a $125M Series B, valuing the company at $1.25B 🦜🔗 It’s been 3 years since our first commit, and the progress since then has been humbling. Today, our open source frameworks see 85M+ downloads a month and our products are used by half of the Fortune 500.”” / X https://x.com/veryboldbagel/status/1980686379613815295
LangChain’s fundraise comes with a wave of product announcements. Would love to hear feedback from folks. On the OSS side, you can check out the 1.0 release notes here: https://x.com/chester_curme/status/1980685592544571897
🔥Today we’re excited to announce new funding for LangChain (at a $1.25B valuation) to allow us to build the platform for agent engineering. LangChain started as a single Python package 3 years ago. Since then, we’ve evolved into a comprehensive platform for agent engineering https://x.com/hwchase17/status/1980680421706006663
IVP is investing in @LangChainAI because it’s a category-defining platform for AI agents — and because of the founders building it. Over the past two years, we’ve gotten to know @hwchase17 and @ankush_gola11, who together have built something rare: a developer platform that’s https://x.com/tomloverro/status/1980714285140701362
We raised $125M to build the platform for agent engineering. Thank you to our investors (@IVP, @sequoia, @benchmark, @AmplifyPartners, @SapphireVC, @CapitalG, and more) for their belief in us, and to our customers like @Replit, @clay, @TrustVanta, @Cloudflare, @Rippling, @Cisco, https://x.com/LangChainAI/status/1980678921839603948
Big milestone for @LangChainAI 🚀 We just announced our $125M Series B and the v1.0 release of LangChain & LangGraph — marking the start of a new era for agent engineering. Proud to have contributed to the new createAgent abstraction in LangChainJS — with middleware that gives”” / X https://x.com/bromann/status/1980683275682091024
Hyperspell (@hyperspell) gives AI agents memory. It connects to Slack, Gmail, Notion, and Drive, so agents get context and remember what they learn. Congrats @conor_ai and @maebert on the launch! https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1978476332658073793
I wonder if this is the same pattern as census dara, finding a decrease in AI use among workers in August and a return to trend in September. https://x.com/emollick/status/1980802521334796572
I think a powerful point Andy made in his latest post is that AI operates at an industrial scale, and it is worth comparing its impact to other industries, not just households. Our policy choices are about which industries should get access to resources and in which locations.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1979293940718157868
Alai (@getalai) helps you create high-quality presentations faster. Designed for iteration, quality, and speed, Alai turns rough ideas into decks you’re proud to present. https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1978566353322651683
Brett Adcock says the company that can solve general-purpose humanoid robots will be worth 200 times Apple, tens of trillions for sure. He asserts why humanoids will dominate and why other robot types won’t be able to compare. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1979238805921239531
so much of work is what I like to call the “work around work” – switching between systems, chasing context, and stitching tools together to get things done company knowledge in chatgpt now does this for you it can reason across tools like slack, sharepoint, google drive, https://x.com/bradlightcap/status/1981454865454027007
We’re releasing the full FinePdfs source code — plus new datasets and models! 🚀 📚 Datasets: • OCR-Annotations — 1.6k PDFs labeled for OCR need • Gemma-LID-Annotation — 20k samples per language (annotated with Gemma3-27B) 🤖 Models: • XGB-OCR — OCR classifier for PDFs https://x.com/HKydlicek/status/1980319822585143498
Adobe launches a foundry service that builds custom generative AI models for enterprises | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/adobe-launches-a-foundry-service-that-builds-custom-generative-ai-models-for-enterprises/
Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/804106/microsoft-mico-copilot-ai-assistant-clippy
want to fine-tune models for OCR/document??? 📑 two tutorials for you 🫡 > fine-tune Kosmos2.5 with grounding: if you have data with bounding boxes + text inside > fine-tune Florence-2 on DocVQA: if you search for answers in a document plug and play with other VLMs! 💗 https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1981657235785728010
Wow OCR models are taking off in vLLM 😍 Small but powerful 💪 Enjoy this fast OCR model from @staghado ✌️”” / X https://x.com/vllm_project/status/1981579850436751611
Moondream 3 can parse complex parking signs in one step. Prompt: “”extract sign details”” → JSON of each rule + transcription. No OCR stack, no regex: just vision that understands structure. ⚡️Fast, cheap, grounded vision AI. https://x.com/moondreamai/status/1980405287531254089
We’re updating olmOCR, our model for turning PDFs & scans into clean text with support for tables, equations, handwriting, & more. olmOCR 2 uses synthetic data + unit tests as verifiable rewards to reach state-of-the-art performance on challenging documents. 🧵 https://x.com/allen_ai/status/1981029159267659821
There’s been a crazy OCR mania for the last couple of days 👀 And you can 1-click deploy most of these models directly from the Inference Endpoints catalog 🔥 https://x.com/ErikKaum/status/1981750508982268330
one of the big motivations behind olmOCR 2’s use of RLVR with binary unit tests. the ability to easily define unit tests for model failures + retrain makes iteration really easy tech report out 👉 https://x.com/kylelostat/status/1981380820658180310
You might have seen a lot of OCR release recently… Here is another one, introducing 🦉 LightOnOCR-1B A fully end-to-end differentiable VLM model competing with all the latest releases while being much faster🚀 https://x.com/staghado/status/1981379888301867299
olmOCR – Open-Source OCR for Accurate Document Conversion https://olmocr.allen.ai/blog
Deploy your favorite OCR models with few-clicks directly from Hugging Face 🔥 📷we’ve added the latest bleeding edge OCR models to the Inference Endpoints catalog to make it easy for you to get started! links 👇 https://x.com/ErikKaum/status/1980965155145216336
there’s a new OlmOCR model that outperforms other OCR models, with Apache 2.0 license 🔥 and it costs only $178 to parse million pages 🤯”” / X https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1981040748133826918
I’m excited to announce that Chandra OCR is open source! – Full layout information – Extracts and captions images and diagrams – Strong handwriting, form, table support – Works with transformers and vLLM https://x.com/VikParuchuri/status/1980667137606971423
Airbnb CEO says ChatGPT isn’t ready – Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-10-21/chesky-says-openai-tools-not-ready-for-chatgpt-tie-up-with-airbnb-app
We’re shipping company knowledge for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, and Edu: it brings all the context from your apps (Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, etc) together in ChatGPT so you can get answers that are specific to your business. https://x.com/fidjissimo/status/1981437695915413947
ChatGPT launched less than three years ago. When I talked about AI in mid-2024 for audiences ranging from professors to Silicon Valley leaders, only 10% of people had tried AI themselves. I am actually very surprised that AI adoption has been as fast as it has in enterprises.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1979307279477260408
OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-software-applications-incorporated/
.@romeovdean and I wrote a blog post to teach ourselves about the AI buildout. We were surprised by some of the things we learned: 1. There’s a huge fab CapEx overhang – with a single year of earnings in 2025, Nvidia could cover the last 3 years of TSMC’s ENTIRE CapEx. In 2025, https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1981074799758921843
