Rami's Readings #103 - 🔥 MCP, GPT4o Image Generation & Gemini ✨
The latest on AI, LLMs, MCP, GPT4o Image Generation, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Anthropic Economic Index, Kerala, Native Code, and more.
Welcome to Rami’s Readings #103 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, papers, videos, and X threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering AI, technology, business, culture, fashion, travel, and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.
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🤖 AI Reads
MCP Dominated the AI Community This Week
Notes: 🔥 Despite launching last year, it seems MCP has past a tipping point in the AI community this week with almost every major AI player announcing support.
Google Released Gemini 2.5 Pro
Notes: ✨ A huge model release from Google with Gemini 2.5 Pro debuting at #1 on several benchmarks.
OpenAI Introduced 4o Image Generation
Notes: 🔥 OpenAI broke the Internet with this image generation update to GPT4o. Studio Ghibli seems to be most commonly requested style (at least on all my social feeds). Demand is so high that OpenAI is throttling image generation requests.
Continue Launched Assistants
Notes: I use Continue to enable local LLMs in VSCode. They launched custom AI code assistants, it is a similar concept to OpenAI’s Custom GPTs.
eyaltoledano / claude-task-master: An AI-Powered Task-Management System For Cursor
Notes: Built by a Montreal-based startup friend of mine. Helps your local coding model break down and complete tasks one at a time.
bytedance / MegaTTS3
Notes: New release of MegaTTS from Bytedance.
💼 Business Reads
Anthropic Economic Index: Insights from Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Notes: This very interesting report shows further evidence of the dominance of coding tasks as a percentage of all LLM usage.
KPMG: Quantifying the GenAI Opportunity
Notes: KPMG claims up to 4-18% of EBIDTA. I would love to hear from subscribers who have quantified their company’s gain from GenAI.
Las Vegas Lures Seattle Millionaires Fleeing Taxes on Their Wealth
Notes: Previously, I shared a number of studies on wealth taxes. As a Montrealer-born and raised, I am intimately familiar with what happens to a city when capital flees. As a current Washington State resident, this proposal is concerning and the rumblings among my Microsoft friends is growing.
How Kerala Got Rich
Notes: I am always fascinated by India’s rich history. Goa and Kerala are on my list of places to visit on my next trip.
🔀 Other Reads
The Mysterious Flow of Fluid in the Brain
Notes: There is still so much to learn about the human body.
Can You Really Change Your Personality as an Adult?
Notes: My spouse tells me my personality has changed in subtle ways. You are what you do I guess?
Overwhelmed by Cuteness? There’s a Word for That.
Notes: A reminder that language is organic and changes over time.
How to Use Em Dashes (—), En Dashes (–) , and Hyphens (-)
Notes: I found LLMs are surprisingly adept at correctly using Em dashes when most text uses them incorrectly.
Xee: Modern XPath Engine in Rush & MD4C: C Markdown Parser
Notes: More interesting low-level libraries. Part of shift back to writing native code.
Signing off from Redmond.
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