Rami's Readings #132 - 🚀 Gemini 3 & Nano Banana Pro!
The latest on AI, LLMs, Google's Gemini 3 & Nano Banana Pro, Meta's Segment Anything Model 3, Olmo3, DRAM, Bonds, Zork, and more.
Welcome to Rami’s Readings #132 - 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.
👋🏼 Welcome New Subscribers
Hello! A hearty thank you for subscribing to Rami's Readings! There are quite a few new subscribers this week, thanks to recommendations from The AI Ethics Brief, Product Byte, and The VC Corner. I am thrilled to have you on board! In this newsletter, I curate the best papers, tweets, and articles I have read during the week focusing on LLMs, AI, economics, business, and technology news. You can learn more about me on my website.
📈 Top Recent Editions According to Substack
This week was fun! There were so many new models and projects to explore. ☺️
🤖 AI Reads
Gemini 3: A New Era of Intelligence
Notes: An incredible model release from Google. It’s wildly impressive! Read on Gemini 3.
Nano Banana Pro: Gemini 3 Pro Image Model
Notes: Another fantastic release from Google! I really like the generated images from this model.
SAM 3: Segment Anything with Concepts
Notes: State-of-the-art image segmentation with text prompts on images and videos. Paper.
Olmo 3: Charting a Path Through the Model Flow to Lead Open-Source AI
Notes: Seattle-based Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) released Olmo 3. Just a reminder, everything about the Olmo model family is open-source.
From at Ai2:
TiDAR: Think in Diffusion, Talk in Autoregression
Notes: Text diffusion is all the rage right now. This paper and model architecture from Nvidia combines diffusion and autoregression.
karpathy / llm-council
Notes: Karphathy was having fun vibe coding yesterday! It’s a cool idea, but I can already smell the GPUs burning if used in production at scale.
StarlightSearch / EmbedAnything
Notes: No PyTorch! Completely built in Rust. Cool open source project supporting multiple model file formats.
Early Science Acceleration Experiments with GPT-5
Notes: Sebastian Bubek’s paper on science acceleration with GPT-5 (ex-MSFT, now OpenAI).
💼 Business Reads
Samsung’s 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Global Memory Tightening
Notes: This is for the same DRAM sticks too… I am certain at this point that if I calculate how much my RTX4090 hardware build from 2023 costs today, it would be about the same or even 20% more, even after accounting for inflation.
The Godmother of AI Didn’t Expect It to Be This Massive
Notes: Great interview with Fei-Fei Li!
Banned Bond Tactic That Turns 8% Yields Into 16% Is Roaring Back
Notes: Yikes… Bond markets everywhere are important.
🔀 Other Reads
Preserving Code That Shaped Generations: Zork I, II, and III Go Open Source
Notes: I love coding history preservation projects! (From my employer).
An Untapped Trove of ’80s Vintage Luxury Draws Fashionistas to Japan
Notes: Vintage watches too!
Signing off from Redmond, WA.