Rami's Readings #138 - Anthropic & OpenAI Competition
The latest on AI, LLMs, RentAHuman.ai, Claude Opus, GPT-5.3-Codex, AI Business Models, and more.
Welcome to Rami’s Readings #138 - 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.
Please excuse the briefness of the newsletter today, it was the Super Bowl and our Seattle Seahawks won! #12
🤖 AI Reads
RentAHuman.ai
Notes: So we are here now… Not surprising to be honest.
Introducing Claude Opus 4.6 & Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex
Notes: Fierce competition this week between Anthropic and OpenAI. Meanwhile, I’m very happy with my local LLM setup.
Qwen3-Coder-Next: Pushing Small Hybrid Models on Agentic Coding
Notes: Qwen3-Coder-Next does well on the benchmarks for its size but I haven’t tried it yet.
Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters
Notes: From Meta’s FAIR.
💼 Business Reads
How Digital Business Models Are Evolving in the Age of Agentic AI
Notes: From MIT Sloan.
The Best Tech Movies Predicted Three Features Of The Digital Age
Notes: Minority Report is one of my all-time favorite movies.
Signing off from Redmond, WA.