Rami's Readings #148 - 👋 AI in Action Montréal

The latest on AI, LLMs, AI in Action Conference in Montréal, GPT 5.5, DeepSeek V4, text-to-cad, Agent Browser, and more.

Welcome to Rami’s Readings #148 - 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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👋🏼 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.

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👋 I’ll be Speaking at AI in Action in Montréal!

I’m heading back to Montréal on May 5th for the AI in Action conference.

I am super excited for this conference as the AI conversation has moved from what’s possible to what’s actually working. In my talk, I’ll cover the latest trends in LLMs and SLMs, orchestration, and multi-agent systems. We’ll also explore how to prepare for the next major moment in the AI landscape.

I’m especially interested in comparing notes with founders, executives, and builders on what it takes to move from impressive demos to scaled products: distribution, evaluation, cost, UX, and the operational work that turns AI experiments into real workflows and businesses.

If you’ll be at AI in Action in Montréal on May 5th, or nearby that week, reply to this newsletter or on LinkedIn. I’d be glad to connect. If you’d like a discounted ticket, please reach out to me.

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🤖 AI Reads

OpenAI Introduces GPT‑5.5

Notes: OpenAI is putting the heat on Anthropic in the agentic coding market.

DeepSeek V4 Preview Release

Notes: DeepSeek is back with a release, but so far seems to be mostly on-par with other open weight models. The more interesting choices they made seem to be enabling their price war strategy. See read below.

DeepSeek Slashes Fees for New AI Model in Chinese Price War

Notes: I covered the DeepSeek price war previously in #64. They’re back at it again!

AgenticQwen: Training Small Agentic Language Models with Dual Data Flywheels for Industrial-Scale Tool Use

Notes: The Qwen team has an interesting paper out.

earthtojake / text-to-cad: An Open-Source Harness for Generating CAD Models

Notes: The demo looks great, but I am not sure how useful this really is for engineering firms. Anyone care to comment?

vercel-labs / agent-browser: Browser Automation CLI for AI Agents

Notes: Giving this a try tomorrow to see if it performs better than chrome-devtools-mcp.

Signing off from Redmond, WA.