🤖⚖️What Jev’s fast followers reveal about the AI race (Premium read)
🥚 Erik Kokalj built a demo that flags eggs as clean, dirty, or cracked, using OpenAI’s Decisions API instead of training a separate model.
⚡ Jev sparked a wave of industry interest, and within weeks OpenAI, Microsoft, and Cloudflare introduced competing decision models or application programming interfaces.
Dig into the catch: how cloud-based decision models can fall short on speed, regulatory concerns, and why a confidence score shouldn’t be mistaken for the probability an answer is correct.
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🥚 Erik Kokalj built a demo that flags eggs as clean, dirty, or cracked, using OpenAI’s Decisions API instead of training a separate model.
⚡ Jev sparked a wave of industry interest, and within weeks OpenAI, Microsoft, and Cloudflare introduced competing decision models or application programming interfaces.
Dig into the catch: how cloud-based decision models can fall short on speed, regulatory concerns, and why a confidence score shouldn’t be mistaken for the probability an answer is correct.
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Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Jensen the Wise?
I thought not. It’s not a story AMD would tell you. It’s a Silicon Valley legend.
Jensen Huang was a Dark Lord of the GPU, so powerful and so wise he could use CUDA to influence the techbros to create artificial intelligence.
He had such a knowledge of accelerated computing that he could even keep Moore’s Law from dying.
DLSS is a pathway to many frame rates some consider to be unnatural.
He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his empire, which eventually, of course, he risked.
Unfortunately, his exposed affairs tanked the stock, sending the stock plunging and leaving the very board he built preparing to oust him and his leather jacket.
Ironic. He could save Moore’s Law from death, but not his own career.
(And she was a good friend.)
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I thought not. It’s not a story AMD would tell you. It’s a Silicon Valley legend.
Jensen Huang was a Dark Lord of the GPU, so powerful and so wise he could use CUDA to influence the techbros to create artificial intelligence.
He had such a knowledge of accelerated computing that he could even keep Moore’s Law from dying.
DLSS is a pathway to many frame rates some consider to be unnatural.
He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his empire, which eventually, of course, he risked.
Unfortunately, his exposed affairs tanked the stock, sending the stock plunging and leaving the very board he built preparing to oust him and his leather jacket.
Ironic. He could save Moore’s Law from death, but not his own career.
(And she was a good friend.)
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What Jev’s fast followers reveal about the AI race (Premium read)
TypeSafe’s Jev has sparked a new race in AI decision models, but competitors are moving fast.
The model, which selects from predefined answers without additional task-specific training, has processed over 5.8 billion requests on OpenRouter in the past month.
Within weeks of Jev’s launch, major AI players including OpenAI and Cloudflare introduced competing models or APIs. Cloudflare trained and launched its own model, Clef, in just one week.
Jev took two years to build, raising questions about what will set these models apart in the long run.
We explore how AI firms could make money from decision models and why some enterprises are still hesitant to adopt them.
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TypeSafe’s Jev has sparked a new race in AI decision models, but competitors are moving fast.
The model, which selects from predefined answers without additional task-specific training, has processed over 5.8 billion requests on OpenRouter in the past month.
Within weeks of Jev’s launch, major AI players including OpenAI and Cloudflare introduced competing models or APIs. Cloudflare trained and launched its own model, Clef, in just one week.
Jev took two years to build, raising questions about what will set these models apart in the long run.
We explore how AI firms could make money from decision models and why some enterprises are still hesitant to adopt them.
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📈🔥TikTok Shop is coming for Shopee’s ecommerce crown (Premium read)
🛍️ In Q2 2026, TikTok Shop overtook Shopee by sales volume in Thailand, a sign Shopee’s dominance in Southeast Asia is beginning to falter.
📹 Analysts say Vietnam could soon be next, as TikTok Shop has already overtaken Shopee in the fashion category and beauty is now evenly split, powered by short videos, livestreams, and affiliate commissions.
Dig into the full story to see how Shopee fights back, including ShopeeVIP and faster delivery.
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🛍️ In Q2 2026, TikTok Shop overtook Shopee by sales volume in Thailand, a sign Shopee’s dominance in Southeast Asia is beginning to falter.
📹 Analysts say Vietnam could soon be next, as TikTok Shop has already overtaken Shopee in the fashion category and beauty is now evenly split, powered by short videos, livestreams, and affiliate commissions.
Dig into the full story to see how Shopee fights back, including ShopeeVIP and faster delivery.
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🛡️🤝AI tools for India’s growing wave of unsecured debt (Read more)
😟 Indian household debt reached 45.5% of GDP by September 2025, and borrowers often encounter aggressive recovery agents and confusing legal notices.
💡 Credfix supports borrowers throughout the debt resolution process with three AI tools: financial assistants, call shield, and legal assistant.
Dig into how Credfix earns revenue by charging lenders a success fee when a debt-resolution agreement is reached, while borrowers do not pay for the platform’s guidance.
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😟 Indian household debt reached 45.5% of GDP by September 2025, and borrowers often encounter aggressive recovery agents and confusing legal notices.
💡 Credfix supports borrowers throughout the debt resolution process with three AI tools: financial assistants, call shield, and legal assistant.
Dig into how Credfix earns revenue by charging lenders a success fee when a debt-resolution agreement is reached, while borrowers do not pay for the platform’s guidance.
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang resigns as CEO (News read)
What’s happening?
- Nvidia said Jensen Huang has resigned as president, CEO, and a board member, effective immediately.
- Kress will remain chief financial officer (CFO) as the board considers internal and external candidates for a permanent CEO.
Why it matters
- Huang’s departure could disrupt the AI ecosystem he helped build, as Nvidia has invested its growing cash reserves in cloud providers, suppliers, and AI labs.
- Before his resignation, an analyst estimated that Nvidia could be worth nearly 30 percent less without Huang as CEO.
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What’s happening?
- Nvidia said Jensen Huang has resigned as president, CEO, and a board member, effective immediately.
- Kress will remain chief financial officer (CFO) as the board considers internal and external candidates for a permanent CEO.
Why it matters
- Huang’s departure could disrupt the AI ecosystem he helped build, as Nvidia has invested its growing cash reserves in cloud providers, suppliers, and AI labs.
- Before his resignation, an analyst estimated that Nvidia could be worth nearly 30 percent less without Huang as CEO.
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🤖🌏Why Jensen’s downfall puts SEA at risk (Premium read)
🕵️ Jensen Huang resigned after two alleged affairs came to light, including one involving Alice Huang; CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO.
💻 It’s “business as usual” for Asian customers: Nvidia chips remain too important, and Sapiens AI’s Bruce Yang says the “stronger ecosystem” around Nvidia’s software platform CUDA makes switching mean redoing work.
Dig deeper to see how the US is finalizing rules that could put data centers in Singapore and Thailand in the regulatory crosshairs.
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🕵️ Jensen Huang resigned after two alleged affairs came to light, including one involving Alice Huang; CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO.
💻 It’s “business as usual” for Asian customers: Nvidia chips remain too important, and Sapiens AI’s Bruce Yang says the “stronger ecosystem” around Nvidia’s software platform CUDA makes switching mean redoing work.
Dig deeper to see how the US is finalizing rules that could put data centers in Singapore and Thailand in the regulatory crosshairs.
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“I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating. The silicon gets everywhere. Not like here with a secret agent. Here everything is soft, smooth, and completely off the record.” - Jensen Huang, probably.
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Success is built step by step through learning, including from the moments that don’t go as planned. At ABU Robocon 2026, students learned to build, test, fail, and improve as they got their robots competition-ready. The Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation is helping turn that experience into real-world engineering skills.
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TikTok Shop is coming for Shopee’s ecommerce crown (Premium read)
In Q2 2026, TikTok Shop overtook Shopee by sales volume in Thailand.
The margin was just 3%, but it’s a sign that Shopee’s dominance in Southeast Asia is beginning to falter.
Now, analysts are looking closely at Vietnam, where TikTok Shop is already close behind Shopee in gross merchandise volume.
However, replicating that success across Southeast Asia isn’t guaranteed, as markets like Singapore and Indonesia present different challenges for TikTok Shop.
Shopee is not sitting idle as TikTok Shop gains ground, but defending its lead could come at a cost.
We break down the local market conditions shaping TikTok Shop’s expansion, how Shopee is fighting back, and what the growing rivalry could mean for sellers.
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In Q2 2026, TikTok Shop overtook Shopee by sales volume in Thailand.
The margin was just 3%, but it’s a sign that Shopee’s dominance in Southeast Asia is beginning to falter.
Now, analysts are looking closely at Vietnam, where TikTok Shop is already close behind Shopee in gross merchandise volume.
However, replicating that success across Southeast Asia isn’t guaranteed, as markets like Singapore and Indonesia present different challenges for TikTok Shop.
Shopee is not sitting idle as TikTok Shop gains ground, but defending its lead could come at a cost.
We break down the local market conditions shaping TikTok Shop’s expansion, how Shopee is fighting back, and what the growing rivalry could mean for sellers.
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🇯🇵📈The second meeting you’re not in: how Japan deals get approved (Premium read)
🏢 The product is rarely the issue: the people who approve the deal were never in the meeting room, and they will read about the product later in a short internal memo written in Japanese—if that memo is weak, the deal dies quietly.
🕒 It takes around six months to a year from first meeting to contract, as the internal champion writes a ringi for review, and if the budget owner sits in Tokyo, use Japanese.
Keep reading to pick up five simple steps that go a long way in securing a first big Japanese deal.
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🏢 The product is rarely the issue: the people who approve the deal were never in the meeting room, and they will read about the product later in a short internal memo written in Japanese—if that memo is weak, the deal dies quietly.
🕒 It takes around six months to a year from first meeting to contract, as the internal champion writes a ringi for review, and if the budget owner sits in Tokyo, use Japanese.
Keep reading to pick up five simple steps that go a long way in securing a first big Japanese deal.
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💡🚀After missing China’s LLM wave, Gobi backs university labs (Premium read)
🏢 Managing partner Chibo Tang says expectations that Alibaba and ByteDance would have the resources to build the best models led to a “too-cautious approach”: “We probably did.”
🤖 Competition concerns kept Gobi from joining the rush into agent startups; the firm is still looking for different technical approaches that could lower training costs, improve efficiency, or better serve particular industries, including DiffuSpace’s diffusion language models.
Dig into the full story to get the details on Gobi’s fund partnership with Hong Kong Baptist University launching on November 23.
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🏢 Managing partner Chibo Tang says expectations that Alibaba and ByteDance would have the resources to build the best models led to a “too-cautious approach”: “We probably did.”
🤖 Competition concerns kept Gobi from joining the rush into agent startups; the firm is still looking for different technical approaches that could lower training costs, improve efficiency, or better serve particular industries, including DiffuSpace’s diffusion language models.
Dig into the full story to get the details on Gobi’s fund partnership with Hong Kong Baptist University launching on November 23.
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🤖⭐How much is AI really selling this Singles’ Day in China? (Premium read)
🛍️ Around a million brands are expected to join, and Alibaba has integrated more than 4 billion products into its AI chatbot Qwen, letting shoppers search, compare, order, pay, track deliveries, and process returns.
📊 In a sample of 15 Douyin stores, Doubao accounted for an average of 4.3% of sales; AI recommendations could directly drive 3% to 5% this year.
Dive into why detailed product listings and credible reviews matter more than keyword budgets for AI chatbot queries.
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🛍️ Around a million brands are expected to join, and Alibaba has integrated more than 4 billion products into its AI chatbot Qwen, letting shoppers search, compare, order, pay, track deliveries, and process returns.
📊 In a sample of 15 Douyin stores, Doubao accounted for an average of 4.3% of sales; AI recommendations could directly drive 3% to 5% this year.
Dive into why detailed product listings and credible reviews matter more than keyword budgets for AI chatbot queries.
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💹🏦Monee is growing fast, but can its model work beyond Shopee? (Premium read)
📈 Q2 2026 revenue hit US$1.4 billion, up 59% year on year, but credit-loss provisions were US$554 million, about 39.5% of revenue.
🛒 Shopee gives Monee customers, transactions, and data, yet off-platform spending was over 20% of the SPayLater portfolio; the real test is acquiring and retaining users without Shopee driving the transaction.
Dig into what a Monee IPO would mean, from funding costs to long-term commercial agreements with Shopee.
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📈 Q2 2026 revenue hit US$1.4 billion, up 59% year on year, but credit-loss provisions were US$554 million, about 39.5% of revenue.
🛒 Shopee gives Monee customers, transactions, and data, yet off-platform spending was over 20% of the SPayLater portfolio; the real test is acquiring and retaining users without Shopee driving the transaction.
Dig into what a Monee IPO would mean, from funding costs to long-term commercial agreements with Shopee.
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📉🚀Sociolla’s revenue jumps 71% in 2025 ahead of potential listing (Premium read)
🧾 Loss before tax widened to US$13.8 million as a US$22.6 million fair value loss on convertible loan notes weighed on the bottom line.
🏬 Cash flow from operating activities turned positive to US$2.9 million, cash rose to US$31.1 million, and Sociolla now operates around 170 stores across Indonesia and opened its first store in Singapore.
Check the story for the audited figure showing 2025 revenue hit US$52.7 million as a potential initial public offering looms.
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🧾 Loss before tax widened to US$13.8 million as a US$22.6 million fair value loss on convertible loan notes weighed on the bottom line.
🏬 Cash flow from operating activities turned positive to US$2.9 million, cash rose to US$31.1 million, and Sociolla now operates around 170 stores across Indonesia and opened its first store in Singapore.
Check the story for the audited figure showing 2025 revenue hit US$52.7 million as a potential initial public offering looms.
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🤖⚖️What Jev’s fast followers reveal about the AI race (Premium read)
🥚 Erik Kokalj at Roboflow built a demo that flags eggs as clean, dirty, or cracked, using OpenAI’s Decisions API, a decision model that can choose from predefined answers without additional task-specific training.
🚀 Jev is the most popular decision model on the OpenRouter platform, processing over 5.8 billion requests over the past month, and within weeks OpenAI, Microsoft, and Cloudflare introduced competing decision models or APIs.
Dig into the full story to see why cloud-based decision models don’t suit every task, from regulatory concerns to speed and reliability limits.
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🥚 Erik Kokalj at Roboflow built a demo that flags eggs as clean, dirty, or cracked, using OpenAI’s Decisions API, a decision model that can choose from predefined answers without additional task-specific training.
🚀 Jev is the most popular decision model on the OpenRouter platform, processing over 5.8 billion requests over the past month, and within weeks OpenAI, Microsoft, and Cloudflare introduced competing decision models or APIs.
Dig into the full story to see why cloud-based decision models don’t suit every task, from regulatory concerns to speed and reliability limits.
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