Social•Nov 18, 2025
Poolside AI Acquires Fern Labs, Forming Full‑stack Frontier AI Powerhouse
news! @poolsideai has acquired @fern_labs, in which @airstreet was the first and sole investor - and a first investor into poolside as well. i met @ashedwardst in late 2024 before fern had a name or team. his technical depth, product taste and ambitious were 🔥 fern pushed long-horizon agents far beyond what public evals thought possible 👀 and by combining with poolside, we have a full-stack frontier ai company with the capabilities to delivery long-running, frontier multi-agent systems for complex enterprise and government workflows thanks to @eisokant and @jasoncwarner for your continued partnership and for seeing what i saw in @ashedwardst @alexgoddijn and taylor at @fern_labs more on the story below!
By Nathan Benaich
Social•Nov 18, 2025
AI Success Depends on the Right External Partners
AI project success often hinges on enlisting the right outside expertise. The best partners know your business, value outcomes, and deliver seamless collaboration. https://t.co/3eYBy5MKN6
By Bob Violino
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Own Hardware Pipelines Enable Aggressive, Low‑cost Inference Scaling
Wanted to say this is because the competition focused on cheaper models. But that eve doesn't seem true. What seems more plausible is that teams with strong training pipelines and their own hardware can push much more aggressive inference-time scaling at...
By Sebastian Raschka
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Collective Learning Models Aren’t Simple Superintelligence
Assuming every frontier model learns from every other, how is it different from straight-shot superintelligence?
By Alex Graveley
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Seeking Deeper Analysis of Intriguing Solve Logs
Fascinating results. Can we get more eyes and analysis on the solve logs to try to understand: https://t.co/ovW1IG4vGL ?
By Clément Delangue
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Voice Takes Over: Win a Monokey Keyboard‑Free Device
https://t.co/GRTnUAe9ZD
By Ben Tossell
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Gemini 3 Pro Leaps Ahead in Multimodal Fidelity
Best outputs from Gemini 2.5 Pro, vs 3 Pro, this example nicely illustrates the fidelity jump with 3 Pro, through strong multimodal understanding and 3D reasoning https://t.co/0aM8oSgmFA
By Ian Goodfellow
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Gemini 3 Generates Voxel Art From a Single Image
Amazing test of Gemini 3’s multimodal reasoning capabilities: try generating a threejs voxel art scene using only an image as input Prompt: I have provided an image. Code a beautiful voxel art scene inspired by this image. Write threejs code as...
By Ian Goodfellow
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Google Gemini 3 Sparks Unprecedented AI Community Buzz
How big a deal is Google Gemini 3? Haven’t seen a release get so much attention across the community of 35,000 in AI as this one has. Use X Pro and lists. Way better to watch the whole community: https://t.co/9eRY65x3IQ (I have...
By Robert Scoble
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Google's Gemini 3 Launch Impresses the Community
Congrats to Google on Gemini 3! Looks like a great model.
By Sam Altman
Social•Nov 18, 2025
AI-Powered Marketplace Unlocks Previously Untapped Offline Market
.@arthur_leopold and Jonathan are a force. Ambitious, focused, hungry, hard working, insightful, and obsessed with their customers. Classic right founders + right timing, leveraging AI to crack open an offline, friction-ful market that has eluded automation. We've learned many times...
By Sarah Tavel
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Recreate Your Site’s Early‑2000s Look Using Gemini 3
highly recommend generating an early 2000's version of your website with gemini 3 https://t.co/J5fWuq6akB
By Chris Frantz
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Using Gemini 3 with Codex Extension in VSCode
How can I use gemini 3 with codex extension in vscode? 😂
By Abhishek Thakur
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Authority Grows Through Relentless Persistence, Not Quick Wins
James Dyson built 5,127 prototypes before launching his first bagless vacuum... You posted on X for 26 days before deciding "it doesn't work" and giving up. Today Dyson is an $8.6B company... and you're still stressed out because you're wholly reliant...
By Katelyn Bourgoin
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Scaling Fast: Parker Conrad Keeps 4,000‑Person Rippling Agile
ALL of the CEOs I interviewed for Long Strange Trip complain about how their companies slow down and get less sh_t done as they scale. I felt this at HubSpot too back in the day. Learn how @Parkerconrad moves Rippling 4,000...
By Brian Halligan
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Gemini 3 Spreads Across Platforms Amid Cloudflare Outage
Are you trying Google Gemini 3 on Genspark? Or on Flowith? Or Cursor? Or just raw dogging it on Google AI studio? Just a few that have already added Gemini, my whole feed is Gemini this morning. Oh, and welcome...
By Robert Scoble
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Gemini 3 Sets New Standard in Multimodal AI
Gemini 3 is here ... and it's INSANELY good. → best model in world for multimodal understanding → beats Claude sonnet 4.5, GPT 5.1 on *almost every* benchmark → wildly good at agentic tool use and vibe-coding → SOTA at complex reasoning → great at zero-shot...
By Data Chaz
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Gemini 3 Tops Benchmarks and Excels in Everyday Tasks
We’ve been intensely cooking Gemini 3 for a while now, and we’re so excited and proud to share the results with you all. Of course it tops the leaderboards, including @arena, HLE, GPQA etc, but beyond the benchmarks it’s been...
By Demis Hassabis
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Clean, Connected Data Fuels AI Success with Informatica
You have to get your data right to get your AI right. Data + context are the true fuel of Agentforce—without clean, connected, trusted data, there’s no intelligence… just hallucination. Welcome Informatica turning fragmented enterprise data into context so every...
By Marc Benioff
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Training Vs. Inference: Break‑Even at 25 Million Queries
What should we focus on, (more) LLM training or inference scaling? (A question I got asked multiple times now, so here are some thoughts.) Training is usually very, very expensive, but it is a one-time cost. Inference-scaling is comparatively cheap, but...
By Sebastian Raschka
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Salesforce Launches $500M AI Initiative in Saudi Arabia
Honored to launch Salesforce in Saudi Arabia today—with $500M, world-class AI, and a deep commitment to supporting Vision 2030. The future isn’t just arriving in the Kingdom… it’s accelerating. Shukran & Aloha! 🌍🤝✨❤️🇺🇸🇸🇦 https://t.co/IQVRGE1tjG https://t.co/9DJE699eFq
By Marc Benioff
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Gemini 3 Unveiled
Google just released Gemini 3, its most intelligent AI model yet. I caught up with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, to ask about: -Gemini 3 and Google’s AI strategy -Google's new Antigravity tool -Medical-grade AI Here's what he said:
By Rowan Cheung
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Gemini 3 Pro Delivers More Intelligence per Token
The most interesting thing testing Gemini 3 Pro has been how *efficient* it is from tokens to tool calls The intelligence per token of models is increasingly rapidly even as prices fall, its quite something
By Emad Mostaque
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Salesforce Launches $500M AI Venture in Saudi Arabia
Honored to launch Salesforce in Saudi Arabia today—with $500M, world-class AI, and a deep commitment to supporting Vision 2030. The future isn’t just arriving in the Kingdom… it’s accelerating. Shukran & Aloha! 🌍🤝✨❤️🇺🇸🇸🇦 https://t.co/IQVRGE1tjG
By Marc Benioff
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Gemini 3 Hits 31.1% on ARC‑AGI‑2 Benchmark
Gemini 3 scores 31.1% on ARC-AGI-2. Impressive progress.
By François Chollet
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Gemini 3 Launches as World’s Most Intelligent Multimodal Model
Today we’re taking a big step on the path toward AGI and releasing Gemini 3— our most intelligent model yet. With Gemini 3, you can bring any idea to life. It is state-of-the-art in reasoning, the best model in the...
By Google AI
Social•Nov 18, 2025
From $200 Developer Tool to Enterprise AI Scale
AI adoption often starts with a single developer spending $200/mo—but the real play is getting embedded and expanding to enterprise. Matt Blumberg breaks down the PLG → enterprise motion on Episode 218 of The SaaS CFO Podcast 👉 https://t.co/o4rtC8sd0B #SaaS #AI https://t.co/Oa2WXObU5a
By Ben Murray
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Brand Health Drives Performance: Measure Beyond Short‑Term Metrics
My big passion with Storybook is about giving strategic shape to brand. One of the big reasons that I believe brand gets underinvested is because the way our measurement has been set up favors short-term direct response efforts and causes brand...
By Liam Moroney
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Waymo Expands to Five New Cities, Scaling Fivefold Annually
Waymo is adding 5 new cities: Miami, Dallas, Houston, Orlando. Waymo has been growing about 5x per year since it started scaling its service in 2023.
By François Chollet
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Boost B2B Marketing Innovation Through Creative Teams
Who else is at MarketingProfs #MPB2B Forum in Boston? Check out my session tomorrow morning on driving B2B Marketing Innovation by fostering a more creative team. Can't make it? No worries. Sign up for my free newsletter and stay up to...
By Melanie Deziel
Social•Nov 18, 2025
20 Years of Revealing What Users Actually Do
Crazy Egg turns twenty this month. The part that stayed constant is simple. We set out to show what users actually do on a web page, and that view changed how people built. We’ve been working on something that brings that feeling...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Google Defies Doubters, Leads AI with Video Data
You are an AI OG if you can remember the days when everyone said Google was doomed and would never lead in AI. They aren’t saying that anymore. And who has the most video data to build world models, which will run...
By Robert Scoble
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Slow Growth? Check Your Pricing Before Marketing
That slow growth you're experiencing? It might not be a marketing problem. When we troubleshoot growth with SaaS companies, pricing is often one of the first things we look at. At DemandMaven, we start by talking to customers then running...
By Asia Orangio
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Seeking Updates and Projects Using OpenAI's Agent Builder
I have heard nothing about Agent Builder since OpenAI Dev Day. Any building with it? What are you building? Feel free to DM instead.
By Allie Miller
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Google Poised to Pop AI Capex Bubble
it's in google's strategic interest to burst the ai capex bubble, i think sundar knows this and will act accordingly
By Paul Yacoubian
Social•Nov 18, 2025
AI Floods Content, Makes Original Thought the New Scarcity
50% of the internet's content is now AI-generated. After 3 hrs deep in Graphite's full data science report, I can tell you: What you're celebrating as an opportunity is actually a warning sign. Graphite's data science team analyzed 65,000 articles...
By Amos Joseph
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Rapid Growth, Not Just Features, Defines an AI Native
How to know if you are an “AI Native” start-up: 🚀 You are growing much, much faster than last year Otherwise, you just have AI Features
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 18, 2025
LLM Clones: Spot Identical Models for Cash
LLMs often sound oddly alike. @The_GridAI turned that idea into a fun little challenge with 10,000 $ (!!!) in rewards for the top 3 players. The rules: Two replies pop up, you tell if it is the same model. 🧵↓ https://t.co/ftbGvKu3Wx
By Data Chaz
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Master 4 Core SaaS Skills to Scale Solo
Are you a technical founder wondering if you need a co-founder? Like so many things, I think "it depends". In episode 807, I explore: - A new mental model around the 4 Core SaaS Skills every startup will need - How...
By Rob Walling
Social•Nov 18, 2025
B2B Neglects Deep Customer Research Compared to B2C
customer research in B2B vs. B2C: B2B: - UX product research B2C: - focus groups - surveys - 1:1 interviews - at home ethnographies - shopper research at the store - website heatmap - social media monitoring - 3rd party trends studies - etc. b2c gets it, b2b is still very very very...
By Anna Furmanov
Social•Nov 18, 2025
AI Data Centers Boom in Water‑Stressed U.S. Regions
@AndyMasley @Leonardonclt @dinabass “More than 160 new AI data centers have sprung up across the US in the past three years in places with high competition for scarce water resources, according to a Bloomberg News analysis…That’s a 70% increase from...
By Karen Hao
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Google’s SEO Response to Cloudflare 5xx Outage
A Cloudflare outage is causing 5xx errors for many sites. Here’s how Google handles short server spikes and what to watch in SEO reports. https://t.co/F55PAfwISx via @MattGSouthern, @sejournal
By Tom Pick
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Key Marketing Metrics for the AI‑Agent Era
The Marketing Metrics That Will Matter Most in the Age of AI Agents When AI agents become part of the decision making chain, marketing metrics shift. This article covers which metrics matter most when you're marketing to machines and humans alike. Read...
By Bernard Marr
Social•Nov 18, 2025
AI Success No Longer Requires Academic Publications
Many people still believe you need to publish research to succeed in AI. That might’ve been true a few years ago, but things have changed 👇 I’ve done research during my Master’s and PhD. Most of my work never made it to...
By Louis Bouchard
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Cut Cloud Costs 90% by Switching to Bare Metal
I'm leaving the cloud +80% of my SaaS portfolio now runs on bare metal. Why? I have at least 3 major reasons. One of them is, obviously, cost. This year, I've been able to reduce my monthly cloud bill on AWS from $7800 on...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Reducing Churn Drives Biggest ARR Growth for SaaS
Churn isn't a Customer Success problem. It's a *business* problem. And it might be why you miss the 2026 plan. Just look at the 3-year ARR impact of different growth initiatives^ for a typical $10M ARR SaaS co: - Increase prices...
By Kyle Poyar
Social•Nov 18, 2025
New Pricing Models Demand Advanced Billing Solutions
Have you noticed all the LI posts and conversations on how pricing models are evolving? The reality is that subscription pricing based on seats (users) is a hallmark of traditional SaaS... ...and new pricing models like Usage-Based, Outcome-Based, Value-Based, Hybrid (Subscription +...
By Ray Rike