Mo Malayeri

Another classic Zuckerberg move! It feels just like the 2012 Instagram deal moment. That acquisition took IG from 30M users to over 2B. Very smart move to bring Meta back to the top of the AI battlefield

🇺🇸 US vs 🇨🇳 China numbers here are unbelievable. The US controls the absolute majority of known AI training compute on this planet and continues to build the biggest, most power hungry clusters. China is spending heavily to close the gap. Recent reporting pegs 2025 AI capital expenditure in China at up to $98B, up 48% from 2024, with about $56B from government programs and about $24B from major internet firms. Capacity will grow, but translating capex into competitive training compute takes time, especially under export controls. With US controls constraining access to top Nvidia and AMD parts, Chinese firms are leaning more on domestic accelerators. Huawei plans mass shipments of the Ascend 910C in 2025, a two-die package built from 910B chips. US officials argue domestic output is limited this year, and Chinese buyers still weigh tradeoffs in performance, memory, and software. 📜 Chips and policy are moving targets The policy environment shifted again this week. A new US arrangement now lets Nvidia and AMD resume limited AI chip sales to China in exchange for a 15% revenue share paid to the US government, covering products like Nvidia H20 and AMD MI308. This could boost near-term Chinese access to mid-tier training parts, yet it does not restore availability of the top US chips. Beijing is cautious about reliance on these parts. Chinese regulators have urged companies to pause H20 purchases pending review, and local media describe official pressure to prefer domestic chips. 🇺🇸 Why performance still favors the US stack like NVIDIA Independent analysts compare Nvidia’s export-grade H20 with Huawei’s Ascend 910B and find the Nvidia part still holds advantages in memory capacity and bandwidth, which matter for training large models. But software maturity gaps around Huawei’s stack remains, that reduce effective throughput, even when nominal specs look close to older Nvidia parts like A100. These issues make it harder for Chinese labs to match US training runs at the same wall-clock cost.

We are adding a coding section to all of our Product Managers interviews at @Shopify. We'll start with APM interviews. We expect candidates to build a prototype of the product they suggested in the case interview. There is no excuse for PMs not building prototypes.

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Introducing Eleven v3 (alpha) - the most expressive Text to Speech model ever. Supporting 70+ languages, multi-speaker dialogue, and audio tags such as [excited], [sighs], [laughing], and [whispers]. Now in public alpha and 80% off in June.

آریا بلورفروشان، کارآفرین و سرمایه‌گذار با ریشه‌ی ایرانی، فارغ‌التحصیل دانشگاه کارنگی ملون و مدرسه کسب‌وکار هاروارد است. او فعالیت حرفه‌ای‌اش را در گلدمن ساکس آغاز کرد و در جریان یکی از پروژه‌هایش، یک شرکت نفت و گاز را به بورس اسلو برد. آریا بنیان‌گذار Applied AI است؛ شرکتی که تاکنون بیش از ۷۰ میلیون دلار سرمایه جذب کرده و تمرکزش بر خودکارسازی خدمات انسانی پیچیده در صنایعی مانند بیمه، سلامت و داروسازی است. Applied AI به‌جای فروش ابزارهای هوش مصنوعی، خودش ارائه‌دهنده‌ی مستقیم خدمات است—ترکیبی از مدل‌های زبانی، سیستم‌های نظارتی و بازبینی انسانی که کارهایی مثل بررسی پرونده‌های پزشکی، خلاصه‌سازی اسناد و تحلیل داده‌های حقوقی را سریع‌تر، ارزان‌تر و دقیق‌تر انجام می‌دهند. این شرکت در حال بازتعریف مرز میان سرویس و نرم‌افزار در سازمان‌های بزرگ است و چشم‌اندازی تازه برای آینده‌ی خدمات ایجاد کرده است.

A lot of times what people get from AI is not THE answer. But it is something that helps them not to think about the question anymore.

فرداد زند، مدیرعامل و هم‌بنیان‌گذار «ویزدمایز» است؛ استارتاپی مستقر در سوئیس که با استفاده از هوش مصنوعی، شیوه سرمایه‌گذاری و مدیریت مالی رو برای مردم ساده‌تر کرده. این شرکت تا حالا موفق شده بیش از ۱۰ میلیون دلار سرمایه جذب کنه و برنامه داره در آینده نزدیک، یه مرحله بزرگ‌تر جذب سرمایه رو هم انجام بده. توی این اپیزود، فرداد داستان خودش رو از مسیر کارآفرینی تا چالش‌های دنیای وب۳ تعریف کرده و با نگاهی عمیق‌تر توضیح داده چرا رعایت اصول اخلاقی در استفاده از هوش مصنوعی انقدر اهمیت داره. یک گفت‌وگوی متفاوت و شنیدنی که حتماً نکات ارزشمندی براتون داره. youtu.be/fp_bgp0GpuA?si…

To celebrate @smart_nora 's 100,000 milestone I sat down with @harleyf for a great chat.🎉 To kick it off I asked: How has Harley’s definition of hustle evolved over the past 10 years? Thanks to @tobi @harleyf and everyone at Shopify for making our job easier everyday. Link👇

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Since Studio Ghibli is trending, worth noting the mind-boggling effort Hayao Miyazaki and his team put into a film. Each has 60k-70k frames, all hand-drawn and painted with water color. This 4-second clip (“The Wind Rises”) took one animator 15 months to do. In the documentary “10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki”, the legendary Japanese filmmaker talks to one of his animators (Eiji Yamamori) after they complete the crowd scene. The exchange is gold: ▫️Miyazaki: “Good job.” ▫️Yamamori: “It’s so short, though” ▫️Miyazaki: “But it was worth it.” The animator gets a second of joy (he’s pumped) but on to the next. *** Link to doc: www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/sh…

Ed Sheeran’s new album, first song drop, “Azizam”, kicks off the Persian New Year. Happy Norooz!

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random thoughts/predictions on where vibe coding might go: - most code will be written (generated?) by the time rich. Thus, most code will be written by kids/students rather than software engineers. This is the same trend as video, photos, and other social media - we are in the command line interface days of vibe coding. For the majority of creators, vibe coding will eventually fade, and vibe designing (with a visual paradigm) will come to dominate. People ultimately think better in a GUI-like format than a CLI-like format. Thus, in vibe designing you will show the AI the design outcomes you want, and then everything else is done for you. Yes, you may end up with tools to tweak the design details for extra controllability, and provide additional mockups that then get filled in underneath with code. But maybe folks will build software without seeing or learning a programming language. - vibe coding could reduce the need for open source libraries as more code will be generated from scratch by AI. Code will be more of a disposable commodity, with less reuse, and instead generated on the fly for personalized use. It's interesting to see right now that creating a new project is easier than editing a project, because the latter requires a lot more context/complexity. Interesting dynamics if something like this continues - "trad UX" and design standards give way to post-modern/fragmented software, as millions of new vibe coders create experiences with no prior know how and new perspectives. New patterns will emerge, as TikTok/YouTube has done to film making and trad entertainment. The world will go beyond buttons and modals and scrollbars and other things. Software may become unrecognizable before it coalesces again - if vibe coding makes software trivial to build, then the bottlenecks shift to other places: 1) consistent creativity that stays ahead of everyone else. Anyone can write a tweet, but the best creators are the ones who consistently come up with new ideas. 2) distribution and network effects, where the first vibe coded product doesn't win, but rather the first vibe coded product that hits scale that wins - imagine products that automatically adapt based on user behavior, rather than based on the actions of the vibe coder. For example, if the vibe coder has specified that the signup funnel should easy, then after seeing users struggle with it, the software can automatically vibe code itself to improve the flow by dropping steps or adding explanatory text. Right now we are in a paradigm where PMs specify behavior that software engineers specify in code. Imagine if PMs can specify outcomes, and the software is configured to automatically adapt to hit those outcomes what other wacky ideas should be on this list?

What a desperate stunt! It's just stripping Canadians of their freedom to pick their own booze! Canada's barely taking in 5% of total US alcohol exports anyway! In a world changing fast with Al & robotics, we could've shown real strength by backing our entrepreneurs who've got a 2.5x better shot at success in the US.

China's car exports surge x.com/ali_alsama7i/s…