
Incredible seeing how much of the global economy was shaped by the scarcity of technical talent. There will be massive economic potential unleashed as AI absorbs the work of not just mid-level software engineering but mid-level technical talent across all of science & engineering.
$31 MILLION HOTEL. EVERY PIPE AND WIRE MAPPED IN ADVANCE. BUILT BY TYPING SENTENCES INSTEAD OF PLACING THEM BY HAND.
A 190-room hotel needed its ductwork, plumbing, electrical, and fire suppression modeled and coordinated before construction could start.
The design team connected Kimi K3 to their modeling software through MCP, then had it read photos of the blueprints alongside plain English descriptions of each system and build the model directly instead of placing every component by hand.
Old process: 3 engineers, 6 weeks, around $47,000.
New process: 1 engineer confirming the AI's output, 9 days, roughly $10,500 combined, engineer's time plus AI compute.
Coordinated models finished this way cut change orders by 60 to 80 percent once construction begins.
See the article below for a smaller example of the Kimi K3 + Blender MCP workflow.
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We ran a test of different models on a Veho AI agent that monitors some of our trucking loads for us and takes actions on delays. We found that we're better off using a frontier lab than an open source model, for this use-case at least. It seems like at least some of the claimed performance gains of the open source Chinese models comes from the a meaningful "reasoning tax" incurred to achieve comparable performance. Article incoming with full results shortly.
Fred Cook retweeted
Veho has proven to have excellent delivery speed and performance. If you are using ShipHero in your warehouse and are in an area where Veho picks up, I recommend you use them.
@ItamarZur @frederickcook are doing great work.
We're happy to announce that ShipHero WMS users can now unlock @shipveho's premium delivery network! Think 2-3 day delivery, 99% on-time rates, and up to 35% lower shipping costs - all from your own distribution centers. Ready to level up your eComm game?
Crazy business idea: AWS, but when it goes down, all your stuff automatically fails over to a different availability zone instead of requiring an eng team to do a ton of work to build that resiliency themselves.
Silo spoiler alert: just realized it isn’t a coincidence that the Apple TV show is only a couple of episodes away from their big plot twist involving AR.
Reality TV show I’m sure is being pitched right now: “Love is Blind”, but instead of singles talking to each other through a wall, have contestants open up their entire life’s worth of social media accounts and private chat convos and train a series ChatGPT large language models.
Fred Cook retweeted
successful Q4 Product/Engineering planning in Seattle. Were able to have a little fun too 😜
❤️ this @shipveho fam
Based on the number of “someday in the metaverse” ads I’m getting on Instagram, guessing Facebook has a ton of unclaimed ad inventory and is self-dealing to keep ad rates stable
Light and Magic on Disney+ is some great tech startup content. First few episodes focus on how the visual effects for Star Wars came together, but it’s all about building the team, solving open-ended problems on a shoestring budget, pushing forward through uncertainty.
🤯 "This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground," axios.com/2022/07/11/first-n…
Fred Cook retweeted
Packages that we'll be dropping off at @shipveho for delivery tomorrow in DFW, Austin, Houston and San Antonio
This Carvana article. "Carvana’s operations consumed $593 million in cash during the first quarter, a huge sum for a company that reported cash and equivalents of $247 million at the end of Q1 2022." Which means they would have run out of cash.. today? techcrunch.com/2022/05/10/ca…
Fred Cook retweeted
I think @Veho will be an Uber-sized company in a few years. Already went from a seed round to a $1.5b valuation in 24 months. Incredible execution by @ItamarZur, @frederickcook and team. techcrunch.com/2022/02/15/fu…
HelloFresh for baking. Perfect portions of everything. Live yeast (which is the only ingredient that needs to be kept cold). Various types of old world flowers. Accompanying video tutorial content.
Excited to finally announce our Series A and that we are partnering with @generalcatalyst for the next chapter of the @shipveho journey!
Next-day package delivery startup Veho valued at $1B following $125M Series A tcrn.ch/3e8UOqd by @christinemhall
















