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Antoine Buteau

Antoine Buteau

Daily Digest - 2026-06-01

1. [AINews] NVIDIA Cosmos 3, Nemotron 3 Ultra, and RTX Spark — AINews Why read: Catch up on NVIDIA's latest model and hardware drops. Summary: NVIDIA...

The Agent That Updates the Harness Is Not the Bottleneck

A new paper separates the model that improves an agent's harness from the model that has to use it. The result is a useful warning for agent builders: cheap models may write decent harness updates, but the task-solving agent still needs enough capability to load and follow them.

Bigger Models Remember the Rare Stuff Long Enough to Learn It

A new scaling paper argues that larger models win partly because frequent tasks stop overwriting rare-task features.

Daily Digest - 2026-05-31

1. The Anatomy of an Agent Harness — Vivek Trivedy Why read: Explains how to build the systems that surround LLMs to get actual work done. Summary: An...

Data Labelling — Industry Deep Dive

The Human Data Supply Chain Behind Frontier AI Executive summary A few years ago, "data labelling" mostly meant turning messy inputs into supervised-learning examples: draw the bounding box, classify the image, transcribe the audio, tag the document, clean the row. That market still exists. It is just

The Retrieval Layer: Search Infrastructure for the AI Application Era — Industry Deep Dive

Executive summary When AI applications fail in production, the model is not always the only culprit. The wrong context gets retrieved, stale context gets trusted, permissioned context leaks into an answer, or nobody can explain why the system chose one source over another. A support bot retrieves last quarter’s

turbopuffer and the Cost Curve of Search — Company Deep Dive

Executive summary The cleanest way to understand turbopuffer is as a bet on infrastructure economics. The company is not trying to prove that object storage is better than RAM for every search workload. It is making a narrower claim: many production AI and search workloads have a large long tail

Lessons from Latane Conant

Lessons from Latane Conant Latané Conant is the Chief Marketing Officer at Parloa and previously served as the CRO and CMO at 6sense. She is best known for...
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