Amie Pollack

Another nuance is that most companies and developers do actually not self-host open source LLMs, but use services like together.ai to consume them. Thus, practically speaking, most developers consume open source models in the same fashion as they consume OpenAI or Anthropic models - via third party APIs. Also, most large models like DeepSeek R1 are... See more

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Speaking of past OTs, a number of you have inquired about “the archive” or “reading past issues” and I am here to deliver the news that the inbox is your archive and there is no way to read past issues except to reply to this email and request a past issue. There are too many of you (and too many issues) for me to forward multiple issues or every... See more

The most compelling publications or media brands are the ones that can throw the best parties, because it shows they can mobilize an IRL group of interesting people, who are then consumers and customers and clients. (See Feed Me, The Drift, Byline / The Drunken Canal cinematic universe.) Media brands increasingly work like fashion brands: Consumers... See more

I think there's a very deep point about the universe being interconnected there, but there's also a really interesting point for people who want to make stuff—write or make podcasts or whatever—because there's this deep fear that everyone has about being pigeonholed. And it's like, well, if I pick this really specific topic, I won't be able to... See more

In this way, print magazines free all sides of the media economy from some of the things people commonly dislike most about reading online. There’s no algorithmic intervention serving things up to readers, no paywalls that refuse to remember your password, no constant bids for your attention crowding the edges of your screen. They allow both... See more