Rami's Readings #148 - đ AI in Action MontrĂ©al
Welcome to Ramiâs Readings #148 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, papers, videos, and X threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering AI, technology, business, culture, fashion, travel, and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.
đđŒ Welcome New Subscribers
Hello! A hearty thank you for subscribing to Ramiâs Readings! There are quite a few new subscribers this week, thanks to recommendations from The AI Ethics Brief, Product Byte, and The VC Corner. I am thrilled to have you on board! In this newsletter, I curate the best papers, tweets, and articles I have read during the week focusing on LLMs, AI, economics, business, and technology news. You can learn more about me on my website.
đ Iâll be Speaking at AI in Action in MontrĂ©al!
Iâm heading back to MontrĂ©al on May 5th for the AI in Action conference.
I am super excited for this conference as the AI conversation has moved from whatâs possible to whatâs actually working. In my talk, Iâll cover the latest trends in LLMs and SLMs, orchestration, and multi-agent systems. Weâll also explore how to prepare for the next major moment in the AI landscape.
Iâm especially interested in comparing notes with founders, executives, and builders on what it takes to move from impressive demos to scaled products: distribution, evaluation, cost, UX, and the operational work that turns AI experiments into real workflows and businesses.
If youâll be at AI in Action in MontrĂ©al on May 5th, or nearby that week, reply to this newsletter or on LinkedIn. Iâd be glad to connect. If youâd like a discounted ticket, please reach out to me.
đ€ AI Reads
OpenAI Introduces GPTâ5.5
Notes: OpenAI is putting the heat on Anthropic in the agentic coding market.
DeepSeek V4 Preview Release
Notes: DeepSeek is back with a release, but so far seems to be mostly on-par with other open weight models. The more interesting choices they made seem to be enabling their price war strategy. See read below.
DeepSeek Slashes Fees for New AI Model in Chinese Price War
Notes: I covered the DeepSeek price war previously in #64. Theyâre back at it again!
AgenticQwen: Training Small Agentic Language Models with Dual Data Flywheels for Industrial-Scale Tool Use
Notes: The Qwen team has an interesting paper out.
earthtojake / text-to-cad: An Open-Source Harness for Generating CAD Models
Notes: The demo looks great, but I am not sure how useful this really is for engineering firms. Anyone care to comment?
vercel-labs / agent-browser: Browser Automation CLI for AI Agents
Notes: Giving this a try tomorrow to see if it performs better than chrome-devtools-mcp.
Signing off from Redmond, WA.