Rami's Readings #155 - More Decision Models

Welcome to Rami’s Readings #155 - 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.

👋🏼 Welcome New Subscribers

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🤖 AI Reads

Gemini 4 Argon: Our Next Era of Frontier Intelligence

Notes: Google released their latest Gemini model and I guess everybody is moving to Rust now.

Argon agents are working on migrating C/C++ codebases to Rust across Google — scaling from tens of thousands of lines in core libraries like re2, libgav1 up to 800K+ lines for the Fuchsia Zircon kernel.

firelex / jeff: Millisecond Decisions, Any Domain

Notes: Neat idea. Jeff places a 0.8B open decision model in front of a bigger LLM.

P.S. It seems the Internet has decided to call Jev-style models: Decision Models.

Liquid AI’s First Decision Models: D1

Notes: Outperforms Jev. Liquid AI is a MIT Startup.

Introducing Strands Decider 2B: A Small, Open Source, Decision Model

Notes: Amazon’s Strands Labs released a decision model.

Introducing Clef: Our Open-Source Decision Models

Notes: Cloudflare released two decision models. At this point… who hasn’t released one?

Cohere’s Embed 5 Is Here

Notes: Cohere’s embedding model is very good. Embed 5 is the latest version.

Introducing topk-embed-v1: Frontier Retrieval at the Lowest Cost

Notes: Another frontier embedding model. 65.16 nDCG@10.

Context Language Models

Notes: These language models natively manage their own context.

💼 Business Reads

Mark

Notes: A profile of Mark Zuckerberg from Colossus.

Toyota Eyes Selling Japan’s Answer to Rolls-Royce Around the World

Notes: Original Centuries were incredible machines. I am excited to see the latest generation exported to the rest of the world.

Slovenia’s .si Domain Sees a Surge in Registrations

Notes: How many of you have yearly domain renewal bills above $500?

brown roof buildings near sea ocean taken at daytime — Photo by Mikita Karasiou on Unsplash