Rami's Readings #98 - AI Scientists and Quantum Computing
Welcome to Rami’s Readings #98 - 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.
The newsletter is a tad shorter this week due to travel. Enjoy!
🤖 AI Reads
Grok 3 Released!
Notes: What’s most shocking is how quickly all these companies are learning from each other and racing to top the benchmarks.
Towards an AI Co-Scientist
Notes: From Google, this paper blew me away! Wow! The prompts are included in the appendix.
Native Sparse Attention: Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention
Notes: Deeply technical paper from DeepSeek.
Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence
Notes: Another textbook on AI from ETH in Zurich.
Optimizing Model Selection for Compound AI Systems
Notes: From Microsoft Research (not my org, see disclosure). This paper is a great read for those building multi-LLM systems.
💼 Business Reads
Microsoft Unveils Quantum Computing Chip for Future Data Centers
Notes: 🥶
OpenAI Co-Founder Sutskever’s Startup Is Fundraising at $30 Billion-Plus Valuation
Notes: I wonder what the valuation increase is based on.
Databricks to Invest $300m in Saudi Expansion
Notes: I didn’t expect this level of investment from Databricks into the region. When will Databricks IPO again?
That’s all for this week. Signing off from Redmond.