Alex Mathew
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"My second favorite right now is ChatGPT. I think their deep research is the best for me and my specific use case."
"At Alpha we also do hackathons and so our first one was using Cursor and Vercel whatever to build a video game."
"Grok is cool because they're just going crazy and trying things and I don't know but that's the one I use the least. At least have Grok voice mode with me while I'm reading it or something like that."
"Granola is like my favorite right now. Whisper Flow is my favorite right now."
"Notebook LM is one of the greatest things I've used in a long time and I think it's going to be insanely adopted in schools because it is crazy powerful."
"I use deep research pretty much every day to learn stuff. The use case for me is like I can just put it on and then when it's time for me to do my research for the day or whatever it is I just read through it."
"For the foundation models, number one for me is Claude because I am a my whole project is around creating models that are not sycophantic for my specific use case."
"Because I go to Alpha High School, I learn all my academic content through an AI powered platform."
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Clear filters"they've been leaning so heavily into their Codex model to compete with Claude code"
"reverse urbanization due to FSD plus Starlink in the style of Isaac Asimov's spacers from the Foundation series"
"At Alpha we also do hackathons and so our first one was using Cursor and Vercel whatever to build a video game."
"I am obsessed with AI hardware. I've tried the Limitless Pin Pocket. Pretty much all of them."
"I was exposed to AI before ChatGPT just because one of my teachers was so awesome. So I saw Midjourney, OpenAI's playground before it became chat and like all these different things."
"Finch is like a habit self-care kind of app and it's kind of like Tamagotchi. You have a little pet and if you do habits you can like give them clothes and stuff."
"We're made to read this like forced to read this book at Alpha called 10 to 25. It's a great book. It's all about how 10 to 25 year olds are motivated, what they're motivated by."
"Augment is along the lines of that type of product where it's a logistics employee. The employee will help augment certain procedures that they have to run in their business."
"If you're doing coding, Anthropic is frontier at coding and so you're going to pay a premium on that."
"GitHub Copilot is doing really well"
"They launched a product called Qualia Clear where able to streamline and automate a lot of the parts of the title search and analysis process."
"Anthropic has made codegen and developer infrastructure their main focus. Therefore Claude code is doing really well."
"Cursor is doing really well"