Ali Shobeiri
@Ali_Shobeiri
Special Projects at @perplexity_ai Previously Machine Learning @Apple 🇨🇦
I just cloned myself using @OpenAI and every text message I sent since I was 12. I fine-tuned gpt-4o-mini on 150,000 of my text messages. The first model ended up being so unhinged that I could not release it publicly (or risk being cancelled forever). So I had to train…
Here are a few other things you can do: - research bios of everyone you’re meeting - summarize the most important emails you missed - edit generated emails / calendar events All without ever leaving the tab We literally sent thousands of invites while developing this and I’m…
The most interesting thing about Perplexity Comet is that it can actually do things in Cal / Gmail Ex. I asked it to reschedule a 1:1 - it moved the invite and sent an email Neither Google nor OpenAI have done this in their agents…maybe for safety reasons, but it’s limiting 🤔
Whoever makes Screen Studio for Windows will take over the world
I'm getting roasted in the office for turning into a thread boy If you're getting roasted in your office, here are the 10 best replies you can use to defend yourself 👇🧵
Ten years ago I visited the Google office and made my dad a promise. I promised him that one day, I would recreate this picture he took of me, but this time I would do it on my first day of work as a Google employee. It was a promise I took seriously. I did everything I could…
Ten years ago I visited the Google office and made my dad a promise. I promised him that one day, I would recreate this picture he took of me, but this time I would do it on my first day of work as a Google employee. It was a promise I took seriously. I did everything I could…
Sorry babe, I can’t make it to date night tonight. Me and a friend from work are going to the Coldplay concert together
Microsoft just launched a huge attack on Cursor and nobody is talking about it. Microsoft has quietly started blocking Cursor's access to 60,000+ extensions on its VSCode ecosystem. They literally broke thousands of dev environments overnight. One of Cursor's top selling…
Tim Ferriss has a great TED talk where he shares one of my favorite quotes: “Easy decisions, hard life. Hard decisions, easy life.” I think about it a lot when making tough decisions. It’s better to face pain in the moment to build a life you actually want, rather than avoid…
If you haven’t heard from me, I haven’t forgotten by the way It’s just taking time to go through everything
I should mention we are hiring on the special projects team DM me with a link to the coolest thing you've built and we can chat
When I first moved to the US, I used LinkedIn to find my friends I opened up the app and filtered for 1st connections that had their location as San Francisco There were people I had totally forgotten. My best friend from elementary school, friends of friends, and people I…
I should mention we are hiring on the special projects team DM me with a link to the coolest thing you've built and we can chat
If you're young and ambitious, don't join big tech. Join a startup and learn as much as you can. Big tech can give you money and status but it robs you of your agency to make decisions. You'll spend your time sitting through mind numbing meetings where PMs and managers fight to…
This is an important point that I didn’t highlight in the original thread. Landing at the right startup will make or break the learning experience. You can learn more from success than you can from failure.
I agree with agency, but this assumes you land at the right startup. Many folks land at poorly run startups, learn the companies bad habits. Sadly most startups will die at the opportunity cost of working at a FANG company where they can receive the right mentorship and most…
If you're young and ambitious, don't join big tech. Join a startup and learn as much as you can. Big tech can give you money and status but it robs you of your agency to make decisions. You'll spend your time sitting through mind numbing meetings where PMs and managers fight to…
Ended up on a model’s Instagram story yesterday. See if you can spot @alipanju_ and I 🤣
The real reason this is my favorite feature is I actually built it from the back of a Jeep in Hawaii on 4th of July weekend
No one’s talking about my favorite Comet feature: Highlight any text and it's added as context for your search. No more copy pasting
No one’s talking about my favorite Comet feature: Highlight any text and it's added as context for your search. No more copy pasting
Technically it’s an illegal immigrant story
Hollywood literally never learns
OnePassword for AI agents is unironically a good idea
Reliability is the name of the game for agents, and it's unlikely to be solved purely at the model layer for the foreseeable future. This is creating green shoots for infrastructure builders, with a few interesting trends starting to emerge: 1. Simulation as CI for agents: a)…