Stephanie Palazzolo

@steph_palazzolo

Writing AI Agenda @theinformation, texan, & horror movie aficionado // reach me at [email protected] or on Signal at 979-599-8091

New York, NY

Joined October 2015

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Stephanie Palazzolo@steph_palazzolo · Jul 16

OpenAI is prepping ChatGPT agents that would allow users to generate and edit presentations and spreadsheets, putting it in more direct competition with Microsoft. theinformation.com/articles/opena…

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Stephanie Palazzolo@steph_palazzolo · Jun 30

Despite dropping AI inference prices, developers are still complaining that AI is too expensive. Here's how that's possible: theinformation.com/articles/ai-ge…

steph_palazzolo's tweet card. The overarching narrative of the past two years has been that AI models are getting cheaper for customers.Just take a look at this chart, showing how the cost of purchasing access to a GPT-4 level AI...

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Stephanie Palazzolo@steph_palazzolo · 12 h

In this morning's AI Agenda, I get into reinforcement learning and the more advanced approaches to RL AI researchers are beginning to take: theinformation.com/articles/reinf…

steph_palazzolo's tweet card. Ever since researchers began noticing a slowdown in improvements to large language models using traditional training methods, they’ve shifted to reinforcement learning, a technique that rewards a...

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Stephanie Palazzolo@steph_palazzolo · Jul 21

I'm back from a week at ICML, one of the largest annual meetups of AI researchers. Coming out of the conference, I was struck by how far we have to go on LLMs. Here are some of the learnings: theinformation.com/articles/llms-…

steph_palazzolo's tweet card. I’m back from the International Conference on Machine Learning in Vancouver, one of the biggest annual meetups for artificial intelligence researchers. And this year, the conference underscored all...

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natasha mascarenhas@nmasc_ · Jul 16

Scoop: Boris Cherny and Cat Wu are back at Anthropic, two weeks after joining Cursor. 🤯🤯🤯 theinformation.com/briefings/anth…

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Stephanie Palazzolo@steph_palazzolo · Jul 16

baby’s first icml 🥹 come say hi if you’re here!

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Stephanie Palazzolo@steph_palazzolo · Jul 16

In this morning’s AI Agenda, we explain why xAI spent 10x as much on reinforcement learning for Grok 4 compared to Grok 3: theinformation.com/articles/xai-s…

steph_palazzolo's tweet card. Watching last week’s Grok 4 release, one statistic stood out to us. XAI said it spent 10 times as much computational power on reinforcement learning for Grok 4 as it laid out for Grok 3.RL is a...

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natasha mascarenhas@nmasc_ · Jul 15

NEW: Inside 96 hours of Windsurf whiplash: OpenAI talks broke down, Google brought out the velvet rope & Cognition sealed a deal. theinformation.com/articles/winds…

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Stephanie Palazzolo@steph_palazzolo · Jul 15

Comin to you live from the airplane to ICML! Lots in this morning's AI Agenda: - Why Zuck thinks researchers will join Meta + his vision for superintelligence - Why it was smart for Cognition to buy Windsurf theinformation.com/articles/zucke…

steph_palazzolo's tweet card. Before we get to today’s column about Cognition buying Windsurf, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday spoke to Jessica Lessin, our editor in chief, for the inaugural episode of TITV, a new...

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natasha mascarenhas@nmasc_ · Jul 13

Updated our Windsurf/Google story with new deal details: - Employees with vested shares will receive cash – Employees who joined less than 12 months ago are not vested and won’t get payouts under current terms – Windsurf negotiated to keep $100M+ on its balance sheet; company…

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Stephanie Palazzolo@steph_palazzolo · Jul 2

Ready for the angry replies... in today's AI Agenda, I get into the business argument for why Meta shouldn't focus so much on building superintelligence. theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

steph_palazzolo's tweet card. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is on a tear in recruiting for a team focused on “superintelligence,” roughly defined as a more powerful version of artificial general intelligence, AI that can...

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Amir Efrati@amir · Jul 1

News: Anysphere / Cursor hires two senior leaders of Anthropic’s Claude Code Also, Anthropic now at ~$4b ARR, up four times from start of year (!!)

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Stephanie Palazzolo@steph_palazzolo · Jul 1

In this morning's AI Agenda, @KalleyHuang and I break down the 14 new hires to Mark Zuckerberg's superintelligence team, including 3 that he didn't announce yesterday: theinformation.com/articles/zucke…

steph_palazzolo's tweet card. In recent weeks, Meta Platforms has probably generated more buzz from hiring two executives and 14 artificial intelligence researchers—mostly from OpenAI—than from its prior AI efforts altogether....

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Stephanie Palazzolo@steph_palazzolo · Jun 30

The corporate data wars are intensifying! Atlassian and Notion are taking steps to make it harder for AI startups like Glean to access their data. This follows similar moves from Slack. From @nmasc_ @KevKubernetes @aaronpholmes theinformation.com/articles/corpo…

steph_palazzolo's tweet card. A tussle is brewing between software firms and artificial intelligence startups over access to business customers’ data. The popularity of Glean, an AI tool workers use to search for corporate files...

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Jessica Lessin@Jessicalessin · Jun 25

Turns out that "feel the AGI" is easier said than done. More exceptional reporting from the team: @aaronpholmes @steph_palazzolo @amir theinformation.com/articles/opena…

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Stephanie Palazzolo@steph_palazzolo · Jun 25

Are developers loyal to their coding assistants? More than you might think. W/ @shqne: theinformation.com/articles/codin…

steph_palazzolo's tweet card. The explosion in AI coding assistants, used by developers to make apps and websites, has raised questions about whether developers will be loyal to any of them or if they’ll switch around based on...

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Amir Efrati@amir · Jun 24

New: OpenAI has designed collaboration and chat features for ChatGPT. Launching them would be a direct assault on Google Workspace, Microsoft Office.

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Stephanie Palazzolo@steph_palazzolo · Jun 24

Lots in this morning's Agenda w/ @KevKubernetes: - What do big tech acquirers want in the upcoming wave of AI M&A? - Explaining the IYO-io lawsuit - Why we're all falling for Cluely's rage-bait theinformation.com/articles/wave-…

steph_palazzolo's tweet card. Before we get to the column, I’d recommend you check out this story Erin, Rocket and I published on Monday about what sorts of products Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by ex-OpenAI...

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