The Daily Index — Thursday, April 10, 2025 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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ELON MUSK'S AI COMPANY, XAI, LAUNCHES AN API FOR GROK 3

xAI has made Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini with 'reasoning' capabilities available via API. Grok 3 is priced at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. xAI has been accused of being misleading in its benchmark reporting for Grok 3 and several users on X have pointed out that Grok 3 via xAI's API has a smaller context window than advertised - the API maxes out at 131,072 tokens.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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INSIDE ISOMORPHIC LABS, THE SECRETIVE AI LIFE SCIENCES STARTUP SPUN OFF FROM GOOGLE DEEPMIND

Isomorphic Labs was spun out of Google DeepMind after the tech giant achieved one of the biggest biological breakthroughs in the last 50 years - AlphaFold2, an AI system that can predict the structures of proteins. The company recently made AlphaFold3 available to the scientific community for non-commercial use. It claims that the new system can predict the structures of and interactions between all life's molecules. The company aims to eventually solve all diseases through AI-powered drug discovery.

cnbc.com · 10 min

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BE THE NODE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE NETWORK

Networks are characterized by their incentives. The fate of a network depends on individuals that exercise discretion. It's important to add value to networks to create a surplus - help the people around you to flourish. Don't let the leechers win; flood the world with abundance.

taylor.town · 4 min

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AFTER MONTHS OF USER COMPLAINTS, ANTHROPIC DEBUTS NEW $200/MONTH AI PLAN

Claude Max offers up to 20 times more usage limits than the Pro plan for Anthropic's Claude AI assistant.

arstechnica.com · 3 min

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GOOGLE SAYS IT'LL EMBRACE ANTHROPIC'S STANDARD FOR CONNECTING AI MODELS TO DATA

Google will add support for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) to its Gemini models and SDK, but the company has not provided a timeline for the integration.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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WAYMO READIES AUTONOMOUS CARS FOR FIRST INTERNATIONAL TESTS IN JAPAN

A local taxi fleet operator, Nihon Kotsu, will drive about 25 vehicles manually for the purposes of gathering mapping data - the first has already been spotted in a parking lot in Tokyo.

theverge.com · 3 min

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EVERY MARKETING CHANNEL SUCKS RIGHT NOW

When marketing channels work, everyone jumps on them, but then they start to degrade because customers stop responding over time.

andrewchen.substack.com · 6 min

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THE HOTTEST PRE-IPO STOCK? AN AI ROBOTICS STARTUP WITH BOLD CLAIMS, LITTLE REVENUE

Figure is seeking to raise $1.5 billion in a funding round at a $39.5 billion valuation despite having no revenue last year and just a few dozen robots in production.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 6 min

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LLAMA DOES NOT LOOK GOOD 4 ANYTHING

The new Llama models released on Saturday are so disappointing people thought they were misconfigured.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 29 min