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Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.

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  Apple's iPad app ecosystem gives the iPhone Duo an advantage over Android-based folding phones.

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  Apple's big advantage here compared to other folding phones on the market that are based on Android was the iPad ecosystem.

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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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  Hybrid and sparse-attention model architectures will become more widely adopted as the ecosystem catches up.

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  we expect similar architectures to become more popular and the ecosystem to fix integrations by the time Qwen4 drops.

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British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.

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  Evan Prodromou has the unenviable task of making the whole ecosystem easy to understand. Thankfully he does that well. Things are logically laid out, there are comprehensive descriptions of even the most obscure parts of the spec, and it builds up nicely from the fundamentals.

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US science and technology adviser to the president, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; previously US chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Scale AI.

From one piece Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Washington cannot make good technology policy in a vacuum: without startups and industry saying what they believe, the decisions come out worse.

  startupsAmerica

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  if if DC is in a vacuum isn't hearing anything from the startup ecosystem or even from big tech ecosystem or even from financial services or all these different industries, we can't make the best decisions.

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  The United States cannot lead in artificial intelligence with closed models alone: it needs a vibrant open-source ecosystem alongside them.

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  if the US wants to lead in artificial intelligence, we have to have a vibrant closed and open source ecosystem, and that's the only way they can all work together.

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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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  Open models will end up serving a long-tail of specialized uses while closed models retain the most valuable applications.

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  open models are still incredibly useful, but fill a long-tail ecosystem relative to the closed counterparts that have monopoly ownership stakes in the most valuable areas like knowledge work collaboration, drug discovery, SWE, etc.

  Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokensinterconnects.ai

Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.

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  A software ecosystem made of many tiny modules from many different authors is unsafe against malicious actors and should give way to larger, vetted libraries.

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  Software that's composed of hundreds of little modules from hundreds of authors is a lovely idea that doesn't work with malicious actors.

  Technology optimism hourmacwright.com

Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.

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  Agents are the future of how software gets built.

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  Agents are the future of how we build software, and the ecosystem is moving faster than anything I've seen.

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Founder of Scale AI and, since 2025, Chief AI Officer at Meta, where he leads the company’s superintelligence lab.

From one piece Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The best AI products have not been built yet, because every wave of AI is about ten times bigger than the wave before it.

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  the best AI products haven't even been developed yet. You know, that if you look at the AI ecosystem and everything that's happened, like every wave is 10 times bigger than the past wave.

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  The future of AI is a broad decentralised ecosystem, not a totalising handful of AIs that control the world.

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  we don't believe in this totalizing, you know, totalitarian view of, you know, AIs that control the world. We believe that these are going to enhance this very broad ecosystem.

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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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  Great startups do not arrive evenly; they cluster at the moments when the ecosystem shifts and incumbents lose most of their advantage.

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  the great startups tend to cluster when the ecosystem shifts and incumbents lose a lot of their advantage.

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Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.

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  The future is multi-model.

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  it is clear we are going to have a diverse ecosystem of models at least on coding and agentic use.

  Open source models are having a momentsriramk.com

Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.

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  Entrepreneurial ecosystems are built by the entrepreneurs who lead them, take a long-term view, and give first.

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  a great entrepreneurial ecosystem is built by the entrepreneurs who lead it, take a long-term view, and give first.

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Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.

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  A good book clears out stale assumptions and disturbs the old ideas a reader has let accumulate.

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  A good book sweeps a corner of your brain. Clears out a stale assumption. Disturbs the ecosystem of old ideas you've been letting accumulate rent-free.

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General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.

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  An open-source model ecosystem innovates faster than a closed one, because every participant learns from the others' work.

  open sourceChina

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  the competitive dynamic in China is more intense because it's more intense. Everyone's chosen to go open source and that creates a system that in my mind is capable of innovating far faster than the competitive system we have here. All the models learn from one another.

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Creator of the iPod and co-creator of the iPhone at Apple, founder of Nest, and author of Build.

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  You cannot get real feedback on a new consumer product before shipping the whole thing; feedback starts when somebody spends their own money on it.

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  And if you're doing a 1.0 and the world hasn't seen you, you're not going to get that from consumers, ever. You have to ship it, and you have to build the entire kind of ecosystem so those consumers see it in the fullness so that when they do the evaluation and they spend their own money, then you're getting real feedback.

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Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.

From one piece TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A proprietary language licensed from Microsoft had zero chance in the JavaScript ecosystem: TypeScript had to be open source or nobody would come.

  TypeScriptopen sourceJavaScript

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  And we we full well knew that there was absolutely zero chance that we would appeal to the JavaScript ecosystem with a proprietary programming language licensed from Microsoft. No. No one was going to come. It had to be open source. There was just no two ways about it, right?

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  You cannot be best of breed in an ecosystem by telling its developers to write in a different programming language.

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  I mean, surely you're not going to be best of breed in the JavaScript ecosystem by telling people to write in a different programming language.

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Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, which he started in 2011 while studying product design at Stanford.

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  A platform of creators and developers is a durable moat, because an ecosystem, unlike a feature, cannot be cloned.

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  the more that we could build a platform uh around our business, the more that we could build an ecosystem with creators and developers, the harder it would be for folks uh to to just copy that.

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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  Nvidia should build only what would not otherwise exist — twenty years of CUDA at a loss is the test, and the world already has plenty of clouds.

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  the work that we do with building our our computing platform. If we don't if we don't do it, I genuinely believe it doesn't get done. If we didn't take the risk that we take, if we didn't build MVLink the way we built, if we didn't build the whole stack, if we didn't create the ecosystem the way we did it, if we didn't dedicate ourselves to 20 years of CUDA while losing money most of that time, if we didn't do it, nobody else would have done it.

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Chilean web engineer building web experiences since 2006; co-founder of Media Creators and writes at iolivares.com.

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  Apple Watch Series 10

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  Yep, another Apple product, but the best smartwatch for Apple Ecosystem.

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Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.

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  The online ecosystem has become so degraded that it has impaired people's ability to exercise taste.

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  Another conclusion might be that the online ecosystem has become so polluted-so fragmented, deceptive, overstimulating, ersatz-that it has warped our ability to exercise taste at all.

  Why tech bros are obsessed with "taste"kylechayka.substack.com

Indian software engineer working on Android and React; writes about his setup and side projects at ishubhamsingh.dev.

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  Apple TV 4K, 2022

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  Perfect TV box, smooth and lag-free, plus Apple ecosystem

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Writer of MacSparky and author of the MacSparky Field Guides on Apple productivity software. A lawyer for 30 years before going full-time on the site, he co-hosts the Mac Power Users and Focused podcasts.

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  Obsidian

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  Obsidian has this massive community plugin ecosystem that lets it do damn near anything.

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Palaeontologist at Queen Mary University of London; studies dinosaur behaviour and writes about what the fossil record can and cannot tell us.

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  T. rex is a genuine ecological oddity: nothing else in its ecosystem came anywhere near its size as a carnivore.

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  But fundamentally, T-Rex is definitely weird, even compared to all the other giant tyrannosaurs that are very closely related to it, because it is by far, ludicrously by far, the largest carnivore in its ecosystem.

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FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.

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  Working with the entire ecosystem produces better long-term results than focusing solely on your own organization's immediate needs.

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  While the same does not directly apply in other fields, working with others to produce the best results for everyone will be much better in the long-term than focusing solely on what Amazon needs right now.

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Chief executive of Alphabet and Google; joined Google in 2004 and led Chrome and Android before taking over in 2015.

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  News and journalism will matter in the future, and Google's commitment to that ecosystem will become a way it differentiates itself.

  Google

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  Look, I think news and journalism will play an important role in the future. We are pretty committed to it, right? So I think making sure that ecosystem, in fact, I think we'll be able to differentiate ourselves as a company over time because of our commitment there.

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Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.

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  Running an app store costs about 6% of revenue, so charging 30% is something only a monopoly can do.

  Google

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  The all-in cost of operating the Google Play Store, stocking it, maintaining it, the software, the entire ecosystem is around 6% of revenue. So in a competitive market, would a company whose cost is 6% be able to charge 30%? Absolutely not.

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Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.

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  Ecosystem Arabia: The Making of a New Economy

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  I have written forewords for Amir in the past on two of his prior books, Ecosystem Arabia: The Making of a New Economy and Venture Adventure: Startup Fundraising Advice from Top Global Investors, both of which I recommend.

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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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  Open-source AI is still an ideological mission rather than an ecosystem, because it has none of the feedback loops that make open-source software compound.

  open sourceAmerica

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  until there are feedback loops of open source AI, it seems like mostly an ideological mission. People like Mark Zuckerberg, which is like America needs this and I agree with him, but in the time where the motivation ideologically is high, we need to capitalize and build this ecosystem around, what benefits do you get from seeing the language model data?

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Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

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  Building a business on open source is a good thing; the objection is to trademark abuse, not to commercial use.

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  I think it’s fantastic when businesses are built on open source, the WordPress ecosystem is at least 10B+ a year; Automattic and WP Engine are less than 5% of that.

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Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.

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  As Bitcoin's ecosystem matures and regulatory clarity increases, idiosyncratic 'Black Swan' shocks to its price will become less frequent.

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  as the Bitcoin ecosystem matures, infrastructure improves, and more regulatory clarity emerges, I expect the frequency of these 'Black Swan' events to diminish over time.

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