Second week of the year.

Industry

  • [News] LMArena raises a $150M Round A, after a $100M Seed Round. Now it is valued at $1.7B, at four months after launching its first commercial product, AI Evaluations.

  • [Tweet] Shopify CEO has “shipped more code in the last 3 week than the decade before”.

  • [Tweet] Apple Intelligence to be powered by Gemini.

Paper

  • [Paper] ReaSeq from Taobao. Recommendation systems based on in-log IDs are limited by (1) the sparsity of co-occurrence statistical signals and (2) the invisibility of user behavior outside logs. This work attempts to solve the first problem with an LLM reasoning setup to automatically tag items, and the second problem with a generation-based augmentation of the user action sequence.

Other

  • [Blog] Core skills for engineering management.

  • [Tweet] Manual prompt deduplication at Lovable.

Have a great week!

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