Another AI Socratic session done in Madrid! A full room, two hours of debate that left more questions open than it answered. Which is exactly as it should be.
Six main areas touched today:
- Model Releases: DeepSeek V4 vs GPT 5.5, how big these models actually are, whether what we're seeing is real acceleration or just revenue acceleration. The question nobody could fully agree on: are public benchmarks still useful, or is contamination winning?
- Local AI: DS4 by Antirez and the hardware-software convergence it represents. The end game for local inference: will it replace cloud, complement it, or split the market by use case?
- Gossip & Startups: Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic. Direction signal or IPO PR? Plus the YC Request for Startups list as a lens for where the real opportunities sit right now.
- AI Geopolitics: Trump meets Xi, what can we expect?.
Special thanks to Irene Mancebo Laguna, who told us about her fascinating work on how deep learning applied to 3D meshes can help us understand complex structures like the heart, connecting artificial intelligence with real-world applications in the health field. Simply AMAZING!
And also to
@eyeveebee for visiting us. She is the co-organizer, along with Cristina Fernandez Bornay, of the Barcelona chapter, which launches next month.
Thank you to everyone who came, and to the AI Socratic community for keeping the bar high!
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