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Thank you to @nytimes for yesterday’s piece on Dazzle (@itsdazzleai) and for recognizing our team’s hard work. While it’s still early days, the user engagement and response so far have been terrific. I wanted to share more context behind one anecdote in the article—my daughter Marielle’s birthday slide. To be clear, I didn’t use Dazzle because I was overwhelmed by making a slide. I used it because summing up your child in a few bullets feels laughably limiting. And, since our team had just gotten an early prototype running, I wanted to see what deeper threads it might find. So, when Marielle and her twin sister Sylvana’s 4th-grade teachers emailed asking for a slide celebrating each girl for their December 10th birthday, I pasted the email into Dazzle to test its limits. I fully expected it to struggle, since most facial recognition can’t even tell my identical twins apart. Instead, Dazzle blew me away. Not only did it distinguish Marielle from Sylvana, it surfaced forgotten kindergarten projects (like the “snake denomizer” and the “sandcat playground”) and connected them to who Marielle is today. I combined Dazzle’s insights with a few of my own and showed the slide to @zackbogue. He was floored and asked how I remembered those details. I fessed up that the Dazzle prototype had found them, and we both marveled at what AI can unlock from our camera rolls. (Pictures attached of Dazzle’s response, plus the slide I made with its insights and my own.) The foundational paper on transformers is titled “Attention Is All You Need.” What makes photos + AI so powerful is that our camera rolls are a decades-long record of what we pay attention to. By analyzing that visual history, an AI agent can connect dots we didn’t even realize we were documenting. A birthday slide isn’t a common case, but here are a few that have stunned Dazzle users recently: - Personalized learning: Dazzle offered custom spelling lists and grammar concepts based on photos of a child’s schoolwork. - Home inventory: Given a book club reading list, Dazzle found a book the user already had and noted two others by the same authors, entirely from the backgrounds of their photos. - Design intuition: Dazzle noticed a new sofa in a user’s living room photo and recommended artwork to hang above it. - Wardrobe suggestions: For an esoteric costume party, Dazzle recommended what the user already had in their closet and could wear, based on the clothes in their past pictures. We take 5 billion photos a day, often wondering if we’ll ever look at them again. Now, AI can turn those snapshots into deep, personal context.

Marissa Mayer (@marissamayer) says about 40% of the photos on your phone are chores. The dentist's appointment card. The picture of your kid's cleats so you remember to buy the next size up. Her new company, Dazzle AI (@itsdazzleai), is built on that number. Her team found it while running Sunshine, her last startup: roughly 60% of a typical camera roll is worth sharing, and the other 40% is "all the stuff we need to get done." Dazzle reads that 40% and pairs it with human and AI agents that act on it. Mayer calls it a to-do list that gets itself done. "If I had to be your personal assistant for a week, booking travel, buying gifts, buying clothes, keeping track of kids' schedules, I'd ask for your camera roll," she told Fortune (@FortuneMagazine). The AI part goes back a long way. Mayer arrived at Stanford planning to become a pediatric neurosurgeon, switched to symbolic systems, and specialized in artificial intelligence for both her BS in 1997 and her MS in 1999. For her undergrad thesis she built travel recommendation software that talked to users in natural-sounding language. She finished with 14 job offers, including a teaching job at Carnegie Mellon and a consulting job at McKinsey. She took the one at Google, where she became employee No. 20 and its first woman software engineer. In 2012 Yahoo made her CEO, the youngest woman running a Fortune 500 company at the time. She bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion in 2013. Verizon acquired Yahoo's operating business for $4.48 billion in 2017. Then came Lumi Labs, started in 2018 with former colleague Enrique Muñoz Torres and renamed Sunshine in 2020. It raised $20 million and shipped a contacts app, then a photo sharing app called Shine in 2024. TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) reported both apps had just over 1,000 downloads on the Play Store. In September 2025 she sold Sunshine's assets to Dazzle, with 99.99% of shareholders signing off. Sunshine's investors got 10% of Dazzle's equity. Three months later Dazzle raised an $8 million seed at a $35 million post-money valuation, led by Kirsten Green of Forerunner (@ForerunnerVC), with Kleiner Perkins (@kleinerperkins) and Bling Capital (@blingcapital) in the round. It launched on September 29 and is invite-only for now. Mayer plans to charge subscriptions, transaction fees or both, and keep a free tier. In 1997 she wrote AI software to plan your trip. Twenty-nine years later she's asking for your camera roll to book it. nitter.gq/FortuneMagazine/status…

Seattle restaurants are facing a perfect storm of inflation, tax hikes, and rising wages. As Restaurant Week kicks off with over 250 participants, these local spots are leaning on community support to keep their doors open amid razor-thin margins. #Seattle #RestaurantWeek

His vision will culminate with the R4 vehicle. spr.ly/6015BHrRLv

Amused that AWS just unilaterally cancelled Cloudflare's Reinvent booth. There are always signs when someone finally realizes they're losing. Guess we'll just attend and throw the most fun side events without paying Amazon! Reply if you want an invite.

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Mark Zuckerberg pretending to enjoy Guinness is my new favourite thing.

Coding will go away and coders will be replaced with creators. People who can imagine what others can’t. That’s the new wave in enterprise software.