Logistics is broken, Lets fix it Building Augment Founded Deliverr (acq by Shopify $2.5B), Symphony (acq Quantum), Ugenie (acq Lulu), Amazon Fulfillment
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Harish Abbott retweeted
The complexity theory result is actually huge.
P problems can be solved in polynomial time. It was widely believed that NP-complete problems require exponential time.
P = NP states that NP-complete problems can be solved in polynomial time. OpenAI didn't prove that. But, they proved that (some) NP-complete problems can be solved faster than exponential time, meaning:
- P = NP, or
- the complexity of NP problems is a "middle thing" between polynomial and exponential, eg. O(n^log n)
If it survives peer reviews, this could be one of the biggest CS breakthroughs in decades.
Announcing three major scientific discoveries, one each in mathematics (harmonic analysis), computer science (complexity theory), and physics (quantum field theory).
AI starting to help us improve our understanding of the universe! openai.com/index/building-sc…
Harish Abbott retweeted
"There's probably four or five companies involved for a single car move from California to Texas."
@habbott explains why, on @WeThe_Builders:
"You're probably calling a broker who's then calling a few trucking companies who are then figuring out who else is moving from, let's say, California to Texas."
"The amount of effort needed to coordinate in such a complex world is very high."
That's the coordination tax @useaugment is going after.
Order to cash automation!!
Our AI teammate Augie automates manual work for @zengistics from order to cash, across 16 live workflows and counting.
Read the full story at hubs.la/Q04z_YWz0
Harish Abbott retweeted
Adding customers to the Augment portal now takes seconds.
Search, create, edit, bulk upload, and map linked facilities—all in one place. The records your team maintains are the same ones Augie uses to build loads and enter orders. hubs.la/Q04yk1r90
Harish Abbott retweeted
An AI agent that reads your TMS reports on your business. An AI agent that writes to your TMS acts on your business.
In our blog, we outline the menu of integration paths to get there, plus 14 questions to ask an AI vendor before you grant write access. hubs.la/Q04y79_50
Harish Abbott retweeted
We are excited to announce we are partnering deeply with Muse to enable agentic checkout with Shop Pay on all Shopify stores, offering people an easy and delightful way to shop and check out with Muse.
Harish Abbott retweeted
This week we met with customers, partners, industry peers, and potential new recruits (!) at 5 different events across 2 countries to talk about the agentic AI opportunity in supply chain. If you missed us this week, don't worry—you'll see us at more events soon 😌
In unrelated news Deepseek-V4.1-Flash is available; a 552B Parameter for coding. It outperforms Opus 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol at 1/40th the cost on DeepSWE
Get ready for all of the investors in frontier model companies to suddenly flip to regulatory capture mode today
Their investments in frontier model companies are currently at risk/capped because the biggest buyers of tokens are embracing open-source models: vertical AI companies, the government and enterprises
That’s all this is about: stopping open source — which I’ve been saying on the pod for two years
If you want safety, you want disclosure — and open source is the ultimate disclosure process
Harish Abbott retweeted
Training tiny models for special purpose use cases works so incredibly well if you have a great self improving recursive flywheel. Shopify ML team is on fire.
finetuned 0.8b model beats GPT 5.6-sol xhigh in this very specialized task.
GLM 5.3 Flash is comparable and cheaper than GLM 5.2 which was comparable and cheaper than leading closed weight models. 🤯
Harish Abbott retweeted
Chandrasekhar died exactly 31 years ago today. At 19, on the boat from India to Cambridge in 1930, he worked out that a white dwarf above ~1.4 solar masses could not remain stable. Eddington publicly rejected the result. 53 years later, Chandrasekhar won the Nobel Prize for his work on stellar evolution.
Harish Abbott retweeted
After @hirschbachml evaluated AI vendors for 18 months, they chose Augment.
Augie now handles all outbound driver outreach on their brokerage side: 85%+ of Logistics Solutions loads, 300+ automated check-ins a week.
Full story from @FreightWaves: hubs.ly/Q04rtl8n0
Harish Abbott retweeted
This is concerning. For the first time, a Chinese model Kimi K3 has taken #1 on the Frontend Code Arena and is scoring at or near the frontier on other benchmarks.
Meanwhile America is tying itself in knots: politicians and bureaucrats are banning new data centers, piling on state regulations, and pushing for new federal agencies to pre-approve frontier models.
This is how you lose the AI race. The rest of the world won’t play by our rules if we bog ourselves down. Permissionless innovation is how America won the internet and became the technological envy of the world. We can do it again with AI -- while addressing risks in a targeted way -- or we’ll watch our lead evaporate.
Big news: Kimi-K3 by @Kimi_Moonshot is now #1 in the Frontend Code Arena with 1679 pts, surpassing Claude Fable 5.
This is a 17-place jump from Kimi-k2.6 (#18 -> #1).
In Frontend, Kimi-K3 ranked #1 in 6 of 7 domains: Brand & Marketing, Reference-Based Design, Data & Analytics, Consumer Product, Simulations, and Content Creation Tools, landing #2 only in Gaming behind Fable 5.
The full model weights will be released by July 27.
Congrats to the @Kimi_Moonshot team on this major milestone!
Harish Abbott retweeted
Augie speeds up quoting by 80%.
Lines matched, priced, and quoted in seconds. Order and sourcing details captured once, no re-keying into the ERP.
Speed to quote wins deals. Give reps their time back. goaugment.com/b2b-distributi…
Harish Abbott retweeted
Fable is currently export controlled & rumors are that 5.6 will also be subject to an approval framework. Whatever jiu jitsu the Chinese are using to get us slow down our own frontier models while letting their models run free appears to be working. Who is capturing who? 🧐🇺🇸
Great chat with @andreipalamariu on Leaders in Tech and E-Commerce podcast to talk about how agentic AI is changing supply chain execution -- from shipment visibility to carrier sourcing to distributor sales ops.
alcottglobal.com/podcast/99-…
