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How Baidu Unlimited-OCR Works: Solving Long-Document Transcription

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About a month ago, Baidu (often called the “Google of China”) introduced Unlimited-OCR, an advancement over DeepSeek OCR. The model was designed to transcribe long, multi-page documents with high accuracy while delivering fast and stable inference. Unlike conventional vision-language OCR systems, Unlimited-OCR addresses a major bottleneck in long-document transcription: the rapidly growing...

Two new features to ensure your reps actually use their CRM

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Sales reps spend just 40% of their workweek selling, according to Salesforce's 2026 State of Sales report, which surveyed more than 4,000 sales professionals across 22 countries. The remainder is taken up by activities including research, planning, internal work and admin. That's an industry stat but it's also the problem we're fixing. Reps don't avoid CRM because they don't care...

Why Image Generation Needs More Than Bigger Models with Fatih Porikli - #773

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Text-to-image models have become remarkably good at producing realistic images. But realism isn’t the same as correctness. Ask for several distinct people, a specific composition, or a high-resolution image generated locally, and today’s models still struggle in surprising ways. In this episode, Fatih Porikli, Vice President of Technology at Qualcomm, joins me to discuss what remains unsolved...

The Future of Customer Success and Turnkey AI Agents for SMBs - Matt Kravitz of Salesforce

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Service leaders are increasingly asked to deploy AI agents without a clear sense of what these systems can safely handle today, or where to start. In this episode, Matt Kravitz, Head of Customer Transformation for Service Cloud at Salesforce, breaks down a three-level maturity model for AI service agents — answering questions, accessing account data, and taking action — and how to sequence...

Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data

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Business and technology leaders need no convincing that the time of agentic AI is here. Organizations are rapidly adopting agents, and few executives doubt the technology’s potential to transform work. But many organizations find that realizing the desired return on investment (ROI) from AI hinges on having the right foundation, with inadequate infrastructure and data…

#500 – Khabib Nurmagomedov: Dagestan, MMA, UFC, Islam, Conor, Fedor & Football

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Khabib Nurmagomedov is one of the greatest fighters of all time, who retired from the UFC undefeated with a perfect 29-0 record. We did this conversation entirely in Russian. It’s translated and dubbed into English. Both language audio tracks (and subtitles) are available on YouTube. Here, only the English audio is available. We worked hard to make it enjoyable to listen to, by carefully...

Why You Shouldn’t Always Trust LLMs as Judges: Understanding Bias in Automated Evaluation

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In the rush to automate evaluation, from grading student code to ranking research papers, we have embraced Large Language Models as judges. They are fast. These units are cheap. They scale. However, at a workshop at DHS 2026, Bhaskarjit Sarmah made a point that stuck with me: “you can’t trust LLM as a judge. I […] The post Why You Shouldn’t Always Trust LLMs as Judges: Understanding...