The infrastructure behind Runway Characters
The story of how Runway’s research and engineering teams built the world’s first autoregressive video model for their Characters product.
Announcing the Amplify writing fellowship
We're bringing together a small group of writers with technical backgrounds to explore specific thematic areas and publish their research.
exe.dev and the perfect little computer
Infrastructure for the new agent age, and announcing our investment in exe.dev.
Every token, everywhere, all at once
The research and engineering history behind diffusion models for text and Inception's 10x speed leap over autoregressive models.
Arming the rebels with GPUs: Gradium, Kyutai, and Audio AI
The story of Gradium, the anatomy of audio AI models, and why smaller labs continue to edge out larger ones when it comes to voice.
How AI web search works
Under the technical hood of how models like ChatGPT ground responses in searches on the web.
Maximizing generation efficiency during RL training
A survey of how AI researchers are maximizing hardware efficiency during RL training, balancing generation and training to utilize GPUs as efficiently as possible.
A Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST) primer
A primer on Deterministic Simulation Testing, the testing framework that's taking the systems world by storm, plus how Antithesis is bringing it to the masses.
Datology's distributed pipelines for handling PBs of image data
Behind the scene's of Datology's incredible data infrastructure, from clever implementation of deduplication to their custom versions of Spark and Flyte.
Why TigerBeetle is the most interesting database in the world
This read goes behind the scenes of how TigerBeetle came to be, the incredibly novel software they’ve built, and all of the wacky, wonderful things that make them so special.
How Modal built a data cloud from the ground up
Behind the scenes of how Modal built and scaled a data cloud from scratch, from a custom container runtime to their own filesystems.
Announcing $900M in new capital, our first digital biology fund, and our new look
Today we’re announcing three new funds dedicated to backing early stage technical founders through their whole journey.
Marketing planning 101 for technical founders
Why early-stage technical founders should have a marketing plan, ways to do it that will actually help your business, and a simple template you can use to get started.
What does a growth marketer do?
We asked growth marketing leaders at technical companies how they define their job, what their day-to-day looks like, and when you should hire your first growth marketer.
What does a product marketer do?
We spoke to 4 different PMMs at technical companies and asked them to tell us about product marketing in early-stage startups.
How not to launch your developer tool
So you’ve decided it’s time to launch your developer tool. How do you stand out from the crowd?
Amplify 2024 Lookback
2024 was an amazing year for Amplify, and here are some highlights.
There are a lot of developer tools out there
Some data on how saturated the world of developer tools has become, and why you need to stand out.
Inside the engineering pipeline that replaces an entire SDR team
A practical look at how Troy at WarpStream builds automated pipelines instead of hiring SDRs.
How do I (and should I?) hire a Developer Advocate?
Two types of developer advocates and how to hire and evaluate them.
What gets to the front page of HackerNews?
I gathered data over a few months - the results will not surprise you.
What gets to the front page of Hacker News?
I categorized the top 30 on Hacker News for a month. You will believe what I found
How do I hire a Developer Advocate?
This post will walk through a few tips for how to hire your first developer advocate, with some practical examples from companies like Retool, Hex, Warp, and PlanetScale.