Prologue: When Silicon Valley’s “Cold War” Turns into a “Hot War”

Over the past two years, the AI industry seems to have experienced a typical “disruptor story”: the agile startup OpenAI, relying on ChatGPT and Nvidia’s powerful computing power, caught …

In the tech investment landscape of 2025, the most compelling showdown is undoubtedly between Google’s Gemini and xAI’s Grok. This is not just a technical contest between two Large Language Models (LLMs), but a collision of two distinct business models and capital logics.

With …

Preface: AI + LLM = A Second Brain?

A few days ago, I came across a post in a Facebook group discussing how AI + LLM can act as a second brain.

As I recall, the author’s example involved integrating Obsidian (a note-taking app) with an LLM plugin. This allows your past notes to truly become a …

Introduction: A Lazy Idea

Around March of this year (2025-03), I was chatting with a colleague who mentioned he had recently subscribed to The Wall Street Journal.

He also receives the daily print version of the WSJ in his email. However, for a working engineer, reading a full newspaper every day is …

Preface

Recently, Google announced the integration of Gemini into the Chrome browser, which sparked the idea of switching back to Chrome from the Arc browser. However, I’ve grown very fond of Arc’s vertical tab and bookmark management system. So, I decided to roll up my sleeves and build …

Preface

Lately, the concept of AI Agents has been gaining a lot of traction, with features like OpenAI’s ChatGPT Tasks showing us the potential of AI to handle our daily grind. This got me thinking: how will Google, with its massive ecosystem, leverage Gemini to create even more powerful …