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February 16th, 2025

Embrace the rabbit hole

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Welcome back to the Roundup. I hope you're having a chill Sunday morning. In today's digest, we've got an AI that generates full stack mobile apps from a prompt, DeepSeek's latest vision-language models, Sam Altman's latest spat with Elon Musk, and the top trending discussions on the site. Let's dive in.

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Bolt + Expo — Turn your ideas into mobile apps without writing any code

Bolt's integration with Expo enables users to create production-ready mobile apps through simple prompts, eliminating traditional development barriers by leveraging React Native and Bolt's AI agent.

Roamr for Friends — Get paid to stay with friends on work trips

Roamr for Friends helps employees save on work travel by staying with friends, earning rewards while reducing corporate expenses. It simplifies trip planning and reimbursement for both employees and companies.

DeepSeek-VL2 — MoE vision-language, now easier to access

DeepSeek-VL2 are open-source vision-language models with strong multimodal understanding, powered by an efficient Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture. Users can easily test these models using the new Hugging Face demo.

Figr Identity — Design systems in minutes: Ship consistent products faster

Figr Identity is a tool that automates the creation of design tokens, components, and variants, enabling teams to establish and manage design systems efficiently. By generating production-ready UI kits tailored to a brand's design, it reduces manual effort and accelerates product development.

Rabbithole — A launchpad for your curiosity

Rabbithole is an AI-powered platform that transforms exploration into a dynamic, non-linear journey, allowing users to delve into topics through AI-generated follow-up questions and uncover hidden connections. It offers features like saving, revisiting, and sharing research trails.

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If you're building voice applications and still struggling with transcription accuracy, it's time to meet Deepgram Nova-3. Built for the most challenging acoustic environments, from packed call centers to high-stakes trading floors, Nova-3 delivers real-time transcription with industry-leading accuracy–54.2% better for streaming, 47.4% for pre-recorded data. Plus, you can adapt industry-specific vocabulary on the fly, without model retraining. Finally, enterprise speech-to-text that speaks your language.

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Overheard in the community

Sam's taking no prisoners

Elon Musk just tried to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion, and OpenAI hit him with a “no thanks.”

Musk, who helped start OpenAI before leaving in 2018, says the company has lost its way—too closed off, too profit-driven, not the open-source AI utopia he envisioned. So, he and a group of investors made an offer to take control and, presumably, set things right. This comes after Musk sued OpenAI last year, arguing that its for-profit shift betrayed its original mission.

OpenAI’s response? A hard pass. CEO Sam Altman even joked that OpenAI would buy Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) for $9.74 billion instead. Beyond the billionaire drama, the real question is: should AI be controlled by one guy with a lot of money, or... a different guy with a lot of money?.