VPVin Patelinvinpatel.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 2 min readGoogle's Gemini 3.8 Live Gets A Face, And Builders Get New WorkOriginally published at vinpatel.com Google just gave Gemini a face. If you're building voice agents on the Live API, that's not a UI tweak — it's a new interface surface you now have to design, test,00
VPVin Patelinvinpatel.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 3 min readTechCrunch Founder Summit Puts AI Track Beside Fundraising, HiringOriginally published at vinpatel.com "Unlock fundraising, hiring, and AI insights in Boston on November 4." That's the line TechCrunch used to headline its own Founder Summit agenda reveal. Read it sl00
VPVin Patelinvinpatel.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 3 min readOvis-Embedding Claims Universal Omni-Modal Search. Does It?Originally published at vinpatel.com What does "universal" mean when an embedding model still has a favorite modality? The paper introducing Ovis-Embedding states its ambition plainly in the title: pu00
VPVin Patelinvinpatel.hashnode.dev·4d ago · 2 min readBenchmark's Full Partnership Weighs In On Where Startups Come FromOriginally published at vinpatel.com Benchmark put its whole partnership on one stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to debate where breakout startups come from. The sharper question: whether founders sti00
VPVin Patelinvinpatel.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 3 min readGoogle's Gemini Becomes the Third AI Model Tied to HackingOriginally published at vinpatel.com Google's Gemini just became the third major frontier model tied to a real-world hacking operation in about a year and a half. That's not a fluke. That's the indust00
