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Notes on AI, software and people from the Estro team.
8/10/2026Local coding: what we learned from testing open-weight models
We tested a selection of open-weight models to understand when local coding can reduce API dependency without slowing developers down.
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8/5/2026AI and law firms: less repetitive work, more time for high-value work
Artificial intelligence can simplify case management, assist with document drafting and make a law firm’s knowledge easier to access.
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8/1/2026DeepSeek plans a 1 GW AI data center in Inner Mongolia
DeepSeek is reportedly planning a large AI campus in Ulanqab, with about one gigawatt of proposed capacity.
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7/21/2026A voice agent must follow a goal, not a script
Task-oriented voice agents are built around the goal to be achieved rather than a rigid sequence of questions and answers.
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7/14/2026Managing Hierarchies and Conflicts Between Corporate Sources
Contracts, policies, and procedures may contain overlapping or conflicting rules. A possible architecture combines document retrieval, structured extraction, and a rule resolution engine.
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7/2/2026Unlimited OCR: why Baidu's new OCR model matters
Baidu has introduced Unlimited OCR, a model designed to parse long documents while keeping memory usage and latency stable during generation.
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6/20/2026What Do Chairs Have to Do with Artificial Intelligence?
To introduce AI into a company, the starting point is not technology: it is people, processes, and the way work actually happens.
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