Totally unrelated, but it's still interesting that a lot of the key music software was / is created in either Berlin (Ableton, Native Instruments) or in / near Hamburg (Steinberg of Cubase — now owned by Yamaha — and Emagic of Logic — now owned by Apple). There must have been something in the air.

Partially a mix of strong, hacker culture in Germany in the 90ies + Berlin being a major place for electronic music in that decade.

For example, ableton was famousley co-created by the members of the monolake, a pioneer of minimalist techno in the 90ies. Some history there: https://www.roberthenke.com/interviews/ableton.html

Ableton yes - and Bitwig which is ex Ableton people.

But Cubase, Logic, etc weren't focused on electronic music in particular. They catered to general studio production.

Also NI, etc. was very linked to the scene from the early days.

Cubase, etc. have no such link that I know how, but there was still the strong hacker culture around atari and to a lesser degree amiga (vs PC), when PC was just not usable for anything low latency in mid 90ies.

I never knew that, and it is _really_ interesting! My DAW of choice (Bitwig) also based in Berlin...

Bitwig was started by former Ableton people.

I counter with Santa Cruz/Scotts Valley.

-Emu

-Plugin Alliance

-UAD

-Autotune

-Burl

Regardless of the business. Their website design is :chefs-kiss https://mistral.ai/

What specifically is good about it? I scrolled it on my phone and it seems pretty standard corporate website?

I love everything about Mistral's branding.

Le Chat was great, the rebrand to Vibe is meh

It looks very crowded and the paragraphs are off

Hashicorp comes to mind. From ~$90 at IPO, cratered to $25 and then taken private again by IBM

This is XML without the < and >

Yeah, why not go directly the route of custom HTML elements in Markdown anyway, since HTML inside Markdown is valid?

My guess is parsability. It’s easier to look for sentinel ``` blocks as opposed to building an HTML processor. An XML processor would have been easier, but people like Markdown. So, here we are.

At least, that would’ve my rationale.

Actually the opposite: they came into their prime after the acquisition. Probably not due to Salesforce, but still.

Are you pulling in any big assets / artifacts?

Refreshing to see an acquisition (acquihire?) that just plainly says they were not able to monetize.

100% the most original and truly scary hard SciFi from the last year.

I just fed the above into Claude Code and it one-shotted this in 5 minutes. Already doing $3B ARR after lunch.

Of course! This is actually very straightforward and easy, what you need is just:

- One MongoDB collection (`government_stuff`) to store employees, rodents, cardiac arrest surgeries and other items as JSON

- Core `/handler` API that forwards all requests to ChatGPT, figuring out if you're tracking a rodent or processing payroll

- AI Vision to analyze CCTV feeds for rodents, monitors employee productivity and verify hospital equipment status

- Blockchain layer for transparency (every rodent sighting minted as NFT).

Estimated timeline: 2 weeks, 1 junior developer. Cost: ~$10k including token credits. Should I start implementing the main.js?

The jab at NoSQL made me snort-laugh, well done. You forgot to mention the 25 thousand npm dependencies.

Jules, Vertex...