Not long until NDC Sydney! ⏰
Get your last-minute tickets now to see some great talks, including our very own Adam Cogan, who will speak, giving you a great rundown on practice dev AI tools!
Of course, there will be the usual booth fun with great swag, demos, and lots more!
🚨 Happening tomorrow at .NET User Group Sydney - if you're fed up of burning through your tokens - do not miss this talk!
Eddie Kranz is talking about why it’s time to stop rationing tokens and start thinking bigger with AI.
Join us www.meetup.com/sydney-net-u...
🚨 NDC Sydney is only 3 weeks away!
If you work in .NET, are using AI, or are still trying to work out what AI actually means for your projects, don't miss this event!
SSW is sponsoring! Come say hi at the SSW booth for some great AI chats & win some awesome swag! 🦙🐂👇
ndcsydney.com/tickets
Don't miss tonight's .NET User Group with Adam Cogan "From Copilot to the Garden of Eden," running at SSW Sydney from 6pm (AEST).
Hope you can join us for 🍕, a great talk, and 🤝chats!
More info
www.meetup.com/sydney-net-user-group/events/313642669
Or jump on the livestream:
www.ssw.com.au/live
We've had some great talks here this morning already at Data Saturdays! Excited for the afternoon talks to come, including an extra surprise session from Adam Cogan& Gert Marx! 🎉
Are you ready for Data Saturdays Brisbane this weekend?!
This event is a must for any data & AI engineers!
Join our very own Adam Cogan & Gordon Beeming who will be speaking at the event!
datasaturdays.com/Event/202602...
We hope you can all join our very special guest at the February Full Stack User Group in Brisbane! Jack is going to give us a real look at AI-powered data analytics and open an honest discussion about its practical uses (and failures).
Join us! 👇
www.linkedin.com/events/74239...
Do you ever get bored waiting around for Claude Code to finish whatever it is it is doing in the background?
Claude Code has 'hooks' that fire on actions & can send messages out, which means you can plug in a live visualisation of what’s happening while it runs. 👀
www.youtube.com/shorts/N63Ur...
For many, the big question is now IDE or CLI for AI coding?
¿Por qué no los dos? The right AI tool is now context-dependent.
Which do you reach for more right now? IDE-first or CLI-first, and what influences that decision?
www.youtube.com/shorts/b5SdE...
If you are paying US$200 a month for AI, how do you ensure you're getting the best value for money? Calum Simpson explains that it's not about finding a better model, but a mindset shift needed to max your benefits.
What’s a “non-obvious” thing you’d use it for?
www.youtube.com/shorts/6puue...
If you're not paying for the product, you are the product. Strong words from Ulysses Maclaren about #ChatGPT testing ads, starting with Free + Go users (initially in the US).
What do you think about this move... #dystopian or just smart marketing?
youtube.com/shorts/N63UrWoab_U
#AI #blackmirror
🔥 Devs, tired of fragile RAG pipelines & duct-taped vector DBs?
Join Microsoft MVP Priyanka Shah at the next User Group in #Brisbane as she dives into Foundry IQ + agentic RAG on Azure AI Search
See more: ssw.com.au/events
Gemini 3 just shook the leaderboard - briefly dethroning GPT‑5.1. Ulysses Maclaren unpacks the real benchmarks, OpenAI’s counter‑moves, and a first look at Google’s new Anti‑Gravity IDE + why even Sam Altman might feel the heat.
Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/rdnwq...
#GoogleGemini #Gemini3
Is Grok 4.1 truly emotionally intelligent - or just engineered to sound that way? This fast, test-driven breakdown probes XAI’s claims: lower hallucination rates, empathy under pressure, and more human-like responses to emotional queries.
Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/V5LPM...
#Grok41 #ElonMuskAI
GPT-5.1 + Codex 5.1 Max: Ulysses Maclaren lays out how OpenAI is answering Gemini 3 - benchmark wins in coding, MoE signals, and why unreleased ‘supermodels’ may be kept in‑house to avoid GPU burn and imitation.
Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/Pz5I-...
Gemini 3 briefly overtook GPT-5.1 - here’s the no-hype breakdown: where it truly wins in multimodal and tool use, the benchmarks, OpenAI’s response, and dev takeaways. Plus a first look at Google’s Anti-Gravity IDE and why even Sam Altman is watching.
Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/iNflZ...
Claude Opus 4.5 just leaped ahead on SWE-Bench and token efficiency, but is it worth it without free access? Ulysses Maclaren compares Opus 4.5 vs Gemini 3 vs GPT-5.1 with real benchmarks, pricing trade-offs, and where each model wins for heavy-duty coding.
Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/JodTI...
Major update for #AI developers: Google just turned #RAG from an infra project into a feature toggle. Gemini now hides embeddings, retrieval, and data extraction behind a simple API, turning weeks of plumbing into time spent on data quality and UX instead.
www.youtube.com/shorts/Qh_pG...
#Gemini
So excited to be kicking off another SSW Brainstorming day in Sydney! This time with special guest Richard Campbell. 🎉❤️
It’s the perfect way to spend a rainy day, hacking fun ways to solve real business problems! 🎉☔️
China’s Kimi K2 just outperformed OpenAI and Claude at coding and tool use, while staying fully open source. Ulyses Maclaren & Hajir Lesani unpack why K2 is a breakthrough for security-first orgs and how to put it to work behind your firewall.
www.youtube.com/shorts/YAjpA...
#KimiK2 #OpenSourceAi
Microsoft just stood up a Superintelligence team led by Mustafa Suleyman, outside OpenAI. Ulysses Maclaren & Michael Smedley unpack the 1-3 year claim of AI making autonomous scientific discoveries, what this means for AGI timelines, & the concrete signals to watch.
www.youtube.com/shorts/gaZK9...
China’s AI gap shrank from a year to a nanosecond. Kimi K2 is beating state-of-the-art Western models, and it’s the first open-source frontier model. Ulysses Maclaren & Michael Smedley break down how power capacity and chip manufacturing scale could flip the race.
www.youtube.com/shorts/JkgLY...
Google’s new “nested learning” lets #AI ditch fixed knowledge cutoffs & learn from mistakes, closer to how humans do. Ulysses Maclaren & Michael Smedley unpack what changes for builders: faster updates, fewer stale answers, and more resilient models.
Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/WTYIm...
Adobe just dropped its biggest AI upgrade: custom models, copyright‑cleared content, & Gen Studio that builds full brand books in minutes. We cut through the hype to show what actually changes for design teams & whether this finally pressures Figma and Canva.
www.youtube.com/shorts/R6RRq...
Anthropic tried “Inception” on Claude & it noticed. From “I can’t stop thinking about bananas” to real-time detection of thought injection, Ulysses Maclaren & Sam Wagner talk talk about AI metacognition, safety, & ethics
www.youtube.com/shorts/1-4GZ...
OpenAI’s road to an IPO decoded: from nonprofit origins to a profit-driven structure, what changed in the Microsoft deal, & the key claims in Elon Musk’s lawsuit. Learn how these shifts could reshape AGI governance, developer access, & safety commitments in <1min!
www.youtube.com/shorts/JH8mo...
GitHub Copilot vs Cursor 2.0 just escalated: both launched multi-agent workflows this week, & we break down what each gets right, where they differ, & why your API keys are finally safe (no more leaking across agents). Get the takeaways before you pick a tool.
www.youtube.com/shorts/gZOMI...
Join us for the next Brisbane Full Stack User Group with Gordon Beeming! Fail fast & often - that's DevOps wisdom, right?
This talk walks through a year of shipping real projects by learning to orchestrate instead of implement
www.meetup.com/brisbane-ful...
Clippy is back? Or is he?! 👀🤣 Say hello to Miko, Microsoft's new AI assistant! Smarter than Clippy, Miko is here to revolutionize your work and personal life. Is this the future we've been waiting for? 🤖✨
Watch: www.youtube.com/shorts/AB_vY...
#Microsoft #MoAI #Copilot #AIAssistant #AIRevolution
