Also cool: Context Engineering, the fastest hype cycle rise from Andrej Karpathy tweet to Gartner CIO strategy advisory in less than 5 months. (With due credit for Tobi Lutke)

Good advice. Don’t select AI vendors based on capital raised, news headlines or Gigawatts of compute, but on ability to partner and to deliver.

The most interesting takeaway from the keynote? 84% of IT leaders don’t track accuracy. How can you govern and improve something that you don’t measure.

Reporting for @zeta-alpha.bsky.social from Gartner Xpo Barcelona this week, and rest assured: it’s all about AI agents #GartnerSYM

And then by chance, I ended up in what is probably SF’s best cocktail bar with fellow ScaleNL alum Jonathan Zwaan (Zander Labs) to share notes on the coolest conferences and meetups for the next two weeks. What a start!

With so many AI events and meetups to pick from, my FOMO is off the charts!

Who cares about jet lag, when the evening is already packed? Fantastic start of the trip thanks to SF Demo Night with high energy pitches from 12 up and coming AI startups, hosted the AI Collective at AWS Startup Loft.

Great landing in San Francisco yesterday: fresh off the plane, I plugged in to the @zeta-alpha.bsky.social office on Mission and 3rd and hit the ground running. We are ready to roll in the Bay Area (see below).

How to automatically evaluate and optimize multi-agent setups for deep research? Excited to share that this week @abcamara.com and I will be giving two talks in Amsterdam on one of our favorite R&D topics.

- August 27th: @opensearch.org Meetup Amsterdam
- August 29th: AI Dev Event Amsterdam #AIDev

One of the advantages of Europe is its wonderful high speed train system. So this morning I hopped on the Eurostar to Paris, where I am proud to represent @zeta-alpha.bsky.social at the Hello Tomorrow 2025 Global Summit on the AI side of the Dutch Deep Tech delegation.

Europe stands with Ukraine! I just donated to u24.gov.ua and I hope you will too.

If you'd like to get the full report on Stargate, check out Zeta Alpha:

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Elon Musk has expressed skepticism about Stargate, stating that SoftBank has secured well under $10 billion so far, raising doubts about the availability of the full $500 billion. I have a strong feeling Musk is not a fan of this OpenAI plan.

How much financing is actually secured and where is it coming from? And what is the role of the US government in the plan? Is the plan realistic?

We asked the Zeta Alpha Research Agent to clarify these questions.

500 billion in 4 years for AI. A new deal announced by OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank with new US president Donald Trump. The infrastructure plan, under the name Stargate, is an order of magnitude larger than all earlier AI investments and the largest AI project ever.