[ukuina]

I visit your site every day. Thank you for creating it and evolving it past simple summaries to show paper details!

I recall you were looking to sell it at some point. Was wondering what that process looked like, and why you ended up holding on to the site.

[matt1]

Hey, thanks for the kind words.

To answer your question: an earlier version of the site focused on surfacing AI news, but that space is super competitive and I don't think Emergent Mind did a better job than the other resources out there. I tried selling it instead of just shutting it down, but ultimately decided to keep it. I recently decided to pivot to covering arXiv papers, which is a much better fit than AI news. I think there's an opportunity with it to not only help surface trending papers, but help educate people about them too using AI (the GPT-4 summaries are just a start). A lot of the future work will be focused in that direction, but I'd also love any feedback folks have on what I could add to make it more useful.

[ukuina]

Thank you for the detailed response!

Pivoting into arXiv is a good idea. It helps you have focused prompts and templates.

A natural progression is aggregation, categorization, and related paper suggestions. Since arXiv has HTML versions of papers now, you can also consider allowing deeplinked citations directly from the LLM summaries.

A GPT-curated comments section for papers would also be nice, automatically filtering out any spam that gets past the regular Disqus filters, then scoring/hiding comments based on usefulness or insight.