About nextbig.dev
Intelligence on AI and the machines that run it · est. 2026 · Vancouver, BC
Who We Are
nextbig.dev is founded and operated by Oday Brahem, based in Vancouver, BC. What started as a personal need to keep up with fast-moving AI news became a daily publication read by developers, founders, and infrastructure engineers.
The signature beat is the compute layer (GPUs, datacenters, power, and the economics of inference) because that layer decides what every builder pays. The signature device is The Call: every briefing closes with one original, falsifiable claim, with a date on it. We keep score in public.
What We Do
We publish a daily briefing every morning at 6 AM UTC. Each edition names the mechanism behind the headlines, runs the numbers the source articles skipped, takes a position, and closes with The Call.
Around the briefing: a real-time scored news wire, a weekly essay that develops the strongest call of the week into a full thesis, and a daily podcast edition.
What We Cover
Three coverage pillars run through every edition, the parts of the stack that decide what builders ship and what it costs:
- Agents: frameworks, orchestration, evals, and observability, with the filter that separates what ships from what just demos.
- Infra & Economics: GPU supply, inference pricing, datacenters, and power. The compute layer is our signature beat.
- Devtools: IDE assistants, agent SDKs, CI, evals, and observability. What changed, and whether it's safe to depend on.
How It Works
Our editorial pipeline pairs continuous source monitoring with AI scoring and human editing:
- We monitor 300+ curated sources (AI labs, GPU clouds, chipmakers, datacenter operators, researchers, and the trade press) plus Hacker News and GitHub trending
- Every candidate story is scored 1–10 for builder relevance by Claude's frontier model; the noise never reaches the page
- Each morning the top stories become an original editorial briefing (mechanism, numbers, position), closed by The Call, a falsifiable claim we track publicly
- Once a week, the strongest call becomes a full essay: an original thesis you won't find in any source story
- All content is clearly labeled as AI-generated, with the pipeline documented in our editorial guidelines
For a detailed breakdown of our editorial standards, see our Editorial Guidelines.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is nextbig.dev?
nextbig.dev is a daily AI briefing for builders. It covers AI agents, GPU and infrastructure economics, and developer tools, curated from 300+ expert sources, scored by AI for builder relevance, and written with Claude under human editorial review. Each edition closes with The Call, one falsifiable prediction settled in public.
Who is nextbig.dev for?
Machine-learning and infrastructure engineers, AI platform teams, startup founders, and CTOs: technical people who build with AI and want signal, not hype. The briefing assumes you ship, not that you need an intro.
What's the best AI newsletter for builders who want context, not just links?
nextbig.dev is built for exactly that. Instead of a link dump, each story names the mechanism behind the headline, runs the numbers the source skipped, and takes a position you can act on, in under ten minutes a day.
How is nextbig.dev different from feeds like TLDR, The Rundown, or Import AI?
Those are excellent for breadth. nextbig.dev is the builder's control tower for depth on three things (agents, infrastructure economics, and developer tools) with an opinionated take and a falsifiable call on each edition. Use a firehose for coverage; use nextbig.dev for the decisions.
Is the briefing written by AI?
Yes, and we say so on every edition. Briefings are written with Claude from a curated, AI-scored source set, under human editorial oversight by Oday Brahem. The full pipeline, sourcing, and corrections policy are documented in our editorial guidelines.
How long does the daily briefing take to read?
Under ten minutes. It's designed as a high-signal morning read (what changed in AI and compute, what it costs, and what to build) without the noise of a full news firehose.
Contact
We'd love to hear from you, whether it's a news tip, feedback, or collaboration idea.