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Chomsky casually predicting LLMs in 1956

There is a real "Series A crunch" Previously ~30% of startups got to a series A in 2 years. In recent vintages only ~15% did. data from @peterj_walker / Carta

This chart from Carta is pretty brutal. Over 40% of 2018-vintage VC funds have not made a single distribution.

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this is gold

it’s insane that we had zero interest rates for long enough that we pretended product lead growth was actually a thing and now no one knows how to sell enterprise software anymore selling to the enterprise in 2030 will require rediscovering arcane secrets via old men in nevada

Executives from Amazon, Anthropic, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, & OpenAI are joining Secretary Antony Blinken on stage at a U.S.-hosted AI event on the sidelines of #UNGA79 to launch a "partnership for global inclusivity on AI." More info will be posted here: state.gov/artificial-int…

The investing world is convinced that Palantir is an unscalable consulting company. For over a decade very few competitors were funded as a resulted. Now that Palantir is a Fortune 500 company, investors need to wake up! Large enterprises and governments need customizable,

Cool for NYC AI - new big OpenAI office Cohere opened one recently In addition to many other existing AI co offices Meta FAIR, DeepMind, Palantir, HuggingFace, Dataiku, etc (and yes, Kushner/Thrive building)

If AI is modern gunpowder -- all these pundits really should stop talking with such reverence about "moats" ... strategy from a past era...

Joint philosophy and policy statement from a16z and Microsoft on Open Source AI. 🤖🚀 AI for Startups Nov 1, 2024 | Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft; Brad Smith, Vice-Chair and President, Microsoft, Marc Andreessen, Cofounder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz;

This is the most important paper in a long time . It shows with strong evidence we are reaching the limits of quantization. The paper says this: the more tokens you train on, the more precision you need. This has broad implications for the entire field and the future of GPUs🧵

Did the PayPal mafia just take over the government?

Google just unveiled a new project that shows how AI Agents are coming for full browser and computer use. This opens up AI to any of the laborious knowledge tasks that we do today. Most importantly, it lets us automate work that we never had even contemplated before.

everyone in tech 100x underestimates how important efficient capital formation is for building the future inventing the safe and making it so you could sell equity with a one page agreement probably created >100b in equity value. there's dozens of these unlocks left to discover

MY MIND HAS JUST BEEN BOGGLED. I just tried the early release of OpenAI's new DeepResearch feature (rolling out later today to the $200/month Pro users). I've been working in the CRM software industry for 30+ years. It's not just that I've had court-side seats to the game,

We’re an AI enabler in the Scottish tech ecosystem ⁦Steven Drost⁩ ⁦CodeBase⁩ ⁦The Scotsman⁩ ⁦Scotsman Business⁩ scotsman.com/news/were-an-a…

Teaching ethics to undergrads in 2025 is bizarre, because: (1) They insist morality is entirely relative and culturally constructed... (2) ...while simultaneously holding unshakeable ethical convictions and viewing disagreement as moral monstrosity.

I'm at YC demo day and it's a new era. Out: "Uber for Dogs" In: "Anduril for Dogs"

EVERYONE dumb (ok, naive) enough to think the west is ahead of China on AI and that we “must win” … has to watch this brilliant exchange between Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley. SPOT FUCKING ON.