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Important paper from Pluralis Research with accompanying video explainer

Sequoia Wants It Hard (or What Not to do When Fundraising)

LLMs are better when they know more about us. The flipside is they build more leverage over locking us in with that knowledge. USV wrote about the need for a Rebel Alliance to build the horizontal infrastructure for user data is now.

we like systems of record :) great articulation by Rebecca Kaden of where defensibility will come from for ai tools (link below)

🍿A blast bringing Popcorn.co and Ai moviemaking to the people, with Minh Do & Machine Cinema. Here is a glimpse of our workshops on our European tour. Thank you Fred Grinstein, Mike Ower for making it 🔥

Data is the new content.

OMG!! Someone just created the 10 millionth Jam!!! 🤯 So excited. Less time fixing, more time building!! Thanks y'all for building this with us! 🍓

In many parts of the world, coal is only *slightly* more profitable than solar. But a slight edge is all it takes to dominate the market - what Capitalist would make $10 when they could instead make $11? Glow tips the scales by adding just enough incentive to let solar win.

Finally, we can own and control our messaging the way we own & control our money. Today at NewDayOne, Base app + XMTP unlock a new surface for builders: AI + Money + Secure group chats It’s time to build agents & mini-apps that work for people, not platforms. Let’s dive in👇

We’re thrilled to announce our $20M Series B to fuel XMTP’s mission: 🌐 Build the most secure, decentralized messaging protocol 🤖 Support any identity across any digital ecosystem 📡 Help fuel the next generation of messaging applications XMTP is rebuilding secure messaging

2024: Voice Cloning 2025: What about personality cloning? Hume’s voice AI can now not only mimic your voice but also speaking style and language. It’s now available via our TTS and new speech-to-speech model, EVI 3, which is also launching today.

New post in my Star Trek Vision series: Fully automated production

I couldn't get ChatGPT to stop infiltrating every answer with the Knicks after I told it to remember that my son was a fan--and it has me thinking about not only the role of memory in AI but also the role of forgetting. Maybe the best AI memories won’t be flawless databases.

Some memories are better left forgotten.

New post: In Favor of Forgetting usv.com/writing/2025/0…

How should we choose our actions in light of our understanding of reality and the potential impact of our actions on this reality ?

We threw a party at Lightning Dock last week to celebrate its full repowering back to its nameplate capacity, a couple of post party thoughts -there's so much "geothermal goodwill" out there spanning all sorts of demographics, the geothermal love is real, wonderful, deep, and

Clarifai is proud to be named a “Challenger” and “Fast Mover” in the GigaOm Radar for AI Infrastructure v1 Report!