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Peter Thiel on the “ AI bubble ” and AGI _
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“We are organized like a startup. Apple is the largest startup in the world.” _
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Back when they were friends 👀
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Steve Jobs view of leaders
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Buckle up _
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1/ Via @FT Start-up failures in US up 60% over past year––as founders run out of cash raised during the tech boom of 2021-22–– threatening millions of jobs in venture-backed companies + risking a spillover to the wider economy.
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Literally *everything* is going to have some elements of AI in a year or twos time
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Meta is changing its "Made with AI" label across all of its apps after photographers complained that the company applied it to real photos where they had used some basic editing tools. Read more:
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Did your port co make the list? —
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Great advice for founders from @elonmusk (watch till the end)
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So I guess Apple updated the Vision Pro actor on its website to better reflect its target market: Finance bros
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Where do they get these names ?? _
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Google’s answer to OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode is here. Debuting at #MadeByGoogle , Gemini Live lets users have “in-depth” and “emotionally expressive” voice chats with Google’s AI chatbot on their smartphones.
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Getting the right investors and terms matters. _
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1/7 We're seeing more and more crypto startups stuck with predatory terms from early-stage deals. Don't let early-stage investors set you up for long-term failure and jeopardize future fundraising rounds. Here's what you should look out for:
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@MorningBrew Ok, now do cumulative inflation
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“Don’t be a career.” Steve Jobs —
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@SchonbergerJake @beehiiv Can you make it CPM-based?
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Google near $23 billion deal for cybersecurity startup Wiz It would be their largest acquisition ever.
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Last chance to be apart of the first-ever Fall Batch at @ycombinator Apply below👇🏻
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The deadline for applying to the fall batch is tomorrow, August 27th at 8pm PDT!
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Peter Thiel on why he believes in founder-led companies
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New data out from Carta Showing negative returns for investments in '21-'22💀 _
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Elon Musk: "Failure is irrelevant unless it is catastrophic."
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What about Asian men? _
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VCs dropping in to claim credit after a successful product launch _
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Sam Altman wants to save us from the AI-dominated world he’s building. But governments aren’t buying his plan, which involves an attempt to scan eyeballs of every person on Earth _
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Stocks 📉 VC deals 📈 —
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@rowancheung Ask Mark about SUPREME
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“Winter is here for start-ups,” said Venky Ganesan, a partner at Menlo Ventures. “What matters now is just finding safety and riding through the storm.” Via @dealbook Do you agree?
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Spittin truth 👇🏻
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Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on expanding your luck surface area "Life is about luck surface area. I've had these friends that talk the exact same way: 'that guy got lucky' ... get to the right attitude and don't blame it on luck. Give yourself more shots at success."
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This 👇
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What's uniquely hard about running a startup is that you don't merely have to endure adversity, but have to solve intellectually difficult problems while doing so. It's like trying to find integrals while being chased by a lion.
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Crazy stat. "the study found that startups increase their odds of achieving equity growth via an initial public offering or an acquisition by 277% by moving to Silicon Valley ..."
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Figma gets an AI Upgrade
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The Swedish tech entrepreneur Hjalmar Nilsonne had a similar experience. He remembers getting his own Pentium II HP computer in 1998 when he was 10 years old: It “changed my life, by introducing me to programming and the internet.” _
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Wanna be a founder? "It's like staring into the abyss and eating glass." - @elonmusk _
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Even with modern experimental techniques, wherein neuroscientists track hundreds of neurons at a time in live animals… It is hard to reverse-engineer what is really going on. _
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This is probably the best thread I’ve read in a WHILE 👇
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Look at this kids face. He was making $500K per cold email sent. Reached half BILLION people per month. Earned $10M+ profit in the 1st year of the business. Sold it and "retired". Here's what his business was and how he built it: (this is my story) 👇
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Humane’s Ai Pin, a $699 AI-powered wearable, aimed to free people from smartphones but faced harsh reviews upon launch. The device was criticized as “totally broken” with “glaring flaws,” leading to slow sales. More below:
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Master Gen AI with Microsoft's top-class course - now live! Dive into 18 lessons, available for free on Github. Start crafting your Gen AI apps now.
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@paulg From his interview:
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Is your city on the list? _
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Soon enough, knowledge will be a commodity
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announcing our new small model gpt-4o-mini! smarter than Claude Haiku and Gemini Flash, and 30x cheaper than gpt-4o
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@paulg Don't be a scenester.
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@Apple 3/ 🔍 The article highlights that Apple's AI development has been hampered by a lack of ambition and internal conflicts. Engineers working on Siri often felt their innovations were stifled by a cautious approach to AI advancements.
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"America is in the midst of an extraordinary startup boom," per the Economist. Do you agree?
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The Economist: At least 10% of [scientific] research may already be co-authored by AI
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Where does your city rank?
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After watching Google’s latest AI announcements, it’s hard to believe Apple is anything other than 2-3 years behind in this area — at least.
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So … a taxi line.
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First day, I got out of the Airport and I saw the ‘Uber Zone’. Instead of booking an Uber and finding it, you simply book an Uber and go to the first car in the queue of cars, tell your PIN to the driver and off you go to your destination. No waiting time.
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Are we gonna run out of data, compute, or energy first?
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AI bots will be able to complete nearly any task humans carry out on their devices in the years to come. Here’s how some bots will change everyday life. via @WSJ
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Create your own frontier
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This is the future. ( sorry, @nvidia )
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Meet Sohu, the fastest AI chip of all time. With over 500,000 tokens per second running Llama 70B, Sohu lets you build products that are impossible on GPUs. One 8xSohu server replaces 160 H100s. Sohu is the first specialized chip (ASIC) for transformer models. By specializing,
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@sama “Old-school search”
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@OpenAI This is quite literally the last TIME this magazine will be relevant. It was a good run.
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"An extraordinary public war of words is brewing in Silicon Valley as some of the biggest names in technology take shots at each other in the run-up to the presidential election" _
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The story behind Mark Zuckerberg’s latest gold chain…
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Top 10 AI startups Any that should be added to this list? Let us know below:
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How we picked the top 10 AI startups to watch this year
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Everyone’s fighting over @nvidia chips More on Oracle’s deal below via the Information:
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"Disillusioned with grad school, Nigel Braun dropped out to film chemistry videos in his parents’ garage in Montreal. Then millions began viewing his whimsical – and occasionally dangerous experiments." _
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@garrytan What about non-technical founders now being able to code?
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Translation: @OpenAI will get a lot better at retrieval. This is a direct result of their strategy shift to sell enterprise-level services to companies like Moderna, improving ChatGPT's ability to pull from their proprietary data.
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We’ve acquired Rockset, a leading real-time analytics database that provides world-class data indexing and querying capabilities. We'll integrate Rockset’s technology across our products, empowering companies to transform their data into actionable intelligence.
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"Because LLMs are not explicitly programmed, nobody is entirely sure why they have such extraordinary abilities. Nor do they know why LLMs sometimes misbehave, or give wrong or made-up answers, known as 'hallucinations'. LLMs really are black boxes."
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SCOOP: @Meta is in talks to acquire a stake of about 5% in eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica -- doubling down on its smart glasses bet
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Speed is the best offense and defense. — @elonmusk
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A must watch
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Paul Buchheit ( @paultoo ) was one of Google’s earliest employees, the creator of Gmail, and a YC Group Partner. He also came up with Google’s famous tagline, “Don’t be evil.” In the first-ever guest episode of the @LightconePod , Paul joins our hosts to discuss the future of AGI,
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@OpenAI Isn't this what Apple Intelligence was supposed to do ?
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It’s a good time to be at a startup How does this compare to your pay? —
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Wait, what? Microsoft will remove the ability to create GPTs starting on July 10, 2024, and then remove all GPTs (created by Microsoft and by customers) along with their associated GPT data
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2/ 🗓️ Siri, @Apple 's voice assistant, debuted in 2011, revolutionizing the way we interact with our devices. But in the fast-paced world of AI, staying at the top is a constant challenge.
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BREAKING: “Early last year, a hacker gained access to the internal messaging systems of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, and stole details about the design of the company’s A.I. technologies.” ⁦ @nytimes
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NEW: Apple will get a board observer seat at OpenAI later this year as part its partnership for Apple Intelligence. The person getting the seat: Phil Schiller, the head of the App Store and former marketing chief.
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Spent six years making this sucker . Hope you guys enjoy. Coming to HBO on July 17
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