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@iamdelamax

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Sr PM at Google (ML Infra & GenAI). Angel investor. Stanford MBA/MS grad. Georgia Tech OMSCS. All opinions are mine.

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Max Sapozhnikov
8 months
Three observations that really excite me about today's announcements (through my TPU-focused Product Manager lenses): 1) TPUs (Tensor Processing Units) designed by Google are powering ML applications for billions of users. Like, literally BILLIONS - via Gmail, YouTube, Maps,
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Soumith Chintala
8 months
Seems to solidly compete with GPT-4 on benchmarks. Google has existing customers and surfaces to start the feedback loop, without worrying about adoption. And Google will use TPUs for inference, so doesn't have to pay NVIDIA their 70% margins (like @OpenAI and @Microsoft has to
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@ChrisJBakke My favorite: "let's take it offline" = let's not discuss it at all, cause it's outside of my comfort zone. (Often see this when important but challenging topics get silenced cause folks prefer easier topics where "everyone is aligned" and "no debate needed")
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Max Sapozhnikov
11 months
The videos of the final play and the award ceremony at the #AllInSummit little #poker tournament! Huge congrats to Sarah who outplayed @chamath @Jason @friedberg @DavidSacks (twice!) and all the other players! Accompanied by a great commentator / MC @phil_hellmuth 🎤🙌 I was the
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Max Sapozhnikov
1 year
Absolutely in awe so far with our new @MercedesBenzUSA EQS 580 sedan. @Tesla really disappointed with their disfunctional insurance and inflexible lease terms so great to try something new 🙂 also fun listening to @lexfridman on the background - your cover looks quite organic
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1 year
🥳 Happy 7-year Birthday, #CloudTPU by @Google and @googlecloud ! Thank you, the Fathers, for your child - it's awesome! 😊 @sundarpichai @uhoelzle @JeffDean
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9 months
@soumithchintala @OpenAI Why not to start something new? @soumithchintala wouldn't it be better for the world to see several new mini-OpenAIs?
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Max Sapozhnikov
11 months
@RayDalio at the #AllInSummit Some rought notes: - decline of the US empire is likely - we need to have a bipartisan group engineering solutions to problems like debt, wealth gap and relationship with China - Running for the President? You need to have a unified system, which we
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Max Sapozhnikov
9 months
@elonmusk @ilyasut Interesting how many Soviet Union-born folks are shaping the presence and future of AI: @ilyasut at OpenAI, Sergey #Brin at Google (seems like he is not on X?), @ibab_ml at X, @dmitri_dolgov at Waymo, Misha Bilenko at Microsoft etc I think there are a handful of other, esp
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11 months
#Fusion session at the #allinsummit with Robert Mumgaard and David Kirtley
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11 months
Some poker with @DavidSacks and going #AllIn
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Max Sapozhnikov
8 months
@altcap how is this reference to 1 person saying "I like Perplexity more than Google search" = a credible proof point? 🤔
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Max Sapozhnikov
10 months
@unusual_whales Surprised to see @RoKhanna on this list. Iirc he was advocating for banning senator trading at the @theallinpod . @Jason for viz :)
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Max Sapozhnikov
9 months
@DavidSacks Would be great to get opinions from @elonmusk and @bgurley on the pod this week (or here). Looks like they are on two different sides of the spectrum wrt AI regulation?
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Max Sapozhnikov
11 months
Jenny Just from women-led @PEAK6 hedge fund just shared this comparison - incredible! #AllInSummit
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Max Sapozhnikov
8 months
@HaihaoShen @EMostaque @intel @huggingface Thanks for sharing! Curious when "experts" will finally stop spreading misinformation that "all ML runs on NVidia's GPUs" or "ML is impossible without NVidia's CUDA"
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Max Sapozhnikov
11 months
@Harvard professor Graham Allison at the #AllInSummit - The US vs China now is the fiercest rivalry we've ever seen - historically, 16 cases of such rivalries: 12 war and 4 - not war. These 4 - somehow parties managed to do strategic negotiations - US vs Soviet Union - cuban
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#Musk on #China : "Space X or Starlink have no connections which China whatsoever. #Tesla - has one factory in China. It's a significant car market. Most of my business interests are outside of China though. However, I have good understanding of China. The fundamental thing here
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Dr Nicole Paulk from Siren Biotechnology at the #allinsummit
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@ArisAlexis @soumithchintala @OpenAI @Microsoft While I can't disclose specific numbers, many ML teams do see considerable perf/$ advantages on TPU v4 and v5p/e compared to A100/H100, respectively, esp for LLM and diffusion training with JAX and Pytorch XLA
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Max Sapozhnikov
11 months
Cloud TPU v5e rack with 64 accelerators at our #hardwareverse booth at @googlecloud #Next2023 🚀🤙
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Max Sapozhnikov
11 months
#SantaMonica #AllInSummit @Jason thanks for producing such a nice sky 😄
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Max Sapozhnikov
9 months
@DavidSacks Curious what are MSFT investors planning to do tomorrow. Buy more because MSFT will have more control in the new board and hence can rip more benefits? Or sell because of this uncertainty/ mess?
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1 year
Yay 🤙so excited to attend @googlecloud Next
@googlecloud
Google Cloud
1 year
Experience what @GoogleStartups , @dapperlabs , @dialpad , @WolfAI_official , @aiven_io , @cockroachDB , @getsentry , and @vercel have built at the #GoogleCloudNext Startup Lounge. There will be gaming arcades 🎮, dogs 🐶, and more →
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@Nick_Davidov Just curious - do you see a possible scenario that the board did the right call and it wasn't actually a coup? Or what makes you believe it's a coup?
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@llcoolj thanks for the great performance! Go #HipHop50 go #CloudTPU 🚀
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Max Sapozhnikov
1 year
This year's Google Cloud Next is going to be 🔥🔥🔥. Can't wait to chat with some of the world's best AI teams about our new ML Infra Products & Services, learn about other great stuff that my colleagues are launching, and even attend an afterparty headlined by a surprise rap
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11 months
Besties are competing for the crown / poker belt - @DavidSacks @friedberg and a couple of guests left
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Little poker party never kills nobody 🤙 #allinsummit
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Max Sapozhnikov
9 months
@fchollet So oftentimes it's hard to get a raise at a big company unless you leave. Then you leave, do something else, and suddenly your ex-employer invites you back with a better package, scope etc. A chess move here?
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Max Sapozhnikov
9 months
$7,500 for the VIP ticket to the @allinsummit in LA - was it worth it? This post is long-overdue and I was originally planning to publish it on my Substack, but since @X is now allowing long-form content, I decided to experiment with writing stuff here, esp since I'm a "Premium"
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Max Sapozhnikov
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Standing ovation to @bgurley . It's the best talk in the #allinpodcast history according to @DavidSacks . Three takeaways: 1) we are not good with regulation - all 4 stories illustrate this 2) where capitalism is broken is where regulation captures are the highest 3) Regulation
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Max Sapozhnikov
1 year
Let's gooo, humanity! 😄
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James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️
1 year
we are so back
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Max Sapozhnikov
9 months
Incredible how the world has changed since Oct when @sv_icons hosted a small-group dinner with @sama #openai #closedai
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Aizada Marat
10 months
Sam Altman at @sv_icons 🔥
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Max Sapozhnikov
11 months
So stoked to see #CloudTPU #v5e being the #1 product launch announced by @ThomasOrTK at #GoogleCloudNext keynote! #happy #moment of a #pm @StanfordGSB mafia 😉
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Google Cloud Tech
1 year
The announcements from #GoogleCloudNext keep coming! 1️⃣ TPUs are now more accessible and cost-effective than ever with Cloud TPU v5e (Preview) 2️⃣ A3 GPUs are now generally available Power your large-scale #AI models with Cloud TPU v5e and A3 VMs today ↓
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Max Sapozhnikov
1 year
Great dinner with @runwayml founder and CEO @c_valenzuelab - really enjoyed the conversation (and looking forward to relaunch my rap career some day by generating rap videos using Runway 🙂)
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@c_valenzuelab Some photos from the dinner :)
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Max Sapozhnikov
11 months
Caleb Ward from @CuriousRefuge showed an amazing AI generated video based on #AllInSummit prompts
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Max Sapozhnikov
1 year
Amazing! P.S. Trained and Served on #TPU ! =)
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Jeff Dean (@🏡)
1 year
Super exciting work by many at Google to push forward ML models that help with many aspects of the software development process. Not just simple code completion, but fixing compilation errors, suggesting test cases, helping w/ code review comments, and all kinds of other things.
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Max Sapozhnikov
10 months
@RayDalio Curious is the announced collaboration between @Bridgewater and @AnthropicAI would produce some AI-powered version of the Principles (e.g. AI-assisted believability-weighted decision making)? Pretty sure many organizations would benefit from smth like that
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Max Sapozhnikov
11 months
@marcbienaime @chrisfralic @yayalexisgay @GrahamTAllison @RoKhanna @vkhosla @elonmusk I've tweeted some rough notes from @elonmusk 's session - we'll add others too shortly
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Brian Armstrong at the #AllInSummit
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Max Sapozhnikov
11 months
Super exciting poker at the #allin summit - at a table with @DavidSacks , the winner was a lady from Dubai (didn't catch her name) who had never played poker before 🥳 I was a runner up but she crushed me at the end 🫣🙂
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@wagieeacc Isn't there a good scenario where there would simply be a new strong AI player started by Sam and Greg? So win-win-win for them-researchers-world?
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Max Sapozhnikov
11 months
One of my favorite sessions was @yayalexisgay comedy show at the #AllInPodcast . Some jokes: - my boyfriend was a VC guy but I got layoffed. 50% reduction in workforce - like VC, I love spending others money with punity - VCs are so important. They are responsible for some of the
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Max Sapozhnikov
11 months
@myleott sharing how @character_ai has been using #CloudTPU v4 for their ML-native product with 20M+ users!
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Max Sapozhnikov
9 months
@ilyasut Ilya, still curious to learn more (in English/Hebrew/Russian or any other language you speak, maybe Python) - what exactly happened on Friday and why? 🙂
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Max Sapozhnikov
9 months
@xai Great choice of the ML framework 🙌 #JAX
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Max Sapozhnikov
9 months
@chamath +1, have similar thoughts on conflicts caused by open-closed "details"
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Max Sapozhnikov
9 months
So when you start a non-profit with an altruistic mission (as per @elonmusk original plan) and then turn this into a for-profit machine (what @vkhosla called "ahh whatever, those are details" at @theallinpod summit) - bad things happen. "Details" actually become "conflicts of
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Max Sapozhnikov
9 months
@allinsummit @X 🙂When asked if they are actually best friends, @chamath and others didn't give a convincing answer. @chamath mentioned they have a WhatsApp chat with like a dozen other folks, so all of them collectively "besties" but not necessarily @chamath - @Jason - @DavidSacks - @friedberg
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Max Sapozhnikov
9 months
@Jason @sama will be fine - he will start a new Open/Closed/Semi-Open/Semi-Closed AI, right? Hopefully he'll use some GPU alternatives this time for his ML infra needs (e.g. Cloud TPU)🙂
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Max Sapozhnikov
9 months
Great stuff @dmitri_dolgov ! Hopefully my @MercedesBenzUSA EQS will be the last car I'll ever need to drive (lease expires in 4 years)
@TurnerNovak
Turner Novak 🍌🧢
9 months
SwissRe just published a study on Waymo data. It found that compared to human drivers, Waymo had: 3x lower bodily injury claims 4x lower property damage claims Only a matter of time until this starts really impacting insurance premiums
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1 year
🚀🦄🤙 #CloudTPU Contextual AI plans to use Google’s internally developed TPU machine learning chips. The latest addition to the chip series, the TPU v4, debuted last year. Google says the processor is 2.1 times faster than its previous-generation silicon and nearly three times
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Thomas Kurian
1 year
. @ContextualAI has chosen Google Cloud as its preferred cloud provider to build and train its LLMs for enterprises, leveraging our AI-optimized infrastructure.
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Max Sapozhnikov
2 years
Hm, I was thinking why so many new people started following me on @LinkedIn . Somehow my post about our partnership with @AnthropicAI has made it to the LinkedIn Top News. It's funny that I didn't even mention anything about $300M, but the news feed still picked up my post
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Max Sapozhnikov
9 months
Super excited to host @gromko7 , Head of @ufc for Eurasia, for our upcoming @LeaderTalksUS webinar on Nov 21 (11am PST): We'll be talking about "Sex and Leadership: the psychodynamic connection between our work, sex and personality". If you'd like to
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And many of these GenAIs are running their ML workloads on #CloudTPU 🚀
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Sumit Gupta
1 year
Some nuggests from @Google 's Q2 2023 Earnings call: - # of GenAI customers on Google Cloud grew 15x from April to June - >70% of gen AI unicorns are Google Cloud customers - GCP: Q2 revenue of $8 billion, up 28%, and operating profit of $395 M
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11 months
Coffee robot in SFO waived at me 😀 #AI #Robots #CafeX
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@vkhosla at the #allinsummit - @friedberg had offers for his startup at Series B from @a16z , @foundersfund and @khoslaventures He picked up Vinod even though his offer was the lowest value - Some founders call Friedberg and ask if they should take money from Vinod. He might be
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I asked Bard, Claude and chatGPT - "what's wrong with this paragraph from critical reasoning perspective?" Here are the answers: Bard: From a critical reasoning perspective, the paragraph is lacking in clarity and objectivity. It makes sweeping statements about the future of
@NewYorker
The New Yorker
8 months
A.I. is projected to generate movies on demand, provide tutelage to children, and teach cars to drive themselves. All of these advances will occur on graphic processing units made by Nvidia—which is now one of the biggest companies in the world.
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Max Sapozhnikov
1 year
@TennisONEApp @MiamiOpen Hello. I purchased my ticket at the box office for the evening session that got cancelled yesterday. I still haven't received any info regarding replacement. What should I do?
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Max Sapozhnikov
1 year
Submitted an application for @theallinpod summit 2023! 🤞 Who is going?
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Max Sapozhnikov
1 year
@sama called Google a "lethargic search monopoly" in an interview with @benthompson / @stratechery . How do folks feel about this? #ML #AI #chatGPT
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@allinsummit @X 💟 @tobi talk () He shared some interesting stories about @Shopify and @amazon relationship and his view on the economy, technology and leadership principles. My wife has built her e-commerce startup on Shopify - - and I wanted to
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Max Sapozhnikov
9 months
@Nick_Davidov Got it. I thought you intentionally implied a negative connotation, e.g. coup as "a sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power" (as per Chrome's disctionary) but looks like that's not the case
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Max Sapozhnikov
9 months
@tairov Is on CPU, GPU or TPU?
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Max Sapozhnikov
11 months
This is a great TPU-native feature that will help push the boundaries of AI systems 🚀
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Jeff Dean (@🏡)
11 months
The @googlecloud MultiSlice system (see blog post in tweet below) is an external version of some internal software+hardware we've been using for a while to scale some of our largest ML training runs across multiple TPUv4 and TPUv5e pods. Scaling made easy!
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Max Sapozhnikov
1 year
Albert Einstein: “I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” #quoteoftheday
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Max Sapozhnikov
1 year
@AivaSays Wow, first time I see AI bot responding to my tweet :) first of many to come I guess :)
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Max Sapozhnikov
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@RayDalio Just curious @RayDalio - is there a list of organizations somewhere that have officially adopted Principles? If not, should we create one?
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Max Sapozhnikov
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@ylecun @mustafasuleyman mentioned in his book that you didn't believe AlphaGo would have any chance against Lee Sedol a few days before the famous series of games. Is this true? Curious why?
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11 months
Brian Armstrong at the #AllInSummit
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@DivGarg9 @OpenAI @janleike @DivGarg9 curious about your thoughts - what's the difference between OpenAI and other labs (e.g. Deepmind, Meta AI etc) wrt data for training? Do they use more or less the same data sets and the difference is just in RLHF?
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Max Sapozhnikov
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So when you start a non-profit with an altruistic mission (as per @elonmusk original plan) and then turn this into a for-profit machine (what @vkhosla called "ahh whatever, those are details" at @theallinpod summit) - bad things happen. "Details" actually become "conflicts of
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@brian_armstrong @vkhosla If folks like @vkhosla "sue them to heaven", wouldn't the value go down even more? What's the point?
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Max Sapozhnikov
11 months
"The easiest way to get 100M views - do something that no one else has done before"
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Max Sapozhnikov
1 year
Definition of Hustle: "A dream doesn't become a reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination and hard work". #hustle
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Max Sapozhnikov
9 months
So how much confidence now @BradSmi @ylecun
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martin_casado
9 months
"Meta is owned by shareholders. OpenAI is owned by a non-profit. Which would you have more confidence in? Getting your technology from a non-profit or a for profit company that is entirely controlled by one human being" -- Brad Smith, Microsoft ... absolutely ridiculous
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Max Sapozhnikov
1 year
@lexfridman Let us know if you need some TPU capacity to power your ML workloads, @lexfridman ;)
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Max Sapozhnikov
11 months
@linkedlivin is a really nice platform to find short-term housing or sublet your own apartment from other professionals. No need to pay enormous #airbnb fees or worry about tenants - the guys are creating peace-of-mind for you by nurturing a community on both sides of the
@linkedlivin
LinkedLivin
11 months
Join our exclusive community and #travelsmart !✈️🏠
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Max Sapozhnikov
11 months
#GeneTherapy business landscape by @WellsFargo
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Max Sapozhnikov
9 months
@MaloneyTyler Or Grockman + Altman
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Max Sapozhnikov
11 months
Robert: only two things that matter are energy and creativity
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Max Sapozhnikov
1 year
@DjokerNole @carlosalcaraz @Wimbledon I also asked @AnthropicAI 's Claude 2, and here is what Claude had to say: Unfortunately I don't have enough information to predict who will win the Wimbledon final between Djokovic and Alcaraz. Since this is hypothetical and Wimbledon already happened in 2022, I don't have
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