> be sam altman > spawn in st. louis, 1985, chicago suburbs vibe > hack mac at 8, gay tech prodigy, nerd maxxing > read manuals for fun, talk like a 40yo by 10 > stanford cs, dip out early, main character energy > build loopt 2005, location app, ahead of curve > sell for $43m,

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Sequoia Capital, Marc Andreessen and top institutions back New $30m Browder Capital Fund Four: Today, I’m excited to announce that I’ve raised Browder Capital Fund Four, a $30,000,000 fund backed by Sequoia Capital, Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Arthur Patterson (founder of

Spoke with 100 startup CTOs today who recognize that embracing AI engineering will soon distinguish winners from losers. These 15 slides will give you the 10% of game you need to be an effective AI engineer 🧵

When’s this little guy coming out of his gooning cave? Dudes all mysterious n shit

there are 2 types of people in sf 1. those who move to sf without a clear idea or direction, hoping to “meet cool people,” often fall into a trap. it feels productive just being there, surrounded by cracked people, attending endless events, name dropping connections but in

life update: we moved to shenzhen.

Bought the boys Brex bats Congrats to Cluely on the $15M raise from a16z 🚀

wow they snagged the whole Zurich office

day in ml grind 37 7 hours >studied markov matrices and fourier series >solved problems >completed the illustrated GPT-2 by jay. >read a whole lot of deep learning blogs

We finally hit 500k ARR. Then decided to bet our entire company on a new product. Launching Helicone AI Gateway 🚀 (Public Beta!) 1 API. 100+ models. 100x faster. We believe we’ve built the new standard for LLM routing. In Rust. Fully open-sourced. 1 min to set up.

BREAKING: Explosive new paper from MIT/Harvard/UChicago. Things just got worse — a lot worse — for LLM’s and the myth that they can understand and reason. The paper documents a pattern they called Potemkins, a kind of reasoning inconsistency (see figure below). They show that

two months ago i dropped everything to move to san francisco for my first ever internship at a startup three weeks in, i quit. no back up plan, and no idea what i was going to do next for two weeks, i was unemployed. i solo traveled the city, talked and hung out with my

introducing Cluely. today is the start of a world where you never have to think again. we just killed 9 industries (thread):

The starving artist has been replaced by the college influencer wannabe. The death of attention spans kills depth and nuance at the same time it creates a deep craving for it and you get cinematic imitations, weightless, effervescent. Nothing is original is heavy anymore.

Cognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf. The acquisition includes Windsurf’s IP, product, trademark and brand, and strong business. Above all, it includes Windsurf’s world-class people, whom we’re privileged to welcome to our team. We are also honoring

what is a gambling addiction, if not hope persevering

Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz: Nobody Cares

Two cents on AI getting International Math Olympiad (IMO) Gold, from a mathematician. Background: Last year, Google DeepMind (GDM) got Silver in IMO 2024. This year, OpenAI solved problems P1-P5 for IMO 2025 (but not P6), and this performance corresponds to Gold. (1/10)