Building a rocketship while flying it has been a wild ride, frantic at times, exciting nevertheless. A lot has changed recently and so has the scope of my role. It's time for me to step down & say goodbye to the crypto world. More on what's next here: irinascarlat.com/goodbye-bitpan…

You can't cut corners into hypergrowth. It’s a long iterative process, but it’s the only way to realise your true growth potential and supercharge your growth. My take on the hypergrowth equation irinascarlat.com/hypergrowth-eq…

Travelling with kids is not easy, but it's the best gift for your family! Some tips to help you out, learnt while discovering the world together with our curious toddler. irinascarlat.com/travel-with-ki…

People often ask if it’s still possible (or even sane) to launch and grow startups in a downturn. My short answer is yes—with some key caveats. Chris Yeh and I outline strategies and tactics for building businesses in bear markets: bit.ly/3YeAJEP

Time to build again! I embarked on a new professional adventure that's really close to my heart. As of last month, I joined Mondly by Pearson by Pearson as Product Growth Director and owner of Mondly Kids, the language learning app for children. irinascarlat.com/builders-build…

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AlphaGeometry, a new AI model from Google DeepMind, has reached human level performance in solving math problems, a task AI has previously been struggling with nature.com/articles/s4158…

AI is revolutionizing education, unlocking personalized content for individual learner needs. When AI meets Reforge, you can get expert advice for the particular business problem you're facing. Now in Open Beta for all Reforge members buff.ly/43KDD7o #AI #edtech #reforge

You can now edit DALL·E images in ChatGPT across web, iOS, and Android.

This demo is insane. A student shares their iPad screen with the new ChatGPT + GPT-4o, and the AI speaks with them and helps them learn in *realtime*. Imagine giving this to every student in the world. The future is so, so bright.

🚨 Announcing the latest a16z top 100 AI apps! For the fourth time, we ranked consumer AI websites and mobile apps by usage (monthly unique visits and MAUs). There was a lot of movement over the last six months. Here are the trends we're keeping an eye on 👇

An attempt to explain (current) ChatGPT versions. I still run into many, many people who don't know that: - o3 is the obvious best thing for important/hard things. It is a reasoning model that is much stronger than 4o and if you are using ChatGPT professionally and not using o3

Great advice on how to prepare for an AI-first economy, beyond just prompt engineering and vibe coding