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Bill Gurley

@bgurley

VC @benchmark, Investor: @grubhub, @zillow, @uber, @stitchfix, @nextdoor, @glassdoor, @hacker0x01, @solvhealth, @roverdotcom, @instawork Trustee @sfiscience

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Daniel Clancy(@djclancy999) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The AI Doomsayers are just wrong – and obviously so. The obvious flaw, however, is not in the prediction of the potential challenges. There are three parts to their argument. First, they believe that AI may pose a grave danger to humanity.

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Matt Ridley(@mattwridley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'Sam Altman, the recently fired (and rehired) chief executive of Open AI, was asked what he thought of the risks of synthetic biology. ‘I would like to not have another synthetic pathogen cause a global pandemic.''

A thread based on my Spectator article:

spectator.co.uk/article/virolo…

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Phil Venables(@philvenables) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Bug Bounty Programs

Even great security programs don’t clear all bugs. Being notified of and fixing what remain ahead of others is vital. Bug bounty programs are crucial for that. Even large organizations find it easier to use one of the several bug bounty companies to do this.…

Bug Bounty Programs Even great security programs don’t clear all bugs. Being notified of and fixing what remain ahead of others is vital. Bug bounty programs are crucial for that. Even large organizations find it easier to use one of the several bug bounty companies to do this.…
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Gavin Baker(@GavinSBaker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Investment implications of the OpenAI saga based on the current fact pattern:

OpenAI will slow down. It seems like the safety faction won. As they should have - the board of OpenAI’s overwhelming *fiduciary* duty was to safety.

It will probably take 3-9 months for the new…

Investment implications of the OpenAI saga based on the current fact pattern: OpenAI will slow down. It seems like the safety faction won. As they should have - the board of OpenAI’s overwhelming *fiduciary* duty was to safety. It will probably take 3-9 months for the new…
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Bill Gurley(@bgurley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you told me 10 years ago that a group of the smartest engineers in the land would evoke the threat, 'Do what I say or I will go to work at Microsoft,' I would not have believed you. Amazing shift in corporate reputation (and much credit to Satya).

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Bill Gurley(@bgurley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“IF” majority of Microsoft “investment” was in-kind use of Azure, the majority of which hasn’t happened yet, there may be plenty of opportunity for reconsideration and renegotiation.

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Kurt Stoll(@kurtstoll_CAN) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Germany lost its mind after the Fukushima accident and decided to close all nuclear plants. It now runs on coal.

Japan actually hosted the Fukushima accident, all the negative consequences, and has decided the benefit of nuclear power far outweigh the risks.

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Yann LeCun(@ylecun) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Llama as a service on Azure.
Mistral as a service on Azure.
Thrilled to see that Microsoft and Satya Nadella are supporting open source AI platforms for their customers.

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Julian Park(@julianparc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thrilled to announce our $13M fundraise led by Benchmark !! 🎉

I'm excited to partner with Chetan Puttagunta on this next chapter of Bezi as we enable more teams to create interactive 3D experiences than ever before 🧵

Thrilled to announce our $13M fundraise led by @benchmark !! 🎉 I'm excited to partner with @chetanp on this next chapter of @bezi_3d as we enable more teams to create interactive 3D experiences than ever before 🧵
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Chetan Puttagunta(@chetanp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thrilled to announce our Series A investment in Bezi! It's remarkable how many startups to some of the biggest companies in the world already use Bezi for 3d design and prototyping to create applications, games, experiences, and more.
More here: bezi.com/hq/blog/bezi-r…

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Yann LeCun(@ylecun) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Max Tegmark This is *not* 'Big Tech' versus The People or whatever.
This is open source AI versus closed and proprietary AI.

On the one hand, you have Mistral, Aleph, HuggingFace, Meta, IBM, and the entire startup ecosystem arguing for open source AI foundation models.
On the other hand,…

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martin_casado(@martin_casado) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Outrageous!!

Massive misrepresentation by Brad Smith (MSFT) claiming chat-gpt is as open as LLaMa (among other non truths)

It's sad to see MSFT become the enemy to open source again. They did it during the OS / browser wars. And they're doing it again.

youtu.be/pMvQIUhKcZ4?t=…

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Bill Gurley(@bgurley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Big Tech wants AI regulation. The rest of Silicon Valley is skeptical. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

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Bill Gurley(@bgurley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you loved Johnny Cash’s unforgettable cover of NIN’s Hurt, then you owe it to yourself to watch Glen Campbell cover Jackson Browne’s These Days. Similar life’s gone by vibe. youtu.be/bvQ77PoNJ6E?si…

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Yann LeCun(@ylecun) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excellent thread by Stanford's Percy Liang with a list of reasons why open source AI platforms are inherently *safer* than closed source ones.

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tobi lutke(@tobi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I signed this letter in order to highlight the crucial role that open source AI models play in the process of innovation and safety.

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