Periodic Labs has just come out of stealth with the mission to "build AI scientists and the autonomous laboratories for them to operate". "At Periodic Labs, we’re building the highest value RL environment: an autonomous laboratory for matter... For example, to discover a high

openai’s real advantage is that they almost always close the product loop. every breakthrough finds a consumer form. chatgpt crystallized gpt. sora now has a social app that locks in video gen. nobody else even with great tech like google has managed to consistently do this.

So excited to be co-hosting this event with a16z speedrun 🧊 x The 98. This will be a panel about the founding and fundraising journey with some of our brightest founders: ✨ Dini Mullaji - cofounder of Sitch Matchmaking ✨ Madeline Park - cofounder of Vega ✨ Katherine Sizov - founder

.Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 shatters the WWII myth that America can flip factories overnight in a crisis. Today’s supply chains are far too complex. National resilience depends on rebuilding capacity before the crisis, not hoping for magic after.

We're hiring for all roles in our Union Square NYC office 🇺🇸

I am proud to have helped build Periodic Labs as a founding team member. Creating AI scientists and autonomous labs, RL-maxxing our way there, is the mission of a lifetime. Looking forward to be back in January to keep advancing the science x AI frontier. Incredible team, blindly

There couldn't be a better day to keep thinking than today

WE'RE HIRING FOUNDING ENGINEERS AT WTF. We’re building one of the most exciting projects yet at WTF, something that will shape us as a brand, as a platform, and (hopefully) create a far wider impact with and for the youth of India. The core team will work directly with me and a

announcing Nozomio's $6.2m fundraise, led by CRV, BoxGroup, and LocalGlobe. back to work now.

wake up babe it's alumni demo day for sr005

tech week! SF next week, LA week after there are dozens of a16z speedrun 🧊 events on deck. come meet the team, see the latest batch of companies, and get a peak into the future calendar of our SR events below

Finally had a chance to listen through this pod with Sutton, which was interesting and amusing. As background, Sutton's "The Bitter Lesson" has become a bit of biblical text in frontier LLM circles. Researchers routinely talk about and ask whether this or that approach or idea

Something I am experimenting with. I copy pasted: 1) the full podcast transcript 2) the bitter lesson blog post 3) my full post above To ChatGPT. The interesting part is you can fork the conversation context to ask any questions and take it in whatever direction with chat:

Introducing Tinker: a flexible API for fine-tuning language models. Write training loops in Python on your laptop; we'll run them on distributed GPUs. Private beta starts today. We can't wait to see what researchers and developers build with cutting-edge open models!

Elon Musk depends what we mean by the idea though? I'd say coming up with a concrete plan of how to do it, and the intermediate steps to get there, is a critical part of the idea, otherwise it's just a notion or concept which are indeed simpler to come up with

The most dangerous founders are introverts on a mission

Excited to release Tinker and see what the community uses it for.

Tinker is cool. If you're a researcher/developer, tinker dramatically simplifies LLM post-training. You retain 90% of algorithmic creative control (usually related to data, loss function, the algorithm) while tinker handles the hard parts that you usually want to touch much less

Software is eating the world.

Jane Goodall was a groundbreaking scientist and leader who taught us all so much about the beauty and wonder of our world. She never stopped advocating for nature, people, and the planet we share. May she rest in peace.