Congrats to Noam Shazeer and the entire Character.AI team. It's been a privilege to be on this journey with you this past year. Excited to see what the amazing team at Character.AI builds next as they continue to bring personalized AI to its users all over the world.

Huge! Multiple democratic California members of congress have submitted a letter to Gavin Newsom against SB 1047! Signatories including Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Rep. Anna G. Eshoo, Ro Khanna, Rep. Scott Peters, Rep. Tony Cárdenas, Ami Bera, M.D., Nanette Barragán and Rep. Lou Correa Please help amplify!

To know feliciahorowitz.eth is to love her. The way she treats even the newest, most junior person at the firm like the most important person says it all: she has the deepest, most consistently held principles and nothing’s “shifting”. To say anything otherwise is a complete lie.

We a16z are delighted to be on the SSI team, and enthusiastic about the mission and strategy. 💪🤖🚀

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We love backing craftsman and craftswoman builders like Han Wang and Hahnbee Lee building for tastemakers like Upstash Cursor Resend Anthropic ElevenLabs! Go Mintlify 🚀 We're proud to be partners with you. 🫶

🚨🚨 excited to be partnered with Mintlify!

Hello, world! We are World Labs, a spatial intelligence company building Large World Models (LWMs) to perceive, generate, and interact with the 3D world. Read more: worldlabs.ai/about

What is a really really hard problem to work on in #AI? My own answer is Spatial Intelligence - a technology that could empower and enable countless possible use cases in creation, design, learning, AR/VR, robotics, and beyond. It’s a real honor that my cofounders Justin Johnson

Couldn't be more excited to share World Labs today, our journey towards Spatial Intelligence! We are making the world your oyster with Fei-Fei Li, Ben Mildenhall, Justin Johnson and a world class team - more to come!

Hello World, World Labs! Pioneers of ImageNet, NeRF, Style Transfer, and Gaussian Splats are tackling spatial intelligence starting will generative worlds. Start with a prompt, end up with a fully interactive 3D world. And that's just the beginning! a16z.com/announcement/i…

Very excited for the launch of World Labs! I spent a lot of time with Fei-Fei and Justin during my PhD, which I look back on very fondly - Fei-Fei was my advisor and our fearless leader, Justin and I wrote papers together and the three of us built the first version of CS231n.

We a16z are so excited to partner with World Labs and the incredible team spearheaded by absolute visionaries Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, Christoph Lassner, and Ben Mildenhall. Read more from martin_casado and Sarah Wang!

Dream team. What a privilege to be your partner Fei-Fei Li. LFG!! CC martin_casado

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I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. The #1, #2, #3 deciding factor of a startup’s success is the shipping velocity. Companies have no long term moat, the only moat is a fast shipping culture.

Very excited for what Alexandr Wang calls "Phase III of language model dev't" in his convo with David George. Spoiler alert 🚨innovation driven research + high quality frontier data are going to matter a lot more. Check out the entire convo below, including Alex's take on an