smart ≠ useful was chatting w a researcher at a top lab. what he kept saying: "our models are really smart, but we need to make them useful” this is why looking at unsexy failures is so important why models can solve imo gold medals, but can’t parse pdf files the real

I started a podcast where smart people (ceos, artists, celebs) meet their dream experts. First up: Charlotte Cruze (coo, Alice Mushrooms) on time + space + gravity with the inimitable Hakeem Oluseyi. #SmartPeopleGetCurious youtube.com/@SmartPeopleGe…

It is the best of times, it is the worst of times.... Together with Haya Hanna Hummingbird Ventures & Antoine Moyroud 🧑‍🚀🇫🇷 Lightspeed, we are excited to be convening The Paris Risk Club (Saloon Edition) on November 13th: an evening of deep conversation at the intersection of hope,

Everyone's acting like models are ready to replace humans in work settings. We put that to the test by creating an entire company and having 9 models act as a customer service agent handling 150 tickets and requests of increasing complexity. Verdict: without common sense,

This is an important moment for Castelion. Today we announced Project Ranger, our 1,000-acre hypersonic munition manufacturing campus in Sandoval County, New Mexico. The team has been working for this moment since last year. Not on fancy marketing, but ordering steel

The New Titans of Media The future of media is shifting fast — and creators are becoming the defining force in how people choose to get information. Legacy publications are closing. Many are losing relevance. Startups and VCs are increasingly choosing to break stories with

Just dropped on Lenny Rachitsky’s podcast. We bootstrapped Surge AI to >$1B revenue with <100 people by obsessing over one thing: data quality matters more than everything else. Lenny and I talked about: • Why Anthropic and Google are winning • The brutal choice model builders

The fastest company in history to $1B did it with no VC money and fewer than 100 people. Surge AI has become the secret weapon behind Anthropic and Google's best models. Founder Edwin Chen (echen) built it without playing the Silicon Valley game—no viral posts, no

Surge CEO: "I'm worried that instead of building AI that will actually advance us as a species—curing cancer, solving poverty, understanding the universe—all these big grand questions, we are optimizing for AI slop instead. We're basically teaching our models to chase dopamine

"I wish I had known that you don't need to spend all your time fundraising, you don't need to constantly generate hype, you don't need to become someone you're not. You can actually build a successful company by simply building something so good that it cuts through all that

Crypto before it was crypto, AI compute before ChatGPT, missiles when dual-use drones were all that what most could imagine. Our strategy is simple: invest pre-market and pre-consensus, when the underlying breakthrough is already real. We sat down with Madeline Renbarger at

Democrats should declare that once they return to power any ICE officer who remained in their position after today will be stripped of their pension, permanently banned from government work, and their service will be described as dishonorable.

The tech thought leaders that usually fill up my feed are so quiet today. You were loud about the billionaire tax. If it came down to it, would you truly support America’s descent into fascism in exchange for financial gain? Because it seems like it’s coming down to it.

On March 24-25, in Los Angeles, we are bringing together founders, builders, experts, investors and LPs for 2 days of workshops, debates and open conversations – all pointed towards the question of how we can move humanity toward utopia, while holding the line against oblivion.

I think starting a war with Iran is a bad idea, and Trump specifically ran against regime change wars in the middle east. Reasonable people can disagree on the merits, but calling opponents "borderline traitors" is a reprisal of the dumbest Iraq-war era political bullshit.

Graham Platner: “The anti-trans campaign in Maine is funded by an out-of-state billionaire to make sure we have this discussion and we don’t talk about raising his taxes. That’s why it exists. I think there are like two trans kids that compete in high school sports in Maine?

BlueYard Summit coming up. We’re sponsoring flights + hotel for a select group of founders building at the frontier. AI infra, defense, physical AI, next-gen compute. If that’s you or someone you know — reach out.

ah yes, it is the working class that is going to win when companies owned by the ultra elite dominate every corner of our economy

In September last year, we gathered 100 AI founders, builders, researchers and backers focused on the hard edges and challenges around scaling AI compute and applied intelligence. No stages, no panels - just real talk, open minds, and debates while climbing winding trails

imagine if anthropic acquired call her daddy