😭 it's literally better than rabbit r1

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Currently seeing extremely high user volumes for @backseatgg and it's causing lots of things to break. We're working on fixing these issues. Thank y'all for your patience!!

The biggest news in AI you haven't heard about is from a League of Legends streamer. Plus, Perplexity launched Wikipedia Killer, more reasons to believe in simulation theory, Apple working on AGI, and more. Here's everything important in AI right now:

>first day at AI company >ask my cute coworker if it's hard tech or filipinos >she doesnt understand >pull out an h100 and a diagram of an internet cafe in manila >she laughs and says “it's a good company sir” >join my first zoom call >it's filipinos

Stamina and stress tolerance are such key traits for highly successful people Often, the most successful people don't have to be smarter than you, they're just people who can work 10x harder

Nietzsche

Week 1 of a16z a16z speedrun 🧊 Los Angeles was a banger! Learned from so many awesome fellow founders in gaming, and ended the week hosting a sick industry party at WePlay Studios Couldn't miss the opportunity to play my first DJ set in LA too 😏 Hyped to be back in the US!

The basic issue with Asian parenting in the West is that it tries to forcefeed a scarcity mindset into kids obviously living in a post-scarcity society

OpenAI just released its new AI model, OpenAI o1 (internally known as Project Strawberry/Q*) The wait is finally over. Here's the model coding an entire video game from a prompt 🤯 The model can think before it answers and is better at math and programming challenges. The

Half a year ago, I reunited my old AcadArena team for a new quest: @bycloutkitchen 3 months later, our first app @backseatgg went viral. We then moved from Manila to LA to be closer to the creator scene Today, hyped to share our $4.45M seed by a16z a16z speedrun 🧊 + Peak XV Partners!

Lightning doesn't strike the same place twice unless there's enough determination to make it so After my first startup MedHyve got acquired, I wanted to build something even bigger With Justin Banusing Marcel Feldkamp and the rest of the CK team, we're making that happen

Having emi ⭐️ as our second creator was a fun challenge! There's sadly not as much AI research for building out female voices and personalities so we had to do a lot of tweaking and experimenting to get her to sound just right. Not a problem for the talented team at Backseat!

Joining loltyler1 Backseat AI to teach you how to play League (From a currently D2 jungler XD) Check out @backseatgg

At the YC Alumni Reunion, I got lots of questions from new founders about how to build a successful company, but realized that they all had the same answer. And it’s this: ————————————————— DO TOO MUCH As a new founder, I’d often look at the CEOs of successful companies and

Hiring based on logos is so lazy. Smart people find ways to attract smart people

White noise was named because its wave spectrum resembles white light. Pink noise was named because its wave spectrum resembles pink light. Brown noise was named after Robert Brown, who helped discover it. This is one of my least favorite facts. - Scott Alexander

Genuinely a tragedy if the Wayback Machine goes down. Akin to the burning of the Library of Alexandra

I doubted Elon for a while but he still is a savant-level operator in his subject-matter expertise

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!