🚨 Big announcement! We've made our first acquisition Hightouch - workflow automation startup Workbase ⚡️ The Workbase team is all-star, and I couldn't be more proud to share that they've joined 🚀 Learn why in our interview on Forbes by Soda forbes.com/sites/frederic…

My favourite surprise of the week is the unexpected drop of a new After the Whistle episode podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aft…

Claude 2.1 (200K Tokens) - Pressure Testing Long Context Recall We all love increasing context lengths - but what's performance like? Anthropic reached out with early access to Claude 2.1 so I repeated the “needle in a haystack” analysis I did on GPT-4 Here's what I found:

Seems this is the season to push out models before they are ready

Discovered an intriguing concept - Kahneman-Tversky Optimization (KTO). It's not just about aligning LLMs more efficiently and cheaply, but also a leap towards valuing implicit feedback over explicit feedback. Really cool stuff! #KTO #AI #ImplicitFeedback contextual.ai/better-cheaper…

Best advice I ever got: think like a VC when looking for tech job. It led me to joining Rippling ($11B+) before its Series A. It changed my life, so I built a free tool to help others. We expect that each company listed on Prospect will grow at least 2X over the next 4 years:

GPT-4o hot take: • The speech synthesis is terrific, reminds me of Google Duplex (which never took off). but • If OpenAI had GPT-5, they have would shown it. • They don’t have GPT-5 after 14 months of trying. • The most important figure in the blogpost is attached below. And

This came out 4 days before OpenAI released 4o rather than 5. Great timing as the counter to pure AI optimism. youtu.be/dDUC-LqVrPU?si… seems it will take another transformer level breakthrough, I’d bet on us to find it.

TIL for every 100 South Koreans today, there will be 6 grand children. This feels like one of the craziest birthrate stats I’ve ever heard. #1

#TIL #3 The Zeigarnik Effect is the psychological tendency to remember unfinished or interrupted tasks better than completed ones. This explains why we get distracted by incomplete to-do lists, but also how starting a task, even briefly, increases the likelihood of finishing it

#TIL #4 Parasocial relationships being developed with AI. Study of 3,532 people shows relationship-seeking AI quickly feels good, then less so, while “wanting” keeps growing. Users form attachment, seek more AI companionship, see it as friend not too, gain no psychosocial benefit

#TIL #5 The S&P returned 18% last year, its third double digit year in a row. However if you are a gold based investor rather than a dollar based investor, it returned -28%. Same companies, same performance, just different perspectives.