This is old but excellent from Kiril Sokoloff... "The easiest and simplest measure of employing contrary thinking is a close study of best-selling business and investment books. The fifty year record of these books as a contrary indicator is as close to infallible as you can

Andromeda.ai upgraded with a few more flops:

AI Grant applications now open at aigrant.com! Join these folks:

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000

We made a craigslist for gpu clusters: gpulist.ai Check it out if you're looking for gpus. And if you have any extra hardware you want to rent out, posting is free. Follow @gpulist to be notified of new posts.

Just passed $200m of contract value on gpulist.ai

Pleased to be investing in MatX, building AI chips with breakthrough capability: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

We are excited to announce the startups accepted into the third batch of AI Grant! aigrant.com Check out the thread to learn more about the companies (listed A-Z):

I am excited to return to search and lead Perplexity's latest round:

Excited to deepen our partnership with Aravind Srinivas and the Perplexity Team! I still remember when they launched BirdSQL right after the first @aigrant_ batch and part of me is still hoping that it comes back as an Enterprise Pro feature 😅

Superintelligence is within reach. Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our​​ time. We've started the world’s first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence. It’s called Safe Superintelligence

Delighted to co-lead the $142M seed round in EvolutionaryScale with Nat Friedman Daniel Gross Lux Capital, a new frontier AI lab that has now trained ESM3, a natively multimodal and generative language model for proteins and the largest biological language model to date

We are excited to launch Batch 4 of AI Grant! 🎉 Applications are now open and due on August 9th. Follow AI Grant for updates and the link to apply is in the thread below

Applications for AI Grant's newest batch are open until August 9th! Apply at aigrant.com - there's never been a better time to build things!

$1.4B in GPUs on gpulist.ai

Friendly reminder that AI Grant Batch 4 apps close tonight at midnight PT! airtable.com/apprmvmcYfM0dX…

Barstool Pizza Review - Pizza Lupo (Pittsburgh, PA)

We're incredibly excited to announce the latest batch of startups joining AI Grant!

We scanned another scroll, thanks to the wonderful folks at Bodleian Libraries, and have already found some text in it

We did it! We tested 300 Bay Area foods for plastic chemicals. We found some interesting surprises. Top 5 findings in our test results: 1. Our tests found plastic chemicals in 86% of all foods, with phthalates in 73% of the tested products and bisphenols in 22%. It's