1/ You can now reach 200 million+ users on
@discord
directly by embedding your app as an iframe. It's pretty wild.
If you're a developer, Discord just gave you a way to instantly distribute web apps as cross-platform, multiplayer experiences at scale.
So, what should you build?
Big news for developers today on Discord. We’ve opened up the developer preview for user installable apps as well as HTML5 experiences for apps. This dramatically changes what’s possible to build on Discord.
I can’t wait to see what y’all come up with!
The future of AI is multimodal
We
@a16z
are so excited to partner with
@gravicle
@alexyu00
and the entire
@LumaLabsAI
on their mission to build the world’s most capable multimodal AI models:
It’s hard to comprehend the speed + scale of
@ankush_aggarwl
@bhash
’s ambitions for
@OlaElectric
until you visit their Future Factory and Gigafactory
In <24 months, they’ve built India’s biggest EV business, 1st cell gigafactory and biggest battery r&d lab
We've raised a $1.25B infrastructure fund! We love all infra, compute, network, storage, databases, data science, gen AI, dev tools ... from silicon to UIs.
Infra is the true root of value in tech. And we're deepening our commitment to it.
AI is still painfully slow
Tried a multimodal demo today that was sheer magic. A big factor was beating the <400 ms Doherty threshold using some clever inference tricks
Serious systems ppl are only just getting involved, but when they do, the UX gains will be wild
This blew up! Lots of great questions from everyone. Come hang out on discord with
@EMostaque
and me tomorrow @ 10:45 am pst for an AMA for answers on all things stable diffusion, img2img, discord apps and more
What's the future of AI scaling laws for video models?
I got a glimpse from
@robrombach
and
@andi_blatt
, the prolific researchers behind Stable Diffusion and Stable Video Diffusion
Full episode of the latest
@a16z
podcast here:
(1/n) Big day - a year ago,
@discord
acquired
@ubiquity6
to accelerate its developer platform - here's what we've been upto!
Also, we're launching an ecosystem fund for developers - DM me if you're building Discord apps ⚒️
Something I learned from years of venture capital investing:
Never bet against someone who knows just enough to be dangerous
Some one who knows what the world needs and how to deliver it, but doesn’t know how difficult the journey is
Instead, back them all day long
2/ I couldn’t be more excited to team up with
@martin_casado
@bhorowitz
@pmarca
@vijaypande
@cdixon
and the entire
@a16z
team to help founders build the most ambitious AI and infrastructure businesses of the next 100 years with a new effort we’ll share more about soon
To everyone who
creates instead of critiquing,
makes instead of maligning,
builds instead of breaking -
have a fantastic year ahead!
Humanity needs you
🍾🎉🎊🚀
San Francisco boom loop here we come.
This city is way too awesome to let it go. Elections can put leaders who can replace bankrupt ideology with strong policies that help every citizen.
Elections November 2024— it's happening.
The Boom Loop Begins
It is genuinely absurd how much value
@firstround
provides (recruiting, community intros, marketing, series A prep, turnaround SLAs, partners on speed dial) compared to other VCs
#worth280
Of all the seed stage VC “value add” services, I hear the most founder love for
@firstround
and their Series A prep process. Deck workshop, dry runs & targeted intros.
3/ So, a lot more to come. In the meantime, you can join the journey with me in my Discord server and if you’re building anything in AI, my DMs are open!
👀 The
@ideogram_ai
team is dropping a pretty big announcement tomorrow - come hang out right after on discord with
@mo_norouzi
and team + me, 8/29 @ 11:30 am PST for an AMA on all things
@ideogram_ai
, state of the art in image models and more:
Welcome to Curio, where toys come to life! 🧸
We've partnered with
@Grimezsz
on our first 3 characters: Grok 🚀, Gabbo🤖, and Grem👽.
Order by Sunday to receive a Beta Program Certificate in the mail before Xmas, toys ship early 2024!
Another banger from a16z infra magicians
@stuffyokodraws
@martin_casado
@ianmacartney
9 hrs in - 1K+ stars, dozens of forks and many hn comments questioning the nature of reality, life and existence...
Very few people understand AI scaling laws like the Mistrals. And even fewer are so maniacally focused on shipping for their community. You can hear it in they way
@arthurmensch
breaks down their roadmap here:
Friend: Wow good yob
@ubiquity_6
is top 10 on
@BreakoutList
My brain: Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Don’t say it
Me: But we’re barely getting started!
But real talk we’re only 15 mnths old and need help across eng, product, design and ops!
Architecturally, generative models working in unison together look much more like a game engine runtime than an 'operating system'. Anyone building multi agent products today really shld be studying all of
@TimSweeneyEpic
's blog posts circa '98
“We are open-sourcing the entirety of Dolly 2.0, including the training code, the dataset, and the model weights…”
This is the way - big props to
@alighodsi
and team
Free Dolly! Introducing the first *commercially viable*, open source, instruction-following LLM. Dolly 2.0 is available for commercial applications without having to pay for API access or sharing data with 3rd parties.
The one thing I learned from 4 years as a VC - most advice from investors is a combination of overfitting, selection + confirmation bias, posturing and delusion i.e. garbage. Put people on your cap table who say “I don’t know, but here’s some one who might”- they’re the keepers.
The
@Nintendo
Switch is one of the most under-reported consumer tech successes of the last decade. ~18M sold in 12 mths. Total rev up 105% YoY = $9.7B. True marriage of tech x creativity - magical hardware + content (Breath of the Wild, Splatoon 2, Super Mario Odyssey)
people will look back on today's gyms and wonder why on earth we put up with such boring routines when you could put on a headset and get your cardio done slicing massive cubes of music with lightsabers
🔊 Stoked to welcome the incredibly creative
@wavymusicapp
team to the
@ubiquity_6
family! Audio is so often overlooked for the flashier visual form of AR, but is mission critical for immersion. Much more coming soon! 🐇+🌊 = 🎸🎶🎷🎼🎹
"For my sons and a lot of kids their age, Fortnite is not a game they play, it’s a place they go — and, importantly, it’s a place they go with friends"
Extensibility. Discord is by far the most customizable, remixable, extendible, moddable real time comms platform in the world. Infinite use cases for every messaging niche at scale enabled by hundreds of thousands of developers
Reddit is at it again, this time with
#ControlNet
+
#stablediffusion
...this is such a massive improvement to the img2img pipeline
The open source momentum here is absolutely wild...
(1/n)
TIL
@Dyson
, the electronics giant with 14K employees and £6.5 billion in annual revenue moved the company’s HQ to Singapore in 2019 after being fed up with the EU
...but today is a chance to celebrate the many people who helped us get here, starting with my better half
@vivianmshen
who gives me the strength to build everyday...
Most business books should really be essays, but
@ballmatthew
went and wrote an essay that should really be a book
anyone even remotely interested in the future of the Internet should read 👇
A pattern I've noticed in the current YC batch: a large number of domain experts in all kinds of different fields have found ways to use AI to solve problems that people in their fields had long known about, but weren't quite able to solve.
To everyone affected by the Mozilla layoffs, we are big big fans of your work at
@ubiquity6
- pls DM me if you’re looking for a role and I’ll try to help as fast as possible
#MozillaLifeboat
@AdamDraper
Original ideas are literally everywhere for virtually free - Asimov, Vinge, Stephenson etc etc. But the art of picking the right building blocks from them at the right time is really the scarcity.
Joining forces with
@discord
is about unlocking new shared experiences for 150M+ people. Our entire team, multiplayer technology and Backyard product is joining
@Discord
, and I’m excited to reveal more about what we’re building together soon...
We study the inherent challenges in relying on LLMs—addressing their unpredictability, the essential trust mechanisms for their decision-making, and hurdles in failure recognition & resolution. Our system, GoEx presents abstractions and policies to overcome these for RESTful…
Congrats on shipping
@cdixon
! RWO is the definitive book on blockchains, but it also ends up being one of the best tributes to open source software ever written
My new book is finally here -- published today in the U.S.! 🟧
I hope you pick it up, share it, debate it with me.
Looking forward to your feedback.
More editions in more languages coming soon.
So very excited for the promotion of
@JenniferHli
to GP. She's a primary reason
@a16z
enterprise investing is what it is, being a key player behind so many deals, our team and our investment philosophy and process. She really is "the best of us".
Early this year we hit explosive growth with millions of new users in a couple short months. When
@jasoncitron
(whom I’ve known and admired for years) and I caught up soon after, it became clear we could go even faster by teaming up - so we are!
@mattmiesnieks
@JonVirtual
@agent_cooper
@ubiquity_6
Tbh we’re all in this together - either we’re all going to bring a lot of value to everybody, or we’re all going to need new jobs in a couple years...either way it’s a rollercoaster 🎢
Flying ball
Deuxième exemple de rendu grâce à
@DisplaylandHQ
! Ça te permet d’avoir ta scène en 3D et du coup de faire interagir t’es simulations beaucoup plus simplement! :)
Vidéo jeudi!
... CE SOIR 17h... COURT-MÉTRAGE THE WITCHER
3/3 Now, 900+ million pocket GPUs later, these spatial worlds can actually support large standalone businesses. Fortnite, Roblox and Minecraft are leading examples. The point is that these aren't games, they're social networks.
It is surreal, but yes, unfortunately there are big $$ at work trying to stifle open source AI under the guise of safety.
The good news is they’ve gotten too greedy and will expose themselves transparently this week for everyone to see
Career update: I am co-founding a new research group called "GEAR" at NVIDIA, with my long-time friend and collaborator Prof.
@yukez
. GEAR stands for Generalist Embodied Agent Research.
We believe in a future where every machine that moves will be autonomous, and robots and…
(3/n) Now, with the launch of Activities, developers can take over the entire canvas, and with Premium App subscriptions, get paid for their creations instantly
Big day for bitcoin, Lightning goes live on mainnet! ⚡
Announcing the first Lightning beta release for the live bitcoin network, lnd 0.4. Read about it here: 👩🏻🚀👨🏿🚀🚀