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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

4 months

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

1 year

Welcome to the future of smart agents! I hooked up ChatGPT to WhatsApp --

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Daniel Gross

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AI Grant's second batch of companies --

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Daniel Gross

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1 year

Made a GPT-3 summarizer that reads websites just like humans do. It scrolls pages and reads in visible text in chunks, which it then attempts to summarize. This makes it a bit more robust than crawling HTML. Here you can see it summarizing fancy hotels on Flyertalk:

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Daniel Gross

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1 year

OpenAI quietly launched Whisper V2 in a GitHub commit.

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Daniel Gross

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The code is here:

GitHub - danielgross/whatsapp-gpt

Contribute to danielgross/whatsapp-gpt development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Daniel Gross

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1 year

The sleeping AI behemoth awakens

Stable Diffusion with Core ML on Apple Silicon

Today, we are excited to release optimizations to Core ML for [Stable Diffusion](https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-announcement) in…

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

3 months

Nat and I are delighted to be investing $100m in , which is building a superhuman software engineer. If a copilot generates $10b of revenue, how much is a colleague worth?

Magic

Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

2 years

In case you're wondering what a $20B company looks like at seed, here's @zoink pitching early @figma to me:

Dylan Field pitches seed-stage Figma to Daniel Gross

Figma CEO & founder Dylan Field pitches his company to Daniel Gross as if back in 2013. A special feature of our June Demo Livestream.--Pioneer is a fully re...

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Daniel Gross

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1 year

Greetings AI-native hackers. @natfriedman and I present a small hack from last weekend: Tele-Prompt. An on-device AI for your meetings that listens to you and makes charismatic quote suggestions --

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Daniel Gross

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1 year

Satya might beat Steve in corporate comeback acts

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

7 months

Thanks to GGML and Apple M2 Max, I can run GitHub Copilot locally on my laptop with one click. Check out LocalPilot!

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

1 year

LlamaAcademy: a factory that teaches LLaMA's how write API code. ChatGPT Plugins, but no manifest file is needed -- it just reads the API docs like a human would! For example, here is a finetuned model that learned how to talk to Notion by reading its API docs:

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Daniel Gross

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11 months

AI Grant's first batch of companies --

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Daniel Gross

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1 year

Microsoft open-sources a new AI library that connects to open-source GPTs, not just OpenAI.

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Daniel Gross

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10 days

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

Aravind Srinivas

@AravSrinivas

10 days

Excited to announce we've raised 62.7M$ at 1.04B$ valuation, led by Daniel Gross, along with Stan Druckenmiller, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, Tobi Lutke, Garry Tan, Andrej Karpathy, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, IVP, NEA, Jakob Uszkoreit, Naval Ravikant, Brad Gerstner, and Lip-Bu…

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Daniel Gross

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1 year

Finance world, please be prepared for AI!

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Daniel Gross

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5 months

He was 99 with the eating habits of a teenager -- we had steak, wine, and candy for dinner. Charlie really embodied that poem: Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Daniel Gross

@danielgross

1 year

A real honor to have dinner with @natfriedman and Charlie Munger

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Daniel Gross

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1 year

I smile every time I see this -- Microsoft... maintains a fork... from Facebook... for Mac support. Satya is the GOAT.

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Daniel Gross

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1 year

A real honor to have dinner with @natfriedman and Charlie Munger

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Daniel Gross

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2 months

Inspecting Andromeda’s interconnect, some of the most valuable components in the world:

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

3 months

AI Grant applications now open at ! Join these folks:

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

1 year

What recurring revenue looks like

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

5 months

Can't find GPUs? Check out my new project which allows anyone to scalably run cutting-edge AI on AWS CPUs, thanks to Kubernetes and GGML!

GitHub - danielgross/ggml-k8s: Run GGML models with Kubernetes.

Run GGML models with Kubernetes. Contribute to danielgross/ggml-k8s development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Daniel Gross

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3 months

Just a few things I'm wondering lately:

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Daniel Gross

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2 years

Only a few months before some genius stable diffuses music… very exciting

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Daniel Gross

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1 year

Apple M2 Max running a transformer --

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Daniel Gross

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7 months

I've always wanted to use Copilot on the airplane, and now I can! Here is the code if you want to try yourself:

GitHub - danielgross/localpilot

Contribute to danielgross/localpilot development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

4 months

For context, iPod sold 125k in the first quarter, iPhone 270k in the first 48 hours, and iPad 300k in the first day.

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@jessechenglyu

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that's 40,000 in 4 days. we are ramping up the production and catching up with it.

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Daniel Gross

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1 year

The gap between how powerful LLMs appear to be on Twitter and how genuinely useful they are in reality is incredible. (Maybe the conclusion is that they are, in fact, very powerful because nobody bothers to actually ***read*** anymore?)

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

9 months

I'd be careful valuing AI ARR during a hype cycle, I'm not sure how sticky these exploratory budgets will be.

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

11 months

Nat and I have setup a cluster for startups:

Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

11 months

Daniel and I have setup a cluster for startups:

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

1 year

Google was about Borg not PageRank, and OpenAI might be about Triton not GPT-3. Companies have a tendency to turn algorithm moats to infrastructure moats, which are much more durable.

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Daniel Gross

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2 years

Stable Diffusion gaming will be amazing, check out this upres work of Sierra titles:

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Daniel Gross

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1 year

I think we’re sorta overestimating the odds of a 175B model replacing humans, and underestimating the power of 100M models at replacing _functions_. GPT3.5 might be uncanny valley…

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Daniel Gross

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10 months

To get Llama2 cost competitive with GPT-3.5, you need to be doing about 100 tokens per second on a machine that costs $0.75/hr.

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

1 year

It would be neat if Twitter had a trending topic minimap so I could move away from ChatGPT for a bit and explore some other spaces.

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

11 months

"The Transformer was published at NeurIPS 2017, one of the top AI conferences worldwide. Yet it didn't even get an Oral presentation, let alone awards. There were 3 best papers at NeurIPS that year. Combined, they have 529 citations as of today." A deep lesson there...

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

2 months

The slumbering dragon awakens:

Aran Komatsuzaki

@arankomatsuzaki

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Apple presents MM1, a family of multimodal LLMs up to 30B parameters, that are SoTA in pre-training metrics and perform competitively after fine-tuning

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

2 months

Monday evening in Antarctica four years ago pacing @kvogt in the first out of seven marathons:

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

1 year

Meta just changed Encodec to a MIT license, I wonder what will come next...

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

11 months

@natfriedman Nat is also announcing nat.css, a new Bootstrap template for landing pages

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Daniel Gross

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4 months

Early signs of a moat more significant than flops:

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Daniel Gross

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8 months

Understanding what ChatGPT can and can’t do feels like the future of software engineering education:

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

1 year

Maybe it's just me. But I find myself very heavily editing almost anything GPT-4 writes, be it English or code. I don't think this observation is priced in at all...

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

2 months

If you'd like to come to AI Grant's hacker conference, let us know if you can hear the music (details embedded in the video):

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

1 year

Is this the first example of Generative UI? Letting the LLM self-generate the interface is a brilliant idea.

Perplexity

@perplexity_ai

1 year

The next iteration of Perplexity has arrived: Copilot, your interactive AI search companion. 🚀🤖 Perplexity Copilot guides your search experience with interactive inputs, leading you to a rich, personalized answer, powered by GPT-4. Try it for free at

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

3 months

Instead of RAG, I've found it easier to turn unstructured data into a table and manually inspect it. Easier to reason about and debug.

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

3 months

AI Grant companies are collectively worth $3.5B today.

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Daniel Gross

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I have been an investor and user of W&B since iter1, and am thrilled to be leading a $50m round alongside @natfriedman :

Weights & Biases, which counts OpenAI as a customer, lands $50M | TechCrunch

Weights & Biases, a startup developing MLOps tools used by thousands of companies, has raised $50 million in a venture round.

techcrunch.com

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Daniel Gross

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1 year

pix2struct launched today, a multimodal model specializing in screenshot data. Here it is reading a Google Flights screenshot --

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

1 year

80/20 rule is even more extreme in AI

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Daniel Gross

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2 years

This airport scene is always a personality test --

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

2 years

Around 7am today, Facebook released a text-to-video paper. About 2 hours later, the GitHub repos started (). "OSS is an AGI"

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

6 months

One thing I've learned from panics (Covid, Middle East) is who has a mind of their own, and who has outsourced their thinking to the cult of the moment.

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

1 year

Looking back at AI in 2022 -- top 50 papers tweeted by @_akhaliq and @arankomatsuzaki

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

10 months

Eschenbach wins Allen & Co photoshoot with a dual wield coffee, jump rope, and faded Sequoia tshirt

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Daniel Gross

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2 months

Playwright is taking off -- machines are making increasingly complex web requests:

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

10 months

AI Grant’s first batch has just exceeded $1b in aggregate valuation!

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

1 year

Beautiful human & machine cooperation by @bencepeter :

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Daniel Gross

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2 months

I think we will look back at current AI -- where it takes 10 seconds to get a maybe-good response -- as the uncanny valley between Copilot (small model + fast autocomplete) and Coworker (large model + slow task completion).

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Daniel Gross

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2 months

Just passed $200m of contract value on

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Daniel Gross

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5 months

60% of global GDP has elections next year. 7 of the 10 largest countries.

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Daniel Gross

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1 year

Announcing CoreWeave’s $221M round from NVIDIA, Magnetar, Nat, and myself. A new AWS for AI is being born.

CoreWeave, a GPU-focused cloud compute provider, lands $221M investment | TechCrunch

CoreWeave, a specialized cloud compute provider, has raised $221 million in a venture round that values the company at around $2 billion.

techcrunch.com

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

1 year

Trillion parameter model by Huawei trained without using NVIDIA

Aran Komatsuzaki

@arankomatsuzaki

1 year

PanGu-Σ: Towards Trillion Parameter Language Model with Sparse Heterogeneous Computing Presents a sparse LM with 1T parameters trained over 329B tokens

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Daniel Gross

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3 months

An amazing demonstration of what's possible when an internet-native like @natfriedman focuses the web on a particular problem. It's like a magnifying glass that concentrates diffuse rays of human intellect into a focused beam that can cut through any task.

Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

3 months

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…

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Daniel Gross

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2 months

Just passed $300m of contract value on

gpulist

buy and sell spare gpu capacity. from andromeda.ai

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

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Just passed $200m of contract value on

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Daniel Gross

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New podcast with the powerful @benthompson and @natfriedman about AI —

Stratechery Interviews

@StratecheryINT

1 year

An Interview with Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman about ChatGPT and the Near-Term Future of AI

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Daniel Gross

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The market has not priced in 7b + 3nm

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Daniel Gross

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1 year

ChatGPT's talking to themselves, attempting to self-prompt their way to being funny.

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Daniel Gross

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1 year

It's a musical chairs game -- and the exercise of 2000-2020 was writing software to become system-of-record for something. Now the music has stopped. If you don't have a system-of-record, your company might not have a moat anymore.

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Daniel Gross

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Happy Sunday from AI Grant’s Demo Day!

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Daniel Gross

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1 year

Getting proactive jokes is great fun

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Daniel Gross

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1 month

Putting my thumper near the Starship

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Daniel Gross

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1 year

Incredible technical tour de force to make a fast ChatGPT that you can FaceTime on your phone and handles interruptions, is responsive, etc.

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

10 months

@netcapgirl Vaswani, Shazeer, et al. 2017 (either most significant or a complete mirage; we'll find out in a few years.)

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

10 months

AI Grant applications have really taken off. The first batch is worth over $1b and we got 2x the traffic for the second batch.

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Daniel Gross

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1 year

3D mailGPT on my inbox. I have finally figured out the Metaverse/AI intersection!

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Daniel Gross

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Saturday fireside with AI Grant’s latest batch:

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Daniel Gross

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1 month

Pleased to be investing in MatX, building AI chips with breakthrough capability:

AI Is Putting the Silicon Back in Silicon Valley

A new startup called MatX from former Google engineers reflects a renewed enthusiasm for chipmakers.

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Daniel Gross

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Just passed $600m of contract value on

gpulist

buy and sell spare gpu capacity. from andromeda.ai

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@danielgross

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Just passed $300m of contract value on

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Daniel Gross

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A lot of AI will just be sprinkled into existing SaaS. Here is the Retool purple button, exactly what I wanted when making a table this morning:

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Given exponential increase in training costs, compute multipliers might become the most coveted secrets on earth. Some of those will be in torch.nn; many will be in silicon.

Daniel Gross

@danielgross

1 month

Pleased to be investing in MatX, building AI chips with breakthrough capability:

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It's funny how execs have so many big honking problems they're trying to fix, yet simultaneously, so many founders are unsure of what to build. Like a zillion riders and drivers that can't find each other.

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Apple presents Ferret-UI Grounded Mobile UI Understanding with Multimodal LLMs Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have been noteworthy, yet, these general-domain MLLMs often fall short in their ability to comprehend and interact effectively with

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Daniel Gross

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8 months

GPT-3 launched 3 years ago. For context, here are the top apps 3 years after iPhone launch in 2010:

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Daniel Gross

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For a Sunday evening movie night, I can recommend this Andy Grove gem, it’s so great:

Andrew Grove, "Strategic Inflection Points" - 1996 MIT Industry...

Semiconductor industry pioneer Andrew Grove presents a talk at MIT titled "Exploiting the Crisis Points: Challenging Every Company and Career,” on September ...

www.youtube.com

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

2 years

@ID_AA_Carmack @natfriedman @patrickc @tobi @sequoia @CapitalFactory I sense a large diet coke order coming...

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Daniel Gross

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Tremendous respect to all my past colleagues at Apple who have been quietly working on Vision and all other releases, including those to come, while the rest of the world loses it's mind. It's what you do in the dark that puts you in the light...

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

1 year

Around Silicon Valley, many are assuming superlinear progress in model intelligence and value but it’s quite possible we go through multiple winters and summers. There’s just a lot that we don’t know. Measured narratives always get quashed in moments of greed…

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

1 year

Uses all the popular accoutrements such as LLaMA, LoRA, Langchain, etc.

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@danielgross

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OpenAI natively integrates Weights and Biases:

OpenAI Developers

@OpenAIDevs

29 days

New in the fine-tuning API: • Capture snapshots at every epoch, adjust hyperparameters, track metrics, and integrate with Weights & Biases • Compare model quality and performance side-by-side in the Playground Read more:

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I added multiplex streaming in python-llm, my little "python-requests for LLMs" project. Helpful if making a UI that outputs both OpenAI and Anthropic at the same time. One line to implement.

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

1 year

The camelids produced by this model aren't always perfect, so please treat this as experimental. Code is here:

GitHub - danielgross/LlamaAcademy: A school for camelids

A school for camelids. Contribute to danielgross/LlamaAcademy development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

11 months

A world-class LLM running at blazing speed on M2 Max. WWDC starts today!

Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

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Watching llama.cpp do 40 tok/s inference of the 7B model on my M2 Max, with 0% CPU usage, and using all 38 GPU cores. Congratulations @ggerganov ! This is a triumph.

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Has anyone made a hybrid local/remote LLM architecture?

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Daniel Gross

@danielgross

2 years

Is it just me, or are all the higher-level AWS offerings total garbage? I always end up doing it myself on EC2. Reminds me of a flea market filled with gimmicky electronics that break as you leave the store.

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@danielgross

1 year

There still might be other kinds of moats -- MrBeast has a valuable empire and the cost of making video content is also ~free. But "software alone" is having it's printing press moment.

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Tokens before November 2022 are like steel before 1945

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1 year

Copilot's Law is something like: if task accuracy isn't perfect, prioritize speed and GUI over smarter model.

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