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✨ Get paid serious money to take me from basic to post-doc ++ levels of wisdom in physics 🤓 To make this happen, I’m personally investing 52,000 $RSC over the next year. Every week, I’ll accept a tutor (repeat tutors are welcome) and pay 520 $RSC tokens in exchange for 2…
I aim to acquire post-doc-level physics knowledge over the next couple years starting today. Back to the Feynman lectures, Maxwell’s equations, .. and newer things like catalysis, quantum computing, thermonuclear fusion and exotic atoms.
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Can we just make @ylecun president of AI and call it a day please?
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What have the eight ex-Google Brain authors of the Transformers paper been doing since December 2017? 🧐 Let’s find out together! 🧵 Paper: Sources: Google, Pitchbook, LinkedIn // @ashVaswani @NoamShazeer @aidangomezzz @nikiparmar09 @YesThisIsLion
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This is why NVIDIA wins.
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Holy shit. Meta is training LLaMa 3 on 600,000 H100s.... That's $20 BILLION worth of GPUs.... L.F.G.
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Meta is all in on open source AGI, says Zuckerberg
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OpenAI CTO: We trained on public videos Interviewer: What kind of public videos Mira: Silence Interviewer: Like Youtube Mira: I don't know 🤣🤣🤣 ☠️☠️☠️
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OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says Sora was trained on publicly available and licensed data
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“Someone should create a @github but for books — with built in subscription incentives for an author to continuously update a book to make it a lifelong project”. — ⁦ @lexfridman ⁩ Wow. Brilliant idea. YES please. Someone should build this …
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Top NN (neural net) engineers are getting paid $5-20M annual compensation packages. I've now heard this from 4 different extremely reputable sources but I don't see people talking about it publicly yet so here goes... What are the implications of this insanity ?!?!?!? ... 🧵
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Satya doing open AND closed AI was a surprising and awesome move.
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Excited to share that @OSSCapital is donating $10,000 / month to the @godotengine foundation. 🙇🏻‍♂️ 🤖
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We're so close to 3 round numbers! 2^15, 10^3 and 10! Thanks everyone for your amazing support! We're almost breaking even for the current payroll, giving us welcome security. Let's go to the next milestone so that we can start hiring more contributors!
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And now Mixtral is free 🤯 Thanks @xanderatallah 🫡
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Last week @MistralAI launched pricing for the Mixtral MoE: $2.00~ / 1M tokens. Hours later @togethercompute took the weights and dropped pricing by 70% to $0.60 / 1M. Days later @abacusai cut 50% deeper to $0.30 / 1M. Yesterday @DeepInfra went to $0.27 / 1M. Who’s next ??? 📉
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Last week @MistralAI launched pricing for the Mixtral MoE: $2.00~ / 1M tokens. Hours later @togethercompute took the weights and dropped pricing by 70% to $0.60 / 1M. Days later @abacusai cut 50% deeper to $0.30 / 1M. Yesterday @DeepInfra went to $0.27 / 1M. Who’s next ??? 📉
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Here’s the latest OpenAI regulatory capture propaganda pushing the government to make it illegal for anyone to do advanced matrix multiplication aka use computers…👇🏼
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All the former Googlers of the Transformers paper have collectively raised more than $4 Billion…Google has 5 different ways of deploying venture capital and is a founding/major investor in exactly ZERO of these companies. Google is also clearly losing and way behind in AI. 🤯
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There is no such thing as Open Source AI. Why? Because Open Source was invented explicitly for software source code… and Neural Net Weights (NNWs) are not software source code — they are unreadable by humans, nor are they debuggable. Furthermore, the fundamental rights of Open…
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Incredible that @MistralAI just raised $400M~ on a $2B post-money valuation in this market with a purely open source product (so far), no revenue and < 30 employees. Well done!
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The MAJORITY (> 50%) of every great software company in history to cross $1 Billion in annual revenue raised < $25M in venture capital dollars. Most of that cohort raised zero (totally bootstrapped).
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Sam just said that if someone comes up with a fundamentally superior (more compute efficient) approach for scaling powerful AI models, OpenAI will be in a “not great” place. This should be our primary focus for AI acceleration — not blindly worshiping the Transformer.
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Wow! Together just undercut Mistral’s pricing by 70%… 🤣
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Together AI
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Access Mixtral with the fastest inference performance anywhere! Up to 100 token/s for $0.0006/1K tokens — to our knowledge the fastest performance at the lowest price! Mixtral-8x7b-32kseqlen @MistralAI & DiscoLM-mixtral-8x7b-v2 are live on Together API!
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Open source is people.
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I just asked @stephen_wolfram : “Should @StableDiffusion be made illegal or should truly open source AI exist?” Here’s his incredible nuanced answer:
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“Making open source AI illegal will lead to a totalitarian and authoritarian regime that would be so brutal — we will have destroyed the society we aimed to protect.” @pmarca 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
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NEWS: @OSSCapital is committing $25M to invest exclusively in the Bittensor ecosystem. We believe Bittensor represents the most vibrant community and network focused on accelerating decentralized and truly open AI for all. This capital will be allocated across open source…
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LLMs may replace keystrokes and mouse/cursor movements and clicks by orders of magnitude … imagine if you could simply tell your app in natural language which state/config you want it in? 10-100X faster than clicks + cursor movements by hand. All apps will build for this…………
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⚡️ I am incredibly honored and excited to launch @OSSCapital : A new, highly differentiated VC firm, the worlds first and only commercial OSS-founder-backed and founded exclusively focused on investing in + supporting commercial OSS founders! Learn more:
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This is absolutely directionally the future …
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OK, you are going to need at least 20,000 stars before getting this arrogant. 😂
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7,200 Bittensor $TAO tokens get emitted to the network every day until the first halving in September 2025. That’s $4 million per day, $120 million per month and $1.5 billion annually. Here’s the AI teams competing to build the best services on Bittensor. No single team is…
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Bittensor has nearly surpassed OpenAI’s incentive output… > $1.3B / year in rewards paid to a decentralized and global ecosystem of AI model builders. Anyone can own Bittensor. Only a few misaligned few will own OAI.
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Elon: “Twitter should literally be an open source project on GitHub” 🤯❤️
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Elon just spent at least $250M on GPUs for training generative AI at Twitter. Capital + Compute inefficiencies in building powerful neural nets is absolutely mind boggling … very soon these costs are going to be 1/000th what they are today. And not because GPUs will be cheaper.
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Unspoken fact: Many OpenAI employees deeply disagree with the fear-mongering propaganda narrative that cutting edge open models pose an existential threat to humanity. This is partially evidenced by the 400+ people who’ve _formerly_ worked there (LinkedIn data).
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I’m an instant pass on any startup that just wraps OpenAI. Zero differentiation over time. Building your solution / app on your own models that you control, train and tune yourself? Good.
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OpenAI / Microsoft should try really hard to acquire Perplexity right now for $2-3B before it gets way too expensive for them.
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Every failed software startup should package up and open source their code… just to see what happens.
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The @rustlang ecosystem is on fire… these projects didn’t even really exist a couple yrs ago 🔥🦀 — @TauriApps , 190+ contribs / 50K+ stars — @rustdesk , 100+ contribs / 30K+ stars — @appflowy , 100+ contribs / 29K+ stars — @spacedriveapp , 50+ contribs / 15K+ stars + many more
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Microsoft is FULL steam ahead on regulatory capture: — Co-design the laws that dictate capability thresholds of AI (aka you can only compute so much before the government goes after you) — Co-design government license for “too powerful” AI (aka totalitarian state apparatus on…
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This is a $100 Trillion + dollar product.
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When $TAO crosses $20K or so, there is no single company on earth that could remotely match the Bittensor network reward seeking production of the absolute highest forms of AI.
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Bittensor is generating > $150M in revenue compensation for developers building AI services on the network. Growing exponentially. 📈 As a VC funded startup, it would be valued at > $15 Billion. Instead, it’s a decentralized cap table for all. Trading at $2B~. Let it be known.
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Award 🥇 for most impressive startup that went from zero to $200M+ in ARR in 2023… all while raising zero capital: @DavidSHolz ’s @midjourney David previously raised $120M+ in VC for his last major startup Leap Motion. Fascinating and inspiring to see the evolution of this…
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Top 10 OSS Game Engines by Contributor Activity (by far best metric for analyzing project strength)! 👀 Nothing comes close to @godotengine 🔥📈 Courtesy of the new AMAZINGLY valuable tool by @PingCAP : @OSSInsight 🤝 Here’s the link for much more:
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Jakob Uszkoreit ( @kyosu ) — cited by many as the main brain behind discovering / inventing the Transformer architecture — left G in mid 2021 and co-founded @Inceptive_labs .. designing mRNAs with neural nets. 🧬 🤯 They’ve raised $20M so far and just crossed 20 people. 🔥
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The government is being heavily pressured to ban open source. How can we prevent this? By campaigning in favor of open source and electing officials who understand the fundamental importance of it.
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. @Tesla is moving everything onto @KubernetesIO at 140B+ events / day and scaling infra by 500% over next 9 months. 🙌🏻
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NVIDIA is at $1.2T because they are replacing the CPU and Intel is at $200B because they didn’t build and scale the GPU themselves. Whatever disrupts the GPU is doing to unlock many trillions in value.
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Just witnessed a live demo of @AIWayfinder custodying, analyzing, trading and swapping crypto across multiple chains (human driven + autonomous). AI will mediate all crypto transactions over time. 🤯 The @Parallel team continues to pull forward the future. 👌🏼
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“Open Source is great, as long as it doesn’t exceed our latest released capability” 😂
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Brad literally has no argument here … he’s referring to Zuck’s share class control … but you know what? YES, I trust Zuck more as a human than I do Sam who controls the “non profit”, whose controls don’t fully kick in btw until the capped profits get paid out to Mr. Brad.
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"Meta is owned by shareholders. OpenAI is owned by a non-profit. Which would you have more confidence in? Getting your technology from a non-profit or a for profit company that is entirely controlled by one human being" -- Brad Smith, Microsoft ... absolutely ridiculous
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“Open Source always wins because no one has a monopoly on the best ideas” 🔥👌🏼
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We didn’t need the OAI fiasco to illustrate that truly open source (weights) AI is the way.. but it sure has accelerated things. Big time.
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Today we unveil @LiquidAI_ to the world along with $37.5M in funding led by @OSSCapital and @pagsceltics + a phenomenal group including @Capgemini @naval @mojombo @CaretakerBob @tobi and many other amazing folks. Liquid is a new foundation model platform company bringing the…
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Holy shit. Sam Altman personally owns > 500M (maybe 1B) of these @worldcoin tokens … currently worth close to $10 billion. Way more than any exposure he has to OpenAI (if we believe “I own no shares”). 🧐
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🥹 ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 I’m going to have @OSSCapital launch and run both a validator and a subnet on Bittensor. 1) The community decides what we build 2) We will live-tweet the process of building and share open metrics on everything + how we stake across other subnets 3) Our…
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IBM buying @RedHat is not about dominating the cloud. It is about becoming an OSS company. The largest proprietary software and tech companies in the world are now furiously rushing towards the future. An open future. An open source software driven future. OSS eats everything.
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$TAO daily volume was $5M~ last week... now $20M~. Let the games for decentralized and open AI begin.
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The pace of innovation in coding with AI (neural networks trained to generate source code based on natural language input by a human programmer) is *amazing*. IMHO, ⁦ @amasad ⁩ and team ⁦ @Replit ⁩ are executing the fastest and best here. They just crossed 17M users. 🤯
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The AI founder I’m most inspired by on nearly a daily basis over the last year is Jake Steeves ( @const_reborn ), father of Bittensor ( @opentensor ). Jake is a former Google Brain engineer who achieved enlightenment and went all in on the blockchain over a decade ago. Instead of…
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Trained AI models are not products. All the best models will ultimately be commoditized to open weights / source. Cost of inferencing is also asymptotically approaching quickly to near zero. So where does value get captured in AI? Domain specific products with deep industry…
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6) NN courses like @avapamini and @xanamini who run @MITDeepLearning will become REQUIRED education for anyone coming into the entire technology industry as an engineer making meaningful contributions of any kind. MIT DL has 50K~ students a year... how about 5M+ a year?
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Step 1: Spend millions paying for garbage press coverage of your totalitarian propaganda Step 2: Convince the government to make open source illegal Step 3: Profit
@TheEconomist
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Open-source AI models pose a risk that shouldn’t be ignored, Mustafa Suleyman tells our “Babbage” podcast
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Rich Sutton, inventor of RL (reinforcement learning), has recently said that human brain-scale compute will cost only $1000 by 2030. Spending millions on GPUs to produce weak AI today will look ridiculous in just a few years.
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Ashish Vaswani ( @ashVaswani ) left Google in late 2021 to start @AdeptAILabs which has raised $415 million so far and is valued by VCs at > $1 billion…looks like the company is growing fast and just crossed 40 people. It also looks like Ashish just left Adept a few months ago. 🧐
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🚗🇮🇳❤️‍🔥 @NammaYatri is India's open source alternative to Uber ... and they are on fire. 4M+ users, 22M+ rides completed, $40M+ paid to drivers (100%, no intermediary fee). Created 1~ years ago. Amazing.
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@OpenAI Open source is the ultimate democratic process. Not this.
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We’ve backed several of the fastest growing and largest open source founders in India over the last few years via @OSSCapital … Many millions of users. If this does not get reversed, we will reverse our historical position of encouraging founders to stay put and build their…
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India just kissed its future goodbye! Every company deploying a GenAI model now requires approval from the Indian government! That is, you now need approval for merely deploying a 7b open source model 🤯🤯 If you know the Indian government, you know this will a huge drag!…
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Woah. This founder spent $1M building this personal finance app and just decided to open source the entire thing after pivoting. Amazing. 👏🏼
@Shpigford
Josh Pigford
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Here's what $1,000,000 worth of fintech software looks like...
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The business model for open source AI is called Bittensor.
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THIS IS COMMUNISM. VERY BAD!
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Sweeping new Biden order aims to alter the AI landscape
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💫 ❤️ HERE WE GO! 30 YEARS IN THE MAKING! ... Today we celebrate and honor exactly three decades since the founding incorporation of @RedHat by @CaretakerBob . 🙇🏽‍♂️ Here's a special video tribute from 23 amazing open source founders of @AcornLabs , @AppFlowy , @Automattic , @Calcom ,…
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Capitalism is the optimal form of philanthropy.
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I did NOT sign this because AGI fear mongering is nonsensical, toxic and greatly serves the interests of entrenched incumbents.
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We’ve released a statement on the risk of extinction from AI. Signatories include: - Three Turing Award winners - Authors of the standard textbooks on AI/DL/RL - CEOs and Execs from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Google DeepMind, Anthropic - Many more
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After TWO DECADES at Google, Noam Shazeer ( @NoamShazeer ) left G in late 2021 and founded @character_ai with his friend @dan_defr … they’ve raised nearly $200 million so far and are ALMOST a unicorn... and pretty damn capital efficient so far with only 20 ~ employees. 🦄 😅
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Illia Polosukhin ( @ilblackdragon ) left G in Feb 2017 🧐 … he founded @NEARProtocol (competitor to Ethereum / Solana) in June 2017. NEAR is currently valued at $2 billion ~. Looks like they have raised $375 million ~ and done lots of secondary rounds. 😮
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Lukasz Kaiser ( @lukaszkaiser ) is one of the co-creators of @TensorFlow and left G in mid 2021 to join @OpenAI .
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The success of Bitcoin is crucial for the success of Bittensor. However, the potential of Bittensor is somewhere between 1-2 orders of magnitude (10-100X) greater than Bitcoin. And the asymptote value of Bitcoin is somewhere between 5-10X that of Gold ($14 Trillion ~ today).…
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The future is at the intersection of AI and crypto. The future is Bittensor.
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EA (effective altruism) is communism. e/acc (effective accelerationism) is capitalism. The former results in maximum enslavement, censorship and impoverishment. The latter results in maximum freedom, abundance and wealth.
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One of the largest and fastest growing Internet companies ( @Uber ) is planning to migrate all their workloads (ML/batch/stateless/stateful/daemon) from a custom @ApacheMesos -based scheduler to @KubernetesIO . AWESOME read:
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Personally I believe that AI should be legally allowed to learn on all copyrighted and patented works / data with zero restriction. I’ve said this many times before. Many countries are making different decisions here and are far from unified on philosophy. Citing fair use…
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Jason Kint
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ok, I've now read the full NYT complaint filed this morning vs OpenAI and Microsoft. I'm impressed - it's future-focused around fair value for work vital to democracy. It also contains 220k pages of exhibits although the pages of Ex J stood out to me. more on that in a minute. /1
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$7 Trillion for heavily censored, centralized “AGI” .. politically lobotomized .. And what do you think uncensored, user-aligned and decentralized AGI by-humanity-for-humanity will be worth? A hell of a lot more than $7 trillion.
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The quality of engineering talent and talent in general coming into the Bittensor project now and over the coming weeks and months … 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
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The world will be run by software engineers who know how to sell.
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There’s no money in open source. There’s only niche money in open source. There’s definitely money in open source. Most of the money is in open source. The only money is in open source. There is no money, there’s only open source.
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Aidan Gomez ( @aidangomezzz ) left Google Brain in September 2019 to found @CohereAI — they’ve raised (looks like) nearly $400 million. Cohere also recently crossed 180+ employees and is clearly scaling after 3 years going strong. 🚀
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Crypto and AI represent the union of the most powerful forces ever invented by us humans … permissionless open source innovation + digital consciousness. There is currently no project that promises to unlock the foundational potential of these two mega-trends than Bittensor.
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🔥 Excited to announce that I’m now CEO of @RustDesk — our founding seed was led by @OSSCapital nearly 2 years ago. Since then, we’ve become the most popular open source remote/virtual access platform on earth. Our core project is led by founder/CTO Zhou Huabing and the company…
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Synonyms of Totalitarian Antichrist: “Open”AI, Sam Altman, etc etc. Peter absolutely nails it here, quoting from the Bible! And this is from a year ago…
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Two of the most important open source contributors alive.
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Vitalik Buterin at the #Bittensor community meet in Asia with @const_reborn 🔥 $TAO $ETH
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Pushin' τ
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Niki Parmar ( @nikiparmar09 ) is the only woman author on the Transformers paper. She left G in late 2021 and co-founded @AdeptAILabs . Niki left Adept a few months ago as well. 😎
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