Siqi Chen @blader Twitter profile

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Siqi Chen

@blader

19 days

hey you watch this video about runway it's like 47 seconds and it's fire

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Siqi Chen

@blader

4 years

The Netflix "ta-dum" soundmark is one of the all time greats, but doesn't work as well in a theater because it's only 3 seconds long. So Netflix commissioned Hans Zimmer to extend it for theaters and ... it's ... so ... good.

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> puts on vision pro 4 > opens sora app > sora 5 runs in real time in 8K video with elevenlabs audio > voice command to generate whatever you want > perfect lucid dreaming while wide awake > most addictive possible experience > end of human civilization

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okay so AI can literally read our minds now. a team from osaka was able to reconstruct visual images from mri scan data using stable diffusion. first row is the image presented to the test subject, second row is the reconstructed image from mri data. wild.

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3 years

This may be the strongest optical illusion I’ve ever seen.

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Siqi Chen

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6 months

pretty wild that the first job openai took was sam's

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Siqi Chen

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6 months

wow. openai staff set a deadline of 5pm tonight for all board members to resign and bring sam and greg back, or else they all resign. the board agreed but is now waffling and its an hour past the deadline. this is all happening in real time, right now.

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5 months

i showed my wife this video of muhammad ali's boxing gloves and she was like: "uh yeah it's a pair of boxing gloves, so what." then i told her the gloves weren't actually there and it's an AR rendering and she went 🤯

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Siqi Chen

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1 year

the future is going to be very weird. but i would absolutely watch the wes anderson remake of the matrix

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Siqi Chen

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6 months

in the history of corporations, has a company ever fired a ceo, hire a new ceo, fired that new ceo, hire another new ceo, and then rehire the ceo they originally fired in 2.5 business days?

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1 month

this video of the president of guyana tearing this pretentious bbc journalist a new one is probably the most satisfying video i’ve watched in recent memory

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3 months

you think you're pretty ambitious and then you see sam altman fundraising for like 10% of global GDP

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1 year

man if zuck just waited like a year they could have rebranded to “ai” instead

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Siqi Chen

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10 months

@elonmusk @ericzhu105 i can’t even rn

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

10 months

@DirtyTesLa Anyone engaging in repeated theft of posts be demonetized

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Siqi Chen

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10 months

@elonmusk bro how you just gonna steal @ericzhu105 ’s tweet without any credit

Eric Zhu

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10 months

this oppenheimer movie is way too long

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Siqi Chen

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5 months

the older i get, the more i'm convinced the single most important trait that matters in your friends, coworkers, life partner, and kids - is high agency.

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6 months

screenshot-to-code: upload a screenshot of any website, watch as AI progressively builds the html, iteratively improving the generated code by comparing it against the screenshot repeatedly.

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1 year

chinese tech ceo explaining to me why china is falling way behind on AI tech over dinner: ceo: “chinese LLMs can’t even count to 10” me: “what? why?” ceo: “you can’t count to 10 without also generating 8,9 and ‘89 is a politically sensitive, censored year” not making this up.

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Siqi Chen

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6 months

so basically the “move slower” people ousted the “move faster” people who’ll move fast to start a newco all the “move faster” people will join to move faster, and all that will be left are the “move slower” people moving slow to move slower together

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Siqi Chen

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1 year

Today I learned that when Twitter acquired @uenodotco in 2021, @iamharaldur quietly negotiated for the acquisition price to be paid as salary so he could pay 46% in taxes instead of 22%, in gratitude to his education in Finland. An especially stark contrast in character today.

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But ok, fair enough, I've been laid off and I'm ok with that. Next up though is finding out if Twitter will pay me what they owe me per my contract. Or, will @elonmusk , one of the richest people in the world, try to avoid paying? Stay tuned!!

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Siqi Chen

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1 year

gpt-4 can turn your napkin sketch into a web app, instantly. we are deep into uncharted territory here.

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Siqi Chen

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11 months

zaha hadid architects trained a generative model that renders architectural designs in the style of renowned architects ... from randomly crumpled pieces of paper. this one is in the style of frank gehry: 🧵👇

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Siqi Chen

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9 months

It's depressing to see so many talented people from top schools with amazing resumes go work years at FAANG, and the most they can point to having shipped are a few buttons in one minor workflow. I mean I know FAANG can afford it, but you can't. Work at a startup!

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Siqi Chen

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4 months

they were right, this did sound wild to me. the sf planning commission is a cancer

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Siqi Chen

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6 months

fuck this i’m going to bed

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Siqi Chen

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6 months

so basically gpt5 turned out more powerful than anyone expected, ilya gets spooked, rasputins the board, board fires sam the clumsiest way possible, every vc + msft turns the screws, staff revolts, board capitulates like tissue paper, sam and greg back by sunday noon

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Siqi Chen

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1 month

so glad they exposed huberman for dating 6 ethereally attractive girlfriends at the same time, can’t imagine why any dude will trust huberman’s advice on anything anymore. great work nymag!

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Siqi Chen

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5 months

this is the chatgpt moment for generative ai video

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5 months

“I've done more for the environment than any single human on earth. What I care about is the reality of goodness, not the perception of it - and what I see all over the place is people who care about looking good while doing evil.” “Fuck them."

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Siqi Chen

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6 months

microsoft trades on robinhood 24/7 $msft jumped from $360 to $376 since satya announced sam and gdb is joining microsoft. that’s $115 billion (or 1.4 OpenAIs) worth of market cap added in the last 60 minutes.

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Siqi Chen

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1 year

After 20 years of interviewing candidates, I've found this to be the single most useful interview question: "What is your greatest strength ... that you are most worried about not coming across in an interview setting?"

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1 year

new research from OpenAI used gpt4 to label all 307,200 neurons in gpt2, labeling each with plain english descriptions of the role each neuron plays in the model. this opens up a new direction in explainability and alignment in AI, helping make models more explainable and…

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Siqi Chen

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6 months

this is my actual timeline right now

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Siqi Chen

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1 year

how i get gpt4 to efficiently teach me anything: "Teach me how <anything> works by asking questions about my level of understanding of necessary concepts. With each response, fill in gaps in my understanding, then recursively ask me more questions to check my understanding."

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Siqi Chen

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1 month

yesterday a senior engineering leader inside openai told me that gpt5 has achieved such an unexpected step function gain in reasoning capability that they now believe it will be independently capable of figuring out how to make chatgpt no longer log you out every other day

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Siqi Chen

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7 months

if you were upset about the bombed hospital but only when you thought the jews did it you might want to ask yourself why

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Siqi Chen

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2 months

this is the ceo of cognition 14 years ago the idea that 10x/100x engineers don’t exist is such a cope

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Siqi Chen

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10 months

what if zuck was the one scraping the twitter graph for threads so @elonmusk started rate limiting which then gave zuck an opening for launch

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Siqi Chen

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2 months

new founder nightmare unlocked

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Siqi Chen

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1 year

🤯 this paper demonstrates you can improve gpt4 performance an astounding 30% by asking gpt4 to reflect on “why were you wrong?”, and generate a new prompt for itself taking that reason into account until it is correct. this is how humans learn! 👇

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Siqi Chen

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3 years

If you’re going to build something to replace Excel, it better be 100X better than Excel because 10X ain’t gonna cut it.

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Siqi Chen

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6 months

wait so you mean to tell me the board member whose company launched a feature that openai cloned literally two weeks later wanted sam out for some reason?

Adam D'Angelo

@adamdangelo

6 months

Today we are launching creator monetization for Poe! This program lets any bot creator on Poe generate revenue. This is a major step forward for the platform and is the first program of its kind, so we are very excited to see what it lets everyone create. (thread)

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Siqi Chen

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6 years

@jere_bare You don't speak for my culture. My culture had to go through too much actual bullshit to be this sensitive and authoritarian about what other people want to wear. Fuck that. Wear whatever you want whenever you want.

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Siqi Chen

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1 year

i have been told that gpt5 is scheduled to complete training this december and that openai expects it to achieve agi. which means we will all hotly debate as to whether it actually achieves agi. which means it will.

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Siqi Chen

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3 years

😳🤯 Legitimately thought this was a trailer for a video game for a second there

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Siqi Chen

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8 months

customer feedback alone is not enough

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Siqi Chen

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7 years

@united @Wendys Yo @United how many retweets to not get assaulted by you on my next flight?

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Siqi Chen

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6 months

in retrospect this was one helluva subtweet

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Siqi Chen

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6 months

if Q* is an agentic algorithmic breakthrough that can reason and goal seek via something like A* search against an entire world model embedding, it completely explains this weird statement from sam last week: "Is this a tool we've built or a creature?"

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Siqi Chen

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6 months

hold up, why would emmett still be “interim” when mira was already interim ceo? mira walked.

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6 months

two days ago, sam altman casually mentions that openai recently made a huge breakthrough that pushes “the frontier of discovery forward - the 4th such breakthrough in its 8 year history. yesterday, the decel faction suddenly ousts him. no coincidence.

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Siqi Chen

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6 months

"Q* ... a breakthrough in [OpenAI]'s search for superintelligence" was the trigger for this entire season of succession

Siqi Chen

@blader

6 months

so basically gpt5 turned out more powerful than anyone expected, ilya gets spooked, rasputins the board, board fires sam the clumsiest way possible, every vc + msft turns the screws, staff revolts, board capitulates like tissue paper, sam and greg back by sunday noon

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Siqi Chen

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5 years

This is a 60 slide deck with everything I know and feel about presenting well.

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Siqi Chen

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6 months

I made a GPT to teach me anything as efficiently as possible. As it teaches, it will recursively test my understanding of key concepts, and recursively fill in any gaps it finds until I understand the whole of it. Try it out - I think it's pretty good:

ChatGPT - Universal Primer

The fastest way to learn anything.

chat.openai.com

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Siqi Chen

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5 months

this video of a cybertruck beating a porsche in a drag race … while towing a porsche … is a masterclass in marketing

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Siqi Chen

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1 year

after a few hours of trial and error, i believe i have successfully reverse engineered google bard's system prompt. can someone at google confirm?

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Siqi Chen

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6 years

@jere_bare The culture you speak for is one of weaponizing your identity of being a minority in America so you can bully people on the internet.

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Siqi Chen

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6 months

what it means is within 3 years you will either be dead or have a god as a servant

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Siqi Chen

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11 months

no matter how bad your day is going your day is still going better than the meta quest team

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Siqi Chen

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6 months

in one tweet: gpt5 more powerful than expected, spooks ilya, ilya turns the board, board fires sam, staff revolts, satya turns the screws, mira threatens to hire sam and gdb back, d'angelo replaces her with emmett shear as ceo, satya recruits sam and gdb to msft to oversee openai

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Siqi Chen

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3 years

I’ve been in tech for 15 years now, have raised over $100M in capital over the years, and I haven’t seen anything REMOTELY like the fundraising climate we’re seeing right now. It is WILD out there. By like 10X, there has never in history been a better time to be at a startup.

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Siqi Chen

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4 years

I worked for a startup called Powerset in 2007 that tried to build something like this. We spent $100M and it was bought by MSFT to become Bing in 2008. A single engineer can now build something that is literally an order of magnitude better in less than an hour with GPT-3.

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I made a fully functioning search engine on top of GPT3. For any arbitrary query, it returns the exact answer AND the corresponding URL. Look at the entire video. It's MIND BLOWINGLY good. cc: @gdb @npew @gwern

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Siqi Chen

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6 months

at this point the most insane way this story ends would be for ilya to go join sam and gdb at microsoft

Ilya Sutskever

@ilyasut

6 months

I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company.

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“look, the reason why we fired sam is because he’s a liar, but the thing is (you’re not gonna believe this) sam’s such a masterful liar that we can actually think of zero specific incidents when he lied” is going hold up just super in court for these geniuses

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1 year

if you run a startup, you need to realize that no matter what you are building (outside of hardware), you are now competing with openai and have maybe few years/months to arbitrage the time before openai just does what you do or allows their users to build what you’re building.

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5 months

the left: " @elonmusk stop being antisemitic!" elon: <flies to israel & meets with netanyahu> the left: "ok not like thaaat."

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1 year

the top three trending repos on github are all self-prompting “primitive agi” projects: 1) babyagi by @yoheinakajima 2) autogpt by @SigGravitas 3) jarvis by @Microsoft these + scaling gets you the rest of the way there.

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Siqi Chen

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10 months

one of the things i've deeply underestimated as a founder is how much of the role is just about waking up every morning, and putting yourself in a mental state to give energy in every single interaction you have with your team, no matter how tired you might feel inside.

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in one tweet: q* spooks board, board fires sam, hires mira, mira hires sam, board replaces her with guy from twitch, satya hires sam, 98% of openai threatens to quit, ilya's like oops j/k nm, new ceo says to the board "pics or gtfo", board has no pics, brings sam back, q* leaks.

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1 year

this is a must watch for every body in the trenches today: - "Do you view this season as a failure?" giannis: "Do you get a promotion every year?" - "No." g: "So every year you work is a failure? " g: "It's not failure - it's steps to success."

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Siqi Chen

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3 years

You either die a founder or see yourself live long enough to be a VC.

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10 months

Two bits of @runwayco news to share today: 1. We raised $27.5M led by @initialized . @garrytan will be joining our board. 2. We signed a partnership with @Rippling : Runway is now the only finance platform on the planet with a Rippling integration. Obligatory 🧵with more:

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5 months

this is a wild way to start every all hands meeting. i'm stealing it.

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2 years

Holy shit - the ex-President of China just got manhandled out of the National Congress live on TV. Chinese TikTok has already banned searches for “Hu Jintao” so this is serious. This is the equivalent of Trump arresting Obama at the State of the Union.

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5 months

a lot of people can't believe this is an AR render. here's a side by side of a more difficult scene - this time with real time lighting, shadows, and diffraction through simulated amber:

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Siqi Chen

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2 years

if your startup work day feels like this you’re doing it right

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10 months

enterprise saas landing pages: show the product, you cowards.

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5 years

Problem: people are unhealthy. Solution: athletes should not exist. Problem: people are uneducated. Solution: professors should not exist. Problem: people are poor. Solution:

Bernie Sanders

@BernieSanders

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Billionaires should not exist.

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Siqi Chen

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11 months

Terence Tao on his experience with GPT4 in mathematical research: "The 2023-level AI can already generate suggestive hints and promising leads to a working mathematician and participate actively in the decision-making process."

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Siqi Chen

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2 years

Alright so I think I finally figured out how VC job titles work on LinkedIn: “General Partner” or “Managing Director” means investor. “Investor” means not investor.

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6 months

first it was "not consistently candid" then "not malfeasance or anything" then "gave two people the same project" it's tuesday and even the interim ceo still doesn't know why they fired sam, and he's leaving if he can't get a straight answer. this smells absolutely rotten.

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2 months

this seems like an unusually big deal. the team at sakana AI figured out a way to take a set of open source models, and use evolutionary methods to automatically "merge" them, and achieve state of the art performance. you can in principle take the 500K open source models on…

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1 year

i have been really struggling to figure out what to build today that is going to not be obsolete within 3 years and it’s distressing tbh

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6 months

this is actually remarkable. so the new ceo asks the board for proof that sam did anything wrong, or he’s going to walk. the board was so incapable of doing so that they *preferred to just bring sam back* instead of providing any proof at all. ☠️

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Emmett Shear joining the talks was a turning point in the negotiations. He asked the board to provide concrete evidence of Sam’s wrongdoing. When they did not do so, he said he could not remain in the CEO role, and helped both sides find common ground to get Sam reinstated.

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6 months

i’d like to be the first to congratulate the board of openai for orchestrating the acquisition of their team to microsoft for $0 billion dollars. masterfully played.

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6 months

this will be the fastest brain drain the world has ever seen

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A high profile beta user in tech with early access to GPT-4 used it to generate superhuman Chinese catfishing output to seduce and steal my wife over WeChat. Now I'm a single parent trying to pick up the pieces of my life shattered by OpenAI. Here’s the story 🧵👇 (1/108)

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6 months

i think your finance team should probably be on runway

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5 years

Overhead view of Hong Kong police with a MASSIVE flanking charge maneuver, tackling and arresting trapped protesters in a pincer maneuver. #HongKongProtest

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6 months

there are 6 seats on openai’s board it takes 4 votes for majority sam and gdb obviously voted against that means ilya and adam both voted for damn

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8 months

no amount of strategy will overcome culture. no amount of process can replace taste. no amount of QA will get you craftsmanship.

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3 years

Massive returns comes from believing things people think are stupid until it’s no longer stupid, which is why immunity to embarrassment is such an important superpower for founders and investors.

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10 months

most companies underutilize designers. designers should design the product. not the ui, not the pixels. the product.

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1 year

*Iceland not Finland (apologies I am one of those Americans)

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1 year

2023 is going to be one of the best ever years to be a builder.

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10 months

founder protip: this is how VC job titles work on linkedin: “general partner” or “managing director” means investor. "partner" means investor, maybe. “investor” means not investor. the more you know 🌈

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in 2009, PG wrote an essay on "the 5 most interesting startup founders of the last 30 years" #1 was steve jobs, #3 was larry+sergey, and #5 was sam altman. this was 10 years before openai! nobody had really heard of him! can't stop thinking about what a wild call that was.

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@psychedelic_nft A $190K airdrop just for sitting on my ass hodling @psychedelic_nft . This is unreal even for me.

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3 years

Just made my first investment in Taiwan - in a US company based in Taipei with Indian founders. Silicon Valley isn't just going to Miami, it's going everywhere there's internet.

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3 years

I too, refer to my COO as my “Executive Assistant”.

Christine Carrillo

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The most undervalued asset of a CEO is an Executive Assistant. My EA saves me 60% of time. I'm able to run a tech startup, coach 7 CEO's every month, write & surf every day, take @david_perell 's intense WOP course, cook dinner and read every night. Here's how:

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i don’t buy it. harvard would never admit this many asians.

Shaun Maguire

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It appears Harvard is even worse than we thought…

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