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Make AI Free. Co-founder and CEO @HyperspaceAI . Run a node: , join:

San Francisco, CA

Joined November 2008

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The Hyperspace Story 🔥 Mission We want to make AI free and abundant, both as in beer (lower costs) and as in speech (freedom of expression and use). Free from rate limits, model limits, and free from biases. We also want to make it smarter, and we believe that is only possible…

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Dear Mira and Ilya - congratulations on your coup at OpenAI. Since both of you have together never raised a penny as entrepreneurs, let me explain what happens. Oh, and you *will* need to raise since your venture’s unit economics don’t make sense. Remember, you pay $0.30 every…

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I am a time-traveller from 2025. I lived through the events of 2020 which ruptured the fabric of society as we knew it then. As humans, we adapted, and survived. Here is what my world looks like now. This is my new normal. A thread..

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OpenLetter to Sam Altman Dear @sama Merry Christmas. How’s the eggnog ? I want to bring your attention to the fact that Microsoft defacto owns OpenAI now, and either you break out of that control structure entirely, or you become Corporate Vice President of Microsoft AI in 2…

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A 25 yr old college dropout in India built out a $10 billion startup from scratch, within 6 yrs, after attending startup events for inspiration and primarily having an insight which he really believed in. People with drive - all that matters.

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India Startup Oyo Raises $1.5 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation

Oyo Hotels and Homes is raising $1.5 billion from founder Ritesh Agarwal, SoftBank Group Corp. and other investors as the India lodging startup expands into foreign markets such as the U.S. and...

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🖖 Introducing EdgeLLama - An Open Standard for Decentralized AI We, the GPU poor, have come up with a peer-to-peer network design to enable running Mistral7B and other models which will make AI use more free, both as in beer and as in speech. We believe in e/acc,…

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Hyperspace: A BitTorrent-like Network for AI This paper is inspired from the origins of both BitTorrent and Bitcoin, providing a way to completely replace the need to have a big corporate datacenter company serving AI (and calling all the shots). It's an open standard which…

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🌱 Wikipedia-style Community LLMs tl;dr: simple experiment showcasing why millions of Wikipedia-style community LLMs will one day provide a better user experience than the biggest closed AI startups for most use cases. it is hopeless to compete against "us".. We hear a lot…

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Dear Mira and Ilya - while all of you are huddled in emergency Google Meets to figure out who gets to lead us, the rest of us have decided we need more choice as consumers. AI is a fundamental public good, which a college kid in Mumbai to a programmer in Manila needs limitless…

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Masks are now as essential as shoes when going outside. Everybody wears them. A "bare mouth" is scoffed at in our society now, when in public. There is a mask for every occasion, and most of us now have a mask closet.

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Cinemas never really recovered. They tried socially distanced seats - but that just wasn't economically viable enough. Now every movie releases on a streaming service. People get-together virtually, have popcorn, at home, and still enjoy. Sigh, I do miss the cinema experience!

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Recently I stumbled across a curious tweet from 2009, which upon further analysis, convinced me that it was from an anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto account. This is Satoshi -> @fafcffacfff Pre-Bitcoin announcement era. Thread (also, non-paywalled post)👇

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Satoshi's anonymous Twitter account

Update: Please read the thread for updates. It’s invited open feedback from people looking at this from many angles. Skepticism is good here.

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Social distancing never went away. Governments eventually imposed a "Density Tax", which makes any physical aggregation expensive according to a graded scale. The phobia of being in other people's immediate vicinity also developed into a natural habit.

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Firstly, we still don't have a COVID-19 vaccine available to billions of us worldwide. Key people in society and government were the first ones to get it, and rest of us are waiting. So while we wait, society has adapted to prevent COVID-19 from spreading rapidly ever again.

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Religion underwent its biggest transformation in over 500 years. Old religious buildings have now become humanitarian service centers, while religion has moved online. There are many more religions now though, and at some level, they are like an interest group someone belongs to.

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The "cost" of physical aggregation has meant the society now runs entirely on the Internet. There are now many new billion dollar startups which didn't even exist when 2020 started, but which figured out a way to help the society adapt with delightful and breakthrough products.

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Pitch has raised $50 million now without having launched the product publically as yet, with founders of both Superhuman and Notion co-investing. 2020s is looking as the era of the product-driven founders and early teams. Lean startup is dead.

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Pitch, a presentation startup from Wunderlist's founders, raises $30M more to take on PowerPoint |...

The software industry is no spring chicken, and that fact has now brought us to an interesting moment in technology. Some of the biggest legacy apps --

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Health is now not just an individual's "guarded secret" where it concerns communicable diseases. For eg, if you have fever, it has to be recorded in this public system, and it is a part of your profile - so that every place you visit or person you meet is aware in real-time.

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Most of the firms which went "work from home" for 6 months+ in 2020, never really returned to offices in a meaningful way. They became permanent work from home. It became simply too risky for a firm to expose its CEO and other key people to the virus through in-person meetings.

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Sporting event tickets got a lot more expensive due to the Density Tax and social distancing. Audience cheers from home are now streamed into the arena to encourage the athletes. We are able to order a drink and nachos to be home-delivered along with our home-access tickets.

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While I love and enjoy my frequent virtual travel trips around the world, I am saving up for a real trip to New Zealand two years from now. I will of course subsidize it by offering a virtual ride-along to a few people, but I am excited and I look forward to the day I get here!

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People are also multi-homing: working for multiple employers at a time. That is the freedom to be able to work from home + develop varied skill-sets. We exist as avatars in our corporate lives', and these avatars are hired, assembled in dynamic teams, paid, develop a reputation.

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This is a terrible tech policy document. The noise made by some closed AI companies around simple word calculators taking over the world has now led to a regulatory regime which functionally makes it tougher for newer entrants, in both closed and open source AI worlds. This is…

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Announcing aiOS™ by @HyperspaceAI , the world’s most decentralized AI network now with over 1200 consumer devices running Mistral-7B, representing a combined 4 petaFLOPS of compute. This is a new era of software-scaling AI leveraging P2P network design and cryptography.

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Longer wait times have meant restaurants can service very few people at a time only, thus having to raise prices, which has meant for most of us it is now a once-in-a-while moment only. Most of us get our food from safe pickups, delivery, warehouse-kitchens or cook ourselves.

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Physical bookstores did not recover beyond 2021 as it was just too tough to maintain COVID-19 prevention/cleanliness in a place where books are browsed through by many people. But while bookstores went down, the number of books being written and sold is 10x what it was in 2020.

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It’s the summer of 2010. Many people in the SF Bay Area (+ elsewhere) are reaching the conclusion that photo-based apps would be a very big deal in this decade, and they were right. However, why did Instagram win, over much better funded rivals Color and PicPlz ? A $100B story..

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But this meant that virtual time slots to get on the train, to go to a government office, to go anywhere and everywhere became a part of life. We all wait virtually, and when it is socially distanced safe as determined by the system + our phone, only then we enter a facility.

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Upcoming tech IPOs have one thing in common: none of these originated from “lean startup”. They were deliberate efforts, toiling away in obscurity for several years and then launching with well-formed products focused on design and user experience. LYFT, PINT, UBER, SLAK, ABNB

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My work day, in 2025, involves going downstairs in my apartment building to a shared home office, where I work with a few people working for multiple employers at the same time. Continuous learning is now a critical aspect of life as bulk of the world is working remotely.

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Travel is now a virtual experience. Through a combination of paid real-life travellers and immersive tech, we are able to go on almost any trip, and bring back memories as if they were our own. Today evening I am going to travel to the Roman Colosseum in real-time. $50 ticket!

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@DineshDSouza @mcuban I will. I too immigrated from India, with even less than $500 which you did Dinesh. I worked as a door to door salesman, and also in a meat-processing plant, despite being an uber-competent C++ coder (it’s a programming language Dinesh, which runs autopilot on airplanes and that…

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Maintaining a facility to be COVID-19 free became a domain expertise; startups emerged here which helped aggregate people in office-like safe, sanitary and productive work environments close to where they already lived. Home offices became shared amongst trusted participants.

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To hire a local remote candidate vs a global remote candidate, employers now look for richer profiles, such as work done in society - signals which develop an individual's brand. Level1 tool was LinkedIn; Level2's have been like GitHub; Level3 tools capture and present more data

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Crypto’s RSS Era About 10 yrs ago, before the advent of bitcoin, the tech world was coming to grips with how RSS failed to take off as a consumer tech. I spent 2 yrs of my life building the best (?)feed reader UX, but I was solving for local maxima, not global maximum (industry)

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I hear for an extra $25, I can upgrade my Colosseum experience to include the ability to remotely pilot a drone and just look around, with my new Apple iBrowse. Something like those alien UFO videos officially confirmed back in 2020 where they were skimming oceans, for fun🛸

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@forceonatr I am honored. Thank you.

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🔥 This is crazy, but we have achieved what many will consider as a ‘really intelligent and capable system’ without using GPT-4/OpenAI. In our research and experiments at @HyperspaceAI , we were able to get GPT-4 comparable results using a complex distributed system which…

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Given the large, and sudden displacement of jobs from the in-person service sector (robots replaced cashiers everywhere..) - the government on its part created a volunteer, but paid "Service Corps" for people to re-deploy in helping the society function effectively and humanely.

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While politicians fought over immigration, here is what happened: fully remote firms + the willingness of someone elsewhere in the world to work EST hours, meant that salaries and jobs for many white-collar workers came under pressure in the US, even though productivity increased

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The disruption in white-collar jobs triggered due to 100% work from home, which was triggered due to COVID-19 + availability of good enough tech tools, where now the global workforce competes for what were once local jobs, has been a key society disrupting event in the West.

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This changes everything.

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Introducing Hyperspace - a new type of a supercomputer

I am a time-traveler from 2025. This is a moment in time when the world knows who Satoshi is and when blockchains are used on a daily basis by hundreds of millions of people. These two statements are...

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Narrative violation by Airbnb in 2009: - First two launches went nowhere, tried a 3rd time, same product, no pivots - Focused on NYC, not SF - UX-driven designers as founders - Willed the startup into existence Being logic-driven => make a mistake on the next one in 2019

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I am a time-traveler from 2030. The rapid industrialization of AI in the mid-2020s has fundamentally transformed our society. A peak into our daily lives' and what we are looking ahead to in the next decade... We are all Imagineers Many formerly specific human professions…

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Announcing HyperspaceZK: A fast and free browser-based ZK engine for AI agents 🤗 👨‍💻 At @HyperspaceAI , we are building the most comprehensive technology platform for AI agents. In the world ahead, at many points, AI agents would…

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Given the strain on the transit system and reduction in carpooling, governments ensured electric cars became extremely cheap. Now people drive around by themselves, and carpooling is a niche activity where the health status of co-passengers is verifiably known in real-time.

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Zoom emerged in the form of an AWS-like platform for consumer startups. It became a standard part of the UX/tech stack, where using Zoom in itself becoming an undifferentiated experience.

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Founder tenacity was the most important startup lesson of the 2010s to me. Take a look at these screenshots. You could order a cab from an app, see it live on a map, and contact the driver too. This, was Cabulous in San Francisco, Oct 2009, *six months* before UberCab launched.

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Announcing the Agent Orchestration Model (AOM). No GPT-4s or Claudes were harmed in the making of this distributed brain. Designed by @HyperspaceAI , using @MistralAI , @GroqInc and @EigenLayer .

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🔥 This is crazy, but we have achieved what many will consider as a ‘really intelligent and capable system’ without using GPT-4/OpenAI. In our research and experiments at @HyperspaceAI , we were able to get GPT-4 comparable results using a complex distributed system which…

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In 2025, we look at the post-recovery period after the events of 2020 as our modern day renaissance - where large number of networked people developed many breakthrough ideas, tools, knowledge, content across a range of domains. Society adapted learning at an unprecedented scale.

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Some of my best friends are folks whom I have never met in-person. As the world went virtual, as we started hanging out more and in newer online places, our relationships evolved. Friendships not restricted to geography anymore, and new norms developed.

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Booking individual homes with a few days buffer in between reservations (virus dies in ~3 days) has become popular for such travelers. Airbnb, which was written off in 2020, has emerged as the primary operator of managing this trust in places by being open with verified data.

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Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (considered 100 times more powerful than the Hubble) in 2021 has increased our knowledge of the universe significantly. Its discoveries have inspired a new generation of interest in space exploration. The future, is extraordinarily bright.

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There are 100s of millions of kids who have been born in this new world. Big cities are getting denser, while smaller towns are also growing due to increase in remote work. We are building more infrastructure. More people are going into skilled trades than ever before.

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This is part of our roadmap in 2024 @HyperspaceAI is eventually going to be an AI-native Layer 1 blockchain which enshrines a novel AI virtual machine and is solely bootstrapped on @EigenLayer Two detailed papers, with theory-simulations reaching 200k TPS with 4.4s finality 🚀

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kydo.eth 🦇🔊

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I predict someone will built this and be the first L1 blockchain to be solely bootstrapped on EigenLayer. Reach out if this is you☝️we will provide all the support❤️

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An extended period of staying at home eventually exhausted many. There are some who do travel. In-person travel industry has re-oriented around "green zones", places which have developed efficient safety processes. But it's expensive as there are fewer socially distanced seats.

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6 months before UberCab launched, 2009 saw the launch of Cabulous. It had icons of moving cabs on a map and also the ability to e-hail a cab. It didn’t close the loop on the UX though (no payments), raised too little (<$1MM), had a wide city-wide focus and declined Bill Gurley!

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We climbed without oxygen. 📝 July 26: Wrote “Collaborative AI” essay 📜 Oct 26: Paper outlining our novel BitTorrent-like AI network released 📜 Nov 20: Updated paper with cryptoeconomics basis 💻 Dec 8: Node software released 📈 Feb 1: 300 nodes 🚀 March 12: 5000 nodes

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There were no new startups which originated in the last five years in the US whose product got > 1 million monthly active users. This has been an anomaly, where each such previous 5 yr segment (since 1995) always saw many 1MM+ user products emerge. Many lessons from this era..

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These past few years have been tough, but this is also the greatest generation in the history of the world. We came together at a moment of deep crisis, we learnt we are one collective system, learnt to care about people beyond our families and friends. Make no mistake - we won.

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Specialized groups of workers now self-organize themselves into areas of expertise and contract out directly with multiple employers as remote consultants, enabled by some startup X which helps in administration without the overhead and costs of a Big 4 consulting firm.

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Kalanick called Gurley at 11pm on a Sunday in 2011 to see if he could come over to talk about Uber. Gurley drove 40 minutes from the suburbs to SF and spoke with Kalanick till the early hours of the morning. This led to a deal valuing Uber at $50MM - from @MikeIsaac ’s Superpumped

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Making AI Abundant Through Peer-To-Peer Collaboration tl;dr: Sharing the detailed blueprint behind the Hyperspace project where we are building an end-to-end decentralized AI network to provide a fundamental alternative to massive closed AI companies (essay:…

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Thank you all for tuning in. Today is a historic day in 2025 as the spacecraft "Lucy" lands on one of Jupiter's asteroids; with NASA also recently launching the "Europa Clipper" to find signs of life on Europa. Exciting times!

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NASA's Europa Clipper is planned to explore whether Jupiter's icy moon Europa could harbor conditions suitable to life.

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We are Hyperspace. We are Legion. We are building the world’s smartest distributed AI network. There is no messing around with this team! Join us @vkhosla @pmarca @mcuban @naval @ylecun (we will provide the hoodies)

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Flashbotreum The original Ethereum showed us a dream of a utopia, which is being slowly left behind in the codebase (not the threads and blogs). As a result there is a design space which has opened up to pursue a blockchain which is even more permissionless and decentralized.

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Coming soon - you will be able to download and manage 1000s of open source models and adapters using the BitTorrent protocol directly from within the node. Let’s keep it simple. cc @far__el

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/make hay Early adopter markets are now so big and fluid that products can grow very fast in them, ventures get massive valuations and successful financial exits happen, all without actually having to cross the chasm, which was the failure point of startups in earlier years

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A mistake I have frequently made in my startup career: attracting the right people but then offering them too little equity, over-valuing my contribution till date and under-valuing theirs in the years ahead. This leads to amicable but quick partings, bad for the venture at play.

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Sharing a 49 minute podcast I did recently on the Hyperspace story, what I learnt from Satoshi, growing up in India and why I intensely care about open and distributed AI. Thank you @roydendsouza - look forward to more in this series 🔥

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Hyperspace is now the largest and the fastest growing consumer peer-to-peer AI network. To put it in perspective, there are more online nodes on the aiOS™ network, than there are on Solana, NEAR, Arweave and BitTensor, combined. Only Bitcoin and Ethereum have more online nodes…

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Was trying to find breakthrough products which launched on @ProductHunt (by a non major tech company) - found out about @NotionHQ 's launch. It was hunted 3 yrs ago by @naval , when they were almost broke. PH launch + community provided a big boost -> kept on building for 1.5 yrs.

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People are spending more on content than on food each month. Budgets have expanded, along with the exponential increase in high quality information. Bulk of the payments though are for very few content creators. Long tail of creators here is unable to monetize content directly.

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Enrolment in colleges grew significantly - as they moved to a hybrid model of in-person for few students + opening up to many more online at a fraction of the cost. The rapid spread of education over the past few years has set the stage for a fantastic future for humanity.

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Excited to announce - a zero-knowledge proof driven Wordle game which runs natively in the browser using @hyperspaceorg ’s general purpose WASM-based ZKVM. You can now verify someone’s results based on their proof without knowing their answer. #ETHDenver

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Organizing the world’s AI agents™ PS: any feedback on the design ?

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Full stack education-to-job startups are now helping 100s of millions of people around the world, across all age groups, and all specializations. The need to learn and adapt in a rapidly changing world simply became critical in 2020.

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My doctor sees me through an AI-enabled app now. In-person doctor appointments are based on critical need, and a time-slot management system. A doctor's knowledge which previously was artificially geo-restricted is now plugged into improving our collective global health.

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Secondary business model oriented around transactions has arisen. For eg, provide high-quality write-ups about a neighborhood to prospective buyers and get a share of the real estate transaction %.

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Zoom's $40B narrative violation: - Solo founder, who at founding was 41 yrs old with a "dry" corporate background - Worked on product for 2 years, no lean/MVP - Offshore development team - Didn't own the .com until S1 filing - Took 8 work trips in 5 yrs

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I now sincerely believe that @HyperspaceAI is going to be the most important AI venture of our era.

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Starbucks is now (in 2025..) a major consumer technology company which happens to sell coffee. It is a platform, providing shared services and benefits to a wide range of local establishments such as a unified payment app, rewards program, order ahead, delivery and discounts.

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Most of the hotels turned into long-term housing. Few started renting out rooms to professionals looking for a place other than home to work from. The ones which survived implemented a 3 day buffer between booking each room.

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4 years

How to take this thread: "Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be" - Buddha

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The largest peer-to-peer AI network on the planet where every node is running Mistral-7B.

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Varun

4 years

Across the world dating is now routine, where it exists in the virtual world, in games, Zoom, and other online places. World is getting smaller. It seems obnoxious that just a few years ago people were trying to connect based on swiping on pictures in their local vicinity only!

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Dear Mustafa, Congratulations on your appointment as the Assistant to the General Manager at Microsoft. You now control an empire as wide and large as the British East India Company once did. Copilot - you got it. That flaky browser which comes preinstalled on every Windows…

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4 years

This has been the era of open health data, where it is anonymized except if communicable/with such symptoms which then becomes a "society right to know", and is aggregated. Developers can write programs against this open data set, doctors can add to it. It continuously improves.

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2 months

Hyperspace is powering the most decentralized AI network as of tonight, with 679 laptops and desktops running a Mistral-7B model, using their cryptographic keys to register. Be amongst the first 1000: There is no token to buy - just run the node.

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Hyperspace P2P AI network grew 4,193% between Jan 12th to April 12th this year, to become the first such network with over 10,000 nodes. 💻📈🚀 This network design is based on the spec we published on X openly on October 26th, 2023. These nodes are generally laptops and…

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Varun

5 months

@satyanadella Please tell me it is better than Global Principal Product Manager in building 4.

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Varun

5 months

Dear Mira and Ilya - congratulations on your coup at OpenAI. Since both of you have together never raised a penny as entrepreneurs, let me explain what happens. Oh, and you *will* need to raise since your venture’s unit economics don’t make sense. Remember, you pay $0.30 every…

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4 years

Malls were mostly demolished and luxury apartment buildings were built in their place. Few which remain have turned into well-maintained indoor parks with a ticket price to manage social distancing. Some have tried pairing in-person browsing with online buying at the spot.

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4 years

The previous in-store experience of asking questions from a retail sales associate (after waiting for a while in a busy store!) got replaced by connecting us with other shoppers in real-time. That made it a more social, even better than in-person experience. Sales are higher.

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4 years

In-person major conferences just never happened since 2020. It's not that they are illegal, after all the economy was "re-opened", but that the Density Tax which identified them as one of the primary superspreader events for the spread of COVID-19 made them cost prohibitive.

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4 years

Our screen time has increased to every waking hour, and that has brought its own set of challenges to our eyesight. We now have at-home, app-driven eyesight measurement, startups with monthly food/med packages to help improve eyesight and glasses which float just above the nose.

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6 months

You have no right to restrict humanity’s innovation potential.

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Hemant Taneja

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Today, 35+ VC firms, with another 15+ companies, representing hundreds of billions in capital have signed the voluntary Responsible AI commitments from @ResponsibleLabs (RIL), the non-profit I co-founded. As Chairman of RIL, I’m proud to unveil this today with tech leaders and…

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4 years

It takes time to grow biological vaccines, and distribute 7-14 billion doses. While we wait, through amplifying efforts to educate about science, while providing economic opportunities to all, the % of anti-vaccine people has come down from 25% back in 2020 to just 2.5% now.

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6 years

@Suhail I wrote this a while ago from the point of view of a founder’s personal financial return. If its not a rocket ship then the optimal personal financial strategy for founders is to bootstrap, raise only seed funding, grow fast, and exit.

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4 years

We knew the virus spread through superspreader events and impacts low % of those who do get infected. But our trust is broken, and with a mask, we are communicating to each other that all of us will feel collectively safe once we are all vaccinated. We wait, and we speak mask.

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