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founder, scientist, teacher @amppublic @stanford @frontiersystems • scaling alignment.

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1Jan 24, '25From Stanford to MIT, deepseek r1 has become the model of choice for America’s top university researchers basically overnight311×3.2M11k1.3k2.5k
2Sep 12, '25This is not what I meant when I told the team we had to design for all kinds of use cases115×1.2M15k779850
3Oct 30, '25Got to see it IRL. Congrats @GillVerd and team! So crazy it might just work. Excited to see what kinds of diffusion workloads this beast can accelerate111×1.1M1.3k51266
4Nov 1, '24One the saddest realizations for me when we were scaling the @midjourney server at @discord in ‘22 was seeing millions of US gen z kids struggle to prompt They literally don’t have79.4×817k4.1k4572.3k
5Jan 29, '25At stanford today I asked the cs 153 class how many of them use @cursor_ai. 300 hands shot up. Every. Single. One.65.1×670k3.2k160969
6Nov 14, '25November62.1×639k2.4k116132
7Oct 31, '25the Anthropic founding round was basically a handful of angels investing tens of millions of personal capital 20+ of the sand hill VCs we pitched passed the series A and B were eve60.8×626k1.4k58527
8Jun 20, '25in the last 35 days, @OpenAI codex has merged 345,000 PRs on github. 345,000. AI is eating software engineering55.7×574k1.5k109482
9Oct 2, '25why I obsess abt compute scarcity my largest angel/early investments: 2021: Anthropic 2022: ElevenLabs 2023: Sesame, Mistral, Luma 2024: Black Forest Labs, LMArena 2025: OpenRouter46.1×474k2.4k78978
10Jan 3, '25tech is special bc the world's best people mentor the next generation - jensen replied in <24 hrs to come teach cs 153 next month + thank you @arthurmensch @robrombach @ssankar 44.8×461k99833278
11Sep 18, '25the bitter lesson continues undefeated. production quality generative video like this was a distant dream 3 months ago44.5×459k3.3k166958
12Dec 1, '24confirming @JDVance's thanksgiving fam pic has crashed whatsapp servers in india41.6×429k5.6k274302
13Feb 21, '25If you run an AI lab, pls make sure your evals team has read this36.2×373k3.8k2143.7k
14Feb 21, '25The best AI product leader I know makes it a habit of saying ‘taste’ is his differentiator publicly But behind the scenes, it’s all ruthless evals One of the fastest companies to s35.2×362k60721359
15Oct 3, '25one of my fastest growing companies has had a simple rule for slack since day 1 no private DMs all DMs are sent in a public channel called ‘private DMs’ with @ mentions anyone can 35.1×362k2.7k76854
16Sep 14, '25If you work in a company, but haven’t read this pdf, I am begging you, pls do that tonight You will thank me later33.7×347k3.5k2956.9k
17Feb 12, '25He turned up with surprise signed 5090s as gifts for the cs 153 students today at stanford what a mensch28.4×292k2.8k54204
18Sep 29, '25required reading for anyone who works with computers28.1×289k4.8k3844.4k
19Jan 14, '25In 36 months, @mntruell @amanrsanger @sualehasif996 @ArVID220u and team went from graduating college to locking themselves in a house, shipping relentlessly and building a $100M re28×288k57723162
20Jan 4, '25hi infra ppl - some updates on that @mabb0tt and i are teaching this quarter: 1. lots of people asked if there'll be a live stream. as of now, we don't have plans to do a live stre27.3×281k1.2k1241.6k
21Aug 29, '22Reddit is going crazy turning MSPaint sketches into concept art using Img2img with #stablediffusion and it’s wild (1/n) H/t @EMostaque and Reddit25.8×07.8k9671.7k
22Jul 25, '231/ I’m joining @a16z!24.8×255k7793057
24Sep 9, '2520 months ago, we @a16z led @MistralAI's $500M Series A at $2B Some laughed. Scientists? Serving giant enterprises? Open source AI? From Europe? Good luck! Today: We closed $2B at 22.4×230k1.7k105272
25Dec 11, '23AI should be open. We are so excited to lead @MistralAI's Series A, and partner with @arthurmensch @GuillaumeLample @tlacroix6 and team on their mission of delivering the best open21.5×222k4244550
26Sep 3, '25if you run an AI lab, pls make sure your evals team has read this21×216k2.5k1822.6k
27Sep 7, '25the empire strikes back h/t @infwinston20.4×210k1.6k51149
28Sep 2, '25doing diligence on @MeekMill20.2×208k1.1k2492
29Sep 15, '25“I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.” - Lee Kuan Yew, 201319.2×198k7.7k585977
30Aug 5, '24We've submitted a 14 page response to @Scott_Wiener to set the record straight once and for all on the dangerous impacts of SB 1047 on AI safety, open source and Little Tech. Pls h18.3×188k41715681
31Sep 8, '25Shortly before writing my largest angel check into the founding round for Anthropic, I went for a walk with a famous VC ‘You’ll never see that money again’ he said confidently, ‘sc18.1×186k1.4k39236
32Aug 25, '25There are basically O(20) people globally who actually know, like deep in their bones intuition know, how frontier diffusion models work17.8×183k1.1k21347
33Oct 11, '25a very sad but real issue in the frontier ai research community is mental health some of the most brilliant minds i know have had difficulty grappling with both the speed + scale o17.7×182k76045208
34Nov 6, '24He did this while helping teams catch a rocket, stack a 100K h100 cluster, ship a frontier LLM, upgrade full self driving, give hurricane victims 24/7 free internet, improve brain 16.9×174k3.9k216393
35Jun 25, '25“He only hangs out with models now” means a very different thing in SF16.6×171k2.9k148165
36Sep 8, '25We are simply not ready for the compute needs of real time video models16.5×169k5131861
37Oct 12, '24Sadly, a number of the investors I grew up respecting have gone senile in a way that is quite apparent to the younger folks on their teams15.9×163k422554
38Jul 27, '24Claude + Obsidian = dream interface Who is building this?15.6×161k60514539
39Jul 7, '24The @LumaLabsAI team is <12 months away from real time video generation, h/t @baaadas15.3×158k53886260
40Sep 14, '25a $100B value re-allocation happening in plain sight from Adobe to frontier AI model companies Image editing was always an AI killer app. It just needed Flux Kontext and Gemini Nan14.9×153k53432126
41Sep 12, '25Yes sex is great but have you ever had a training run on 10K+ GB200s converge successfully If so could you pls dm me thx14×145k417261
42Aug 17, '24Incredible. @SpeakerPelosi just issued a statement in opposition to SB 1047 “While we want California to lead in AI in a way that protects consumers, data, intellectual property an13.9×143k3534421
43Jul 11, '24Local politician @Scott_Wiener: I will make AI safe! Scientists: You are literally doing the opposite "This bill...will hurt the innovation in California, and it will result in a m13.5×139k4098266
44Sep 8, '25If you’re a founder, I’m begging you - take more pictures Of the big wins. The little moments. Your first all hands. That first customer closing. Startups are a road trip. Enjoy th13.4×138k3.3k253479
45Dec 26, '24Deepseek v3 seems to be a genuinely good model. China has caught up. Open source has caught up. The frontier costs abt $6M. I expect the model to crush it on @openrouter over the n13.2×135k4622073
46Jul 21, '25In the future we will look back on the insane things humans did to create visual training data with incredulity12.7×131k3961170
47Jan 23, '25i've lost count of the number of startups that have gone from $0 to $10M arr in the last 12 months thanks to AI12.1×125k86325327
48Sep 16, '24violates a bunch of my priors about Google AI products: - SOTA product UX (Stuff ~50 PDFs into context window) - Discord community with G employee mods that actually care - Magical12×123k1.1k47753
49Jul 23, '25The new AI Action Plan from the @WhiteHouse calls for the US govt to 'create a supportive environment for open models' It's hard to describe how massive of a posture shift this is 11.9×123k5926547
50Sep 30, '25Let's accelerate science Amped for us @a16z to lead the $300M founding round into @periodiclabs Led by OpenAI + Deepmind alums @LiamFedus @ekindogus, Periodic is building AI + phys11.3×117k42544271
51Oct 25, '25It’s getting worse11.1×114k5311084
52Oct 27, '25BCG is bitter lesson pilled10.7×110k80357388
53Sep 8, '25There are simply too many former bankers and MBAs in venture capital from the ZIRP era Many have literally zero company building experience, technical chops or founder empathy A co10.5×108k1.1k48202
54Oct 11, '25fyi, mcp is spelled api10.3×106k8944457
55Sep 27, '25if you work in AI, you should probably read this it will tell you a lot about how the next few years will go9.8×101k1.2k1141.6k
56Sep 30, '25On your first day @periodiclabs you get to pick an element from the periodic table for your desk plate9.8×101k4751348
57Nov 14, '25man's search for meaning9.8×101k1.9k130188
58Aug 14, '24On Truthfulness in Image Generation Google Gemini vs Grok2 + Flux (@bfl_ml) 1/ "Create an image of Greek philosophers"9.8×100k2681019
59Sep 30, '24Fun to finally catch up with President @EmmanuelMacron IRL on his ambitious plans to 10x AI infrastructure in France and make the EU more friendly for open source AI. He’s cooking9.7×100k4982439
60Oct 1, '24The pro move for @Google would be to fully open source notebooklm on GitHub tmrw Would do 100x more for Gemini developer adoption than literally any of their current platform marke9.6×99k9815593
61Nov 4, '25there hasn't been a single business plan/forecast that i've seen from Anthropic that they haven't beaten9.3×95k5611961
62Jun 8, '25"the most exciting trend in the last 6 months is that the local AI models are good now" - @simonw8.4×86k1.2k134723
63Sep 29, '24Thank you @gavinnewsom for vetoing SB1047. This is true leadership, and a big win for Little Tech We're energized by the discussion on AI safety policy and hosting blueprint sessio8.3×85k4235124
64Sep 4, '25‘We invest early with conviction’ said the firm, as it wired 1% of the round at a $183B post…8.3×85k4601430
65Oct 16, '25a friend needs 1K H100s/H200s asap for ~6 mths DM me if you have capacity. price not a problem but has to be stable with k8s, north america yes, its 2023 all over again7.8×81k51612105
66Aug 3, '25mistral, elevenlabs, black forest labs, lovable, helsing, granola european AI scene is on fire7.8×80k73343208
67Jan 4, '25Recently got to try a prototype that blew me away. Am now 100% convinced that talking to an AI companion which has your own voice + full context about your daily life will have exp7.7×80k46321284
68Nov 14, '25this group chat I’m in with data center electricians is kind of incredible7.2×74k4925104
69Oct 3, '25iiuc Deepmind now has a 6 mth embargo on publishing research if product org flags any research as interesting during those 6 mths, then its effectively embargoed forever a sad resu6.7×69k51324114
70Sep 7, '25I started my first company when I was 24. I knew basically nothing about product, engineering, sales etc But a couple people still believed in me, bet on me and put me in business.6.7×69k91423169
71Oct 4, '25the midwit stanford MBA’s urge to do an ‘AI enabled rollup’ is going to end in a lot of bitter lessons6.6×68k50112109
72Sep 12, '25Many VC firms are being asked by their LPs how they so utterly missed the entire ‘20-‘25 cohort of frontier AI startups that are now category winners Worse, they’re being asked the6.5×67k52425156
73Oct 26, '25One of the biggest mistakes young people in San Francisco make is spending a few years here then leaving just as their experiences/friendships/learnings are about to start compound6.4×66k69210108
74Oct 9, '24Deep learning worked5.8×59k5815139
75Sep 7, '25There is no such thing as a ‘startup inside a big co’ You can pretend all you want. But if you’re not on the hook for payroll come rain or shine, you’re just role playing5.7×59k8943177
76Sep 14, '25AI is Eating Software (Highly biased math) Across the handful frontier AI startups I’m an angel/board member in, YTD sales have gone from ~$1.3B to ~$8B+ Meanwhile, publics are ble5.7×59k43136251
77Nov 6, '24For many American teams at the forefront of science, engineering and infrastructure, the training weights are about to come off. The single biggest slash and burn of red tape, regu5.7×58k4263339
78Feb 24, '251.5 hr episode dropping soon5.5×56k84123120
79Sep 30, '25Jeez SF, I get it5.4×55k7661549
80Feb 28, '25what comes after smartphones? AI glasses you actually want to talk to we @a16z are excited to invest in @sesame’s mission to bring the computer to life:5.3×55k3602498
81Dec 6, '24Shortly before graduating, I gave Peter a call for some advice abt, among other things, relationships ‘How’d you manage to stay so close with so many college friends as you all got5.3×55k4405162
82Sep 10, '25He was 31 A country that cannot protect its youth cannot protect its future5.2×53k8663418
83Sep 14, '25the empire goes bananas H/t @infwinston5.0×52k4031353
84Oct 4, '25the idea of an ‘IPO’ as an exit is a quaint legacy private frontier AI company shares are now trading with more frequency and liquidity than many publicly traded companies5.0×52k4141575
85Oct 19, '25As @karpathy correctly put it, RL sucks. Pre training also sucks. Mid training is even worse. Preference optimization is downright ugly. And it all works gloriously better than eve4.4×45k4571772
86Sep 25, '25it looks like total weekly tokens consumed on @openrouter will surpass 5 trillion next week up from ~400B per week in Jan insatiable demand for intelligence3.8×39k3492577
87Sep 14, '25A few months into our first startup, we got an acquisition offer - couple million each in cash+stock. We were ~24 I slacked my cofounder the offer "Should we take it?" he asked "No3.6×37k403276
88Jul 25, '25new jacket3.6×37k441433
89Feb 26, '25One of my biggest regrets in my 20s as a startup founder was not taking enough pictures of our little moments. So now I’m the boomer dad with the camera. This is from the Mistral U3.5×36k6471292
91Sep 7, '25Comfortably Numb The most dangerous thing an ambitious 20 something can do is become comfortably numb in their career In that sense, the startup world is great at keeping high agen2.9×29k50321108
92Jun 27, '24Shoutout to @nvidia and this mensch for supporting open source AI when it matters. More to come2.9×29k349822
93Nov 15, '25if you’re lucky enough to create generational wealth in tech, at least part of your remaining time on earth is best spent: 1. believing in talented young missionaries 2. unblocking2.7×28k45222104
94Sep 23, '25when you start a company, people will be unkind to you for many reasons some will be competitors. some will be disgruntled employees. some may be jilted investors. you must kill th2.4×24k5703699
95Aug 3, '25using claude code is turning out to be a religious experience for most senior developers2.0×20k361796
96Jun 23, '24The future belongs to AI sanctuaries1.9×19k1181421
100Sep 6, '19We have so much more coming but here are some fun things you can already do today with any space you capture with your iOS or Android device0.7×0299271

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