Just met a VC building a fund with a thesis that founders with music backgrounds are better entrepreneurs (ex: Larry Page, Craig Newmark).
Most people aren't public with their musical backgrounds; it's a hidden data point.
Startup Twitter: did you used to play an instrument?
Robert Wachen
244 posts
Joined March 2014
- We’re living in the largest infrastructure buildout of all time. The chips won’t make themselves - excited to bring Sohu to realityMeet Sohu, the fastest AI chip of all time. With over 500,000 tokens per second running Llama 70B, Sohu lets you build products that are impossible on GPUs. One 8xSohu server replaces 160 H100s. Sohu is the first specialized chip (ASIC) for transformer models. By specializing,
- July 14, 2023 (~19mo ago), I got a call from @suryamidha (pictured), @BrendanFoody, and @adarsh_exe to come to their Menlo Park office ASAP. They had just closed their first major contract and were debating whether to drop out. Adarsh, who had turned down his Bridgewater offer
01:01Mercor is solving talent allocation in the AI economy. The difference between greatness and failure is the right person being in the right place at the right time. Putting them there is the hardest unsolved problem in capitalism. We’re excited to announce our $100M Series B at - Every company on this list is bottlenecked by compute cost and speed. Grateful to be a Thiel Fellow and be working on Etched with @UbertiGavin @czhu1729Welcome to the Fellowship! businesswire.com/news/home/2024…
- 🚨🚨🚨 Super excited to announce EnhanceAI is LIVE on @ProductHunt 🥳🤩 We make it super easy to add AI autocomplete to your code/no-code website. Free to use! ⚡️ @walden_yan and I grinded to get this out - your support and feedback would be huge 🥺🙏
- 1) Devin’s a great product (have used it many times) 2) Never bet against WaldenSo people are asking about a Devin run of an Upwork job. I’m the guy in the video! The primary criticism was that I didn’t transcribe the prompt verbatim, which looking back at the screenshot is accurate — I was thinking since Devin already runs inside an EC2 instance I’d try to
- At Harvard, so many students "diversify career risk" by joining a bunch of professional organizations. People often say there's just too high of an opportunity cost to commit to one thing. I bet many of them underestimate the risk of NOT committing deeply to something.
- Was a lot of fun - tune in for a deep dive on all things AI chipsINTERVIEW WITH FOUNDERS OF @Etched the thiel fellows fighting nvidia - @UbertiGavin & @robertwachen on AI chips - Debating future unemployment predictions - AI's impact on long term GDP growth - Raising their $120m Series A - Slow vs Fast Takeoffs - much more.
00:00 - Paradigm has saved me from many late nights of spreadsheet work - strongly recommendParadigm is the AI-native spreadsheet to eliminate menial work. Thousands of users have saved 10,000+ hours with Paradigm, and you can be next. Get your first month free today, then plans start at just $20/month.
00:00 - GPUs started for graphics and now are used for transformers Maybe Sohu will start for transformers and end up doing graphicsIntroducing Oasis: the first playable AI-generated game. We partnered with @DecartAI to build a real-time, interactive world model that runs >10x faster on Sohu. We're open-sourcing the model architecture, weights, and research. Here's how it works (and a demo you can play!):
00:00 - Hot take: silicon valley assumes that token costs and latency will magically keep dropping by 10x Unfortunately GPUs aren’t getting better fast enoughIt is an incredibly safe assumption that models get much cheaper and smarter from here, yet very few founders are acting like it
- time traveler @BrendanFoodyReplying to @adarsh_exe and @mercor_ai@BrendanFoody unicorn by eoy?
- Come hang! $60k in cash prizes and each team gets their own 8xh100, gonna be nutsWe're excited to partner with @cognition_labs @mercor_ai @CoreWeave and @AnthropicAI to host an inference-time compute hackathon, featuring >$60K in cash prizes and >1 exaflop of free compute.
- Been crazy to watch Mercor’s journey. Huge congrats and excited for what’s ahead @BrendanFoody @adarsh_exe @suryamidhaMercor is solving global labor matching with models that understand human ability. @mercor_ai raised a $30M Series A at a $250M valuation, led by @victoralazarte and @bgurley at @benchmark, with participation from @peterthiel, @jack, @adamdangelo, and @LHSummers.
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