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Varun
@varun_mathur
Founder and CEO @HyperspaceAI
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    Sep 14, 2024
    Discover your inner Tony Stark Introducing compute.hyper.space - a new type of deep dive agentic interface. Powered by open source models from @AIatMeta @MistralAI; running on @GroqInc, or on your laptop or the @HyperspaceAI peer-to-peer AI network. No filters. No bias. No
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    Nov 18, 2023
    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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    May 2, 2020
    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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    Oct 27, 2024
    This is a game-changer announcement by Apple around cryptography. It is the “HTTPS moment for AI” in some ways.. Here is what this means: your private confidential data can be pooled with other data sources and used to securely improve your UX and that of the wider community
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    @varun_mathur
    Sep 18, 2024
    Introducing Play - a new type of an insanely crazy AI research product which enables you to spin and share your own webs quickly around focused topics. Built using @GroqInc x Llama3.1 open source model from @AIatMeta, combined with real-time web search and a multi-terabyte
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    Dec 25, 2023
    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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    @varun_mathur
    Oct 7, 2019
    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.
    India Startup Oyo Raises $1.5 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation
    From bloomberg.com
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    @varun_mathur
    Oct 26, 2023
    🖖 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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    @varun_mathur
    Oct 19, 2023
    🌱 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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    Nov 20, 2023
    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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    @varun_mathur
    Oct 19, 2023
    🌱 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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    Nov 19, 2023
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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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    May 2, 2020
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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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    @varun_mathur
    Oct 5, 2024
    I indexed the entire Bhagavada Gita using my laptop, and generated this knowledge graph around it using @AIatMeta's Llama3-70B on @GroqInc, also Wikipedia and some other sources. link in thread. "Nishkam Karma: Krishna advises Arjuna to perform his duty as a warrior without
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    May 2, 2020
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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!