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Finally able to share some great news today! I am so excited to announce that Moment, has been acquired by the leading creator platform @Patreon! It's a culmination of years of work by the team, investors, and my amazing co-founders @arjunmeta and @NigelEgrari
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fine tuning unlocks so many more enterprise use cases now that you can fine tune gpt-4o, it will be interesting to see what people decide to use between open source (Llama 405) vs closed provider (OpenAI)
openai.com/index/gpt-4o-fine… “Today, we’re launching fine-tuning for GPT-4o, one of the most requested features from developers. We are also offering 1M training tokens per day for free for every organization through September 23.”
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Been helping out a late stage company The adoption of AI tools there is painfully slow They literally JUST got their teams access to use ChatGPT while coding. And only 1 in 10 devs are actually using it. Mind-blowing how some are still sleeping on AI. We're still so early
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Claude's new prompt caching will drop the costs of all of my products dramatically - back and forth chats - quick edits to an output - storing large contexts wish the cache was longer than 5 minutes but still, so excited every single time they ship
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Github sync on Claude Projects would be insaneeeee prototyping heaven
Anthropic is working on Github sync for Claude Projects! Imagine this + a potential native app 🤤 Loads of upcoming features on Claude will be for coding: - Folder / Github sync - Artefacts Improve/Explain - Screenshots option 👀
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what a win for the US "the steph curry game"
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definitely one of the top startup finance talks I've seen wild that videos like this are available for free online tldr: build a strong business with a good contribution margin before scaling it
The last 10 minutes of this talk from David Weiden at the KV CEO Summit was the best 10 mins on startup finance / fundraising I've seen. Redacted (but still worth it) version:
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acquihiring-hiring billion dollar founders to get around the FTC is crazy
Replying to @nikunj
Getting a bunch of DMs, apparently people don't seem to fully grok what's happening. Here's the gist: - Current FTC team has made acquisitions basically impossible - Large incumbents want good AI talent to shepherd their AI plans - Incumbents strike a deal with the founders and select employees to join the company - Since they can't acquire, incumbents do a "licensing" agreement that pays the startup some money to make them look the other way - These startups may still end up ok, but have lost the best talent to the incumbents - Employees that didn't go to these incumbents will most likely leave and hold a bag of options that are definitely not worth what they should be
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Wildest news of the day: Character AI's CEO just got pulled back to Google Deemind - $2.5b val and 200M+ monthly users first Inflection CEO -> Microsoft now Character CEO -> Google what is happening?!
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from their blog - Google gets non-exclusive license for it's LLM tech - Noam & Daniel & more join Google - General Counsel becomes interim CEO
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Super interesting approach that Character AI is taking to simplify prompting on their platform We're trending to a world where advanced prompting is considered "technical" Power users (non-technical) spend an hour to craft a niche chatbot rest of their users benefit
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oh wow github models feels very compelling this will be a pretty big hit to hugging face as a developer, I like would pick github > huggingface long term
Introducing GitHub Models, a new way for the more than 100 million developers who call GitHub home to build with industry-leading AI models directly from their workflow.
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new prof pic rest of this year is going to be a wild ride going all in on twitter & linkedin ✌️
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omg - insane to see this gpt4o is asked to count to 50 it counts to 30 and then takes a mini breath it feels so human
ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode counting as fast as it can to 10, then to 50 (this blew my mind - it stopped to catch its breath like a human would)
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Had a deep chat with a creative director about AI x media His take: AI will make human creativity MORE valuable, not less. "When everyone's a superhero, your unique vision becomes the superpower." Master the tools, but don't lose your inner creativity. That's the real edge.
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wow this is a gamechanger. we're only accelerating faster
Introducing Meta Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) — the first unified model for real-time, promptable object segmentation in images & videos. SAM 2 is available today under Apache 2.0 so that anyone can use it to build their own experiences Details ➡️ go.fb.me/p749s5
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Just saw a demo of a next-gen AI video creation. Blew my mind. The roadmap for video is clear: 2024: Short-form video 2025: Full YouTube content 2026-27: Feature-length films We're watching this play out in real time
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Whoa, celebs hanging out with their younger selves? 🤯 AI just keeps blowing my mind! This could be used to create "digital legacies" where people can interact with loved ones who've passed away.
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Notion is a *legendary* company and to hear about all of the struggles they went through wandering for a while shows how things like rosier on the outside I've felt like this multiple times in my last and even my current startup but in order to build something truly special you have to keep your head down and just constantly iterate super inspiring to see and will always support this beautiful product 🫰🏼
Last week, @NotionHQ passed 100M users! I found the photo I took after we reached 1000 users. And I still recall the day when we passed 1M in 2020 right before covid. I feel grateful, introspective. Looking back, there's so much learning, yet much remains unchanged... 1/n
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LLama 3.1 405B benchmarks were just leaked on Reddit This is an open source model (from Meta), but its benchmarks BEAT the closed source OpenAI's GPT-4o model This means devs will be able to fine-tune a new insanely powerful model on their own data This week is will be fun 🤩
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The future of remote work. It's so over.
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If you enjoyed this short thread, feel free to give me a follow -> @shraybans I drop deep dives on AI trends, startups & hack on AI projects in public. 🫡
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