Harry Grieve

gensyn @gensynai · Sep 15

open-1b: the first model you don’t have to trust

Auditable training is the best defense against the future of AI we’re being warned about

open-1b is a milestone toward verifiable AI, a goal that is absolutely necessary for the future of intelligence

gensyn.ai/news/introduci…

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Eric Larchevêque Verified account @EricLarch · Oct 30

🚨 0.77€ de taxe pour regarder un film Netflix !

Ce vendredi, les députés viennent d'adopter un amendement socialiste visant à taxer les données qui circulent sur Internet à hauteur de 5,5 centimes par gigaoctet reçu en France.

Ils ont complètement pété les plombs.

Voici quelques exemples de ce que ça va désormais vous coûter :
🔴 Vous regardez un film Netflix de 2 heures en 4K ? Jusqu'à 0,77 € de taxe brute sur les données transmises.
🔴 Vous téléchargez un jeu vidéo de 150 Go ? 8,25 €.
🔴 Vous récupérez 200 Go de photos personnelles stockées chez Google ? 11 €.
🔴 Vous rapatriez 1 To de vos propres fichiers depuis Google Drive ? 55 €.
🔴 Vous restaurez 2 To de sauvegardes après une panne informatique ? 110 €.

Ces taxes seront facturées aux plateformes américaines, qui vous vous en doutez bien, vous redescendront la facture !

Ils sont en train de construire une fiscalité qui pénalise le simple fait de transmettre de la donnée.

Et ceci alors que nous sommes à l'aube d'une révolution technologique majeure avec l'IA !

Pour rester compétitifs, tous les pays doivent accélérer leur transformation numérique.

Et nous en France, que trouve-t-on comme idée de génie ?

UNE PUTAIN DE TAXE SUR LA DATA !

Et en plus ils ont le culot de nous la présenter comme une mesure écologique qui encouragerait à réduire les volumes de données échangées.

Quelle bande de guignols.

Il faut être totalement déconnecté des réalités économiques pour considérer qu'un pays peut retrouver sa prospérité en multipliant indéfiniment les prélèvements sur les activités productives.

Cet amendement n'est pas encore une loi définitive, mais le simple fait qu'une telle proposition ait été adoptée à l'Assemblée nationale en dit long sur la manière dont nous sommes gouvernés.

Ces fous du bus vont vraiment nous mettre au fond du ravin.

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Ali Yahya Verified account @alive_ · Oct 22

Big personal news today: I have decided to leave @a16z, move to SF, and start a company.

It's time to build :)

It has been almost 10 years since I joined the firm. I met @cdixon, @bhorowitz, and @pmarca in 2017. At the time, I was an engineer at Google Brain working on robotics. I had a deep interest in open source. I knew nothing about investing. Chris meanwhile had already planted the @a16z flag at the frontier that was early crypto with investments in companies like Coinbase. But the crypto team at the firm consisted of only him, and he had the ambition to expand. His pitch to me was simple: "You should leave Google and come help me build the crypto vertical at the firm."

The work we've done together since then to build out our team and support our founders has been the most meaningful work of my life. I am grateful to have spent a decade working with everyone here, supporting our founders, learning from Chris, Ben, and Marc, and living the firm's culture. It is a culture that values integrity, life-long working relationships, and the belief that we humans have the power to build our own future.

Marc and Ben have built a16z into an incredible force for good in the world.

Before I joined the firm, I always thought that my inevitable path was to become a founder. The truth is that I wasn't ready for it then. Somehow, this year I've gotten the overwhelming feeling that this has changed.

As for what I want to build: It is early, but I care most about building infrastructure that enables open software ecosystems. I am starting with two core observations:

1. AI today is largely a single-player technology. Most uses involve one human talking with one agent in isolation from the rest of the world. That will soon change. Most uses of AI will soon be many-to-many: many humans and many agents working together. There will be at least one massive open network on top of which those uses will be built.

2. Software is now free. It can now be written just-in-time, on the spot for a single individual's hyper-targeted use case, and it can even be thrown out after a single use. This means that our entire software stack will have to change. In the limit, it will lead to a whole new kind of AI-mediated operating systems, which in turn will create an ecosystem of AI-native developers who build applications that actively rebuild themselves on the fly.

If you are working on related ideas, and especially if you are in the Bay Area, hit me up. Let's chat!

@bhorowitz , @pmarca, @cdixon, @eddylazzarin, @guywuolletjr, @jasonrosenthal , and our whole team — I want to thank you. Working with you has been the time of a lifetime. I am forever an a16z superfan and your ally.

Onward 🫡

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Patrick Collison Verified account @patrickc · Sep 24

Some data we recently assembled on entrepreneurship/compute in Europe: eudata.vercel.app.

We hope that one of the useful roles that Stripe can play is in collecting and publishing empirical data pertaining to entrepreneurship and industry in Europe. There's growing appetite to get Europe on a better footing, and cross-sectional comparisons can often shine light on where opportunities lie. If you're interested in this kind of thing, we publish more at stripeeconomics.substack.com.

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Gary Marcus Verified account @GaryMarcus · Sep 11

🚨 OpenAI fucked with the wrong crew. 🚨

Mathematicians.

25 Fields Medalists — led by Terence Tao — just signed this.

mathandai.org

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