1/ I've been relatively quiet about this on x, mostly because I have just been having so much fun building, but it's time to share publicly: I'm Head of Strategy at @AskVenice.

There's a reason we built Venice

Even more relevant than earlier today.

Private AI

If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good. The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX. And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen. Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.

Predicting @AskVenice hits 4 million users by month end (accelerated by the Anthropic news today putting a spotlight on the need for private AI). I estimate the market size for private AI is at minimum 20% of total AI users (and this is conservative in my opinion since privacy is particularly important when you are sharing all of your data). As a comp, 23% of global internet users use VPNs and it is arguably much more important to have privacy for AI. ChatGPT has 1 billion monthly active users. With continued growth in AI adoption and even faster growth in private AI usage, this is easily a 500 million user opportunity. As the market leading product, I firmly believe this is just the first inning of $VVV's growth.

Obvious future was obvious

Decentralized, permissionless, uncensored AI running on crypto plumbing is probably the most important battle arena of the next five years. Actions like today’s are eye openers for many, but we knew. We knew governaments, technocrats, big companies where hoarding compute, talent, resources. A more and more centralized and dystopian future where social divide is even more prominent. Where access to frontier models is stonewalled. It gives crypto once again a mission. A clear flag to carry. The 0 to 1 moment is happening this year. Things will only accelerate going forward.

Erik Voorhees explaining the importance of preserving AI as an institution not controlled by government "I would start by just conveying that important institutions of civilization shouldn't be under the control of any group of people" "when i started getting into the AI space, I realized that we have this additional new institution, which is machine intelligence, and this is becoming very quickly as important as money or as mathematics" "and if it is served to the world by a few tech companies who do whatever the government tells them to do, then that's a big problem and I see that would lead to a very dystopian kind of future" "the whole reason we started Venice was to create an antidote to that, to basically allow anyone access to unrestricted machine intelligence"

Do you now you see the value of $vvv?

$VVV coded innit?

could not ask for better marketing on why open source AI models available for use by anyone without disclosing your personal data will be extremely important there are some crypto protocols being built that are uniquely positioned to solve this problem

Yet another example why the world needs @AskVenice . Private and uncensored AI is more in demand everyday.

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No, you don't get it. He does not have $1 trillion sitting in cash, it is 99% stock in his companies. To make that wealth liquid would mean selling all that stock which would swiftly destroy *both* the companies (Tesla, SpaceX, others) and the wealth. If he sold it all, he'd end up with maybe $100b max, several hundred thousand people would be out of work, the companies ruined and many of their suppliers also ruined. Okay, but now Elon has $100b in cash, and can "solve the world's problems". $100b divided by the world's 8 billion people is $12 If you were in charge, several of the most innovative industrial companies in the world would be destroyed, hundreds of thousands out of work, and space would again close to human civilization for another generation. But everyone on earth could have one nice meal and you could revel in your altruism.

There are two kinds of AI companies: 1. Those building guardrails around what you can think 2. Those building tools for what you can do The market will reward builders. History will judge the gatekeepers. Choose @AskVenice to own your own thoughts and own your own data.

Prediction: Within a few years, "unmonitored AI access" will become as controversial as "unmonitored financial transactions" was at the inception of Bitcoin. And the same people who were wrong then will be wrong again.

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Another reason @AskVenice is so important…

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