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Great insights, especially monetization . Itโ€™s obvious why AI labs are doubling down on prosumer/subscription. However true consumer likely monetizes on a longer horizon through ads or device bundle( Apple/Android) especially if inference costs will dramatically fall.
This show with @AravSrinivas is one of the best we have done. - The biggest problem today is power. - We will see large resistance to data centre buildout continue. - Micron will be worth more than Meta. - Export controls have helped China. - Monitoring token budgets is BS and only for losing companies. How is that for spice? I have added my notes from the discussion below but such a special show to do with Aravind in London. 1. Are Agents the End of the Internet Advertising Model? AI agents will disrupt industries built around objective transactions, but subjective spaces like travel, fashion, and shopping are more resilient. When intent is driven by vibes, exploration, and aesthetics rather than one correct answer, chat interfaces struggle to replace browsing, keeping much of the advertising model intact. 2. Biggest Takeaway From Elon Musk? An elite entrepreneur can identify the single limiting bottleneck in a business and focus on it with unusual intensity. True concentration requires discipline: you must ignore even important issues when they distract from the immediate objective that matters most. 3. Did Export Controls Hurt or Help US Competition With China? Export controls gave America a short-term edge by preserving a capability gap between open-source and frontier models. But they may have also forced China to become a stronger physical competitor by pushing its tech ecosystem toward memory-efficient architectures and deeper vertical integration. 4. How Will the Best Organizations Approach Token Budgeting? Enterprises will stop manually tracking model capabilities or micromanaging token budgets across teams. As model optimization accelerates, the best companies will outsource this complexity to AI orchestrators that automatically route tasks to the right models at the right cost. 5. How Can America Retain Competitiveness in AI? The West must build physical infrastructure aggressively, streamline power procurement, and counter alarmist narratives around data centers and job displacement. Leaders should explain the upside clearly: AI can let tiny teams build billion-dollar companies and drive major new GDP growth. 6. What Is the Single Most Important Metric in AI? The key metric is token value per watt per user. Raw model building and fine-tuning are becoming commoditized. The real venture-scale value will accrue to orchestration layers and agent harnesses that deliver high-quality outputs while using minimal data center power. 7. Why Is Moving Fast the Ultimate Expression of Humility? Founders often waste early cycles searching for a permanent moat, when speed is their only real defense. Moving fast is an act of humility because it forces constant contact with the market, repeated assumption testing, and a willingness to let reality overrule ego. (links below)
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No amount of frontier tech can paper over process, incentives and culture. For instance, when an airline delays/loses your baggage, a wonderful human sounding AI chatbot is just the next layer on the cake of frustration you're going to eat.
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It could be the 40 year old in me but an in-form Brazil, JogaBonito and memorable Nike/Adidas ads are core to the World Cup experience. Argentina lost their first game in 2022 so ...
Anyone who felt that Brazil were being underrated or overlooked ahead of this World Cup can probably put that opinion away now. This is a side rich in talent, especially in attack, but Carlo Ancelotti has an enormous amount of work to do if the Selecao are to reach the latter stages of this tournament, let alone win it. Their first-half performance here was genuinely appalling. They did improve in the second half. There was more intensity, more control. You could not, however, argue that they deserved more than a point from the game. Or that the genuine favourites in this World Cup should be quaking in their boots. ๐Ÿ“ @jacklang Brazil 1-1 Morocco Briefing โ€” free to read: bit.ly/4ekndbl
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Leaving aside broader implications (hiring, sovereign AI, trade), India companies face a frontier intelligence deficit. Options: build through it, hedge model sources, frontier use sparingly , pause long-term AI contracts. The worry:Regression to Wflow vs. intelligence-first?
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-mytโ€ฆ
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World Cup opening day? Spacex ipo day ? No. The day of the special one.
๐Ÿ‘‹ Welcome, Mourinho ๐Ÿ‘‹
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Coach Mike Brown post-game on the comeback: We deployed a hierarchical multi-agent architecture with recursive self-critique loops. Once the vector database achieved tactical alignment, the boys started hitting shots.
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OG ANUNOBY WITH THE PUTBACK. KNICKS COMPLETE THE 29-PT COMEBACK FOR THE WIN. LARGEST COMEBACK IN NBA FINALS HISTORY ๐Ÿคฏ
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It's the year 2034. 48 countries come together to reorganize the global monetary system. Bretton-Woods 2.0 establishes the GPU standard.
๐ŸšจChips for debt: How India's AI firms are turning GPUs into collateral By @debanganaghosh4 moneycontrol.com/technology/โ€ฆ
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If you think this is a canary in the coal mine for the IN offshoring/GCC industries, India's answer can't be "we're cheaper." It has to outrun the AI cost curve with capability.
I shared this note earlier today with the entire team at Opendoor. Today we began to say goodbye to our colleagues in India as we wind down our India operations. Our customers are in America, and that's where our operational work belongs.
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Getting a table at Pizza4Ps Bangalore is pretty much like getting a darshan at Thirupathi
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With AI now building AI, i wonder if Claude Opus looks proudly at Fable 5 like the parents of the JEE AIR topper. I also assume Anthropic vested naming rights for Fable with Opus as befits every parent.
Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that weโ€™ve made safe for general use. Its capabilities exceed those of any model weโ€™ve ever made generally available.
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The government is clearly hiring Gen Z to set culture and drive digital transformation: see the attached digital banking paper trail.
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Apple seems to have used WWDC to set the new line for opinionated AI consumer experiences : - privacy, edge, private cloud - UX wrapped around intent and context - proactive pushes in high value use cases - 'Pulling' inwards via app intents - OS more central
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People do not use social platforms interchangeably. Instagram is mood, discovery, aesthetics, memes, brands, reels, and shopping curiosity. LinkedIn is work identity and professional learning. Twitter is opinion and news. Reddit is depth and community knowledge. WhatsApp is real life: family, friends, groups, logistics, intimacy. This means every platform carries a different version of the person. The same consumer may be passive on Instagram, careful on LinkedIn, opinionated on Twitter, private on WhatsApp, and anonymous on Reddit. They are not being inconsistent. They are managing context. This matters for brands because communication does not travel unchanged across platforms. A hard sell on Instagram may annoy. A founder story may work. A professional insight may belong on LinkedIn. A product question may get answered on Reddit. A transaction may close on WhatsApp. And social platform have developed these unsaid rules or personalities. The best consumer brands understand the room and leverage it. They know that the consumer is not one stable identity moving through apps. The consumer is constantly adjusting posture: public, private, professional, curious, bored, cautious, aspirational. Marketing fails when it treats all attention as the same. Attention always has a context.
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Remaining 2003 draftees: LeBron Remaining 2004 draftees: none Remaining 2005 draftees: none (was CP3) Remaining 2006 draftees: Kyle Lowry Remaining 2007 draftees: KD, Horford, Conley Jr., and Jeff Green Remaining 2010 draftees: Paul George (via @FallenImpacts)
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Breaking: Chris Paul is retiring from basketball after 21 seasons in the NBA, he announced on social media.
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Two great interviews on the state of AI. 1. Dylan Patel on Invest Like the Best: The most detailed breakdown of AI infrastructure economics, market dynamics, and unit economics I've seen to date. Dylan & team tracks every GPU shipment and data center permit. His best pod appearance yet thus far. Very information dense. Patel ranks himself 6-7 out of 10 on AI bullishness: more bearish than most in his circles. His view: if models stop improving in 1-2 years, expect US recession from stranded capex. But if scaling continues, even current capability creates $2T value in software automation alone. @dylan522p @patrick_oshag @joincolossus 2. Jonathan Ross (Groq) on 20VC: More of the bull case. The CEO building one of the fastest inference chips explains why "smart money keeps doubling down" and why demand is genuinely 'insatiable' in his view. "You can improve product quality by spending more compute per query. This has never existed before: you can add labor to the economy just by adding compute." @JonathanRoss321 @HarryStebbings @twentyminutevc
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my god what I would do for a Silicon Valley reboot right now
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๐Ÿšจ Announcing the latest @a16z top 100 AI apps! This marks the fifth edition ๐ŸŽ‰ of our global ranking of consumer AI websites and mobile apps by usage. And in my opinion, it was our most surprising list yet! Our top takeaways who made it ๐Ÿ‘‡
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AI voice isnโ€™t about conversation anymore. Itโ€™s about getting things done @AravSrinivas @matiii @sidxpress
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18 Jun 2025
invideo 4.0 is now live. Sound on! Created entirely using AI
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Thanks for the shoutout, legend!
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