andrew chen (@andrewchen) / X

when the personal computer won, it made $20k+ workstations in 1980s a distant memory - SGI, Next, Sun, etc. I remember thinking, huh why would anyone ever buy a computer that expensive!?? yet now you buy a PC and add a single RTX PRO 6000... or a Mac Studio. And prices are only

29

andrew chen

@andrewchen

Sep 30

yup. This is where open weight AI needs to go Customer controlled guardrails >>> black box rules

Abliteration.ai

@abliteration_ai

Sep 29

The big labs are mad that they don’t have a monopoly on cyber. Last month we went viral for releasing GLM-5.3 with customer-controlled guardrails. While the big labs gatekept the technology, we made it widely available to the industry, attracting customers from startups to

a fellowship with $250k for recent grads/students - deadline next week link: alpha.a16z.com more info 👇 -- Applications are closing soon for a16z speedrun alpha, our new fellowship for technical students and recent grads who want to start building now - Up to $250K

Alpha Fellowship by speedrun

From speedrun.a16z.com

yes, but we need more... a lot more

Patrick Collison

@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

Epic