Some of you have been wondering what’s next.
I have a crazy goal in mind: I want to change Western League entirely.
I’m going to be honest. We suck. We haven’t won Worlds since 2011. Our competitive spirit is dying, we’re collecting gambling sponsors just to keep the lights on, and the truth is: we are not getting results. None. Not a single one.
When you sell people a dream, at least make it believable. Right now, we have no chance of competing, let alone become anything.
I’ve been in China for four years straight. I’ve walked through BLG, EDG, and RNG headquarters. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. The infrastructure. The endless amount of players in Chinese SoloQ that nobody will ever hear about. The work ethic. The way those kids are actually managed.
Korea is the same.
And it all starts with solo queue here. How the hell are young players supposed to grow in an environment this bad? The average game is a joke, even in Challenger. If you think otherwise, you’re coping. I’ve seen it. It’s depressing to witness.
How do we beat teams that live and breathe the game when our orgs are too busy milking their players instead of developing them?
Nobody gives a damn about those daily Q&A shorts. Nobody cares about pros wasting their time guessing ranks on random clips. They’re paid to win. Not to be branded. Not to entertain you between losses.
I don’t care how I have to do it. I’ll become an LEC jungler, a coach, an analyst, the plumber, anything. I’ll force the change from the inside myself if that’s what it takes. But this has to stop. We can’t keep going like this.
I’m too passionate about League to let my region slowly fade away without doing anything.
MOBAs are so boring. I prefer shooting orange glowing shields and barriers for 30 minutes. I also really rather have all my damage mean nothing because everyone’s being giga healed. It makes me feel super impactful. Oof and when I get that ultimate press of the game? Hell yeah!
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
The whole point of building Tavus has been simple: talking to a machine should feel as natural as talking to a friend or coworker.
It’s hard to describe all the tiny nuances that make a conversation feel human. The little expressions. Moving around in your chair. Knowing when to speak and when to listen. The dance of it all.
Griffin is by far the closest anyone has come to a model that can capture those nuances. The first time I saw it being used, I had no idea I was watching our model rather than just a normal video call.
I’m so incredibly proud of this team and what they’ve built.
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Ben Affleck (Hollywood star & Artists Equity CEO) talks about how he fine-tunes open video models by unfreezing weights and trained only the last cinematic layer so a film crew can hit real production standards.
for context, Ben Affleck founded InterPositive in 2022, a 16-person AI shop for film post and Netflix bought it in March 2026 for $587 mn in cash.
He needed that model because public video models were trained on his peers' films, and he did not think that was a real business. So InterPositive raised money, shot its own dataset for 8 months on a controlled stage, and used it only as late-stage training.
Each new film then trains a private model on its own dailies, so the production keeps the footage and the learning. That is the product Netflix paid $587 million for.
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From "Bloomberg Live" YouTube channel, (link in comment)