Iโm turning 41, but I donโt feel like celebrating.
Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.
What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.
Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).
Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.
A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast โ while weโre asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms โ and allowed them to be taken away.
Weโve been fed a lie.
Weโve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.
By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, weโve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction โ moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.
So no, Iโm not going to celebrate today. Iโm running out of time. WE are running out of time.
Markets on everything.
Weโre proud to announce that $ICE, the owner of @NYSE and the largest exchange company in the world, is making a strategic investment of $2 billion into Polymarket, valuing us at $9 billion post-money.
Our partnership with ICE marks a major step in bringing prediction markets into the financial mainstream. But in addition to that, itโs a monumental step forward for DeFi. ICE is the one remaining founder-led exchange company, and Jeff is all-in on utilizing his assets, including NYSE, to usher in a new financial era of tokenization. Weโre humbled to be working together on this endeavor. ICE will also begin distributing Polymarket data to thousands of financial institutions around the world. There is so much to build when you combine the force of ICEโs institutional scale and credibility with Polymarketโs consumer + cultural savvy and distribution.
The past two years have been surreal. Going from a write off to creating a category, watching our vision become a reality. The Polymarket origin story is funny because it's a rare case of the dream being identical to how things played out. If I learned one thing, itโs that bold ideas are everywhere, hidden in plain sight. It just takes someone crazy enough to spend their life willing it into existence. Thatโs entrepreneurship: willing things into existence.
I remember reading Robin Hansonโs literature on prediction markets and thinking - man, this is too good of an idea to just exist in whitepapers. There were a million reasons why it shouldnโt work, countless arguments of why not to do it, and the odds were against us, but we had to try.
At the onset of the pandemic, I quite literally had nothing to lose: 21, running out of money, 2.5 years since I dropped out and nothing to show for it. But I knew we were entering an era where ways to find truth would matter more than ever, and Polymarket could play a critical role in that. After all, nothing is more valuable than the truth. Itโs still a work in progress, but weโre honored to have made the impact we have thus far.
Iโd also like to give a special thank you to all of our users, builders, and community members who have been with us since 2020. Your support will not be forgotten ๐ฎ
Last but not least, I am deeply grateful for all of the support and hard work of my brilliant team. Iโm getting to live my wildest dreams, seemingly against all odds, and I donโt take it for granted.
The best is yet to comeโฆ ๐บ๐ธ
Que Sera Sera
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OPENAI ROADMAP UPDATE FOR GPT-4.5 and GPT-5:
We want to do a better job of sharing our intended roadmap, and a much better job simplifying our product offerings.
We want AI to โjust workโ for you; we realize how complicated our model and product offerings have gotten.
We hate the model picker as much as you do and want to return to magic unified intelligence.
We will next ship GPT-4.5, the model we called Orion internally, as our last non-chain-of-thought model.
After that, a top goal for us is to unify o-series models and GPT-series models by creating systems that can use all our tools, know when to think for a long time or not, and generally be useful for a very wide range of tasks.
In both ChatGPT and our API, we will release GPT-5 as a system that integrates a lot of our technology, including o3. We will no longer ship o3 as a standalone model.
The free tier of ChatGPT will get unlimited chat access to GPT-5 at the standard intelligence setting (!!), subject to abuse thresholds.
Plus subscribers will be able to run GPT-5 at a higher level of intelligence, and Pro subscribers will be able to run GPT-5 at an even higher level of intelligence. These models will incorporate voice, canvas, search, deep research, and more.
The Hyper Foundation has been established to support the growth of the Hyperliquid blockchain and ecosystem. Today, the flagship application on Hyperliquid is the premier decentralised exchange, part of the foundation for a new financial system. Hyperliquid's order books already provide the deepest and most robust onchain liquidity for a wide spectrum of assets.
With the launch of the HyperEVM, any application built on Hyperliquid will also have access to this deep liquidity and other native financial primitives. For the first time, finance will be performant, liquid, and accessible.
The next step of Hyperliquid's journey is the native token, HYPE. A native token is essential for the HyperBFT proof-of-stake consensus, the HyperEVM, and further developments on the roadmap. As part of the genesis distribution, eligible users can choose to receive HYPE and optionally a Hypurr NFT to commemorate the upcoming launch of the HyperEVM on mainnet. Users must review and accept the Genesis Event Terms on https://t.co/VljplmIB2v before November 11, 2024 23:59 UTC to participate.
Further information about HYPE and the Genesis Event will be shared at a later date.