Brandon Proetto

Holman Growth Ventures

[Brandon Proetto @Brandon_Proetto]

With Muse, Meta has a credible path to overtake OpenAI’s consumer usage & leadership in the next 18 months.

[WIRED @WIRED]

Meta says Muse is just for adults, though its cuddly, Labubu-like mascot—and upcoming Tamagotchi-style AI device—may be disarming for users of all ages. https://t.co/7GGT0ytDWy

[Brandon Proetto @Brandon_Proetto]

@DavidSacks. If we kept the marketing as “LLMs” instead of “AI”, we would be building data centers across the country unabated. We did this to ourselves. Repercussions of our own marketing. Robots, Physical AI, Artificial Intelligence. Is it too late to change the lingo?

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Joe Lonsdale: “These companies should be held extremely liable for any damage they do. We shouldn't be putting regulators in. They're just going to get captured... The right should be against regulation, but for liability to hold companies accountable.”

[Brandon Proetto @Brandon_Proetto]

Wild tension: if a company is openly forecasting civilization-scale destruction, government intervention feels warranted. But intervention that cripples one of only two frontier AI companies (duopoly) creates its own enormous risk.

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Brandon Proetto @Brandon_Proetto]

What will be the future of car dealerships if more OEMs go D2C? How many consumers will choose a full D2C online experience if offered?

[CNBC @CNBC]

Amazon next year will allow auto dealers to sell cars through its site, starting with Hyundai. The automaker's North America CEO joined @PowerLunch to discuss. https://t.co/GoFRT4ltee

[Brandon Proetto @Brandon_Proetto]

Adjusting for industry to give oil & gas companies higher ratings seems to bias the rankings

[Forbes @Forbes]

To create our newest list, #ForbesNetZeroLeaders, Forbes used data from research providers Sustainalytics and Morningstar to rank the U.S. companies best positioned for a net-zero 2050. https://t.co/QwomABCa5N