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I create experiences and connect strangers.

[Guy @nosilverv]

I wish people understood how influential X is.

L: Prime-time TV show w/ a "Climate Change Expert": "we increasingly need A/C"

R: 2nd in command in Portugal's 4th biggest party says "more people die in the EU bc of heat than bc of guns in the US". "AC is public health"

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

"We are living in a timeline where a [Chinese] company is keeping the original mission of OpenAI alive - truly open, frontier research that empowers all."

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

But what will humans do if AI takes our jobs?!

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Most people probably don't realize how bad news China's Deepseek is for OpenAI.

They've come up with a model that matches and even exceeds OpenAI's latest model o1 on various benchmarks, and they're charging just 3% of the price.

It's essentially as if someone had released a mobile on par with the iPhone but was selling it for $30 instead of $1000. It's this dramatic.

What's more, they're releasing it open-source so you even have the option - which OpenAI doesn't offer - of not using their API at all and running the model for "free" yourself.

If you're an OpenAI customer today you're obviously going to start asking yourself some questions, like "wait, why exactly should I be paying 30X more?". This is pretty transformational stuff, it fundamentally challenges the economics of the market.

It also potentially enables plenty of AI applications that were just completely unaffordable before. Say for instance that you want to build a service that helps people summarize books (random example). In AI parlance the average book is roughly 120,000 tokens (since a "token" is about 3/4 of a word and the average book is roughly 90,000 words). At OpenAI's prices, processing a single book would cost almost $2 since they change $15 per 1 million token. Deepseek's API however would cost only $0.07, which means your service can process about 30 books for $2 vs just 1 book with OpenAI: suddenly your book summarizing service is economically viable.

Or say you want to build a service that analyzes codebases for security vulnerabilities. A typical enterprise codebase might be 1 million lines of code, or roughly 4 million tokens. That would cost $60 with OpenAI versus just $2.20 with DeepSeek. At OpenAI's prices, doing daily security scans would cost $21,900 per year per codebase; with DeepSeek it's $803.

So basically it looks like the game has changed. All thanks to a Chinese company that just demonstrated how U.S. tech restrictions can backfire spectacularly - by forcing them to build more efficient solutions that they're now sharing with the world at 3% of OpenAI's prices. As the saying goes, sometimes pressure creates diamonds.

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@JosephKChoi Tools

[0,12 @FloatValue]

@FibreTigre C’est quel jeu ?

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@Timb03 Which software are you using for those stats?

[Ido Pesok @ido_pesok]

All I want for Christmas is a new way to chat. So we built it.

I don’t want to switch between GPTs, wait for it to pick the wrong actions — I just want to go! I want to use all the models in one chat. I want beautiful UI. I want full control.

Here is a 4 min uncut raw demo playing around in the cockpit. No speedups. No fancy video. Without lifting my hand off the keyboard, I use 5 models, multiple system prompts, make a @X to @ChatGPTapp and @elonmusk , read and send @googlecalendar invite, check on the Lakers with @perplexity_ai , make a @shadcn form, make a @linear issue since the code component crashed, ask @MixtralAI for linear algebra help, ask @Google Gemini for more help.

Without any chat switch. Setup my account in 5 min.

Built on top of @OpenAI @vercel @DrizzleORM @shadcn and @perplexity_ai API

RAG coming soon with @llama_index and more integrations

Please share 🙏 and let us know thoughts — looking for beta testers. DM me or @EShaotran

Waitlist: https://t.co/tbk5OvC7d7

@sama @rauchg @karpathy @elonmusk @gdb @Jason @AravSrinivas @OfficialLoganK @paulg @t3dotgg @jerryjliu0 @twistartups @alexgraveley @jaredpalmer

Happy holidays! 2024 will be 🔥 - Energize AI ⚡️⚡️

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Important Rule for Life: When in doubt, zoom out.

Being perpetually zoomed in creates two challenges:

1. Struggle feels bigger than it is.
2. Growth feels smaller than it is.

The 10,000 foot view provides perspective—on the manageable nature of your struggles and the impressive nature of your growth.

Two effective ways to zoom out:

1. Vertically: Zoom out via "altitude" and see the bigger picture context of the moment.

2. Horizontally: Zoom out via “mental time travel” to the past or the future and observe the present through that new lens. Go back 10 years and think about how your past self would be in awe of where you are today. Go forward 50 years and think about how your future self would give anything to be back doing the things you get to do today.

Both can work wonders.

Always remember: When in doubt, zoom out.

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J’ai recommandé y a du sale dans pizza c’est pas possible… ça devait être date night sympa et on nous fait manger une pizza tomber par terre.

Remboursez moi les frais de livraison express.

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@Deliveroo_FR franchement abusé on dirait que la pizza est tombée par terre. C’est humide froid immonde. Zéro remboursement je voulais te commander je dois repayer. 42 euros pour ça ! Impossible de parler à quelqu’un de votre support c’est dingue… et je suis abonné deliveroo.

[Santiago @svpino]

Here is an open-source generative AI application.

It uses AI to generate professional headshots in minutes.

It's an excellent opportunity for developers who want to see an end-to-end generative AI app from the inside.

It's free, and it's all in GitHub:

[Ben Schreiber @benschreiber_]

The most successful beauty product of the past few years isn’t a cream, fragrance, or powder — It’s a filtered shower head.

And it’s all thanks to a genius lead generation tactic.

This is the story of how Jolie went from 0 to 8 figures in revenue with a single landing page 🧵

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Not sure if fictional

But I watched the Air Jordan movie this week and Nike’s founder Phil Knight seemed most happy when he was back to doing the crazy nitty gritty on the ground stuff

And he seemed most unhappy when doing the corporate board of director stuff

Many founder friends of mine whose companies became very big are rich but they miss actually making things, coding, designing, because that’s what they were doing when they started

So the goal seems to be try keep making things and staying “in the arena” instead of losing touch and becoming a C level manager

For me at least

[Victor M @victormustar]

Control Net is (definitely) amazing 🤯

[syl🦦 @sylcine_]

2. THE LAST DANCE

Si on m’avait dit que le basket allait autant me captiver…Soyez prêts pour une entrée fascinante dans l'histoire de l'un des plus grands joueurs de tous les temps ! Le parcours incroyable de Michael Jordan et les Chicago Bulls

[Kris Kashtanova @icreatelife]

Midjourney for beginners: How to add a reference image to Midjourney.

You can upload an image (for portraits it changes likeness, but it's a good way to keep consistent characters even if they don't look like the photo).

I made a bunch of explainers and thought I'll share.

[Gokul Rajaram @gokulr]

Many founders who raised large amounts of money ($10m+) in 2020-21 but subsequently realized they don’t have PMF, are going through an excruciating psychological journey right now.

On one hand, they feel beholden to employees and investors to keep building, pivoting, doing anything to live up to their perceived commitment to their stakeholders to build an enduring company.

On the other hand, they have a sinking feeling that they are just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Their heart just is not in it. There is a deep-felt malaise.

The more money a founder has raised, the deeper this predicament.

I just had the first such founder return a good chunk of invested capital back to investors, because they couldn’t take the pressure any longer. The relief they felt when they realized investors and employees were on board and 100% supportive of their decision, was palpable. (All employees received solid severance before the company shut down).

Founders - ultimately it’s your call, but know that there is a graceful way out. Chasing endless pivots trying to find PMF is a bridge to nowhere.

Investors - let’s have the grace and courage to tell founders this option is available to them. The founder told me that the reason they ultimately decided to return the money stemmed from a convo with me several weeks ago, when they told me about their latest pivot, and I told them I’m supportive “as long as their heart is truly in it”. That phrase stuck with them, they introspected and ultimately realized their heart was not in it.

[Kris Kashtanova @icreatelife]

I personally use Topaz Gigapixel (it's paid) but there're free options you can use. If you use Stable Diffusion locally it has free upscalers, Photoshop and Lightroom also can upscale and there're few free websites like https://t.co/fH8Xand2JL (it gives 25 images a month to upscale for free).

[Rebecca Skvorc @rebeccaskvorc]

Re: SVB crisis. Solid tactical list for CEOs and finance teams impacted. Additional items:

1. Consider factoring receivables
2. Consider asking customers to prepay for a discount
3. Put dates on key decision points
4. Confirm the date payroll is pulled (not paid to EEs)