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Human's are self contained models who can call all the tools they need. Same way we need self contained client-side models who can call whatever tools they need for the job.
We moved from shipped software to cloud - mainly because it was difficult to ship and debug client side software as the product complexity increased.
With LLMs we can go back to client side encrypted software - which will increase the security and privacy.
Big warning for businesses moving their processes to closed AI models. These models can be neutered or indoctrinated by the provider and there is nothing you can do about it. With human employees or open source models you stay in control of your destiny.
i stopped using anthropic a month ago and moved back to openai
i am a grown fucking adult paying thousands in fees. if you wanna patronise clients, good luck
TOMORROW IS TIM COOK'S LAST DAY AS CEO OF APPLE $AAPL
Asked what he stood for after 15 years, he declined to describe his own legacy.
"Your legacy is described by others, not yourself."
He said he hopes people call him a good and decent man, and that if they do, he will feel like he achieved something.
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The number of people who understand how the real world works and can turn an opportunity into an actual business is even scarcer.
For most hackers, AI optimization is starting to look a lot like kernel tuning in the 90s. Interesting technically, but rarely where the real alpha is.
The real alpha is in GTM and PMF.
I get the obsession with optimization at the AI infrastructure layer. Everywhere else, definitely not.
At midnight on February 6th, earlier this year, the doorbell to our apartment rang. The doorbell was followed by a pounding on the door. I answered the door and a security person in our building handed me his phone. It was my oldest daughter Eloise. She had found my 26-year-old daughter unconscious on the floor of her apartment and had called 911. The EMT team was already there, but they did not know what was wrong with Lucy or to which hospital they would take her.
I threw on some clothes and jumped in an Uber heading east toward Brooklyn. (Lucy lived alone in Williamsburg.) On the way, I learned that they were taking her to Elmhurst, a City trauma hospital in Queens. I arrived about five minutes after the ambulance to join Eloise, Lucy’s mom, and a friend, and waited to learn what was wrong.
After about 15 minutes, I asked a nurse where she was. I looked over his shoulder to his computer. Next to her name, it said “non-responsive.” I walked into the emergency room and wandered around looking for her until I found her unconscious on a gurney surrounded by several doctors and nurses.
By about 2:30am with the results from a CAT scan, Lucy’s doctors had determined that she had a massive brain hemorrhage and would need an emergency hemicraniectomy to release the pressure on her brain and remove the blood from the hemorrhage. I called our wonderful friend and family doctor Eddie Fisher and explained what was going on. He woke up Josh Bederson, Chairman of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai, to find out more about Zach Hickman, the neurosurgeon on call that night. Dr. Bederson said Hickman was an excellent surgeon, which was comforting as we had no choice.
The surgery to save Lucy’s life began around 3:15am and finished around 5:30am. It was successful.
The following day, I joined Lucy in an ambulance while she was being transferred to Mount Sinai on Madison Avenue. Later that day, we determined from Lucy’s Oura ring that her hemorrhage had occurred around 9am, which meant that more than 19 hours had passed from the time of the hemorrhage to the completion of the surgery to release the pressure on her brain (I only wish @ouraring had an alert for this kind of a medical event. Imagine it could call a family member if the wearer doesn’t cancel the alert).
I later learned that the standard of care is not to do surgery to save a patient with a large brain bleed if more than five hours have passed since the hemorrhage. Even when the surgery is done, I was told that the likely outcome for the patient is a few months in a nursing home and death from pneumonia.
When I met Lucy’s doctors, I did my best to inspire them: “Let’s see what can be accomplished if we give her the best care possible and we invest unlimited resources to restore her to life.” And I promised that whatever we learned we would make available to everyone.
Dr. Chris Kellner, her neurosurgeon, and Dr. David Putrino, Director of Rehabilitation Innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System have led Lucy’s care team since that day. Words cannot describe the remarkable and compassionate care that she has received beginning with the EMT team and then from nurses, doctors, therapists, and the army of people who have worked to save her and return her to life. To this day, we have a daily Zoom where we discuss her progress and make adjustments to her care. While her care and oversight have been incredible, the learnings for the Mount Sinai team have also been elucidating and will assist in the care of many others.
Lucy began in a bad place. She was in a coma for several weeks and then awoke not being able to breathe on her own, unable to walk, see or speak.
Over the last six months, she has recovered her cognition – she understands everything including her circumstance – is able to walk a hundred or more steps at a time with assistance, is making progress with sounds, vowels and consonants and the beginnings of speech, but she remains unable to see.
Each day, she makes a little progress, and daily progress compounds. Every day I tell her that she just needs to make a little progress and it won’t be long before she is back.
We remain optimistic that Lucy will return to normal function. It will likely take years, but I believe it is only a matter of time, hard work, and technological progress, along with some, and perhaps a lot, of divine intervention.
Many people have been praying for Lucy and we are incredibly grateful for the prayers and remarkable support she has received. Lucy’s friends have been with her every day since the beginning, and their presence and friendship have saved her life and helped to rebuild and maintain her spirit. And on a very positive note, Lucy’s challenge has brought together our entire modern family who have all been incredibly devoted to her care and recovery.
Lucy's vision and other faculties may require some form of brain computer interface, work that is underway at Neuralink, Precision Neuroscience, Science, Synchron, Nudge, and other companies in the space.
If you are going to have a devastating brain injury, now is the best time in history for that to happen. We are living in a world when you can be confident that the blind will soon see again. We are going to do everything we can to help make that happen, including by assisting existing companies in the space.
With respect to our promise to make Lucy’s care available to others, we have made good progress. In May, a real estate colleague made me aware of a 93% vacant, brand new, 400,000 square foot Class A+ purpose-built biotech facility on West End Avenue between 65th and 66th Streets that missed the market and was available for sale. The Pershing Square Foundation acquired the building 60 days later.
We also put under contract an adjoining 130,000 square foot building at 320 West 66th Street that is currently being used by Saturday Night Live for studio space. The building has 35-foot ceilings with massive column-free spaces that can be converted into superb rehabilitation facilities. We will close on the SNL building in December.
We are also acquiring an adjoining vacant lot with additional air rights. With just the existing zoning rights, we can add a 150,000 square feet for a total of 680,000 square feet, a lab footprint larger than Rockefeller University, and that’s without including the potential for an upzoning that would allow for substantially more buildable area on the site’s 3.4 acres with spectacular views of the Hudson.
Our goal is to build the world’s greatest brain research, rehabilitation, recovery, human optimization, and longevity institute. We have named it The Ackman Oxman Institute or the AOI for lack of a better name, but also to reinforce the point that Neri and I and our family are all-in on the mission.
The AOI will be patient-centric. It will not be an academic research institute that produces lots of papers, a Nobel Prize winner or two, but little if any results for patients. We will be laser-focused on cures, treatments, devices, rehabilitation and exercise equipment, and targeted and basic research with a goal of massively accelerating the time from idea to innovation to production to helping a patient.
While the AOI will be a non-profit, it will have highly commercial instincts. The AOI will have its own venture funding and will work to develop innovations to create companies that we will seed, assist, and spinout to ensure technologies, treatments, techniques, and drugs get to patients as promptly as possible.
On one 3.4 acre campus in what is still the greatest city in the world, we will do neurosurgery, neuroscience, rehabilitation, nutrition, BCI and device development, human trials, hyperbaric oxygen treatments, and life extension programs, and we will mandate and incentivize collaboration among the teams with no silos, politics, bureaucracy, or any other constraint that is inconsistent with the mission.
Mount Sinai will be an important partner and deservedly so, but it won’t be our only hospital or medical school partner as we don’t believe any institution has a monopoly on the best ideas or the best talent. We don’t believe in exclusive relationships because that is not in the best interest of patients.
Five years ago, we considered launching a brain institute inspired by Neri’s mom who sadly died from Alzheimer’s. We couldn’t make the math work as the real estate was too expensive and we believed it would be too difficult to recruit the best talent from universities to our effort.
Since then, the real estate became available at a 70% discount, universities became a much less attractive place to work due to politics outweighing meritocracy, protests that disrupt learning, the curse of antisemitism, and a decline in funding. Fortunately, during the same time, I made sufficient personal economic progress to make the AOI possible.
The advance of AI in the last few years will also enable us to greatly accelerate our mission. AI still has a lot to learn about human intelligence and the brain, and the AOI should be at the forefront of the interplay between the brain and AI.
Today, I am making a public filing disclosing a gift from Neri and me of ~$400 million or 10,000,000 shares of Pershing Square Inc. (PS) to the AOI. It is very early days for Pershing Square so these shares are intended to anchor the long-term work of the AOI as the shares compound over time while generating what we expect will be a growing stream of quarterly dividends to fund the Institute.
We will also be announcing an additional gift of similar and potentially greater size which won’t be in the form of Pershing Square stock to provide the AOI with the short- and intermediate-term runway necessary to enable it to achieve its goal of becoming a self-sustaining institute, which reinvests all of its revenues, royalties, and the economic rewards of company formation to advance the fields of brain health and human longevity.
Neri and I have chosen to anchor the funding of the AOI to maintain vision alignment and limit the need for the organization to focus on fundraising. We expect the AOI to be the best-resourced brain, rehab, recovery, and longevity institute in the world.
We are grateful to have been able to form a board which includes Dean Kamen (our generation’s Thomas Edison), George Yancopoulus (CEO of Regeneron), James Rothman (Nobel Laureate), Bernardo Sabatini (neuroscientist), Chris Kellner (neurosurgeon), Olivia Flatto (CEO Pershing Square Foundation), Neri Oxman, and myself.
We have recently identified a CEO who we expect to announce by October along with other key hires, and are beginning searches for a Chief Scientific Officer, a Chief AI/Technology Officer, a Chief Operating Officer, a Chief Financial Officer, and other key leadership roles.
If you find what we are building compelling and want to be part of the leadership team that creates and builds the AOI from a standing start, please send an email to: [email protected] with a short note as to why you believe you can help. Please include your best three ideas for the AOI along with a summary of your background and your most important accomplishments.
We promise strict confidentiality to those expressing interest in working with us.
We have learned from Lucy that the brain can recover from even catastrophic injury. There is so much more work to be done as the mind is a terrible thing to waste.
For details from my Pershing Square SEC filing see:
https://t.co/gZKafCw6Ia
@chrishlad Still needs vision and some structure. I worked at a Decacorn in 2014-2015. Amazing team, really smart people, lot of freedom - but no coherence and the whole codebase was a mess. The company never reached Decacorn status since then.
Stories like these are why I will always bet on USA
Announcing Valar Atomics' $1B series B led by Sequoia, with Valor Equity Partners, Atreides, Point72, Conviction, and others.
Alongside the $1B equity, we have closed a $200m credit facility led by Erebor and JPM.
I'm excited to welcome Shaun Maguire from Sequoia to our board.
Some of you have asked me "Why are you moving back to Canada, tell me what I dont see...".
As I have said before on @BetaKit, I think we are telling ourselves the wrong story about Canada. The prevailing narrative is that Canada doesn't build anymore. That capital and talent leave. That we're too dependent on the United States.
The data is telling a different story.
Canada created more than 100,000 jobs in May and June. We're creating jobs at twice the U.S. rate. We lead the G7 in foreign direct investment per capita. Business investment in machinery and equipment grew 10% (annualized).
And we're beginning to sell somewhere other than south. Excluding gold, non-U.S. exports are running roughly $50 billion (or 32%) above pre-tariff levels. There are now 26 nation-building initiatives representing nearly $200 billion in investment and more than 337,000 jobs.
The TSX gained nearly 30% last year versus half of that on the S&P 500. Corporate profits are growing. Canadian companies attracted $1b across 100 venture deals in Q1 2026, with the average deal size up 6%.
And we're doing it intelligently: Canada has the lowest net debt-to-GDP in the G7, the second-lowest deficit, the lowest long-term interest rates and AAA ratings from S&P and Moody's.
Clearly, this is a different story.
For the first time in a long time, Canada is starting to bet on itself again. And increasingly, growth is coming from the things we actually want it to come from: private investment, exports, productivity and innovation, not simply population growth and government spending.
But this only really works if the next bet is on the people building the next generation of Canadian companies.
@DominionDynamic is one example. In barely a year, we've raised C$169 million, including the second largest defence Series A in history (globally). We're on track to roughly triple our workforce (we are hiring more people faster than all but two companies on LinkedIn -- globally). Ottawa is to communications what Silicon Valley is to software, or what Tel Aviv is to cyber.
There are founders across Canada doing incredible things. @Wealthsimple @Waabi_ai @cohere @NV_Dynamics @neofinancial @1Password @XanaduAI @turbopuffer @Tailscale Companies that raise here, hire here, own their IP here and build here.
That, to me, is what betting on ourselves actually means. Not protectionism. Not pretending the rest of the world doesn't exist. Quite the opposite.
Build Canadian companies that are good enough to win everywhere. Then make sure Canada is willing to be their first believer, their first customer and the place they want to keep building. Be our best customer. Again. And again. And again.
We have spent a lot of time talking about everything Canada can't do. Lets spend some time thinking about what we actually have done and what we will do.
We will win.
@EliotPence Welcome back and excited to see your next play!
We need a credible American open source model provider!
Elon’s original vision of an open, American AI was right.
He could still flip Grok to open source which could be checkmate.
Why?
If you flip Grok open source, you necessarily move all margins out of the model layer and down into the infrastructure (chips + CSPs) and above to apps.
He owns a massive data center build, owns next gen inference AI and owns the most used app (Cursor). So arguably he would make *more* margin by doing this. Then moving the DCs to space makes even more sense.
Elon’s original vision of an open, American AI was right.
He could still flip Grok to open source which could be checkmate.
Why?
If you flip Grok open source, you necessarily move all margins out of the model layer and down into the infrastructure (chips + CSPs) and above to apps.
He owns a massive data center build, owns next gen inference AI and owns the most used app (Cursor). So arguably he would make *more* margin by doing this. Then moving the DCs to space makes even more sense.
Renoir paintings you can send to your better half saying “could be us”..
1. you want to ask someone out
2. you’re ready to get married
3. you’re ready to have a kid
We go there almost every year since my kids were 4 months old. Stay in Wengen or Lauterbrunnen instead of Interlaken. Kids would love Allmendhubel Flower Park. Avoid Schynigge Platte. Mannlichen park is really nice.
We love getting food from coop. Make sure you try the Fig yogurt from there. And don’t miss the daily truffle from Sprungli
@nikitabier - Every few months "For You" tab starts showing tiktok style slop. After that it takes weeks of saying videos are not relevant to clear the feed. Please give us a filter which stops all slop in our feeds.
People will eventually realize that:
Ability to write code was never the bottleneck.
Founders still need to figure out the GTM.
Just solving coding will only increase tech’s addressable market size by a fraction.
AI is still not ready to replace procedural code on production. It won’t be for years.
You will still need developers and architects to work with LLMs.
Product development companies will be able to make do with half of the engineers.
Rest of the engineers will become forward deployed engineers for Service as a software and physical AI.
You can work 5 days a week and succeed as a startup.
Mercury has done that from day 0 and we are valued @ $5.2bn 7 years after launch.
I have been an entrepreneur for 20 years and raised 3 kids while doing it.
The point of success is to have a great life not just a startup 😊
@ritwikpavan Look at Tom Bihn Bixi (https://t.co/y1tbutIGyS). I have a bunch of similar bags like Aer TP3 etc. Bixi is the lightest, most versatile and comfortable straps.
@pitdesi @ritwikpavan Looks at Tom Bihn Bixi (https://t.co/y1tbutIGyS). Much lighter than these options. Great as a under seat carryon!
I believe we will see rise in human capabilities in Math further beyond games of Go and Chess. These games are zero sum where there has to be a winner or a loser. We will see superhuman math from humans assisted by AI.
After AlphaGo, the skill of human Go players noticeably improved. I suspect we will see a similar pattern in math.
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