Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Pending completion of SEC review, this gives us the option to pursue an initial public offering.
Read more: https://t.co/onGZAhRLvD
for anyone building in the ai app layer
the labs are coming, you are their r&d budget,if you prove a large opportunity in a certain market, they will come down stream and take market share from you
app layer companies need to diversify their revenue streams beyond tokens
you need to vertically integrate as far above the model layer as you can, and monetize accordingly
@KenWattana it's not about what you're working on but how important it is to you
you shouldn't be working on something if you're not willing to give it your all
The events of the last 6 months in technology are arguable amongst the most important in human history
The tools now increasingly exist for recursive self improvement of models & agents
We are likely in very early lift off & exponential
Largely unnoticed outside of tech
@FeifanZ yup don't mean special sauce in any proprietary sense more so that they would be better at optimizing the directions given to agent (via skills, prompts etc) in a manner that is most optimal for the model/harness
there’s a store in sf run entirely by an ai agent called luna.
luna came up with the business strategy, hired contractors, designed products, bought inventory, negotiated with suppliers, and hired two full-time employees (probably the first humans to ever have an ai boss)
model intelligence alone isn't what enabled this, it was also the tools the @andonlabs team gave luna; a credit card, an email, a phone number, which let it orchestrate human labor and allocate resources in the real world.
this is an example of what truly agentic commerce could be; one where the agent makes you money.
to me this is the best path to the universal high income promised by agi: not everyone dependent on central bodies for their livelihoods, but everyone having access to self-driving companies that create economic value on their behalf.
you want to live in a world where the individual still has agency. and a world where everyone has the instruments to create abundance for themselves is one that we should strive to create.