Conner Murphy

Head of Ecosystem @AskVenice |
Building Private Inference for agents and developers. DMs open

[Conner Murphy @Connermurphy]

IMO, with recent catalysts, 'decentralization' is going to play a more important role in 2021 than anyone originally thought. The centralization of power, running the gamut from public to private space, has led to systematic failures/missteps that will drive reactions

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

there is not a single person in government alive today who has improved my life even a fraction as much as amazon. and most have made it worse.

[Sabrina @sabrinaesaquino]

Venice is now processing over 1 trillion tokens per day!

[Conner Murphy @Connermurphy]

@dragonfly @HadickM @tomhschmidt @hosseeb Congrats @HadickM and @tomhschmidt !

[David Senra @davidsenra]

"Capitalism created the possibility of the win win win. It used to be a zero sum game where somebody won, somebody else lost.

The biggest mistake people make they still think we're in a zero sum world. They're obsessed with some billionaires because Bernie Sanders thinks that @JeffBezos and @elonmusk somehow stole the money from the people.

They don't understand that it's this prosperity machine that's creating more, not just for those billionaires, but for everything that they're touching. They're creating value for their customers, they're creating value for their employees. Their suppliers are flourishing, their investors are seeing their capital go up. It can be reinvested and compound.

All philanthropy ultimately comes from business. That's where the profits are.

Where does all the taxes come from? It ultimately comes from business as well.

This is the engine that's lifting humanity out. The entrepreneurs are the drivers of that engine. Somebody like Elon Musk, he gets a very, very, very tiny sliver of the value that he creates for the whole world."

— @iamjohnmackey

[Venice @AskVenice]

Today, Venice passed 5,000,000 users.

Still private. Still anonymous. Still unrestricted.

Thank you to every builder, creator, and free thinker on Venice.

[Conner Murphy @Connermurphy]

@OpenSoftwareCo @AskVenice Hey! - Could you please DM me?

[Gossip Goblin @Gossip_Goblin]

Well, here we go!

[Conner Murphy @Connermurphy]

@landon20s Interested and excited for it to be local in Chicago

[Sawyer Cutler @TheGreatAxios]

Thank you to the OpenAI team and all the other sponsors [@CloudflareDev @vercel_dev @ShopifyDevs @ChromiumDev @render and @Netlify ), I'm honored to have been selected as a winner.

Also a big thanks to Taylor Hanayik and all the contributors to NiiVue, the open source medical imaging viewer used within Faraday.

Why Faraday?

The canvas element on the web is inefficient for agents.

Up until WebMCP, in order to interact with canvas elements or other high complexity scenarios, agents would need to take screenshots and then parse images to attempt to extract information. For certain things, e.g image classification this might be acceptable; however in the medical field the accuracy of data is critical.

WebMCP unlocks a new way for agents consuming via web technology to directly access the most important information without having to guess.

The other benefit here is that the scan itself does not have to leave the browser and only the data you need to take action makes it to the inference provider.

If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to shoot me a DM or leave a comment!

Thank you again to everyone!

[Conner Murphy @Connermurphy]

Wow, technology is amazing. Be a techno optimist. It’s way cooler.

[Neuralink @neuralink]

Through the VOICE trial, Terry is using his Neuralink implant to help fine-tune a brain-to-voice interface for himself and others who can’t speak. He trained the algorithm first by miming speech as best he could, then by simply thinking the words and hearing them come out in his own natural voice.

Powered by Grok Voice from @spacexai

[Conner Murphy @Connermurphy]

@goodgamepodxyz Its worth looking at $DIEM for the Alliance startups looking to rent compute. DIEM is tokenized inference through Venice. It gets them the open models you mentioned, privately. Same way USDAI makes GPU an asset, DIEM lets a startup own the inference.

[stepfanie @stepfanie]

I’m sorry but America did not spend 250 years turning “what’s over there?” into the most powerful civilization on earth just to finally arrive at the most consequential technological frontier in generations and decide actually we’re scared of frontiers now. We ARE the fucking frontier. We cross oceans. We build railroads across continents. We split atoms. We put men on the moon. We turn sand into computers and computers into a global nervous system.

Of COURSE AI is terrifying. The frontier is SUPPOSED to scare the shit out of you. That’s how you know you have, in fact, located the fucking frontier.

The answer is not recklessness, but it sure as fuck isn’t paralysis either. America’s comparative advantage is an unusually high national tolerance for ambitious weirdos staring at impossible things and saying “Yeah... I think I can build it.” That trait is rarer than oil, harder to manufacture than semiconductors, and responsible for a frankly preposterous amount of the modern world.

And you absolutely will not fucking regulate it out of us.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

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[Conner Murphy @Connermurphy]

Private inference is becoming table stakes if you are a developer or founder. Frontier labs will continue going vertical. If you send novel work through their default APIs, you are sharing sensitive data and IP directly with companies that may compete with you. @friedberg just watched that happen.

Use a path where the operator can't read the prompt, with proof on every response. @AskVenice has a privacy ladder where you can pick the level that fits your need.

[dnap @dnapway]

David Friedberg reveals frontier labs are taking novel insights from his chat history and packaging them as their own

"I have had experiences where we've asked some fairly novel scientific questions, and it identifies it as a novel insight, 'oh, never thought about that, might be interesting,' blah blah blah..."

"And the using a different account, asking the next model version, it's like, 'oh, you could do this'. And it actually just describes this exact thing that we had in our chat in the previous version."

"These are a handful of anecdotal experiences. But I know the domain that we work in, and the novelty of this stuff. So I know that there isn't some new corpus of information out there that's training the new model."

"So all I can say at that point is that my conversation or our analyses have been used for training. The truth is, it's actually a piece of IP, that's our organizational IP. We don't have any NDA or confidentiality protections, with them being a service provider back to us."

"This is why I care a lot about open source, because I don't want them having my chat logs, because they can use them for training to create an IP that is now diffused to the rest of the market. I find this very unfair."

[Dentity @dentityme]

A record 9.4 million stablecoin transfers were initiated by AI agents through x402 last week.

Machine-to-machine payments are quickly becoming a meaningful part of the onchain economy.

[a16z @a16z]

Humans are the minority user of AI

Agents burn nearly 5x the tokens people do, up 14x since February

Charts of the Week: https://t.co/7YT2BXvuUu

[Arjun Khemani @arjunkhemani]

Zcash is one of the only things in crypto with oxygen right now.

- Accidentally created a blueprint for using AI to find lethal security bugs, and fix them.

- Within weeks of fixing an inflation bug, Zcash shipped a formally verified pool. ~80% of ZEC that was in Orchard has already migrated to it.

- That pool is also quantum-recoverable.

- A new node, @ZakuraZcash, is dramatically improving performance and block propagation.

- @TachyonZcash is being built to scale Zcash to billions of users.

- And today, @cypherpunk launched the world’s largest Zcash mining fleet.

Zcash has never been stronger: technically, economically, or as a community.

The infrastructure is hardening. The network is scaling. The community has oxygen.

We have a window. We must win.

[JV 🪂 @John_Vance]

$3m in revenue for founders before i even had a logo.
today parachute is live.

i help seed stage founders close their first $250k to $1m+ deals.

i build your sales process from scratch, design your go-to-market motion, and write the narrative that gets buyers to lean in.

14 years of enterprise sales and $100m+ closed, now packed into an ai-native advisory studio capped at 4 founders at a time.

you don't pay unless the work actually moves your business.

i left a 500k+ year job and became a new dad in the same year to build this. going all in.

offering 15 min free consults to a few founders who dm me. I do the research, present your strengths + weakness, give friendly tips and show you how I operate. If we vibe, we can talk deeper, fully no strings attached.

dms are open if you're a founder wanting to close 250k - $1,000,000 deals consistently

https://t.co/glIXs5Zh4b

[Conner Murphy @Connermurphy]

@John_Vance Congrats man! This is going to be huge