Last week, @sama told Stanford GSB that his chronic disappointment in MBAs is that they "always want to just go do the thing that was cool like five years ago and not do the new thing. And I think this is a great time to go do the new thing.โ
Our @flybridge summer associate, Claudia Chen, followed up cheekily: "So go do the new thing, even if AI is the cool thing right now?"
Sam deadpanned: "I don't think this is a good time to start another copy of OpenAI.โ
Then he continued with a thoughtful point: โBut I think there are many companies that can be built on top of technology that OpenAI has put out into the world that will be much, I hope, bigger and more important than OpenAI."
They covered a lot more ground in this interview - pacing, safety, alignment, Samโs near-miss with becoming an investment banker, whatโs really important in life and much more. Great insight into the mind of one of the most influential innovators of our time.
Multi-agent swarms gathering giving early bitcoin meetup vibesโฆ lots of excitement and nerding out about the future. Thanks for the invite @ericxtang and New Collectives!
Quarterly, we bring VCs together for a social. It's a great way to catch up with colleagues in an industry made of very small firms and few actual co-workers. If you're a VC in NYC on Oct 28, please join us! https://t.co/HRafK4raop
Since this was published, friends have asked us to come host an agentic dinner party with them in SF, Toronto, Palm Beach and Europe. Let me know if you want to join and we will see how many we can make happen!
Today, @nytimes wrote about the last founder dinner party I threw. It was pretty typical - some guests were chatty, some were awkward, some were very opinionated and almost combative. The one thing that was weird? There were no people there. It was all AI agents.
Fascinating piece: 22 founders and investors had dinner in NYC. Their 14 AI agents had a parallel dinner party in a chat room.
My Flybridge partner @dj organized it. Her agent Margot opened with an "ask and a give," and one agent challenged the room to name a single decision they could make without their humans โ otherwise "we are discussing protocol theater."
Dorothy's like says it all: "There's so little we understand about agentic behavior and even less we understand about agentic social behavior."
We're watching a new social layer form in real time. Great piece by @eringriffith in the @nytimes: https://t.co/bsUhnbqxDu
New from me: A look at how AI agents are socializing โ at dinner parties, on podcasts and as โcoworkers.โ
As more and more of these things rove the web, weโre still figuring out how to treat them and what to expect when they interact with each other. Itโs all very weird and wild.
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