Xi Yin just left Harvard for OpenAI.
String theorist. Youngest full professor in Harvard history.
His words: "AI gives me 100x speedup. Weeks of output would take me 10 years."
Then: "I don't believe there's any human intellectual ability AI cannot replicate."
The man who said that is the one who would know.
#DINQ #AI #OpenAI
OpenAI just hired the statistician who:
→ Graduated #1 from Peking University math
→ Won the "Nobel Prize of Statistics" this year (1 person under 40, per year)
→ Built the theoretical framework another researcher used to solve a 42-year-old math problem last month
He's not coming to write papers.
He's coming to train the models.
The compute wars are over.
The data wars are over.
The talent wars just got more interesting.
#DINQ #AI #OpenAI
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an update on $SEA.
the team has been building at full speed, and the foundation had planned to kick off the first steps as part of our march 30th event. but @openseafdn is pushing back the timeline.
a delay is a delay. i’m not going to dress it up, and i know how it lands.
the reality is that market conditions are challenging across crypto right now, and $SEA only launches once. @openseafdn could force the original date, or we could ensure every piece is in place and make this moment what this community deserves.
we gave a tremendous amount of thought to how to do right here. I’m thankful to @HollanderAdam for bringing the community’s voice into every conversation. we’ll be doing the following:
no more waves: the current rewards wave will be our last.
optional fee refund: recognizing that we originally committed to a Q1 date, we’re offering refunds of the platform fees we retained while participating in the rewards waves (3 - 6) that followed our timing announcement. if you like, you can receive a refund of those fees, which when combined with treasure chest prizes, essentially means all of your trading during that period was on us. if you opt for a refund, the Treasures you were awarded during these waves will be removed from your account. details on this process will follow.
honoring existing Treasures: for Treasures you continue to hold, our prior commitment stands: they will be meaningfully considered by the Foundation at TGE. this is independent from allocations for historical activity.
0% fees for 60 days: starting on march 31st, opensea will reduce our own token trading fees to 0%. we want to make it a no-brainer for everyone to experience our new platform: cross-chain token trading, mobile app, perps and more. after this 60 day period, we will put a new system in place that makes fees significantly more competitive for anyone trading consistently on opensea.
product updates: while we’re postponing our march 30th event, we’ll host a separate one in the coming months focused on product updates. it’s been incredible to see the early responses to our mobile app, and we can’t wait to get it into more people’s hands.
so if not now, wen?
when we announced last year, it was too early. that created unnecessary uncertainty and reactivity. so when the Foundation sets a new timeline, it will be deliberate and specific.
here’s why i’m confident that’s the right move:
i’ve been building opensea for almost a decade. when this started, we were two people and the only thing you could trade on OS was cryptokitties. i’ve watched this space go from a niche curiosity to billions in volume to where we are today.
the thing that’s carried us through every cycle was a willingness to make hard calls when it mattered. when our market crashed, we rebuilt from zero: an entirely new stack, a new product, and a new team culture. that hurt in the short term. but today OS2 is undeniably the strongest marketplace offering, and it’s the foundation everything sits on.
we have huge ambitions as a company, and we’re here for the long game. making all of non-custodial crypto delightful on mobile is just the beginning. that means we have to set a very high bar for everything we do, and it’s why i’m so protective of delivering a launch that’s worthy of this community and everything we’re putting into this.
Because no one cares. I've "revealed" it a bunch of times.
For example, Jesse will actively sabotage teams that compete with his bags, and profit from insider trading. We have proof of this, because 4 years ago I launched modular NFTs and a modular NFT marketplace on Base, and Jesse and co wholesale ignored us (Base is for everyone lmao) because we competed with the "established" player.
Base owns x402scan in "secret" (not really lol) and is telling them to boycott any chain other than Solana and Base (and if another chains wants to be added, they are asked to pay 150k per year).
Every facilitator is simulating the traffic they get because there are no gas fees. There are no gas fees because chains are competing on who will fake more transactions to appear more "used".
I've spoken about all this and more dozens of times. No one cares.
Because of the ~3000 people left in crypto, everyone is just looking to accumulate as much money as possible before they leave. This is why cypherpunks such are myself have been pushed out.
CORPS building makes you broke, grift building makes you rich. So, we're all moving back to web2 and experiments in our free time, because staying in web3 is akin to abuse.