Griffin Aste

Building ventures:

UBEYE - - -

[Griffin Aste @griffinaste]

*Interstitially embedding new knowledge in physical objects.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Suitably embedding new knowledge in physical objects.

[Griffin Aste @griffinaste]

I heard it was Ted Cruz’s, but couldn’t find it…

[Griffin Aste @griffinaste]

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Griffin Aste @griffinaste]

Link to apply pls?

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Intriguing.

[Griffin Aste @griffinaste]

It’s time to build the new Rodong Sinmun, but for the free world.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

It’s time to build new media.

[Griffin Aste @griffinaste]

Cc https://t.co/zZLN2Lwlal

Imagine WPP/Publicis + Fox Corp + Meta conceiving.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

It’s time to build new media.

[Griffin Aste @griffinaste]

New Media will yield the next Trillionaire(s).

Self recommending.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

It’s time to build new media.

[Griffin Aste @griffinaste]

Unleash the Fury 🫦 🌶️ 🫦

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

It’s time to fight unfair.

[Griffin Aste @griffinaste]

In what setting are you referring to?

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

We need to see what it looks like from inside the glasses.

[Griffin Aste @griffinaste]

It's obvious that AR glasses will become the next computer. The timing is now right.

[Mark Gurman @markgurman]

The Snap Specs are official - $2,195, all-in-one AR glasses that @EvanSpiegel has dubbed the next computer. Details and interview here. https://t.co/F4IEPalLt2

[Griffin Aste @griffinaste]

The ambition is inspiring no doubt.

But it gives Temu George Lucas wannabe & fandom.

One thing is certain, it’s proving to be the ultimate ‘Wealth Creation Technologies Corporation.’

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

https://t.co/puLXpatHvd

[Griffin Aste @griffinaste]

Yeah, but you’ll never guess what Princess Beatrice wore yesterday…

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Many such cases.

[Griffin Aste @griffinaste]

Who is Dario Amodei?

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Guy who thinks he sounds like FDR but actually just sounds like Brezhnev.

[Griffin Aste @griffinaste]

Marc, pop a Zyn in the upper & lower decky at the same time.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

More Zyn for sure.

[Griffin Aste @griffinaste]

Marc, Lowell, & Andreessen.

Surely, I’m right.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

I know three people who are exceptions to this.

[Griffin Aste @griffinaste]

Hahahahah

[Alex Kehr @alexkehr]

@griffinaste i'm willing to do anything for some anthropic shares

[Griffin Aste @griffinaste]

Confused as I thought Dario already resided in Uranus.

[Alex Kehr @alexkehr]

I’m willing to marry any Anthropic employee who needs a US citizenship

[Griffin Aste @griffinaste]

Everyone from the autist CEOs, the labs themselves, and the VCs quickly realizing the fed government kingpins the winners.

Felon Musk knows this well.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Game theory from here is super interesting:

Original Mags (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta) now have a serious non-zero opportunity to tank the frontier labs.

Go to the government, kneecap the labs’ motion of putting the latest models out in the wild, become the trusted gatekeeper between the labs and the public at large (including internationally) by having the labs go through their clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) and implement strict KYC to seal the deal.

The frontier labs should have seen this coming years ago and implemented a robust KYC for just this moment. The fact they didn’t is kind of concerning.

Why did they not do it?

Best guess is because it would have changed the run-rate revenues (downward) which would have then changed funding dynamics - lower valuations, more dilution, less secondary.

A valuation reset may happen now anyways, except the labs may end up with less control and more restrictions at the end of it. At the same time, everyone is already clamoring about token prices of the old models from the labs anyways…

This couldn’t be a better setup for open source and neoclouds. Big question is can they meet the moment?

There are too few of them and their progress seems sporadic at best.

[Griffin Aste @griffinaste]

Dario Amodei being played like a fiddle, again.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true:

— As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable.

— Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.)

— A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused.

— In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.”

— In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety.

— In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community.

— The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority.

— Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.