Hersh Desai

Investing in startups with @natfriedman + @danielgross; run @aigrant and the Andromeda Cluster; stan dogs and warm carbs & cheese; tech/AI for human flourishing

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@vvkgopalan @8vc Congratulations!!!

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@mspringut I wonder who could supply them...

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@oleginprod @Research_FRI +1

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Erik Torenberg is the Nikita Bier of didactic founder communities

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@lisabethhan @strimblez Sounds like you're raising a non-technical kid

[Samantha Trimble @strimblez]

a YC founder told me that waking up early is for non technical people only

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@distributionat @andromeda_ai does all schlep work for you in this segment having vetted and procured lots of clusters of thousands of GPUs

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

the most underrated part of muse is the model that powers it. thank you to the MSL research team—some of the most technically brilliant, hardworking scientists and engineers i’ve ever known. you brought original ideas to difficult problems, invented new methods, and battled through enormous technical complexity to build the jewel at the heart of muse.

thank you to the teams working on agentic post-training, tool and computer use, memory, personalization, alignment, safety, and multimodal understanding. thank you to the people building data, evals, and infrastructure beneath it all. so much scientific ingenuity lives in those details: designing a better experiment, finding the flaw in an apparently good result, staying with a stubborn problem until a new way forward becomes clear.

and now that jewel powers a beautiful product your grandma can use without knowing a thing about the extraordinary complexity underneath. it will just work for her. all those discoveries, all that patient work, becoming something simple and useful in another person’s hands. there is something magical about that. i’m grateful to be building with you.

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@darian314 @alexandr_wang @meetgranola You can just tell Muse to connect via your Granola API key

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@alexandr_wang LFG!!!

[Rune Kvist @RuneKvist]

The Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company has raised $55M to audit and insure frontier AI models.

Insurance produces audits the public can trust and understand. The mechanism is simple: insurers need audits to price the risk. They pick auditors they believe will help them price the risk most accurately. Insurers then turn the audits into a price signal that cuts through political debates. Insurers are aligned with the public: if they get the audits wrong, they go out of business. That’s different from today, where labs pick their own auditors, creating public distrust.

Insurance only works if we scale up auditing, and we are building the infrastructure to do that. Millions of agents are being deployed; they leave terabytes of traces and will create thousands of incidents across dozens of risk categories. To scale auditing, we need reliable agents to surface evidence traces for human review.

History guides us. Take cars: auto insurers funded crash tests to price risks; crash tests led us to airbags, lowering the risk. Take electricity: home insurers funded lightbulb tests to price fire risks; today, every lightbulb carries a safety mark. Nuclear safety works similarly.

We’ve been learning by doing.. In the last 6 months, we’ve audited and insured frontier agent builders like Cursor, ElevenLabs, Lovable and Harvey. For ElevenLabs to get the world’s first agent insurance coverage, a Lloyd’s of London insurer required quarterly technical audits by an auditor of the insurer’s choice. We’ve built infrastructure for quarterly technical audits of any agent, working alongside firms like Gray Swan (technical evaluations) and Schellman (audit).

In the coming weeks, we’ll share our vision for how an insurance ecosystem can work for the frontier, and open source the world’s first actuarial model for frontier AI catastrophic risk.

We’re hiring across all roles in San Francisco. Come do your life’s work with us.

Rune & Rajiv

[Rune @Rune_Energy]

We've raised $40M to turn stranded solar power into AI compute, no grid connection required.

Meet RELIC, the drama-free data center, deployed in under 60 minutes and already live at a 200MW site in Texas.

More from @adele_peters at @FastCompany.

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@Rune_Energy @adele_peters @FastCompany GPU ramp go brrrrr!!!

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@virattt Check out the A2A product from @trygravityai

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@alexandr_wang @natfriedman Could not agree more

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

something most folks who use muse won't ever know or appreciate was the degree to which this was @natfriedman's baby.

it has been one of the great honors of my career watching nat cook. he assembled and ran the team, and so many of the little details that people love came from his beautiful mind.

nat is one of the great artists of our time with products as his medium. more people should experience his brilliance, and with muse, they can ❤️

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@snpal2000 Work and personal

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What did you get done in the last 433 days?

[Nat Friedman @natfriedman]

Started work at Meta this week. My job is to make amazing AI products that billions of people love to use.

It won't happen overnight, but a few days in, I'm feeling confident that great things are ahead.

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@varun_mathur @thelinqapp what say you?

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Explains half of robotics startups

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Someone said ADHD people would rather start a business than fold their clothes. 😂

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@kushalbyatnal Did it email the CEO?