Bohan

Founding investor @chemistry

[Bohan @loubohan]

@unconvAI Ray Kurzweil predicted molecular and biological computing 30 years ago and I’m bullish it’ll play out

[Bohan @loubohan]

@CTR_China Good list except X Square's Chinese name is 自变量 not 叉方

[Bohan @loubohan]

@andrew__reed I think Hyrox was owned by distressed Chinese conglomerate Wanda group and it was being sold for $400M. Wondering if you'd invest. These businesses are cash cows. I think Spartan Race was doing $230M EBITDA on $250M revenue cuz you just need to push some mud together and sell tix

[Bohan @loubohan]

It is ironic to see US lawmakers and VCs complain about the dominance of Chinese open-source in American startups when the Chinese are literally giving out the world's best OSS models for free, powering Silicon Valley, with no American alternative, yet

[Ara Kharazian @arakharazian]

NEW: DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company, is one of the fastest growing vendors on Ramp.

In probably the biggest sign that companies are looking for cheaper alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic, some are willing to use cheaper, Chinese models, sending U.S. data back and forth from China-hosted servers.

[Bohan @loubohan]

@baelentina_ Oh nice i was just there last 10 days. Met a lot of robotics and hardware investors and companies

[Bohan @loubohan]

First reaction not that bad?

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: Senator Bernie Sanders has called for a law granting the federal government a 50% stake in each AI lab to create a public sovereign wealth fund.

[Bohan @loubohan]

Honestly huge upset for Villanova to win First American Pope. Massive fumble by Notre Dame. They were the top seed

[Bohan @loubohan]

With the drop of the Magnifica Humanitas, it is confirmed that this pope was the elite pick for the AI age

He literally picked the name Leo because the last Pope Leo XIII defended workers rights during the Industrial Revolution, and we are now in another technological shift

[Bohan @loubohan]

The content may not be groundbreaking, but it's about who says it

The Pope is the single highest moral authority on Earth

Very curious if there's any impact on global Catholic elites. Will JD Vance renounce AI acceleration? It's a test of his loyalties to church or valley

[Bohan @loubohan]

Ray Kurzweil's literally cited in the Pope's new encyclical. Come ye come ye to hear him live

[Bohan @loubohan]

How should one even describe Ray Kurzweil?

- Prolific inventor of OCR, TTS, and foundational NLP
- Repeat national bestselling author
- "Godfather of AGI" who popularized the Singularity and inspired the founding of Anthropic, Deepmind and OpenAI
- Most accurate superforecaster of technology whose AGI timelines are still accurate to this day
- Highest U.S. technological award from Bill Clinton (he's received honors from 3 sitting presidents and honorary degrees from 21 universities)
- VP at Google whose job was to predict the future
- MIT board of trustees
- OG biohacker who plans to live forever
- Grammy award winner
- Father of Chemistry founding partner, Ethan

It's nearly impossible to encapsulate the breadth of Ray Kurzweil's wide-ranging experiences and impact on our world.

Join us for conversation between Ray Kurzweil and his son Ethan as we ask the man who predicted AGI what he thinks will happen next and what he did not foresee.
https://t.co/Jgns3c5XLD

[Bohan @loubohan]

@TurnerNovak E a few years ago would have caught all the AGI labs but they’ve now moved. It helps u slop cannon YC too

[Bohan @loubohan]

Still can’t believe this is a real pic Putin put out in 2018

Whatever nether demon lord he’s summoning, I’ll have some of that

[Bohan @loubohan]

In China you can already hire subsidized cleaners on the largest gig worker platform 58同城 and they come with @XSquareRobot to do the cleaning and have the humans handle the edge cases.

[shift @joinshiftX]

Today, we're launching shift. We're starting by cleaning your apartment in New York City, for free.

Here's how it works. Book a shift cleaning. A vetted shift operator comes to your home wearing one of our devices. They clean. They leave. You pay nothing.

In exchange, we record the cleaning. Robotics is being built on data about how people do daily tasks, and the value of that recording is what funds the service. Anything personal in it is anonymized before the recording is processed.

By now, you have heard about the shift to AI more times than you can count. About the shift toward you, the part where you actually feel it, you have heard almost nothing. Shift is what starts to make it concrete, in specific cities, with specific services.

Today, cleaning in New York. Soon, handymen, repairs, and errands across the globe. And this is just one side of shift, with more on the way.

Comment “shift” and we’ll send you an early access link.

[Citrini @citrini]

So much pontification about the demographic crisis and the solution was just to send KOSPI to infinity.

[Bohan @loubohan]

Already invited to 3 Magnifica Humanitas reading groups this Sunday at the same time 😎

[Bohan @loubohan]

SF this week "which encyclical reading group you going to"

[Bohan @loubohan]

Shenzhen is the SF of China. You feel it when you land at the airport.
Every ad is agents or inference except maybe they have a bit more humanoids

Baidu even managed to hit a twofer with embodied AI and cloud inference in one billboard

[Bohan @loubohan]

@serenaa_ge sick bench

[Bohan @loubohan]

Surprisingly refreshing to escape the apocalyptic doom bubble for a week, but of course they may not feel the AGI yet

[Bohan @loubohan]

Coming out of 10 days with founders and researchers in China, I was surprised that this headline is true

I was seeking to dispel Western narratives of Chinese AI optimism because Chinese social media was also rife with job loss angst, but it really did feel less doomer than SF

[Rest of World @restofworld]

While only 38% of Americans say they are excited about AI, optimism levels reach as high as 84% in China and 80% in Indonesia, signaling a massive regional divide in how the world views the future of tech https://t.co/gHXZtQtoZe