louissch

Interested in startups, venture capital and stock markets. Passionated about sales, GH, customer strategy & international expansion. Station F | HSG | Comtravo

[Naval @naval]

If there were backdoors and biases hidden in open-weight models, you could count on closed-weight labs to find and reveal them.

[louissch @louissch_]

@Jason I’m in

[The Market Ear @themarketear]

Missed tech?
Bitcoin might be next…
https://t.co/7MdeBV4vR1

[European Commission @EU_Commission]

We are introducing EU Inc. To make building and growing a business across the EU faster, simpler, and smarter.

🔸 Start a company in less than 48 hours
🔸 No minimum capital requirement
🔸 Fully online and borderless

[Ejaaz @cryptopunk7213]

i find it fucking hilarious how Apple "failing" at AI is now the exact reason they're about to win it:

- watched everyone else burn $1.4T+ building models... then picked the winner (gemini) to use for... $1B

- while everyone fights to grow users, apple flips a switch and 2.5 billion devices get AI siri tmrw.

- $150B to splurge on the device / app layer. zero competition (because everyones spent their cash).

- while openAI charges $200/mo subscriptions, Apple lets you run models on-device (cheaper, faster, private, personal)

- while openAI struggles to build an AI device, Apple just dropped 5 powered by the best AI chips for hand-held devices.

they "lost" the model race because they didn't need to win it in the first place

greatest to (accidentally) ever do it.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Excellent from Alexander Stubb, President of Finland,

"What has Russia achieved in the past 4 years?"

"Taken 20% of Ukraine"

"1 million casualties and dead"

"Decreased it's sphere of influence"

"Russian economy, 30% inflation, 16% interest rates, 0% growth, no more reserves, incapacity to pay soldiers when the war ends"

"I'm more worried about Russia's unwillingness to end this war because they cannot afford to keep going"

"Than about Russia's capability to win this war"

"Let's keep things in perspective"

"This war has been a strategic failure of Putin"

"He increased the size of NATO"

"He made Ukraine European"

"He increased the defence budgets of European states"

"Are we able to defend ourselves? Yes we are"

[FRValue @FRValue]

Charlie was a GOAT

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

https://t.co/5mkvsUPpQG

[Election Wizard @ElectionWiz]

Venezuelan man:

“Those who say that the U.S. is only interested in our oil, I ask you:

What do you think the RUSSIANS and the CHINESE wanted here?

The recipe for arepas?"

😂😂😂

[Xavier Tytelman @PeurAvion]

Il faut que l'on arrête de s'imposer le respect du droit international au profit de ceux qui le violent.
Personne ne va pleurer le dictateur illégitime d'un narco-Etat🇻🇪, mais plus largement:
- quand la Russie🇷🇺 envahit l'Ukraine🇺🇦, arrêtons de respecter sa souveraineté sur ses avoirs,
- quand la Chine🇨🇳 ne respecte pas ses obligations dans l'OMC, mettons des droits de douane,
- quand la Biélorussie🇧🇾 accueille des missiles potentiellement nucléaires, offrons cette possibilité à la Pologne🇵🇱
- ne laissons pas les "hors la loi" bloquer les décisions de l'ONU, qu'ils perdent leur droit de véto au conseil de sécurité !
Bref, nos règles doivent s'appliquer avec ceux qui les respectent, et ceux qui veulent nous nuire violent déjà toutes les conventions tout en attendant de nous que l'on continue à s'y tenir, provoquant notre impuissance.
Arrêtons d'être innocents, l'exemplarité inconditionnelle est devenue une faiblesse.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Plasma inside the ST40 fusion reactor, filmed in color for the first time
https://t.co/W1mqqdUCSd

[Matt's Trading Tools @matthewmenster]

$NAVN commentary from one of today's analyst actions:

[@levelsio @levelsio]

🇪🇺 As a European citizen and AI founder, I can apparently use these "AI Factories", so I just signed up to use them!

Every "supercomputer" has an [ ACCESS NOW ] button which made me very excited

I expected to sign up, maybe pay a discounted H100 rate (funded by EU, that'd be nice?) and get a Jypyter notebook, or some SSH login so I can access my GPU like I'd do on @lambdaapi or @awscloud or @Hetzner_Online

But I celebrated to early, I signed up, confirmed my email, then ended up in a "Supercomputer Access Calls" page, where I had to select from a tedious list of "Call For Proposals" to get access to a GPU

So I could NOT just access a H100 GPU, I have to make sure my project (in this case my business) fits a specific proposal, ok fair

This process was already tedious enough but then when I tried to actually go through with it, it started asking me if I had "Respect for Human Agency?", I do I think, and if I was mindful of "Individual, and Social and Environmental Well-Being?", well I am, right guys??? Right??? The questions didn't stop, just endless pages of this

Look I get what they're doing, they pivoted the classic university "I need to rent a giant computer for my research" to an EU wide thing and then present it as the "European AI plan"

But this isn't really how AI works in production? As a founder in AI, if I wanna do stuff I'd rent a whole bunch H100 GPUs again at @lambdaapi or @awscloud or @Hetzner_Online and SSH into a box

Or if I want it more simple I run AI models on @FAL, @wavespeed or @replicate which is just an API call or web front end I can click stuff and run a model

The EU has the right intentions here but it's just the wrong execution, this thing will 100% go nowhere, and I'm a born optimist, I want to believe, I'm also a proud European, and I'm in AI a bit and not a complete idiot. There's just better ways to do this

If you really want to have the GPU servers in Europe (which arguably isn't that important), then let me rent a GPU box with SSH access at @Hetzner_Online or @OVHcloud that's hosted in Europe and subsidize that for European citizens and European businesses. I don't even believe in that, but at least that'd make it accessible for Europeans. Now it really isn't?

What's REALLY much more important though if you want to be a part of the AI race and I've posted for years here with @euaccofficial is to make Europe a really extremely attractive place to start and run an AI business. Remove regulatory obstructions and give tax discounts for startups. Let them build a business first that can compete worldwide and once they make enough money (let's say $100M/y), then slowly start adding regulation. Because right now the regulation only benefits the European incumbents, the dinosaur companies, while making it very difficult for European citizens to start new AI companies here.

Which is why we literally have none left.

Anyway, I applied to get my GPU, let's see if I get it!

[@levelsio @levelsio]

What in the F is an AI factory?

I had to investigate what the unelected @EU_Commission is talking about today

So according to them, it's some data centers (which they call supercomputers) in 6 different EU countries

I checked out the most powerful one: Karolina, a Czech data center, it mostly has CPUs though (see pic) not GPUs, so mostly useless for AI

The GPUs it does have are 72x 8x NVIDIA A100 GPU, so 576x A100, or equivalent of 240x H100s

(H100 is about 2.4x the compute power of A100)

So let's compare that:

@xAI has 200,000x H100 GPUs

So the xAI data center has 800x more compute than the Czech one

If we combine xAI, Meta, AWS, etc. it's about 750,000 H100s

If we assume the other 5 data centers in the EU are equivalent to the Czech one (which is massive stretch because most of the others seem AI consultacny services, they don't even HAVE chips!), the EU's new "AI factories" have a total of 1,440x H100 GPUs, let's round up to 1,500 to be nice

So the EU is trying to compete with 750,000 GPUs with their own 1,500 GPUs, so 500x less??

Correct me if I'm wrong but it's just seems very low impact and another ridiculous idea and burning of EU tax payers money that will end up in local cronies and bureaucrats and will do NOTHING to improve the AI business climate for Europe

The best way to improve it is to deregulate, make it super easy and low tax (especially when starting out) to start AI companies in Europe

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

It's war.

[Louis Duclos @ObsDelphi]

🇪🇺🇨🇳La Chine montre peu à peu son vrai visage.

Quand ils disent que l'OTAN ne devrait pas exister (et donc devrait disparaître), vous pouvez être sûrs que cela signifie qu'ils travaillent activement à sa dissolution.

Son objectif est de soutenir la Russie pour la pousser à agresser l'OTAN afin que cela détourne l'attention de l'alliance pour que la Chine puisse passer à l'action contre Taïwan. La Chine est très loin d'être la puissance pacifique dont elle se vante.

Aujourd'hui nous ne pouvons pas tourner le dos à la Chine pour des raisons économiques mais il faut se préparer à l'orage qui arrive car, bientôt, Beijing sortira du bois et alors il nous faudra être prêts.

Ce n'est pas que la Russie qui menace l'OTAN mais aussi la Chine, l'Iran et la Corée du Nord. Ces pays se préparent depuis des années à une confrontation avec le bloc occidental et l'heure du choc se rapproche de plus en plus. Ils se soutiendront, se synchroniseront afin de détruire notre unité.

D'ici 2030, des changements géopolitiques MAJEURS vont se dérouler et probablement un nouveau conflit généralisé. Le front ne sera pas en France, mais nous devrons faire face qu'on le veuille ou non.

La Chine ne veut pas la paix, elle veut la domination.

[BFM Business @bfmbusiness]

"On devrait dresser des statues à Pinault et Niel plutôt que de leur prendre 2%": le patron de Bpifrance tire à boulets rouges contre la taxe Zucman, un "délire communiste"
https://t.co/nhMWi2sqiC

[Pierre Fournier @_PierreFournier]

Si la taxe Zucman s’appliquait, ce que proposent le PS et EELV, les 3 co-fondateurs de Mistral AI devraient débourser 37,4 M€ par an, alors que l’entreprise n’est pas encore rentable.

Ils seraient contraints de vendre leurs parts pour s’acquitter de cet impôt absurde.
Qui serait assez fou pour entreprendre en France avec une telle taxe ?

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

The New Axis of Evil

[Shabnam Parveen @shabnam_774]

The 15 hilarious and Coolest maps you've probably never seen before:

1. Bosnians: I wanna swim
Croatia : No