Charles Roberts

Will X ultimately become a fused collective human consciousness? @elonmusk talked with us for nearly two hours in December last year about the paradoxes on his unique mind. Given AI advancements since, his thoughts are more poignant than ever. Read my reflections on this conversation, or listen to the replay here. 👇 ark-ventures.com/commentary/x-a…

The human brain processes visual information 60,000x faster than text. Humans are visual processors, not text processors. Images hit the brain instantly. Words take work. That's why a single SpaceX launch video communicates more than a thousand-word essay—and why your slide decks hit harder than paragraphs. We're wired for pictures, not prose.

Wow with Claude Code and its peers, innovation is truly now “1% inspiration, 1% perspiration.” Wonder what Edison would have done with his found time. There has never been a better time to start a company. Thank you @AnthropicAI @GeminiApp @OpenAI @xai +Happy Easter All!

🚨MAJOR INTERVIEW: Jensen Huang joins the Besties! The @nvidia CEO joins to discuss: -- Nvidia's future, roadmap to $1T revenue -- Physical AI's $50T market -- Rise of the agent, OpenClaw's inflection moment -- Inference explosion, Groq deal -- AI PR Crisis, Anthropic's comms mistakes -- Token allocation for employees ++ much more! (0:00) Jensen Huang joins the show! (0:26) Acquiring Groq and the inference explosion (8:53) Decision making at the world's most valuable company (10:47) Physical AI's $50T market, OpenClaw's future, the new operating system for modern AI computing (16:38) AI's PR crisis, refuting doomer narratives, Anthropic's comms mistakes (20:48) Revenue capacity, token allocation for employees, Karpathy's autoresearch, agentic future (30:50) Open source, global diffusion, Iran/Taiwan supply chain impact (39:45) Self-driving platform, facing competition from active customers, responding to growth slowdown predictions (47:32) Datacenters in space, AI healthcare, Robotics (56:10) OpenAI/Anthropic revenue potential, how to build an AI moat (59:04) Advice to young people on excelling in the AI era

Despite the UK’s challenges it’s still the 4th highest unicorn-generating country globally (and the highest per capita of that top 4 list). This month welcomed a unicorn-of-unicorns in Entrepreneur First’s new round. Super happy for @matthewclifford @Alicebentinck and team at @join_ef . EF builds companies, and has delivered a $16B portfolio - achieving more than almost anyone in fostering the startup ecosystem in the UK and its other hubs, and building the transatlantic bridge for innovation and bold scale-up ambitions. Here’s to more! sifted.eu/articles/entre…

'Virtual cell' models are popping up everywhere. University of Illinois took it up a notch with a 3D model of a bacteria (sim of DNA, RNA, proteins & ribosomes): 6 days training later, took a lifelike 105 minutes to divide: nature.com/articles/d4158…

The basics help turn back the clock:🕰️New study: Daily multivitamins can slow biological ageing by as much as ~4 months, in 2 yrs. Stronger effect if you're ageing fast. Based on 958 adults' DNA markers and 5 different epigenetic clocks, yielding statistical significance. Link👇 Cocoa (in same study) had no effect. But tastes better! nature.com/articles/d4158… Full article: nature.com/articles/s4159… Epigenetic clocks (like the UCLA Horvath clock) use methods like measurement of differential methylation levels using statistics/ML, and give insights into the differences between chronological and biological age.

All of these patterns as an example are just matters of “org code”. The IDE helps you build, run, manage them. You can’t fork classical orgs (eg Microsoft) but you’ll be able to fork agentic orgs.

🚨 BREAKING: A new research paper proved that the future computer will have no apps at all and no operating systems like Windows, macOS, or Linux. Instead, it may run entirely on AI agents. The concept is called AgentOS. Here’s the problem researchers identified. Today’s AI agents are becoming incredibly capable. Systems like OpenClaw can already: • control a local computer • execute complex workflows • connect and use external tools • perform multi-step tasks autonomously But there’s a hidden limitation. All of these agents still run inside traditional operating systems. And those systems were designed for a completely different era. Modern operating systems like Windows, macOS, and Linux were built around two interaction models: • GUI (Graphical User Interface) clicking icons and navigating windows • CLI (Command Line Interface) typing commands into a terminal These models were designed for humans manually operating software. Not for AI agents coordinating complex tasks across dozens of tools. This creates a fundamental mismatch. And it leads to several problems. First: fragmentation. Every application exists in its own silo. Data, workflows, and permissions are separated across different programs. Second: context loss. When a task spans multiple tools, the system has no unified understanding of what the user is trying to accomplish. Each app only sees a small piece of the workflow. Third: messy permissions and hidden automation. Many AI tools bypass normal system controls to get things done. Researchers call this phenomenon “Shadow AI.” Where autonomous agents operate across systems without clear structure, governance, or transparency. In short: AI agents are powerful. But the operating system architecture isn’t designed for them. So researchers propose a new paradigm. A new type of operating system called AgentOS. Instead of apps running on the system… The system itself becomes an AI coordination layer. At the center is something called the Agent Kernel. Think of it as the brain of the entire computer. This kernel continuously interprets user intent and manages intelligent agents. It can: • understand natural language requests • break complex tasks into smaller steps • coordinate multiple specialized AI agents • select the right tools for each step And traditional software? It evolves into something called Skills-as-Modules. Instead of launching separate applications, capabilities become modular skills that agents can dynamically combine. For example, instead of manually opening multiple tools: • a document editor • a spreadsheet • a presentation app • an email client You simply say: “Analyze this report, extract the key insights, create slides, and send them to my team.” The Agent Kernel interprets the request. Then it automatically selects and orchestrates the required skills. No apps. No switching windows. Just intent → execution. In other words: Computers stop being app platforms. They become intent platforms.

This is the new thing that Amjad showed me a couple weeks ago. It generalizes the idea of vibe coding beyond what people usually think of as coding.

Unveiling our new startup Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs). We just completed our seed round: $1.03B / 890M€, one the largest seeds ever, probably the largest for a European company. We're hiring! [the background image is the Veil Nebula - a picture I took from my backyard, most appropriate for an unveiling] More details here: techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/yan…

🚨 BREAKING: Apple has just published a paper with a devastating title: *The Illusion of Thinking*. And it's not a metaphor. What it demonstrates is that the AI models we use every day - yes, ones like ChatGPT - don't think. Not one bit. They just imitate doing so. Let me explain: 🧵👇

Today, we announced a multi-year strategic collaboration with @Merck. “We are thrilled to be working with Merck as our newest strategic partner, joining others that have committed to long-term data licenses, including AZ, GSK, and BMS. Together, we share a dedication to bringing the benefits of AI to drug discovery and development." - Tempus CEO and Founder, @lefkofsky Read on: tempus.co/4aOAwAk

The drug design engine we’re building at @IsomorphicLabs is extending the SOTA further across key benchmarks, showing huge progress in accuracy and capabilities critical for in-silico drug discovery. Incredible work from @maxjaderberg and the entire team at Isomorphic Labs!

A super interesting use of AI, that has the potential to be good for animals.. and ultimately great for humans:

Zoe Saldaña tells us that playing Neytiri in ‘AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH’ was more challenging than ever. “On a personal level, I was expanding my family. So, to get to leave my babies at home and come to work and play a woman who had just buried one of her children, it was hard.”

Grok 4.20 is coming in ~3 weeks and then Grok 5 in a few months