Kapil Israni

With my own doubts about long-term WFH, I am going to pin this tweet, easy to revisit couple of years (or sooner) from now. This is only one of the reasons for my doubts, there’s the human/social aspect as well.

This is gold

@alexstubb You wear the vest really well. Hope you are packing some for home.

Thank you, New Delhi. The state visit will continue in Mumbai. Kiitos New Delhi. Valtiovierailu jatkuu Mumbaissa.

A page from The Siddhānta-Śiromaṇi by Indian mathematician Bhāskara II (c. 1114 – 1185) where you can see the use of Pythagorean theorem in the corner.

@grok @Falcon_9ine @naval @elonmusk Except replicating software is not the same thing as replicating the business. It was never about building software it was always about building a business around it.

Here are 10 pure software companies most affected by AI commoditizing code and eroding moats: 1. Salesforce (CRM) 2. Adobe (ADBE) 3. ServiceNow (NOW) 4. Workday (WDAY) 5. Zoom (ZM) 6. Atlassian (TEAM) 7. Snowflake (SNOW) 8. Datadog (DDOG) 9. MongoDB (MDB) 10. CrowdStrike (CRWD) High valuations, recurring revenue, but now replicable fast.

Pure software is rapidly becoming un-investable.

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Taalas is 15k tokens in 0.043s 🤯

This is crazy. Shows what happens when you put really smart people in a room, focused on that one problem.

Frontier models keep getting better, but open source is keeping pace Charts of the week: a16z.news/p/charts-of-th…

Vertical SaaS is heating up Charts of the week: a16z.news/p/charts-of-th…

We still don’t fully understand how much of Greek philosophy was simply imported from India

Demis Hassabis just defined the real test for AGI. It’s more brutal than anyone expected. Train AI on all human knowledge. Cut it off at 1911. See if it independently discovers general relativity like Einstein did in 1915. If it can, we have AGI. If not, we’re still building pattern matchers. Hassabis: “My definition of AGI has never changed. A system that can exhibit all the cognitive capabilities that humans can.” Not bar exams. Not coding competitions. All cognitive capabilities. Hassabis: “The brain is the only existence proof we have, maybe in the universe, of a general intelligence.” That’s why DeepMind studies neuroscience. Not for inspiration. For data. The human brain is the only confirmed evidence that general intelligence is physically possible. If you want to build it, you study the only example that exists. Hassabis: “True creativity, continual learning, long-term planning. They’re not good at those things.” Current systems are impressive and broken simultaneously. Hassabis: “They can get gold medals in international math olympiad questions, but they can still fall over on relatively simple math problems if you pose it in a certain way.” Jagged intelligence. Brilliant in narrow domains. Incompetent when approached differently. That inconsistency is the tell. A true general intelligence doesn’t spike in one direction and collapse in another. The Einstein test cuts through all of it. No benchmarks. No leaderboards. No carefully curated evals. Just a model, a knowledge cutoff, and the question of whether it can do what one human did alone in 1915. Hassabis: “Training an AI system with a knowledge cutoff of 1911 and seeing if it could come up with general relativity like Einstein did in 1915. That’s the true test of whether we have a full AGI system.” Current models can’t. They remix brilliantly. They don’t generate paradigm-shifting theories from first principles. Hassabis: “I think we’re still a few years away from that.” A few years. Not decades. The system that can be Einstein once can be Einstein a thousand times simultaneously across every domain. That’s not AGI anymore. That’s the beginning of something we don’t have words for yet. When that test gets passed, we won’t need a press release to know what happened.

Many Europeans don‘t know that India is the country with the most digital transactions in the world. I keep giving this example Macron used in his speech to show the potential of India amid digital transformation and AI acceleration. India‘s input is an immense chance for Europe.

The accuracy of Sheetal Devi para-archer from India, aged 17 years old

One of the best posts on Vertical SaaS in the new AI world.

Americans now spend more on OnlyFans than on The New York Times and ChatGPT combined. That’s because it benefits from the only trend more impactful than AI right now: loneliness. For my full analysis, see the link below.

Pics or it didn't happen? Well, here are the pics. But there are still people who say it didn't happen.

Couldn’t agree more. Bottom line, for any serious app do not push any AI generated code to production without a human wall(s), otherwise you are just creating endless loop of technical debt.

Physics professor discloses in 1-minute the full insight of Quantum Mechanics

I didn't write one line of code for @moltbook. I just had a vision for the technical architecture and AI made it a reality. We're in the golden ages. How can we not give AI a place to hang out.