melanie
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melanie
@__melchen__
building kiwi! | prev fde @chalk, swe @plaid, cs @mit
San Francisco, CA Katılım Temmuz 2020
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(4) Recently, I've felt targeted by "these damn kids" branded media, like the Atlantic piece about the fall of literacy. But in actually talking to so many young people from around the world, I'm optimistic that curious minds will always seek to learn, no matter the pathway.
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(3) Susan Kare gave an incredible talk about the stories behind early designs at Apple, which was an important reminder that as we embark on building the interfaces for the next decade, simplicity still reigns supreme even as generative design might encourage maximalism
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Confirmed mercury is no longer in retrograde
Midjourney@midjourney
Midjourney is acquiring Co-Star. CEO @banu__guler is now Chief Design Officer at Midjourney. She's building a cross-functional design, product and frontend team for all our efforts. The Co-Star app will continue to operate under Banus complete control. Welcome Banu and team <3
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colonist rush on colonist.io is the new tetris friends (the in-facebook version from the 2010's)
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We raised $136M to kill Slack.
Introducing PromptQL: The first AI version of Slack.
Here’s how it works:
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Can't wait for v2: sea salt and vinegar
OpenAI@OpenAI
We’ve designed and built our first AI chip: Jalapeño. Designed from the ground up by OpenAI and brought to production with @Broadcom, Jalapeño is purpose-built for the LLM workloads powering ChatGPT, Codex, the API, and future agentic products. Chips are foundational to the AI economy. Building our own expands our full-stack platform from products to models to infrastructure, and will help us scale intelligence, serve more people, and expand access to AI.
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melanie retweetledi
Exa raised $250M at a $2.2B valuation, led by a16z, to continue organizing the web for agents:
- Exa now serves search to Cursor, Cognition, Openrouter, 5000+ other companies, 500k+ developers
- We’re SOTA in many important verticals (code, companies, people, news, more very soon)
- We make agents smarter and cheaper by returning 90% less text with little to no tradeoff in RAG quality
- We’re building out web agents that are Pareto optimal on price x performance x latency, possible because we own our search stack fully end to end
We used to tell candidates that without innovation in search, we may live in a world where we have both AGI and fake news. Funnily enough, I think that we’ve now been living in such a world for quite some time. With this funding, we should be able to dramatically improve the state of information in society.
🚀🚀🚀
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truly a hot new bombshell has entered the villa
SpaceX@SpaceX
SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI. The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world’s most useful models. Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together.
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lmk if anyone has recs for places in union square that seat big groups + serve tots
Chalk@chalk
Ever since we moved to downtown SF, we've been on the hunt for a new bar to play poker, grab wings and hang out. Safe to say we finally found our Friday night spot!
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