Erfan Rostami

@semiDL @grok which CEO of intel sold it off?

Intel selling off their optical interconnect business despite having one of the best lasers and reliability in the industry and missing the AI wave is amazing in retrospect…

@tmychow follwoing this

i wish there was more good writing / lore about very impactful teams at high performance companies e.g. fb growth, dropbox stratfin, gs ssg + risk arb etc. often we have company histories, but imo teams are often as interesting

Stop living in a bubble. The key to happiness, the true meaning of life, is not impact or wealth or fame, but health, friendship, and care for others. Living authentically is not that expensive. In other words, money or success will not fill the hole in your heart.

pure persistence and craziness

@EmmaQian_ @nova_ai @chemistry @Accel @conviction Congrats Emma

I'm thrilled to announce @nova_ai's $40M funding across a Series A led by @chemistry and a Seed led by @Accel, with participation from @conviction and SAP's venture arm SAP.iO.

@sadeghian_ali That’s awesome

We are just getting started! Make the world more fun one play at a time 🔥🥳🎮🧩🎲🕹️🎴

Waymo vehicles have a 13x lower rate of serious accidents than human drivers. Six generations of hardware. Thousands of innovations in AI and software. 170M+ fully autonomous miles. For 20 years @Dmitri_Dolgov has been focused on making driving safer. While dozens of companies have come and gone, Dmitri persisted. He knows that getting to "good" is easy, getting to "great" is hard and getting to "super human safety" is extreme. Dmitri chooses extreme. My favorite part about him? He’s extremely humble about all this and remains focused on what's next: scaling. We're grateful to have hosted Dmitri and his @Waymo team at @sequoia AI Ascent last week. Full video here: 00:00 Introduction 01:25 Origins 02:45 DARPA Challenge 04:18 Google Self Driving 05:44 Startup Grind 07:11 The AV Hype Cycle 09:47 Waymo World Model 12:41 End-to-End 15:28 Gen 6 Hardware and Scaling 19:53 Safety Stories and the Future

@Konstantine @demishassabis inspiring

Sir @demishassabis has a mind for synthesis. His favorite book is about a grand theory of everything. His preferred philosophers are seen by some as opposites. His life's work ranges from board games to Nobel-winning science. We're grateful to have hosted Demis and his @GoogleDeepMind team at @sequoia AI Ascent last week for a fireside chat. He kindly gave us permission to share this, and you can watch the full video here: 00:00 Intro 00:38 The Common Thread 01:29 Games as AI Training 02:59 Startup Advice 1.0 04:39 Founding DeepMind 07:25 DeepMind and AGI 08:52 AI for Science 10:37 Biology Breakthroughs and Isomorphic 12:42 New Sciences 20:29 Philosophy

@tararezaeikh congrats

Quick updates.

@annarmonaco @paradigmai love paradigm

Today we’re launching the newest version of @paradigmai When we started Paradigm, the goal was never to tack AI onto existing spreadsheets. It was to build a new type of interface that does the work for you. Now we’re pushing that vision much further. Workflows turn Paradigm into a system that runs research processes for you. Connect your CRM, existing spreadsheets, Slack, email, and internal data, and let Paradigm continuously run the research workflows your team already does. Same intuitive interface. But now a system of action. If you tried Paradigm before, try it again. Manual research is now a competitive liability.

bullish on this

@flappyairplanes bullish

Announcing Flapping Airplanes! We’ve raised $180M from GV, Sequoia, and Index to assemble a new guard in AI: one that imagines a world where models can think at human level without ingesting half the internet.

ای آسمان، اگر روزی بخواهم از این زندان خاموش بپرم بیرون، چه باید به چشمان گریان کودک بگویم: فراموش کن، زیرا من پرنده‌ای اسیرم؟

Tesla is going to build a gigantic chip fab. Elon today: “We have to do a Tesla Terafab. It’s like Giga but way bigger. I can’t see any other way to get to the volume of chips that we are looking for. We are going to have to build a gigantic chip fab.” “I am super hardcore about chips right now. I dream about chips. Literally.” “Tesla is already the largest robot manufacturer in the world.” Now with wheels, soon with legs. Affordable at $20K cost. Oh, and another thing — Elon's new comp plan was approved, with over 75% voting in favor, to mad applause at the meeting. The shareholders have spoken.

iteration speed is a superpower

With rare exception, ideas really are trivial compared to execution. For example, the idea of going to the Moon is simple, but ACTUALLY going to the Moon is staggeringly difficult.

@bfspector hardcore!

(1/8) We’re releasing an 8-GPU Llama-70B inference engine megakernel! Our megakernel supports arbitrary batch sizes, mixed prefill+decode, a paged KV cache, instruction pipelining, dynamic scheduling, interleaved communication, and more! On ShareGPT it’s 22% faster than SGLang.

humanity walking backwards...

@dmsobol interesting

This might be the most information dense blog I've ever written. Added "show me the math" section into MoE 101 p4 episode. We believe it fully models MoE training perf on both gpu and cerebras wse devices. cerebras.ai/blog/moe-guide… 🧵1/n