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@bwertz Boris, I think your framing of AI is spot on. The slowing pace of benchmark gains and the shift toward “winner-take-most” verticals create a fascinating environment for founders. The real opportunity may not be in building better SaaS tools, but in rethinking business models.

3 Years of ChatGPT: Where We Are With AI Today This November marks 3 yrs since the launch of ChatGPT. Since then, innovation in AI has been relentless - perhaps one of the fastest cycles we’ve ever witnessed in tech. It’s worth pausing to reflect on where we are today and what we’ve learned. 👇 Fast vs. slow takeoff. One of the big debates over the past few years was whether we’d see a fast or slow takeoff toward “super-intelligence” — a state where AI continuously improves itself. Today, it seems clear that super-intelligence is arriving more slowly than the most optimistic predictions suggested. The limits of LLMs. Early on, many assumed LLMs were the decisive step toward AGI, with progress simply a matter of scaling models and fine-tuning. While LLMs remain an extraordinary advance, the pace of improvement (as measured by benchmark scores) is now more incremental. We may be nearing the ceiling of what this paradigm can achieve. Good news for startups. Both trends are encouraging for founders and the broader ecosystem. We’re unlikely to see a single model dominate everything. Instead, we’ll have multiple strong horizontal models, with thousands of consumer and enterprise applications layered on top. The structure may end up resembling the Internet: “winner-take-all” dynamics on the consumer side, “winner-take-most” in certain enterprise verticals, but ultimately a fragmented and diverse landscape. Where value will accrue. Most value will likely concentrate at two ends of the spectrum: - Close to the metal: chips and infrastructure for training and inference. - Close to the customer: products with sticky adoption and deep integration into workflows. The land grab. This is a land-grab moment. Everyone recognizes it, which means competition is fierce. Execution matters more than ever, and the quality of founding teams will be decisive in such an intense environment. Today’s bottlenecks. Right now, AI is “middle-to-middle,” not yet end-to-end. Prompting and verification remain the two biggest bottlenecks. Startups that solve these pain points will be able to carve out real differentiation. Technology + business model shifts. The most powerful disruptions happen when technology shifts align with new business models — think ad-supported Internet or SaaS subscriptions replacing perpetual licenses. We’re starting to see this in AI, with models like pay-per-resolution in customer service. Expect more experimentation ahead. AI isn’t sprinting to AGI — it’s pacing into the mainstream. That means more room for founders to build, compete, and ultimately define what AI becomes.

I came across an interesting investment platform. Looking forward to doing more research with this… VC-rank.com

@NicolDavid Nicol, Loving it!!! I have been working on a project that I believe will engage millions of young adults, especially women to pick up the sport of squash. I would love to share my thoughts with you.

My foundation coming to reality soon We will empower girls and boys through sports and education with an extracurricular that gives squash, English and life-skills workshops. Launching in Kuala Lumpur and supporting B40 and M40 families.

We have some super exciting news about the launch of Yuser NextGems👀 They’ll be minting at approx. 0.02ETH (in MOVR token) at the time of launch UNLESS YOU CLAIM ONE IN OUR 24 HOUR GIVEAWAY STARTING SEPT. 13 AT 12pm EST🤩 We’ll be announcing more details soon!

Looking forward to your comments on the future of racquet sports: How our new lifestyles can help squash grow in 2021 squashmad.com/breaking-news/…

Join us on Thur Jan 14 at 10am PT as @ericbahn talks about best practices for how founders should pitch VCs over Zoom. Eric is going to cover not just pitching well on Zoom, but how to design a great fundraising process via Zoom. Sign up: lu.ma/pvsqztvw

@kenthehr Love this idea and it has the ability to help lower the bar for innovative start-ups that lack basic early stage stability.

A universal basic income could help counter COVID-19's economic damage cbc.ca/news/opinion/o…

@dunkhippo33 Welcome to Canada

It's 10:30pm & almost all the immigration & customs kiosks are down here at the Toronto Airport. It's the longest line I've ever seen & backed up. But even so, everyone is still incredibly calm & kind - more than at any US airport on a normal day. That's how I know I'm in Canada.

Great Event. I really enjoyed, and a special thanks to @Christina_Fox for introducing me to the right people. #LondonCAN

@itssobhytime @BrooklynNets @hope_prockop That is about as awesome as it gets. 😀

So last night was cool...in an extremely thrilling & nerve wracking way!! What an experience to open the @BrooklynNets game singing the National Anthem with @hope_prockop! Def a night to remember!!☺️☺️🎤🎶 #WeGoHard #SingingAndSwinging

@PSAWorldTour @zalturki @paulcollsquash @CastagnetMatt @psasquashnantes Paul is just such a dynamic player. Really fun to watch.

WHAT A RALLY! A definite contender for longest rally of the season, and this is only the second tournament! 💪 150 seconds of high-octane stuff from @paulcollsquash and @CastagnetMatt #squash #Nantes @psasquashnantes

@Tawheed It’s not a great valuation on post revenue with a quality plan but just because your offering it for any company that sounds a little nuts on your part.

Crazy idea I had recently that won’t leave me alone. IF you have a B2B SaaS startup. I’ll invest $25k. BUT. You have to deploy that $25k to the exact playbook we have for generating 💰. IF it generates a predictable growth machine for you, you give me 1% equity. Would you?

@GarnettGenuis Fear mongering politically divides this country and is the reason why people don’t like politicians. Especially when they spend all of their time complaining instead of informing us about what you plan to do for our country.

A Trudeau-led Liberal/NDP coalition would be an unprecedented threat to Canadian prosperity and security. Decriminalization of all drugs, the end of the Safe Third Country Agreement, and even higher deficits and taxes would all be on the table. #cdnpoli #elxn2019 #shpk #fortsask

Can you build a unicorn business outside Silicon Valley? A very interesting article especially reading it from a Canadian perspective. elizabethyin.com/2019/08/30/can…

Pitched @thisisvolition this evening. After having nervously pitched a number of times earlier this year, at todays event I finally feel like I turned the corner. Thanks Paul!!

Just played at a fantastic squash event in the Okanagan Vally in the Interior of BC and did my share of wine tasting at the local wineries. ActivScout is dedicated to making Squash Tourism a thing. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Check out the description of the @activscout Corporate #squash League on LinkedIn and follow the blog for more information. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

A sneak peek at the ActivScout Corporate #squash League. This #squash_league consistently and radically increased the number of squash players in Whistler BC.

For Squash Clubs, Millennials are a difficult generation to market to presenting a real dichotomy of behaviour. Fortunately, @activscout was designed to catch the attention of this generation linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

I am keen to share with you how we happened upon the ability to almost triple squash membership at our club... linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…