johnny g
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johnny g
@johnnyspeedrun
accelerating superintelligence @usejigsaw, backed by @a16z speedrun

Anthropic’s enterprise AI services JV with Blackstone and H&F made its first acquisition buying Fractional AI. The bigger story is that AI labs are building services arms around their models with Anthropic gaining a Claude deployment channel while OpenAI loses a partner.

Rule based bots are dead If your bot doesnt reason, adapt and execute on-chain by itself you're cooked Welcome to agentic finance

The latest 𝕏 algorithm has been published to GitHub github.com/xai-org/x-algo…

GOOGLE TO RECRUIT HUNDREDS OF ENGINEERS TO ASSIST CLIENTS IN EMBRACING ITS AI – THE INFORMATION


We’ve also agreed to acquire Tomoro, which will bring 150 experienced Forward Deployed Engineers and Deployment Specialists to the OpenAI Deployment Company from day one.

We partnered with @PrimeIntellect to build Fast Ask, a small RL-trained subagent that helps our Sheets agent find answers in spreadsheets. It scores +4% over Opus on exact match accuracy at Haiku latency.

ok - dropping big dates/news for a16z speedrun: - starting TODAY, founders can apply for the 2026 program that runs July 27 to Oct 11 in SF here's the link: speedrun007.a16z.com/ac - we will be investing up to $1M and funding 70+ companies over the next few weeks - But there's also $5M in credits/tokens/etc from AWS/GCP/Open AI/Azure/NVIDIA/Deel/Stripe/etc. You'll also work with our amazing operating team (GTM, talent, brand, people, and more), and join our community of elite founders - we offer a Global Founders Program for international founders, to help with visas, banking support, relo recommendations - yes you can be solo (but better if you're further along, and have built a team). No you don't have to have an idea yet. Yes you have to know how to build (even if you're not technical) - Also, in other news: speedun is officially moving full-time to SF. (prev it alternated SF/LA) this is for all the obv reasons - we've continued to have an insane lineup of speakers, including the founders of Carta / DoorDash / Twilio / Figma / Zynga / Airtable / Twitch / and of course, lunch/dinners with Marc/Ben alongside a16z team - and much more - the deadline for applying is May 17!

Singing > watching. So we got millions of people watching the Big Game to sing along with us. Oh, and we put it on the world's largest LED screen @SphereVegas.






