Stelian Balta

If you are a mathematician, then you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.

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People keep asking "what jobs will AI destroy?" Wrong question. Instead, ask what a brilliant 14-year-old in West Virginia can now do that he could never do before. Previously all his relatives went into the mine bc that was the only door open to them. He was largely doomed because of where he was born. A kid growing up in that same holler today can build an AI company from his bedroom. Think about what that actually means for opportunity in America. The Doomers are wrong. These new tools will make the system more meritocratic, more democratized, and more distributed than ever before.

sonic delivers the fastest finality among Layer-1 blockchains

The crypto market’s fundamentals are stronger than ever, even while investor sentiment is close to historic lows.

Nscale is expanding its collaboration with @Microsoft and @Start_Campus in Portugal – with a deployment of 66,000+ @nvidia Rubin GPUs at the second 200MW building at the SINES Data Campus.

build software/docs for agents first the marginal cost of high-quality coding agents is collapsing to electricity prices this changes everything about product and infrastructure design agentify your business

Technology is a key force behind economic progress in America.

work accomplished per token > cost per token

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@matei_zaharia Congrats!👏

Definitely a surprise! It wouldn't have been possible without my awesome collaborators and students.

@demishassabis 👏long awaited!

Excited to launch Gemma 4: the best open models in the world for their respective sizes. Available in 4 sizes that can be fine-tuned for your specific task: 31B dense for great raw performance, 26B MoE for low latency, and effective 2B & 4B for edge device use - happy building!

@GoogleResearch 👀

Introducing TurboQuant: Our new compression algorithm that reduces LLM key-value cache memory by at least 6x and delivers up to 8x speedup, all with zero accuracy loss, redefining AI efficiency. Read the blog to learn how it achieves these results: goo.gle/4bsq2qI

@SkylerMiao7 amazing job! keep up the great work!

M2.7 open weights coming in ~2 weeks. still actively iterating just updated a new version on yesterday — noticeably better on OpenClaw.

ai inference is growing exponentially this year we’ve gone from generative ai to reasoning ai and now to agentic ai i’ve never been more optimistic about tech

Today marks a pivotal chapter in the Nscale story. We are proud to announce three major developments that together define what it means to build AI infrastructure at the frontier.

AI infrastructure is one of the most important layers of the next decade. Big congrats to Josh and the entire team, the journey is just getting started.

It’s been almost 15 years since @pmarca’s “software is eating the world” era began. Now, it has metamorphosed into an era where AI, alongside hardware, is eating the world.

The jobs apocalypse is the Population Bomb of our time. Instead we're seeing more hiring in the job most affected by AI: programming. That should have been clear and obvious to anyone with basic economics understanding and good handle on the history of technology but it's sadly lacking today. Fear sells. It drives clicks. It drive engagements. The jobs apocalypse scenario comes from catastrophizing personalities and people who think of life as a zero sum game. It's the same mistake the communist theorists made. They thought jobs and labor were fixed and there's nothing new under the sun. If we take one job that job is lost forever and that person is now useless. Wrong. Instead, what happens is that when something gets faster and cheaper we want more of it. Much more. There is so much software that we could not build before because there weren't enough skilled people and not enough time and it wasn't worth the time or money. Now it is worth it because it is faster and cheaper. Cheaper for SaaS builders, cheaper for individuals, cheaper for enterprises, cheaper for everyone. That's why were are seeing programmer jobs tick upwards. Right now we are not seeing juniors get hired but that is also always the case in a recovery. We just saw mass layoffs because of overhiring during COVID and cheap money printing that made lending essentially free. The unskilled, aka junior workers, are always the last hired. You want skilled verterans who can take on the new technology with experience and take off running not someone you have to train and babysit when you have been stuck in third gear for a few years. Job populists on the hard left like Sanders and many of his mirrors on the populist hard right are the enemies of actual working economies and must be resisted at all costs. They hurt the very people they hope to help by clinging to the past and thinking of life as a zero sum game. This increase in jobs is the reality that will increasingly play out over the next few years if AI keeps getting better, barring some other economic shock that changes the game. It will increasingly play out even when we have "geniuses in a datacenter." It will be a shock to some. Just not the jobs shock they were expecting. Sorry to disappoint but we're not getting UBI any time soon while the robots do all the jobs and you sit on your ass. Seems like we are all going to have to work a bit longer.