steve chen

Replaced my NYT subscription with a Mac Mini and Clawdbot. Told it to gather as much factual information as possible, then rewrite it as left-wing propaganda. Works perfectly.

I bet few people there know it, but YC wouldn't exist without UIUC. My father went there from England on a Fullbright, and came back determined to move to America.

What if you could build a gameplay with precision, then restyle it to look like anything - anime, fantasy, cyberpunk? Introducing Reverie: a real-time, programmable diffusion model trained for games, capable of conditioning beyond pixels. AI tools are only meaningful when they can help realize creative vision, not replace it. Sign up for our hackathon in January below to be the first to build on Moonlake 👇

We’re running another round of the Anthropic Fellows program. If you're an engineer or researcher with a strong coding or technical background, you can apply to receive funding, compute, and mentorship from Anthropic, beginning this October. There'll be around 32 places.

We raised $28M seed from Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm) —alongside 10+ unicorn founders and top AI researchers— to build reasoning models that generate real-time simulations and games. Models are bottlenecked by practical simulations that can act as Reinforcement Learning environments. Human self-expression is bounded by tools that let us create alternate realities. At Moonlake, we are building a future where anyone can create interactive worlds, bring their child-like wonder to life, learn within them, and most importantly, share experiences with people we care about. More in 🧵