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I’m so excited to announce that I’ll be co-teaching Brand and Visual Identity with @benbarry next Fall.
It’s an honor, and I can’t wait to teach young people how to design and build new worlds.
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Today, we’re launching an ambitious new school called The Horowitz Andreessen Academy.
Based in San Francisco, The Academy serves the most promising young high school graduates.
We think this can be an elite institution that attracts top tier talent. One that prepares students for the future rather than remaining stuck in the past.
The #1 goal is to help students learn to build, which is the most important skill in the AI era. They'll learn primarily by pursuing their own projects, either individually or in groups. There are classes and guest lectures, too, from some truly amazing people who have built modern-day Silicon Valley.
The Academy is designed as a network, since that’s the reason students go to school in the first place. Core to that network are our 10 Founding Partners: Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe. The network includes over 50 hiring partners and over 200 speakers and mentors. To join as a hiring partner or faculty member, you can apply on our website.
We raised $42M in funding led by @a16z. I'll be CEO and @pmarca and @eriktorenberg will join me on the board.
Applications are open for our Founding Class Fellowship, which will be one year and tuition-free. Eventually, pending regulatory approval, we plan to offer a two-year program that charges tuition, similar in cost to an elite private university.
We're looking for the most unusually ambitious young builders on the planet. Come join us in San Francisco:
theacademysf.com/
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I already selected the text, so I don't need it shown next to the "Copy" action. It makes it harder for me to visually scan the menu and select the action.
A good example IMO of designers thinking they are making things better, but actually making them worse.
@googlechrome
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For years, I've had this slide of a freeze frame from the Social Network in my public presentations, joking that it was probably the closest I would get to being in a major motion picture. I guess I'll have to update it soon...
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Love this. Nice work @iansilber and team! The launch video is great too. Excited to try it!
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“When hard parts become easy, the differentiator becomes love.” —@_coenen
cannoneyed.com/projects/isom…
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One of those is for me right @sama? 😅
Very fun to continue seeing this symbol show up in weirder and weirder places.
Sam Altman @sama just ordered 7 ultra-rare custom Swiss watches from Vanguart, fully branded with the OpenAI logo on the dial. One for him, six for his inner circle.
Inscribed on the back of each watch is ‘if AGI.aligned: deploy()’ which was written in the programming language Python.VANGUART
This is starting to be a trend in the tech world and I’m all for it
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We started planning yesterday’s @generalistai GEN-1.5 announcement about 3 weeks ago. Two weeks ago, already feeling whiplash from new results, I asked ChatGPT to create this image to share in our internal meme channel.
Made with AI
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I remember having a conversation with @ilyasut in the early days of @OpenAI (~2018) about how the pace of progress in AI research can be surprisingly fast.
Overnight, things can go from feeling nearly impossible to just working.
I felt it then, and I feel it now.
At 10:06pm on Aug 3, I watched a robot do something I thought was years away.
We were working on few-gradient learning with GEN-1.5, wondering how far we were from landing physical prompting: show the robot a task once, and it just does it. We YOLOed it, and the robot imitated exactly what we demonstrated, with 0 fine-tuning. We gave more prompts for different tasks. More successful rollouts landed. I could not believe my eyes.
Looking back, this represents the culmination of a huge amount of work across the entire team, many failed experiments, and years of groundwork from the community. I just happened to be the one standing in front of the robot when it all clicked.
@andyzengineer once asked me: "If Generalist failed tomorrow, what would we want to have left behind that could benefit humanity?"
I believe we found one answer: an existence proof of physical prompting.
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It feels like almost every day at this company there is another significant result! The speed of progress makes my job of documenting and communicating what we are doing a challenge, but it's also so much fun!
Introducing GEN-1.5, a one-shot learner.
It can learn new tasks in a few seconds. Show it what to do, and it generalizes.
This capability emerged from pretraining on physical data at scale, as a step towards our mission of building general intelligence for the physical world.
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I vibe coded my first app back in 2023, before that term of art had even been coined. It was inspired by Schrödinger's cat, and it lets you put your files in to superposition.
It's available at github.com/benbarry/macos-su…
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100%. I would have excitedly tried Cursor Bot, but have little to no interest in trying Grok Bot. Way too much negative baggage for me to ever trust it with access to anything.
I'll wait for the inevitable offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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