Starting to prepare for my talk at SEMICON Taiwan 2026 this week. Who else is going to be attending??
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Incredible for Silicon Valley. This is what sets @ycombinator apart -- giving founders access to one another and to people who have actually done this before! This bridge to leaders who have founded companies, raised capital, and scaled is so essential.
Thanks @garrytan.
YC Startup School 2026 just got going
3x bigger than last year
We made this event for first time very technical young people to come to SF and figure out if starting a company is for them
Let you in on a secret: it is
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Behind many of the platforms that shape modern life are Asian American innovators whose stories have too often gone untold.
"The United States of Asian+America," a digital documentary series from TAAF @taaforg in partnership with Wong Fu Productions @wongfupro, highlights AAPI changemakers who have helped shape culture, technology, and everyday life.
It's an honor to be featured in Episode 1, as host @wongfuphil sits down with me to unpack the story behind YouTube -- and how pioneers, including Phil and Wong Fu Productions, helped build the platform from the ground up.
It's an honor to be an Asian American and to be selected to share my story alongside so many who have paved the way.
Watch it on YouTube now, piped.video/watch?v=TUuAFS-k…
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Great catching up with @abc7kristensze!
It’s astonishing to look back at the last 21 years of YouTube’s growth. From a simple idea to a truly global community, YouTube has come a long way.
Check out the interview here: abc7news.com/post/youtube-fo…
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I just installed the Clawdbot gateway on my Mac mini and i have two other machines talking to it. Clawdbot is all I’ve been playing with this last week. This month’s bill for Claude is going to reach a peak. Clawdbot is the future!
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.
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Thanks @koomen for the visit! Awesome to see YC visiting UIUC! This is such an important step created for the many talented UIUC students and alums to have formal connections to Silicon Valley.
When is @pmarca making his visit?! 😀
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.
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It was an incredible opportunity to be in Bogotá, Colombia, in person this summer to speak at the Game Changers Fest 2025 hosted by @GameChangersC0.
A bonus was to do this 1:1 interview with @IvanDuque, the president of Colombia from 2018-2022:
piped.video/watch?v=88grTZVD…
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So cool! Congratulations, @moonlake! Amazing team to make so much progress, so quickly.
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 👇
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Congratulations to @sunfanyun, @sharonal_lee and the entire @moonlake team on the $28M seed investment. It's been an honor to watch such a brilliant, driven, and visionary group of people accomplish so much. I'm looking forward to seeing the groundbreaking work still to come!
Great Forbes article covering the company:
forbes.com/sites/rashishriva…
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 🧵
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Thrilled to see former @StanfordAILab students @sunfanyun and my own student @sharonal_lee today launching @moonlake, a new AI lab that lets anyone code interactive worlds in minutes.
@aixventureshq led their $28M seed along @thresholdvc, @NVIDIA Ventures, and leading angels including @stevechen and @JeffDean.
@RashiShrivast18 at @Forbes covers the news: forbes.com/sites/rashishriva…
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Giving this commencement speech back at the University of Illinois was both an honor and a memory of a lifetime. Thank you for the opportunity!
"Remember what Illinois has already taught you, take those calculated risks, question your assumptions, and pivot without fear when reality doesn't match the plan." - From Steve Chen's 2025 commencement speech
▶️ bit.ly/43Wdjrt
ALT Steve Chen speaking at The Grainger College of Engineering Convocation Ceremony
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So excited to be part of the Stanford Taiwan Program event at National Taiwan University today! It's such an honor to connect with amazing minds and be part of this important collaboration between Taiwan and the US.
The Stanford Taiwan Program started just last year as part of Stanford's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. It's amazing to see Taiwan getting this recognition as a country from a world-class institution like Stanford! This partnership really highlights Taiwan's importance in the Asia-Pacific region and opens up so many opportunities for academic & commercial exchange.
To me, one of the program's main goals is tackling the challenges Taiwanese entrepreneurs face with fundraising and growth as they go after the global market. We need to make it easier for both local and foreign entrepreneurs to start companies in Taiwan, similar to places like Singapore or Silicon Valley.
As a stepping stone idea, I hope to push for a hybrid model in this interim period that bridges together the amazing engineering talent in Taiwan with the brilliant entrepreneurs from outside Taiwan that already have secured funding with their innovative ideas. The program is looking at ideas like special economic zones to simplify processes and encourage experimentation.
Yes, there's always a risk of failure when trying new things, but with support from leaders like Director Raymond Greene (AIT), Minister Chia-lung Lin (MOFA), NTU's Executive VP Shin-Torng Ding, and APARC Director Gi-wook Shin, we're off to a great start!
Looking forward to the Taiwan Program's 2026 event!
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Happy 20th birthday, @YouTube. How you've grown...!
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I love the reputation that Taiwan has from the West.
That said, the country that's responsible for all the iPhones + Macs + nVidia AI & graphics chips + AMD processors, etc, shouldn't be called "little bitch".
Is he wrong? Taiwan is acting like a little bitch, begging for whitey to defend it. Who the fuck respects little bitches?
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Wow. That seems to be an excessively harsh perspective to have on an entire group of people based purely on skin color.
Wow! This is the most racist clip I've ever seen in my life:
"China's like the new Islam, we can't be honest about them because they're not white."
- This is why Chinese American scientists are leaving the United States and returning home to China.
- This is why less Chinese students want to study abroad in the United States
-This is what fuels Chinese engineers to work harder and innovate faster than their American counterparts
- This is how the United States will lose all respect from countries around the world
But the worst part of this clip? The round of applause from the audience who are simply being brainwashed to hate China. Yellow Peril and Mccarthyism are alive and well in the United States in 2025 and it's incredibly sad to see, especially a week after China launched an open source AI tool that will benefit the entire world.
@billmaher you are so incredibly wrong about China. I wish you had the courage to go outside of your Western media propaganda bubble and experience the country for yourself one day. It's the only way you would change your racist ignorant views
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This is ridiculous. DeepSeek AI isn’t a national security threat to Taiwan! Taiwan should be eagerly welcoming open source AI. Maybe it’s a security threat because not as many chips are needed for future training?
Taiwan flags China’s DeepSeek AI as national security threat
taiwannews.com.tw/news/60273…
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#DeepSeek is taking the AI world by storm.⛈️
President Trump🇺🇸 describes it as a “wake-up call.”
In #Taiwan🇹🇼, we’re wide awake to the reality of this cheap & cheerful chatbot.
Learn more via my #Newsday talk from 28:12.🎧
▶️bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172zb…
▶️sayit.archive.tw/2025-01-25-…
ALT Logo of BBC Newsday
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