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Every year for AI Ascent, @gradypb, @Konstantine and I get to share some perspectives on AI and where things are headed. This year's talk was about the arrival of agents and the race to deploy them ac
Instead of predicting text tokens, @si_pbc learns to use a computer from raw screen data, predicting the next mouse movement, click, and keystroke from the pixels in front of it. This is the @Tesla FS
@si_pbc @sonyatweetybird @MikowaiA @YasminRazavi @tszzl @_milankovac_ VPT (https://openai.com/index/vpt/) blew my mind back in 2022 so I was very excited to see SI scale up the idea with FDM1, but for
A public talk by the goat @demishassabis ... rarest pokemon sighting of all! Enjoy :) Sir @demishassabis has a mind for synthesis. His favorite book is about a grand theory of everything. His preferre
It took us two years to grow from 10 mm to 100 mm in Annual Recurring Revenue and 15 months to reach 200 mm. Nine months later, we crossed 300 mm. Vanta’s growth rate increased each of the past four q
@karpathy and I are back! At @sequoia AI Ascent 2026. And a lot has changed. Last year, he coined “vibe coding”. This year, he’s never felt more behind as a programmer. The big shift: vibe coding rais
This post references a humorous anecdote about Demis Hassabis, co-founder of DeepMind, claiming he created a game called 'Evil Genius' involving AI and world conquest. The claim appears to be inaccura
This post discusses how large language models (LLMs) could serve as future chief financial officers, with Mercury as a platform enabling AI systems to manage finances and financial operations. The con
In 2016, David (likely referring to David Silver, DeepMind's lead researcher on AlphaGo) wrote in his private journal that the motivation for building AlphaZero was aesthetic—he sought to create a bea
Mercury is the single “product” that has improved my life the most. I have always hated banks, invoicing platforms, and corporate cards. They make all of these things so incredibly easy. I haven’t had
No matter what kind of company you are...start making your internal company data legible to AI. Today. As a founder, you are essentially building two versions of your company: the one humans work in a
the culture it takes to do these two things in the same week (national bank charter conditional approval + banking cli) is remarkable some banks will thrive post AGI…. deposit account for tokens wen 🙂
1/ Today @Mercury received conditional approval from the OCC to establish Mercury Bank, N.A. I started Mercury in 2017 to build the bank I wish had existed as a founder. Nearly a decade later, we’re g
David Silver is the brilliant mind who conquered the devilishly difficult game of Go. The key insight: learning from experience (self-play, RL) triumphs over human priors. @Alfred_Lin & I are honored
David Silver update. Ineffable Intelligence has raised the largest ever European seed round and is now valued at $5.1 billion. Mr Silver said in a statement 'Our mission is to make first contact with
Excellent writeup from @willknight who has been following David's work for decades. Also highly recommend @scmallaby's book The Infinity Machine which profiles David's achievements at @GoogleDeepMind
This post humorously comments on the naming strategy of Ineffable Intelligence, suggesting that their company name is more distinctive and clever than the numerous startups using 'superintelligence' i
I really enjoyed reading the book “Infinity Machine”. While it’s supposed to be a biography of Demis Hassabis, all the major characters of the AI industry today were there in the beginning. It’s fasci
AI ASCENT IV 4/20/2026 Our best event yet. This year's theme: AI AT THE FRONTIER. Robots. Data centers in space. New chips. BCI. Hosted by @Konstantine @gradypb @Alfred_Lin and all of us at @sequoia 💚
Compute is king. I’m excited about the next phase of growth for Cursor, as their close partner. SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge
Excited to share some big news: I've joined @FireworksAI_HQ President. I've spent my career at the intersection of great teams, disruptive technology, and massive market opportunity, from architecting
Killer duo. Congrats and welcome George Hu! 🔥 I'm thrilled to welcome George Hu as President of Fireworks AI! 🔥 When George and I first met a year ago, I said to him – we are too small for you. But to
@Konstantine @gradypb @Alfred_Lin @sequoia @demishassabis @karpathy @gdb @bcherny @djseo @zoink @matiii @DrJimFan @oegerikus @amspector100 @bfspector @PhilipJohnston @NaveenGRao @annadgoldie @Azaliami
I was kicked off the AI Ascent swag committee bc of last year’s “ai a scent” candle nonsense 😂 This year @Alfred_Lin leveled us up. Can’t wait for the aliens to find our AI Ascent 2026 swag one day. “
Sonya Huang spoke at Sequoia's AI Ascend event about Starcloud alongside notable AI figures including Andrej Karpathy, Greg Brockman, Demis Hassabis, and others, highlighting significant perspectives
.@gradypb opening @sequoia AI Ascent event. This is AGI! advice for founders competing w/ the labs for the $10T of market opportunity: 1. get MAD (Moats, Affordances, Distribution) 2. approach every p
The front door to the internet hasn't changed -- but the person going through that door has changed from a human browsing 5 blue links, to an agent browsing a similar index in vastly different ways. A
This post from Sonya Huang on X (formerly Twitter) promotes a full episode of what appears to be a podcast or video series, providing links to listen or watch on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.
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The founder of a $4B inference company says that if you're building agents, foundational models could become your IP. According to @lqiao, 90% of the world's data is still private and locked inside ap
If you ban self-driving cars to protect the taxi union, you have blood on your hands If you want to know why @Waymo is no longer testing in NYC, this statement says it all: “Our top priority for AV te