we spent the last four years reimagining what finance can be, unburdened by what has been. runway makes clear the significance of the passage of time in the context of all in which your business lives and what came before you. this is the result 👇

my entire life i voted democrat donated the max to obama, got a photo and had him talk about my toe-shoes on the stump pulled my kid out of preschool in 2016 after trump won because their teacher was maga voted kamala last year today i registered republican.

this is an actual insane email sent by the HR department of a startup and i am still shaking.

pain is learning your 4 year old has a brain tumor in the morning. and watching her 10 year old sister play with her, trying so hard to hold back her tears so she doesn’t scare her little sister. all you can do is turn around and scream silently into your fist until it bleeds.

i've lived in the united states for most of the 42 years i've been alive, and i've never had people be openly racist to me. until i heard from all the people either openly on X or privately in DMs hurling racist abuse at me for switching to the republican party. eye opening.

overwhelmed with gratitude for the 1000s of messages of love and support for mira. truly, thank you - it helps more than you know. mira is out of surgery and doing so well that she gets to go home today! we’ve bought a lot of time and are feeling hopeful.

i have it on good authority that the most airtight NDA on the planet is the one signed by the team of progamers ghostplaying diablo iv for elon

The Netflix "ta-dum" soundmark is one of the all time greats, but doesn't work as well in a theater because it's only 3 seconds long. So Netflix commissioned Hans Zimmer to extend it for theaters and ... it's ... so ... good.

> puts on vision pro 4 > opens sora app > sora 5 runs in real time in 8K video with elevenlabs audio > voice command to generate whatever you want > perfect lucid dreaming while wide awake > most addictive possible experience > end of human civilization

today, a mother had to go home and tell her 4 year girl that she is never going to see her daddy again because he chose to exercise his 1st amendment rights in public. freedom is not free.

her name is mira by the way. and she is the funniest, snarkiest 4 year old you’ll ever meet. (this expression is canonical mira.) i’m not particularly religious but i have never more appreciated having her in people’s prayers.

okay so AI can literally read our minds now. a team from osaka was able to reconstruct visual images from mri scan data using stable diffusion. first row is the image presented to the test subject, second row is the reconstructed image from mri data. wild.

try reading it with less emotion

This may be the strongest optical illusion I’ve ever seen.

pretty wild that the first job openai took was sam's

the number of replies celebrating this email is ... surprising

… then you go back to your computer to speed run your phd in cranialpharyngiomas and know down to the last atom in your body that you are going to help her beat this thing because you’re her dad and you refuse to let her down.

as a point of reference, after reagan was shot his approval rating shot up by 22%. that’s the election folks.

if you could press a button that cures your child’s brain tumor in exchange for ending your life immediately, every parent would hesitate for zero seconds before fighting to be the first to press it the cruelest thing is that no such button exists. but there is always a move 👇

so the french guy who yolo’d $30m on trump on polymarket noticed polls asking “who are your neighbors voting for?” instead of “who are you voting for?” had trump overperforming. so he commissioned his own poll to confirm. $49m profit in a week.

wow. openai staff set a deadline of 5pm tonight for all board members to resign and bring sam and greg back, or else they all resign. the board agreed but is now waffling and its an hour past the deadline. this is all happening in real time, right now.

i showed my wife this video of muhammad ali's boxing gloves and she was like: "uh yeah it's a pair of boxing gloves, so what." then i told her the gloves weren't actually there and it's an AR rendering and she went 🤯

apple sherlocked 1Password today, so i'd like to remind you that your Apple ID is only as secure as your carrier. if you have 2FA on and get SIM swapped, attackers can lock you out of it PERMANENTLY. last month it happened to me. make sure it doesn't happen to you: 🧵

uh so some random guy 20 minutes made a SOL memecoin called $MIRA to help with research fundraising and sent me half the entire supply and it's now worth like $400K and i literally don't know what to do because i certainly don't want to rug a bunch of random people

yeah you can do that by pressing the unfollow button replying to me doesn’t do anything

the future is going to be very weird. but i would absolutely watch the wes anderson remake of the matrix

this is a long read, but i had some time to think over dinner and wanted to share a few thoughts and provide a plan forward: 0. i’ve had a lot of very memorable days on the internet over the past 30 years, but this one tops them all. my wife yi and i are unbelievably grateful to the SOL community. as a reminder - 100% of every penny we've made from this, across every kitkat/memecoin, including LP fees will be going directly to rare disease research (minus any tax obligations). i will work on a way to verify this commitment transparently with the community in the form of donation receipts. thankfully the chain is already publicly auditable. 1. a lot people seem very upset that early traders made a lot of money off of $MIRA. i don't get this at all. they made a good investment early, and got rewarded for it. good on them. when we originally started our gofundme, we were hoping to contribute maybe $2-300K or so beyond what we donated early this year to hankinson lab for christmas. now, even if we don't sell a single token more, we're going to send them at least $1M this christmas. that's INCREDIBLE - and it makes such a huge difference. the reality is if those early people didn't make these moves, the lab would be worse off. providing more funding for research is the only thing that matters to me here, full stop. how much degens make or lose money in the pvp trenches of pump is not something that is any of my business. if you made a lot of money, i'm genuinely happy for you - but please consider donating some of your profits to hankinson lab., if you lost a lot of money, i’m very sorry - but magic internet money is magic internet money. 2. at least a few crazies in mentions think that i was somehow on the “inside” and this entire thing has been some kind of conspiracy - if you're one of them, i just don’t know what to tell you. i have a day job and it is not degening magic internet money. i run a company funded by a16z called runway.com, and we work on non-crypto finance software for cfos. nowdays, by night i do deep research into craniopharyngiomas and related brain tumors. i literally didn’t have a personal SOL address until yesterday. crypto wasn’t even a payment option outside of gofundme until folks asked me for one, and when i gave them one it was my ENS. the idea that i would have the time and even know how to do something like this is wildly unbelievable. 3. i am not elon - between running a growing startup, dealing with my daughter’s medical condition, and other obligations, i simply don’t have the bandwidth to manage a crypto anything. so my constraints on a path forward are: 1) to maximize support to rare disease research by providing predictability / trust 2) to do so in the most transparent way possible that helps me sleep well at night 3) to do it in a way that doesn’t take very much of my time to manage. so here’s the plan: starting in about 12 hours, i will be liquidating $1,000 worth of $MIRA every 10 minutes, perpetually. no more and no less than that. if i change this schedule, i commit to announcing it 24 hours in advance. if you want to rug it to $0, go for it - at the end of the day we set out to raise $200K and we will end up with at least $1M towards rare disease research. no matter what, this has been a win for the world. but if it moons, then hankinson lab will get the SOL’s community support for much longer, and that really makes a big difference. so that’s it! hope that's all pretty simple and reasonable. yi, mira and i are so unbelievably grateful to you all - each and every one of you. christmas magic was made real this year thanks to all of you. forever grateful.

i'm only a day in so far but @openai's deep research and o3 is exceeding the value of the $150K i am paying a private research team to research craniopharyngioma treatments for my daughter. $200/mo is an insane ROI. grateful to @sama and the @OpenAI team.

i am a gay chinese spy who can read better than you

in the history of corporations, has a company ever fired a ceo, hire a new ceo, fired that new ceo, hire another new ceo, and then rehire the ceo they originally fired in 2.5 business days?

this video of the president of guyana tearing this pretentious bbc journalist a new one is probably the most satisfying video i’ve watched in recent memory

childcare in the sf bay area is wild. how wild? so a friend is working with a nanny agency to find a new nanny right now. the agency sent him a list of expected "local market benefits and perks". one of the things on that list? "equity in your startup" we are SO back.

you think you're pretty ambitious and then you see sam altman fundraising for like 10% of global GDP

what is even happening right now

and yet here you are

i can’t stop thinking about this exchange with a russian bot

man if zuck just waited like a year they could have rebranded to “ai” instead

this christmas, i am humbly asking for your help to support dr. hankinson's research. if not with $, i would be just as grateful for a repost or a like on this thread. 100% of your donation goes directly to funding the research efforts of Hankinson Lab: gofundme.com/f/help-mira-and…

i can’t even rn

bro how you just gonna steal @ericzhu’s tweet without any credit

the older i get, the more i'm convinced the single most important trait that matters in your friends, coworkers, life partner, and kids - is high agency.

missed out “refunded every dollar”

what i realized when i quit twitter for a month is that twitter is basically like the real world except 3-6 months in the future

screenshot-to-code: upload a screenshot of any website, watch as AI progressively builds the html, iteratively improving the generated code by comparing it against the screenshot repeatedly.

chinese tech ceo explaining to me why china is falling way behind on AI tech over dinner: ceo: “chinese LLMs can’t even count to 10” me: “what? why?” ceo: “you can’t count to 10 without also generating 8,9 and ‘89 is a politically sensitive, censored year” not making this up.

sorry for doxxing you

so basically the “move slower” people ousted the “move faster” people who’ll move fast to start a newco all the “move faster” people will join to move faster, and all that will be left are the “move slower” people moving slow to move slower together

an update on Mira:

pov footage of the photographer who took the iconic shot today

Today I learned that when Twitter acquired @uenodotco in 2021, @iamharaldur quietly negotiated for the acquisition price to be paid as salary so he could pay 46% in taxes instead of 22%, in gratitude to his education in Finland. An especially stark contrast in character today.

it’s always nice to be reminded that no matter how dumb my kids are they can still be an united states senator

gpt-4 can turn your napkin sketch into a web app, instantly. we are deep into uncharted territory here.

zaha hadid architects trained a generative model that renders architectural designs in the style of renowned architects ... from randomly crumpled pieces of paper. this one is in the style of frank gehry: 🧵👇

mira’s first iv infusion today. look at her face - absolutely could not be bothered to be bothered. braver than dad and mom by a mile.

It's depressing to see so many talented people from top schools with amazing resumes go work years at FAANG, and the most they can point to having shipped are a few buttons in one minor workflow. I mean I know FAANG can afford it, but you can't. Work at a startup!

they were right, this did sound wild to me. the sf planning commission is a cancer

fuck this i’m going to bed

very helpful to hear, thank you rob

so basically gpt5 turned out more powerful than anyone expected, ilya gets spooked, rasputins the board, board fires sam the clumsiest way possible, every vc + msft turns the screws, staff revolts, board capitulates like tissue paper, sam and greg back by sunday noon

this is the chatgpt moment for generative ai video

so glad they exposed huberman for dating 6 ethereally attractive girlfriends at the same time, can’t imagine why any dude will trust huberman’s advice on anything anymore. great work nymag!

“I've done more for the environment than any single human on earth. What I care about is the reality of goodness, not the perception of it - and what I see all over the place is people who care about looking good while doing evil.” “Fuck them."

microsoft trades on robinhood 24/7 $msft jumped from $360 to $376 since satya announced sam and gdb is joining microsoft. that’s $115 billion (or 1.4 OpenAIs) worth of market cap added in the last 60 minutes.

it doesn’t have a fucking chance

how i get gpt4 to efficiently teach me anything: "Teach me how <anything> works by asking questions about my level of understanding of necessary concepts. With each response, fill in gaps in my understanding, then recursively ask me more questions to check my understanding."

After 20 years of interviewing candidates, I've found this to be the single most useful interview question: "What is your greatest strength ... that you are most worried about not coming across in an interview setting?"

new research from OpenAI used gpt4 to label all 307,200 neurons in gpt2, labeling each with plain english descriptions of the role each neuron plays in the model. this opens up a new direction in explainability and alignment in AI, helping make models more explainable and potentially easier to align. openai.com/research/language…

serious question: why didn’t biden say anything like this? one of the nation’s greatest entrepreneurs that has ever lived, and not even a small acknowledgement, ever. only snubs. they brought it upon themselves.

this is my actual timeline right now

if you were upset about the bombed hospital but only when you thought the jews did it you might want to ask yourself why

this is the ceo of cognition 14 years ago the idea that 10x/100x engineers don’t exist is such a cope

yesterday a senior engineering leader inside openai told me that gpt5 has achieved such an unexpected step function gain in reasoning capability that they now believe it will be independently capable of figuring out how to make chatgpt no longer log you out every other day

what if zuck was the one scraping the twitter graph for threads so @elonmusk started rate limiting which then gave zuck an opening for launch

i am in tears. unbelievably grateful to the community that made this possible. thank you, thank you, thank you. in addition to this $1M, we have also raised $250K in gofundme. yi and i are also donating another $100K from our personal funds on top to support the hankinson lab. that comes out to a total of $1.35M in funding raised in the last 4 days that is going to make a real difference to the thousands of kids that are afflicted with this disease today. this is the single largest donation that has ever been made to Hankinson Lab. i cannot tell you how much i love that our beautiful mira's name is associated with something beautiful like this in the world. while i still expect $MIRA to go to zero, and i strongly believe that nobody should buy a single token if they don't expect the same, if $MIRA ends up being something long lasting that can help direct even more funding to rare disease research, nothing would make me happier. to that end, i have locked about 1/3 of what i still own in a one year lock. i have also paused the liquidation schedule, and per earlier commitment of advance notice, will instead begin liquidating at a much slower rate of 50,000 $MIRA per hour, starting in 24 hours, in order to maximize funding to rare disease research over the long run. i am still figuring out next steps, but my commitment again is to continue have all funds across any token, any time, from the wallet associated with $MIRA to go 100% to supporting rare disease research (minus tax obligations). i am also working to have 80% of all my remaining $MIRA tokens in a lock or multi-sig wallet controlled by people the community trusts. more coming while i work on the above, but for now - thank you all, from the bottom of our hearts.

🤯 this paper demonstrates you can improve gpt4 performance an astounding 30% by asking gpt4 to reflect on “why were you wrong?”, and generate a new prompt for itself taking that reason into account until it is correct. this is how humans learn! arxiv.org/pdf/2303.11366.pdf 👇

new founder nightmare unlocked

i just want to say that whoever said crypto has no legitimate use cases, you can tell them that funding for rare disease research is a pretty legitimate use case (again, ALL proceeds from this will go directly to rare disease research at hankinson lab, my family and i will keep $0 from any of this)

If you’re going to build something to replace Excel, it better be 100X better than Excel because 10X ain’t gonna cut it.

feature request for @sama and @OpenAI: a lot of academic articles are pay walled, and i have subscriptions to just about every major medical journal now. it would be game changing if i could connect all my credentials to deep research so it can access the raw papers

if this tweet makes even one parent feel “i’m glad i’m not them” and give their kids an extra hug today it will have been worth the typing

bringing peace to the middle east? worst. hitler. ever.

wait so you mean to tell me the board member whose company launched a feature that openai cloned literally two weeks later wanted sam out for some reason?

You don't speak for my culture. My culture had to go through too much actual bullshit to be this sensitive and authoritarian about what other people want to wear. Fuck that. Wear whatever you want whenever you want.

going to take the family out for christmas dinner hope this is worth at least $1.80 when i get back

this will prove to be in retrospect by far the most underrated openai event ever openai casually dropping text to 3d rendering in gpt4o and not even mentioning it (more 👇🏼)

kamala is growing on me i'm not gonna lie

i have been told that gpt5 is scheduled to complete training this december and that openai expects it to achieve agi. which means we will all hotly debate as to whether it actually achieves agi. which means it will.

many kind people have asked about a fundraiser for mira. we are financially fortunate, but if you are looking to support children like mira, please donate to the children’s brain tumor foundation who does important work to support families afflicted. cbtf.org/

there’s 10x returners, there’s fund returners, and there’s figma: figma alone returned 10X the ENTIRE FUND for not one, not two, but three VC funds:

😳🤯 Legitimately thought this was a trailer for a video game for a second there nitter.app/ricburton/status/13726…

customer feedback alone is not enough

Yo @United how many retweets to not get assaulted by you on my next flight?

liquidated 10%. thanks to the SOL community for $49,263 contributed to hankinson lab. if it tanks, i'm ok - i don't want to be the one to rug folks. if it moons, i'll announce more liquidations 24 hours in advance to support the lab further. thank you - this is pure magic.

in retrospect this was one helluva subtweet

CAN SOME PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW THIS MAGIC INTERNET MONEY WORKS I AM LOSING MY MIND

in just 3 hours, we are at $75K of our $100K goal. 🥹 yi and are in tears. we are so grateful to all of you. we decided to personally match every dollar past that, up to $100K. which means if we get to $200K, hankinson lab will receive at least $300K. gofundme.com/f/help-mira-and…

don’t know how i can possibly be more clear than this: as i preannounced more than day ago with 12 hours warning, i am liquidating at $1,000 an hour, every 10 minutes, 24 hours a day. that’s approximately $144K a day to rare disease research. this is what is happening and if you still hold $MIRA i fully expect it to go to $0 over the long run. to make it as easy to track as possible for the community, every penny of liquidations to fiat in my SOL wallet (C4wwvA1D479e5m6K19fjFrRaCPGzVykSm4pCHqsxgEuw) of any kind, of any token, at any time, will be donated to rare disease research, so it should be very easy to track on chain. receipts will be provided as donations are sent. i am a doxxed and known founder in the tech community so keeping me honest should not be difficult. first donation will happen at $1M USDC.

it was a good weekend with mira home. we were heading out to see “the wild robot” yesterday and i noticed mira wearing her mom’s cap. asked her why. crying, she said: “if they see the scar on my head they won’t think i’m cute anymore.” it’s the small things that break you.

the new naming of names meta on this site is a vibe shift we can all get behind