Silicon Ducking: Using Thought‑Tuned AI for Better Decisions
is talking to a model fine-tuned on your own thoughts (say, for investment judgement) a sign of madness? given this kind of iteration can help models, maybe it helps humans "silicon ducking" instead of rubber ducking
AI Agents Trigger Engineering Phase Shift and New Research Paradigm
Caught up with @karpathy for a new @NoPriorsPod: on the phase shift in engineering, AI psychosis, claws, AutoResearch, the opportunity for a SETI-at-Home like movement in AI, the model landscape, and second order effects 02:55 - What Capability Limits Remain? 06:15 -...
Notion Founder Unveils Expanded Vision Amid AI Surge
ICYMI, last week’s No Priors: Notion founder @simonlast on the company’s expanded vision, given rapidly growing ai capabilities
Star-Studded AI Founder Lineup for Conviction Retreat
guys it's a 🔥 lineup for @Conviction Embed retreat: @btaylor (Founder, Sierra & Chairman, OpenAI) @mikeyk (Labs, Anthropic & Founder, Instagram) @parkerconrad (Founder, Rippling) @zackmziegler (Founder, OpenEvidence) John Haddock (Chief Business Officer, Harvey) @GuptaRK22 (Founder, Ithaca) @Karpathy (Sensei, Researcher) @milichab (Cursor, xAI)
AI Agents Now Autonomously Execute Internet Tools in Production
An AI agent can now discover a tool on the internet, call it, and take action in production. Two years ago unthinkable, today that's a slow Tuesday night. Every enterprise will need a control plane for AI -- we backed...
Karpathy Returns to NopriorsPod: Anticipating Coding Agent Insights
excited to have sensei @karpathy back on @nopriorspod tomorrow. what wisdom shall we glean? (yes, yes, wth is going on with coding agents)
Top AI Founders Pitching Opportunities at Conviction NYC
3.11 in NYC: @Conviction’s “Mixture of Experts” ✨a curated set of the founders you need to know in AI, pitching you (engineer, researcher, product person) their company to join 💫 https://t.co/hXUsZctqfH
Avoid Startups Whose Founders Aren't AI Wartime
there’s actually a whole raft of tech companies where if the founders are not AI wartime you should abandon ship real fast
Five AI‑Native Startup Ideas Before Embed Apps Close
Last 5 AI-native startup ideas from us @Conviction before Embed apps close (robotics cert, red-teaming chips, materializing institutional memory, physics sim, and getting assurance on abundant generated code) https://t.co/9ykAggZY9P
Anthropic AI Underval
I feel like this dramatically underweights @8enmann’s work at Labs…and @AnthropicAI as an org making space for Labs to cook
AI Native Leverages Agents to Fill Data Gaps
AI Naive: use agents to try to solve the problem. AI Native: use agents to fix the missing data and scattered context that make the problem hard.
Join AI Startup Founders at Conviction's Mixture-of-Experts Event
hi! if you want to work at some of the most interesting startups in AI, come to our next mixture-of-experts event at @conviction and hear from the founders of Harmonic, Worktrace, Sunday, Treehouse and Trajectory https://t.co/ZL7mdnszUl
Composer 1.5 Post‑training Uses More Compute than Pre‑training
“The compute used in our post-training of Composer 1.5 even surpasses the amount used to pretrain the base model.”