orchestrating videos with computer is magical

Your flight lands 30m early, pilot immediately humble-brags about it over the PA but then the gate isn’t ready and you’re still deplaning 5m late EVERY TIME

New frontrunner today to win CCP's Person of the Year

the curse of living in times where philosophy is relevant

going 100 MPH is sometimes necessary if you are in an urgent rush but it burns a lot more energy than going 65 MPH to travel the same distance. we buy cars mostly for their 65 MPH skill, knowing they can get to 100 MPH as needed. it's also a lot less safe to go 100 MPH. yes, this is an allegory for AI and hybrid local + cloud inference compute.

favorite example from today was a startup CEO who built a Quiet Quitting Tracker that assigns a probability that sales rep is on the way out based off of Slack+Salesforce activity and quantifies the potential revenue impact of their departure

We’re open sourcing a benchmark and full evaluation harness for deep and wide research. Wide research is a particularly valuable feature for researching hundreds to thousands of entities across the web (or internally), building spreadsheets, and more. Hope this helps others build similar search and research evals for their own organizations.

“It is in America’s interest to actually support open source" - @AravSrinivas when I asked him yesterday about Washington’s fear of Chinese open AI models His view: Nvidia/Nemotron can help close the gap, but the US should support open weights because affordability is what lets businesses use AI.

This is the narrative: AI is the most American technology - it allows anyone to start a business, provide their family a better life. --- New Business Formation is Surging marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Perplexity is Mike Ross.

Introducing Computer for Counsel. Computer now connects the research databases, document tools, and matter-management systems lawyers use every day. Pull citable sources from @midpageAI, @LegalZoom, @Docusign, @netdocuments, and more. Available for all Pro and Max subscribers.

Knowledge work is compressing -- executives can act as ICs to unilaterally push the business forward and employees can level-up their impact with the leverage of 100 digital co-workers. This is enabled by real-time feedback loops between research, setting objectives and execution. But it all has to start with the best research, the perennial killer app for AI.

startups and small businesses are becoming the same thing and this is a good thing for both.

I went to the Main Street AI Summit in DC, hosted by Perplexity. Here's a full summary + my biggest takeaways, talk by talk: The thesis of the whole day: AI is a business multiplier for SMBs. Size matters less than it ever has. *** 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: @dmitry140 (@perplexity_ai) The line between startup and small business is disappearing. A solo founder now gets the leverage that used to take a 50-person team. My favorite line: "𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦... You used to have to give instructions... now you prompt OBJECTIVES." *** 𝗦𝗕𝗔 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲: @hartleycaldwell (@SBAgov) $25M in AI credits going to 100,000 vetted small businesses. $250 in Perplexity credits to each SMB. My favorite line: "𝘞𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢." *** 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 / 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘀 (@perplexity_ai), 𝗧𝗶𝗺 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝘀, 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗵 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘁, 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗗𝗼𝗱𝗴𝗲 The proof that none of this is theoretical. A house flipper, a marketing agency, and a Napa logistics company, all running leaner and faster with AI than they ever did with headcount. My favorite line from Alison: "𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘐 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘺. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘨𝘶𝘺𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦." My favorite line from Tim Francis: "𝘐 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘥 30 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘈𝘐 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘬𝘵𝘰𝘱. 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘺𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦. AI allows you to be a human being, not a Human do'er." My favorite line from Josh Hart: "I saw a Perplexity Ad, created an account, then I stayed up until 3am and built my first website. That was the aha moment." My favorite line from David Dodge: "𝘐 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘢𝘭: 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵. I had two in my inbox this morning." *** 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲: 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 / @StateDept_CIO, Jerry Ma (@perplexity_ai) The State Dept rolled AI out to 100,000 employees and got 3,050 users on day one (up from 3000 beta users.... The hard part was never the tech. It was the training and change management. My favorite line from Kelly: "𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘭." *** 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 / 𝗘𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗝𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘀, 𝗔𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗸 𝗦𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘃𝗮, 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗮 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗸, 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝘂𝗹 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿 Discoverability is going merit-based. There has never been a better time to start a company. My favorite line from @emily_jorgens (@perplexity_ai): "𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯." My favorite line from @aerotrekker (@intuit): "𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦." My favorite line from @Clark_al (@shopify): "𝘈𝘐 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦." My favorite line from @johnpaulfarmer (@stripe): "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘶𝘴, 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘺." *** 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗽𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 / @Kaelan (@whitehouse), @dmitry140 (@perplexity_ai) Speed, volume, bold creative risk. Meet your audience where they actually are. My favorite line from Kaelan: "𝘕𝘰 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘺." *** final thought - candidly, the thing that fired me up most: Every single session circled back to lowering the friction to start and run a company for SMBs. That's the whole reason @doolaHQ exists. You shouldn't need an SSN, a US address, a plane ticket or a massive team to own and run a real US company. and AI makes that more true. PS: If you are a business reading this looking to enable SMBs on your platform, check out our Company Formation API: doola.com/business-solutions…

the most exciting place in tech right now is Main Street. it's never been a better time to grow a business in America, and we're honored to be the first major AI company doing this alongside the @SBAgov

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a lot of modern comms boils down to 1) create content that influencers you like will amplify 2) make it easy for influencers to create content you like and conceptualize 'influencer' and 'content' in the broadest sense

David and Jordan are the perfect team to unleash a golden age of American robotics. Great people that are easy to root for - which is a good thing because we are all kind of screwed if they flop.