Tag: Artificial Intelligence
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The right images can get millions of eyes on your startup. This morning, I used the new Grok Imagine 2.0 to make creative for a fake startup: Chamath’s sweater emporium. Round #1: Making an Ad for the Grand Opening I’m picturing blonde wood, Nordic design, and endless piles of buttery…
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+ Ads, Advertising, AI, AI Images, Artificial Intelligence, Creative, Entrepreneur, Founders, Grok, Marketing, Startups+
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I’m heading back to Japan in early 2027. But Madonn, are those flights expensive! Fortunately, I got early access to an AI assistant that can help… Instinct Becomes My Personal Travel Agent Instinct is a new AI personal assistant. You talk to it via iMessage or WhatsApp. It’s in private…
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Elon dropped his most powerful AI model ever last week: Grok 4.6. I just used it to make a slick app for angel investors in minutes. Building My First App with Grok 4.6 I want an app to track all the deals I pass on. Right now, I track them…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, Elon Musk, Entrepreneur, Founders, Grok, SpaceX, SPCX, Startups, Vibe Coding, xAI+
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Are you spending a fortune on tokens? How does $0.05 per million sound? This morning, I tried one of the cheapest LLM’s in existence. Turns out, it’s surprisingly powerful. Llama 3.1 8B on Groq costs just $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens. That’s over 100x…
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Alibaba claims that its new Qwen 3.8-Max is second only to Fable 5. In my testing, the new Qwen excels at coding and customer support. But ask it about Tiananmen Square, and it suddenly shuts down. Here’s where Qwen performs well, and where it seizes up… Round #1: Building a…
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+ AI, Alibaba, Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneur, Founders, LLM, Qwen, Startups, Tech, Vibecoding+
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China is crushing the US on open weights models. But Mira Murati, former OpenAI CTO, is striking back. Today, I put her new Inkling model through 3 real world tests. Inkling does a solid job on coding and web scraping. But compared to the leading models, its results are less…
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Token costs killing you? Google may have the solution. Gemini just dropped their fastest, cheapest models ever. This morning, I took them out for a test drive. Gemini’s new models excel at parsing documents, but still lag a little when it comes to coding. Let me show you what these…
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Tasklet was one of the hottest companies in YC P26. This morning, I used it to build an agent that preps me for my founder meetings. The hype is justified! Automating One of My Most Annoying Tasks: Meeting Prep Digging through emails to find information on the folks I’m meeting…
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+ Agentic, Agents, AI, AI Agents, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Finance, Investing, Startups, Tech, Technology, Writing, Y Combinator, YC+
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I want to meet as many awesome founders as I can. So I’m automating the busywork. Here are the automations I’ve got running my investment business… Summarizing Decks I built a great little tool in Grok Projects to summarize decks in the exact format I like: Instead of paging through…
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+ Technology, Investing, Venture Capital, Angel Investing, Finance, Startups, VC, Entrepreneur, Silicon Valley, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Writing, ChatGPT, Grok+
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YC S26 kicked off last week. 56 startups have already launched. Here are my top 3 so far, from robot maids to cheaper healthcare… Prescience Just this morning, my Christian health share emailed me. My discount for staying fit? Gone. Traditional insurance is even worse. Premiums through the roof, no…
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+ Technology, Investing, Venture Capital, Finance, Tech, Startups, Entrepreneur, Silicon Valley, SF, Y Combinator, AI, Artificial Intelligence, YC+
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