(ex) Director of Product @Reddit / angel investor / "working on something new"
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Been working on an idea in the multiplayer AI space.
My goal is to do for ChatGPT what Google Docs did for Microsoft Word. Less time passing files, context, and artifacts back and forth, more working together directly.
If this sounds interesting to you, I'd love to chat
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She managed to open my mind to materialism as a valid response to marginalization and disrespect in the span of the 3 minutes
It is a privilege to not need status indicators in order to receive basic respect
Ridiculously eloquent and empathetic
You can never count Google out
Introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, it's a big jump over Argon which we released just 2 weeks ago.
Gemini 4 Carbon is SOTA on cyber, long horizon tasks, ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis V5, significantly improves on usability in domains like coding, and is more aligned.
Quick take — half of Ant’s rev coming from cloud marketplaces bodes VERY well for OpenAI
My quick takeaways on the Anthropic S-1:
1. This is a historical moment
2. $6.6M in revenue per employee!! Hard to even comprehend how good that is but Anthropic is AI native as it gets so makes sense.
3. I always thought OpenAI would drop their S-1 first
4. Customers spend about 9x more after a year. Net Revenue Retention is approximately 900% as of Sep 30, 2026. Good SaaS companies brag about 120%.
5. Cowork is growing faster than Claude Code did. Goes to show you the demand for consumer products. Duo will probably rip.
6. 3 years ago this company did $41M in revenue. In the first six months of 2026, it did $16.3 billion. I don't think anyone has a mental model for that curve yet, I sure don’t.
7. Nearly half of revenue comes through cloud marketplaces. About 48% comes from customers buying through them. Big companies buy where their budget already lives, and the lesson for founders selling to enterprises is to get listed where your buyers already spend.
8. Their run rate formula is published: the last 28 days of usage times 13, plus subscriptions times 12, which i guess is the new ARR math for founders?
9. It looks like They're merging Cowork into Claude dot au which tells you the chat box era is ending and the "go do the work for me" era is here.
10. Thousands of Anthropic employees are about to become liquid at once, so expect the biggest wave of new AI startups and angel checks San Francisco has ever seen. Reminds me when Facebook went public but this is way bigger.
Let’s go!
11. Buried in the filing, Anthropic says the gap between what Claude can do and how widely it's used is one of its biggest growth opportunities, so the company itself is telling you the models are ahead of the market and someone has to close that gap for dentists, landlords, and plumbers.
12. Whatever happens, exciting times to be building in AI.
Best take on this discourse so far
This is actually a condescending view of working-class people. I grew up in a working-class immigrant family and we ate at Red Lobster and The Cheesecake Factory for "fancy nights out." But even we understood that the White House should not look like the inside of a Red Lobster. Working-class people are not culturally illiterate just because their experiences are shaped by their limited means.
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AI-generated fake documents grew 500% last year, and humans can no longer tell the difference
That's why we’re launching Extend Verify, the first document fraud detection API built for agents
Verify catches the fastest growing types of document fraud, including:
- fully AI-generated documents
- localized AI edits (down to a single modified character)
- patched text, overlays, and in-painting from Photoshop, PDF editors, and coding agents
- digital tampering after a document was signed
- and many more
In our internal evals, Verify detected over 96% of AI-generated and tampered documents.
Verify is available today: extend.ai/verify/request-acc…
Making a lot of noise about this quiet invention 🤫
@TIME named Tone T1 one of the Best Inventions of 2026 📷
52 dB(A). 80% quieter and 60% more powerful than leading gas handheld blowers.
Join the waitlist: toneoutdoors.com
Shocking, I tell you. Shocking
The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean. buff.ly/5cLtnha
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introducing operator-1, an autonomous document extraction agent
operator-1 saturates multiple 3rd party benchmarks, and delivers the most accurate performance on complex tasks that other solutions can't handle:
> long tables with thousands of rows
> lengthy files with context scattered across hundreds of pages
> dense diagrams and images
> much more!
operator-1 is a specialized agent we built that:
- runs within a custom workspace
- knows how to use dedicated tools (parse, search, zoom, code execution, validation) to handle any document
- learns via persistent memory
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An uncomfortable truth for a lot of people is that a lot of the most successful people in any industry are wicked smart. We apply stereotypes based on the loudest people, but its not representative of norms. Most are crazy smart and got to where they are because of it.
I grew up in LA, one of my parents was a TV producer, my wife was an actor, many friends "in the industry." I've been constantly surrounded by it, and some of the stupidest seeming people (cause its their bit) are actually insanely smart and strategic in private. It sometimes is just beneficial for various reasons to... not show that side of you.
My favorite anecdote was when a friend (a model) was dating a phD in physics and a very rude person made some off the cuff degrading comment to model friend about it without realizing model friend has their own phD in math lol. You wouldn't know from their instagram though!
For the quoted video, I don't know Ben Affleck. I don't know how deep his knowledge goes. He's almost certainly not going to be more knowledgable than someone who professionally does this area of work full time, but he also to me on the surface sounds like someone who knows a LOT more than the average person and possibly even the average software engineer (on this topic).
Anyways, this applies to tech too. I see it constantly.
Ben Affleck reveals he writes Python, understands convolutional neural networks, worked extensively with GPUs, and used his celebrity status to get private looks at Google and OpenAI’s video models
“I’ve always been kind of into computers since I was young. Then, when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. The visual-effects workflow for many years has included machine learning, so I can write pretty shitty Python scripts and stuff like that.
“With convolutional neural networks, which were the precursors to what the transformer can do, which is much more computation simultaneously, you would do things like look at what’s called a tensor. That’s the numerical translation of a visual image in numbers, like the batch number, the frame number and the red, green and blue values of each pixel in each frame. It’s just that simple. That numeric is called a tensor.
“You’d use a convolutional neural network to identify patterns that reveal what’s called edge detection or feature extraction, which is identifying patterns well enough to know, this is where the window ledge is, so we can more easily take the green-screen image out and replace it with something.
“That was familiar to me early on because, prior to Artists Equity, I had a small visual-effects company. I’ve worked with GPUs a lot too. The visual-effects guys said, ‘Hey, you should see. There are a couple: Google and this other company, OpenAI, are doing really interesting stuff with transformers in video.’
“I’ve learned that I can actually just call up and go, ‘Hey, it’s Ben Affleck. Can I come see what you’re doing?’ Sometimes people say yes, to my astonishment.”
Argon… because they’re not reacting to what everyone else is doing?
Just quietly crushing it I suppose
