For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @nvidia signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
@sebkrier@alexolegimas interesting, i remember years ago andrew ng mentioned that the ai pathway we are going through right now isn’t the same pathway as agi
SOMEONE JUST KILLED THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY
A guy scanned an entire house with his phone. Uploaded it.
Now anyone on Earth can walk through it in a browser tab. No app. No VR. No agent. No appointment.
Click → you’re inside. Every room. Every angle. Every shadow. Photoreal.
The numbers are insane:
- Agent fee on a $500k home: $15,000
- Cost to make this scan: ~$200
- Time to “tour” 50 houses: one evening
- File size: smaller than a TikTok
The science is wild too:
It’s called 3D Gaussian Splatting instead of polygons (how games render), it uses millions of tiny glowing “splats” of color and depth.
AI reconstructs reality from your photos. The result loads on a phone and looks like you’re THERE.
The grift opportunity is even wilder:
Freelancers are already charging $300–$800 per scan for realtors, Airbnbs, venues, car dealers, museums.
One person + one phone + one weekend = a business.
Open source. Built on PlayCanvas.
Free GitHub: github.com/playcanvas
Claude for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word are now generally available, and Claude for Outlook is in public beta.
As Claude moves between your Microsoft apps, it carries the full context of your conversation.
We might be heading towards a populist backlash towards AI, but we're not there yet. Outside the tech bubble, Americans really don't care about AI yet.
AI is Americans' 29th most important issue, according to the fantastic survey @davidshor ran that everyone is rightly looking at.
It's not surprising that Americans will answer sentiment questions about AI negatively, as they've been negative towards tech for a while. But it's a big leap from negative sentiment to meaningful political action.
Americans have been negative on social media for 10 years, and there has been no meaningful political action. And that's despite all the other hallmarks of backlash people are saying about AI---violent extremists (people forget there was a shooting at YouTube HQ), protests, etc.
My prediction: we will get real populist backlash to AI when the unemployment moves by, say, 2 percentage points and people see it as caused by AI.
That might happen quite soon. So it's good that people are already thinking about this issue and where it might lead (esp @jasminewsun whose recent writing on this has been incredible).
When the populist backlash does occur, people will be searching around for policies, and if we're lucky and smart, we'll have a library of potential good ideas ready to deploy. Because otherwise, we'll get horrible ideas like data center moratoria instead.
I'll be writing more about this for my piece on the poltical economy of AGI next week!
🇨🇦 keeps asking why Gen Z founders are leaving.
A Gen Z startup built a 3,000-person tech community and hit 1M+ impressions in 60 days and still left 🇨🇦.
Their reasons were blunt: visa pathways don’t work for early-stage founders, PR scoring keeps rising, startup visas take years, and fintech founders are told the infrastructure to scale isn’t here.
The wild part: she claims “83% of grads just head straight to San Francisco or New York.”
The direction is obvious: founders go where building is actually possible.
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