Ashu Desai
@DesaiAshu
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Coach, Engineer, Musician YC, Alphabet, Make School, Motion Tweets are my own
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2011
The hard truth that founders need to hear I would go further and say: the internet would be a much better place without paid-acq driven software Just like neighborhoods are better without guys standing outside the restaurant hard selling you to come inside and eat Strive to
There's a vast marketing industrial complex of agencies/consultants/advisors/whatever that promotes tech startups spending billions of dollars of unaccountable marketing budget. They're triggered by my anti-paid stance but here's the reality: - paid marketing is much, much
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Public sentiment toward AI is horrible and it’s not hard to see why. We have big tech CEOs and AI labs openly talking about mass job displacement while simultaneously pitching vague “abundance for all.” Nobody buys it. Telling people their livelihoods are at risk while
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Some geeky details behind The Infinite Crate. In an world with LLM driven coding, we should use languages for what they are best at rather than overloading languages that are easiest to write More here: https://t.co/PIZW2MtsvE
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Super cool stuff from my awesome @GoogleDeepMind colleagues - real time infinite sounds on an eminently hackable base. It’s everything I love about AI
Today, we're open sourcing the code behind "The Infinite Crate," our VST/AU plugin that lets you play with Lyria RealTime directly inside your favorite DAW! 🎧🎶 Since we released The Infinite Crate last year, it’s been used by some of our favorite artists - including a
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Excited to open source The Infinite Crate! Available under Apache 2.0 for you to fork, remix, and make your own It’s been a ton of fun to work with the Magenta team at @GoogleDeepMind and imagine a world where AI can be used to expand artistic possibilities of both
Today, we're open sourcing the code behind "The Infinite Crate," our VST/AU plugin that lets you play with Lyria RealTime directly inside your favorite DAW! 🎧🎶 Since we released The Infinite Crate last year, it’s been used by some of our favorite artists - including a
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He told you he was a crusader He wore a crusader tattoo “They won’t start wars” you said “They respect the constitution” you said “We could never repeat the holocaust” you said 2026-2028 will be a dark time as the death and displacement toll in the Middle East ratchets up by
Just the U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth calling for the destruction of the Muslim mosque Al-Aqsa (Dome of the Rock) in order to achieve the "miracle" of building the Third Temple and bringing about Armageddon. https://t.co/NK36nPVtgW
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James Cameron: "In Star Wars the good guys are the rebels, they're using asymmetric warfare against a highly organized empire, I think we call those guys terrorists today." George Lucas: "When I did it they were Vietcong. That was the whole point."
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220 employees of OpenAI and Google Deepmind have signed this letter urging their leaders to stand with Anthropic. That leaves... ~8780 to go. Friends at OpenAI and GDM, please join them! https://t.co/q2VAcBPqFt
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Marco Rubio on Trump 10 years ago today: “I will never stop until we keep a con man from taking over the party of Reagan and the conservative movement.”
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We must ask not what America can do for Silicon Valley, but what Silicon Valley can do for America.
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Could easily eliminate bottom 125 million taxpayers from the tax rolls and be revenue neutral at the same time with a capital gains tax equal to ordinary income and a few other tweaks. Eliminating tax breaks (like tax loss carry over, MLP's, tax free borrowing to invest against
AI will transform economies and need a rethink of capitalism & equity. Labor portion of economy (vs capital) will decline sharply. Should we eliminate preferential treatment of capital gains tax and equalize to ordinary income? 40% of capital gains taxes are paid by those with
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“America is not an inheritance. It is a a constant process of invention and reinvention. Every group that has arrived here was once accused of destroying the culture. The Irish were despised. The Germans denigrated. Italians were considered alien. Jews were excluded. Catholics
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Happy to see India leading the way as the #1 user of AI and opening dialog to bring AI to all That means AI to all Indians irrespective of religion or socioeconomic class. To our neighbors of Pakistan and China, and to the rest of the developing world
Bringing the world together to discuss AI! Starting today, India hosts the AI Impact Summit at Bharat Mandapam in Delhi. I warmly welcome world leaders, captains of industry, innovators, policymakers, researchers and tech enthusiasts from across the world for this Summit. The
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Fair to clarify it is legal immigrants that are backbone of the innovation powerhouse America has become. The dirve against illegal immigrants and MAGA/WAGA tactics has reduced much of future legal immigrant talent. A debt we wont recover from for decades.
And account for a large percentage of tech innovation startups that is the backbone of new growth in the economy.
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A dude we nominated for the state department used Irish and Italian culture as examples of the "white American" culture he is seeking to preserve, grouping Irish and Italians into "Anglo" Italians are not Anglo, and the Irish "military culture" fought _against_ the Anglo people
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
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A fun little experiment I ran this week was to fine-tune Magenta RealTime - DeepMind's open-weights music model - against 20-30 hours of live sets, tracks, and loops I've produced in the studio You can give it a spin and generate stuff that (kind of) sounds like the music I
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Hard to get past "President Trump is a VERY strong leader." Is he? Was that necessary? In a free country wealthy and influential CEOs like @sama should be able to criticize the government without including North Korea style "dear leader" tributes to avoid incurring wrath.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's message to employees (first reported by NYT's Andrew Ross Sorkin: "I love the US and its values of democracy and freedom and will be supportive of the country however I can; OpenAI will too. But part of loving the country is the American duty to push
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