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building humans @ https://t.co/Ay8cpV62XH | Thiel Fellow, @zfellows
San Francisco, CA
Joined July 2020
Excited to become a Thiel Fellow!
Welcome 2025 Thiel Fellows! WHO ARE THEY? Ferdinand Dabitz, Berlin, Germany - @FerdiDabitz Ivy is building the world trade bank — a global instant payments platform. Jackson Denka, Los Angeles, CA - @jacksondenka Azura is a trading platform that utilizes on-chain rails to
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Here's my conversation with @JTLonsdale We explore: - immigrant roots, philosophy, and warfare - chess & investing billions with Peter Thiel - founding stories behind Palantir and 8VC Plus, US & Japanese bond markets, what drives him, the University of Austin, and much more.
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Next week, my conversation with @JTLonsdale goes live We covered his life story... from chess, philosophy, & Peter Thiel to Palantir, 8VC and much more. For now, here's to our appreciation for America 🇺🇸
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Little did I know when I walked into Susa’s office for the first time last year that the way I thought about venture was about to change entirely. In the year I’ve spent with the firm including the first 6 months as a fellow I’ve continuously been blown away by the pace of
The wait is over… Susa Venture Fellows Applications for 2025 are live! For exceptional founders, operators, and students with the ambition to scale up their personal checks or build their own investing platform. Application and website with more info in replies!
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You know they're good when they come in matching beige suits
We asked @Eliasfiz (Canopy Labs) about crossing the uncanny valley. Canopy Labs is building the foundation models to power digital humans indistinguishable from real ones. "The architecture matters a lot. We are starting off with an LLM that understand what humans are like."
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This week's episode on @yesterdaymgmt with @chadbyers dives into his life story. We discussed: - Turning $250K into $400M with Robinhood - Traveling the world in college & his 20s - Soon being a dad and his life approach - Timeless principles taught by his dad Link below :)
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Tune in at 12:30PT
Morning. Here are our guest call-ins today: - @altcap (Altimeter Capital) - @AJ_Piplica + @Zsshore (Hermeus) - @zebulgar + @EnduroSat (Founders Fund) Thiel Fellow lightning round (@thielfellowship): - @CarloWKobe (Fizz) - @thewildstevenp (Orbit) - @Eliasfiz (Canopy Labs) -
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Long day in the office when Waymo wishes you a good morning as you leave
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In the last 2 weeks at Canopy Labs: – 4.8k+ stars on GitHub – 225k downloads on Hugging Face – 200+ open fine-tunes of Orpheus – Providing real-time, cheap inference through Baseten And we've cooked up crazy new model updates!
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Voice most important modality after text. Speech-LLMs are the future. Here is a chronological list of the important Open Source milestones in the Speech-LLM space 📖. A thread 🧵 ...
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o1 visa approved – officially been upgraded to legal alien status! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Orpheus a SOTA text-to-speech model
Today, we’re launching Orpheus, an open-source TTS model that exceeds the capabilities of both open and closed-source models such as ElevenLabs and OpenAI! (1/6)
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OrpheusTTS is now at 200k downloads on Hugging Face with 4.7k stars and 400 forks on Github! The OS community has been crushing it
Today, we’re launching Orpheus, an open-source TTS model that exceeds the capabilities of both open and closed-source models such as ElevenLabs and OpenAI! (1/6)
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We designed Orpheus to be easily fine tuned. On Hugging Face 🤗 there are over 200 finetunes of our model. People have made Orpheus: - Speak dozens of languages 🌎 - Create personalised voice interfaces 🔊 - Recreate historical/fictional characters📜
Today, we’re launching Orpheus, an open-source TTS model that exceeds the capabilities of both open and closed-source models such as ElevenLabs and OpenAI! (1/6)
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