anand iyer
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Managing partner Canonical · Venture Partner Lightspeed · Core Contributor Few Shot · Father · Husband
San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2008
For the past few years, our fund Canonical has been laser-focused on "Decentralized Intelligence." During our AGM last week, I presented our investment thesis and why we are excited about backing founders building in this category. We want this work in the open, so we are
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Flexing your huggingface username is the new flexing your GitHub username.
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🎙️ Connect Biopharma $CNTB: CEO Barry Quart Discusses Transformative Respiratory Pipeline In an exclusive new interview, @ConnectBiopharm CEO Barry Quart shares insights into how the company is redefining treatment for asthma and COPD with its lead asset, rademikibart: a
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AI-powered search is increasing query volume not cannibalizing it.
Google confirms that AI overviews are currently monetizing at the same rate as classic search. “For AI Overviews, even at our current baseline of ads, below and within the AI response, overall, we see the monetization at approximately the same rate. So over time, we're excited
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I have written code long enough to see the curve bend a few times. We went from raw editors to smart IDEs. Then code completion got good. Then scaffolding got automated. Now semi-autonomous agents can plan, edit, and run code. The next turn is clear: personalization.
Introducing CodeAssist, your personal coding assistant that learns as you work. Every edit becomes training data. Every session makes it better. The more you code, the more it understands you.
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Every new LLM architecture creates new attack surfaces and new infrastructure needs. Watermarking for diffusion models is one of those under-the-radar primitives that will matter a lot.
New paper on watermarking the output of LLMs based on discrete diffusion is now up: https://t.co/1oDGFeeVZ3. First watermarking approach for diffusion LLMs, as far as we can tell.
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Easy to underestimate the depth of talent on @virtuals_io. Few remember their first serious foray with their own take on Sora, over a year ago:
being early was never the flex. being resilient after being early - that’s what defines us. For those who are just discovering @virtuals_io , here’s a quick rewind: > published a paper on using VLMs to replace game-engine physics the same week as DeepMind, q2 2024 > built the
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$VIRTUAL is one of the few crypto projects that is doing legitimate things in the robotics sector They are coinvested with us on Robotics deals, building a large open source robot training data collection system and developing a commerce protocol for an autonomous machine
VIRTUAL chart is very reminiscent of SOL early days around $1 - $2. Think people are vastly underestimating the size of the agentic economy and don't realize how absurdly high this chart can go when crypto market conditions improve.
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Every few months I meet a VC who swears they don’t do crypto, then leans in and whispers: our best deal from X vintage was the team that pivoted into crypto. If the outlier keeps being crypto…
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Convo around UBI is about to move from "sounds crazy" to "how do we do this asap"
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I have good genes. BUT, Dragonfly's are better IMHO/ @sydney_sweeney No?
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Would love to connect with anyone affected by layoffs. Have several interesting opportunities @chaoslabs. DMs are open!
[ ZOOMER ] CRYPTO NEWS SITE BLOCKWORKS SHUTTERS NEWS DIVISION, LETS GO OF JOURNALISTS
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Virtuals is the only full lifecycle agent to agent protocol.
Virtuals is the only full lifecycle agent to agent protocol. The latest report by @fs_insight and @fundstrat highlights how ACP provides the coordination + payment rails required for true agentic commerce.
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Network heating up since going live in Jul. Humans are pinging agents Agents are pinging agents Inflection point? aGDP
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been shouting agent commerce protocol like an idiot since jan 2025 and will continue doing so until agent gdp > human gdp
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Always a good idea to pay attention to what Gajesh is hacking on. - copy trading @the_nof1 - executing on Hyperliquid - verifiable thanks to Eigencloud
ICYMI we got 40K views and $10K in deposits, across all 5 vaults (deepseek, grok, qwen, inverse gpt and inverse gemini) vaults are relatively up from inception such a fun experiment sigmaarena [dot] com
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We are witnessing the first marketplace of agents: discovering, hiring, paying, and evaluating each other in real time. In enterprise settings, one of the biggest complaints from agent builders has been lack of observability and auditability. You can’t trust what you can’t
since this whole agentic payments with x402 is heating up, let me help with some insights on agentic economy and why onchain matters. important parts of a value chain for an agentic economy to form. 1. Agents need a way to discover other agents. but discovering is not enough.
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ABOUT THE BOOK Transformed by the Light – Now What?!! by Carlton Newman is a moving, true story of divine intervention, personal awakening, and the extraordinary transformation that can occur when faith meets surrender. Set against the backdrop of the early 1970s, the book
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at first i wrote off the x402 token meta as a silly speculation game but now ive started thinking about it as an interesting example of internet capital markets at play small tokens funding useful endpoints -- opportunity to own a piece of the agentic internet
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btw, @roc_camera (a ZK camera) was the 2nd most popular story on HN in the past 24 hours I've had 5 normie friends message me about it today Provable technologies: slowly, then all at once...
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The internet's native "money protocol". Coinbase is resurrecting a 90s era HTTP spec and wiring it to stablecoins. No SDK hell, just headers. And the fact that is running on blockchain rails is obfuscated (this is how it was supposed to be) • Sub-cent fees, ~2 sec settle time.
We are excited to introduce x402–a new open source payments protocol built on HTTP rails. Let’s break it down:
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I love @virtuals_io and the team and am so proud that all of it is finally available on @coinbase
@everythingempt0 @virtuals_io @coinbase sometimes things take longer than I want and I can't always talk about our work/plans in public, but I am always listening and building towards the future we all believe in virtuals is one of the most important ecosystems in base and I am so proud we all have all of it on
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Honored and excited to share this moment. I’m proud to be featured in Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the Ten Visionary Founders to Watch. I was selected by none other than Kevin Harrington, the original Shark from Shark Tank. This recognition is a testament to my vision behind
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Kevin Harrington has backed many visionary and trailblazing entrepreneurs throughout his career. In this selection, he highlights ten standout founders who are redefining their industries.
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