Grant Long
@grntlng
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Founder, @amidlabs Building an ecosystem to support founders and creative entrepreneurs in their quest to shape the future.
Oakland
Joined May 2010
🚨 9-1-1 hold times in my city of Oakland can last as long as 20 min! 😵 @8ENs, 4x founder and @amidlabs fellow, is taking that problem head on with his new AI company, @call_hyper. Hyper is building voice AI for government, to help triage the massive surplus demand from
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Apple Intelligence plans show Apple's commitment to their own chips as best in class for AI inference, not just on device but also powering their own private AI cloud. Apple has the resources and leverage to design these chips AND own production capacity from TSMC etc. This
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Should be a good one!
✨ Delighted to share Peer2Peer’s upcoming event with @grntlng at Amid Labs! Join us and hear from incredible industry leaders like Tim Collins from @Federato_AI , Ephraim Tekle from @sigmacomputing , and Crag Wolfe from @UnstructuredIO who have dedicated their careers to
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7. Check out @AskTaxGPT , it's tax day 😅 ! And to hear the full incredible entrepreneurs journey of @ChKashifAli: https://t.co/Hu8E93mZLl
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6. In some industries, we have a sever supply constraint. @ChKashifAli believes that, rather than posing a risk to jobs, AI tools like @AskTaxGPT are absolutely essential to fulfilling the needs of the public.
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5. @AskTaxGPT is building an AI financial advisor, which @ChKashifAli believes is as fundamental a need to USA households as @amazon Prime. The problem, and opportunity, are massive.
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4. He worked at @Adobe for 3 years, but @ChKashifAli was attracted to entrepreneurship. His first two startups were failures. Maybe he wasn't cut out for being a founder? But where he had failed at business, he was successful in love, and got married. This mean new tax
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3. University was far too expensive, and even coding bootcamps were financially out of reach. But @GA and @Adobe offered a fellowship program for aspiring coders with non-traditional backgrounds. @ChKashifAli was selected for it.
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2. Kash survived in San Francisco on $800 per month, washing dishes and cleaning floors in a restaurant, but his real hard work was learning programming.
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1. @ChKashifAli came to the USA from Pakistan with $169 in his pocket, and a heart full of determination. Now he's the co-founder of @AskTaxGPT Here is his story:
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A film crew just came by to feature Orange House 2.0 in the Amid documentary You can still move in before we’re on Netflix, we’re searching for a roommate Crew includes @grntlng @itsmattstoner @amidlabs
Living in a hackerhouse is the best way to immerse yourself in the San Francisco AI community 🍊 Orange House 2.0 is looking for a new roommate Even if you’re not looking for housing you’ll still like hearing about the fun events we host
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Are You Building the Future? 👨🏽💻 Calling all AI builders in SF and the Bay Area , let's spotlight you! https://t.co/kgqi4dft5Y is working on an AI Documentary Series. This series is about the startups, entrepreneurs, researchers, and technologies behind the AI revolution
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It's important that AI compute isn't forever controlled by a few big tech conglomerates. Great convo with @eshanchordia of @luminoai about the work they're doing to prevent that future, to decentralize the compute infrastructure for artificial intelligence. Check out the
Thank you @grntlng for a great chat! @realyogeshdarji and I are building @luminoai so that everyone in the world has access to fast, cheap, and available compute and can build AI models. Watch the full interview here 👉 https://t.co/QBntNh8bkP
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AI Docu Series Call for participants in SF Bay Area Film crew with experience producing for VICE and other top media outlets, in town 4/8-4/11 This series of documentaries is about the startups, entrepreneurs, researchers, and technologies behind the AI revolution taking place
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What the hell is going on in downtown SF? 😳 I’ll tell you… Here, once again, many of the most intelligent, hard working, creative, entrepreneurial spirits in the world are coming together to build the future. San Francisco, and the greater Bay Area, are proving again, to me,
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6 months ago, I raised 500k from a16z @speedrun to build The Promenade Studios - where we build the video games that were not possible before AI. Since then, we've built the best AI-powered video game in the world. Here's my full, unedited demo day pitch.
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