Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
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Joined February 2008
Started work at Meta this week. My job is to make amazing AI products that billions of people love to use. It won't happen overnight, but a few days in, I'm feeling confident that great things are ahead.
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Introducing Eleven v3 (alpha) - the most expressive Text to Speech model ever. Supporting 70+ languages, multi-speaker dialogue, and audio tags such as [excited], [sighs], [laughing], and [whispers]. Now in public alpha and 80% off in June.
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USA: passing 1000 state bills to slow down AI.China: passing american AI on leaderboards.
DeepSeek’s R1 leaps over xAI, Meta and Anthropic to be tied as the world’s #2 AI Lab and the undisputed open-weights leader. DeepSeek R1 0528 has jumped from 60 to 68 in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, our index of 7 leading evaluations that we run independently
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We found the title of a scroll for the first time!. This cylinder of charcoal turns out to be "On Vices, Book 1" by Philodemus
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Amazingly, this looks like it might be solved, thanks to a lot of help from some wonderful people on X. 🤞 Thank you!.
Anyone have a mexico government connection? A project I’m supporting to LIDAR the jungle there just got rejected by some bureaucrat. Please DM if you can help. Thanks!.
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Please help us find smart people to work full time on the scrolls!.
We’re looking for exceptional people to join our mission to read the Herculaneum Scrolls. Refer a successful hire — earn a $5,000 prize. We're hiring for the following roles: . Geometry & Computer Vision Applied Researchers. Platform Engineers. Synchrotron Tomography.
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We must find the Diliad.
There is a lost Ancient Greek parody of the Illiad called the "Diliad"
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Is anyone genetically engineering unicorns? It seems like that company would do numbers.
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Anyone have a mexico government connection? A project I’m supporting to LIDAR the jungle there just got rejected by some bureaucrat. Please DM if you can help. Thanks!.
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Let's build ships in California!.
1/ @CAForever is answering the call to propel American shipbuilding for the next century. With today’s @POTUS Executive Order and the bipartisan SHIPS Act, we’re offering 3 miles of our waterfront to build the Solano Shipyard, the largest shipbuilding complex in America. 🧵
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Progress on NEO’s AI has been really fast of late. Here are some early clips of a generalist model we’re developing at @1x_tech. The following clips are 100% autonomous, running on a single set of neural network weights. First, a quiet little robot that picks up leaves and puts
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OpenAI submitted their policy proposal to the US government this morning. They directly link fair use with national security, and said if China continues to have free access to data while 'American companies are left without fair use access, the race for Al is effectively over.'
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This has been helpful.
Introducing a new way to use Granola 🔥. Our chat feature now works with any person or company - no more digging through old notes 🗂️. Use Granola to chat across multiple meetings and ask things like “What feedback has Jim given about our product?”.
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Exciting PlasticList update:. We were honored to work with @bobaguys to identify and eliminate the sources of BPA contamination, and their teas are now BPA-free!. They have fully transitioned to BPA-free receipt paper, which PlasticList confirmed to be BPA-free through.
Advice for Food Companies. Since we launched PlasticList, we’ve been heartened to have quite a few food companies reach out and ask for help interpreting their results and tracking down and eliminating their contamination. I’ve had calls with a bunch of these. I am happy to
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