Sam Jackson
@samjackson
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Expert-at-Large, space explorer; someone who defies description in 160 characters. I advise and work with different folks but all opinions here are my own.
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Joined December 2008
there's a certain personality that's very debilitating in modern life. 100 years ago, if you wanted to buy something, you'd go to five local shops and decide. now with the internet, you need to spend 1,000 hours so you can own the best thing like you're some venetian patrician
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๐ย Happy Friday folks ๐ฅโ A bonus to top off the energy from re:Invent, we're excited to announce a new capability in Aryn called ๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐๐
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New model just dropped ๐
We've raised $100M from Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, and NVIDIA. Today we're introducing Sonic-3 - the state-of-the-art model for realtime conversation. What makes Sonic-3 great: - Breakthrough naturalness - laughter and full emotional range - Lightning fast -
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Introducing RND1, the most powerful base diffusion language model (DLM) to date. RND1 (Radical Numerics Diffusion) is an experimental DLM with 30B params (3B active) with a sparse MoE architecture. We are making it open source, releasing weights, training details, and code to
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Introducing โ๏ธย @snowglobe_so, the simulation engine for AI chatbots. Magically simulate the behavior of your users to test and improve your chatbots. Find failures before your users do.
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My daily encouragement to startups: huge gap between what can already be done, and what's /being/ done. Carpe diem. Also a warning: amazing engine useless if no drivetrain, etc. Product perils can afflict anyone, but failure at big companies just a very pointed example.
Despite the Gemini team training an excellent frontier model, I can't help but feel that Google is lacking direction on the AI product side. Why can't I give Gemini agentic access to my Gmail? Why can't it read my Google Docs to get the context it needs? Why can't I ask it to do
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Before manga and psychedelia, Alphonse Mucha imagined a world in bloom. On his birthday, letโs honor his vision of art. ๐งต ๐
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Anthropic alignment research: we stress tested this model in a air-gapped tungsten container for million simulated years it was naughty once xAI alignment research: we deployed an untested model to the largest social media platform in the world and it called itself MechaHitler
New Anthropic research: Why do some language models fake alignment while others don't? Last year, we found a situation where Claude 3 Opus fakes alignment. Now, weโve done the same analysis for 25 frontier LLMsโand the story looks more complex.
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"Even though itโs still an active volcano, we donโt expect Mama Tahoma to erupt and catastrophically change the course of anyoneโs life at all ever until, potentially, their very fiery last moments on Earth.โ
Geologists: Mount Rainier Will Not Erupt During Your Lifetime, with Possible Exception of Very End: https://t.co/ViaUSfTNEs
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Join Virtue AI Co-founder Sanmi Koyejo for a live webinar on why protecting your AI apps isnโt just about safetyโitโs the key to faster deployment and growth. ๐
April 24 | ๐ 10 AM PT | ๐ป Virtual In this session, weโll cover: โ
Why traditional security tooling falls short
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We've raised a $64M Series A led by @kleinerperkins to build the platform for real-time voice AI. We'll use this funding to expand our team, and to build the next generation of models, infrastructure, and products for voice, starting with Sonic 2.0, available today. Link below
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This is the most important video of 2025. Everything comes down to our ability to build housing and infrastructure. Dems have lost the plot and itโs time to retool. Watch the entire thing and share it with your representatives. If they scoff, primary them.
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Fascinating and timely podcast project about what happens when a journalist makes an AI clone of themselves -- using today's tech https://t.co/wrgwofiT3r
shellgame.co
A podcast and newsletter about things that are not what they seem, hosted by journalist Evan Ratliff. Click to read Shell Game, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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2024: We launched and went $0 to $153M in payments volume at @VoriHQ 2025: We 10x 2030: Vori is one of the largest payments businesses on planet earth Watch our Year in Review below โฌ๏ธ
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Cartesia makes magic real... If you are using anyone else for an AI audio use case, well, you should change! Lots more to come powered by their technology. Onwards ... !
We've raised $27M from Index Ventures, Lightspeed, Factory, Conviction, SVA, General Catalyst, A* and our wonderful angels. Cartesia's audio models power the next generation of voice agents, digital media, and assistants across startups and large enterprises. Our mission is to
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We've raised $27M from Index Ventures, Lightspeed, Factory, Conviction, SVA, General Catalyst, A* and our wonderful angels. Cartesia's audio models power the next generation of voice agents, digital media, and assistants across startups and large enterprises. Our mission is to
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