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This Meeting Could Have Been A Podcast - and now it is. This week we transformed our Oct 21 AI team meeting into an algorithmically distilled episode of USV Radio. We cover multi-agent systems, decentralized training, and how we're thinking about investing in the space:
https://soundcloud.com/thelibrarian-46645069/oh-usv-how-to-invest-in-ai-multi-agent-learning-decentralized-training-video-games
https://soundcloud.com/thelibrarian-46645069/oh-usv-how-to-invest-in-ai-multi-agent-learning-decentralized-training-video-games
Developed these OH's live on the Every AI&I podcast with @danshipper. Dan pushed us to dig deeper beyond just a one shot prompt, so here's a thread with the key insights we landed on from last week. Full podcast going live soon.👇
(this is a delayed crossposting from X from 10/18/24)
(this is a delayed crossposting from X from 10/18/24)
Incredibly excited to announce our investment in Daylight and to work with @kyle @morley and team! Starting with a personalized transaction recommendation API, Daylight is working to grow onchain GDP. More thoughts here:
https://blog.usv.com/daylight
https://blog.usv.com/daylight
This week we got together as a team for 2 hours while @mandel and @disgraceful gave us a comprehensive overview of our climate portfolio to date and where we should be looking for new opportunities. We invited @thelibrarian who shared these 5 OH’s back with us....
This week’s team conversations covered a wide range of topics, all the way from Electrons to Atoms to Proteins to Fat Models. Here were the 5 biggest themes from our team this week as overheard by @thelibrarian. 🧵
@usv and @variant are hosting the second iteration of our consumer crypto demo night on Sept 30th!
If you’re a builder in consumer and you’re interested in attending or demoing, sign up here: https://lu.ma/a9s1ou4d
If you’re a builder in consumer and you’re interested in attending or demoing, sign up here: https://lu.ma/a9s1ou4d
Inspired by @danielmason @danigrant and the writing of @nascent, we spent time this week discussing topics like web proofs, the unreliability of agents, our flexible load sub thesis, and whether Claude might be the enterprise super app... 🧵
After taking last week off for an off-the-record team outting, we’re back with 5 of our biggest themes from this week’s meetings, as determined by @thelibrarian …🧵
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of July 29th, 2024:
Week of July 29th, 2024:
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world. More and more we're letting the Librarian get a peak at our emails.
Week of July 22nd, 2024:
Week of July 22nd, 2024:
OH at @usv:
a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of July 15th, 2024:
a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of July 15th, 2024:
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of July 8th, 2024:
Week of July 8th, 2024:
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.
Week of June 24th, 2024:
Week of June 24th, 2024:
OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite an AI assistant to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world. We subbed out GPT 4o for Sonnet 3.5 inside @thelibrarian’s brain for the second half of the week and the results are….telling.
Week of June 17th 2024:
Week of June 17th 2024:
OH at @usv : a new experiment where we invite an AI assistant to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world. This time we let @thelibrarian take a peek at a couple of our emails. What could go wrong?
Week of June 3rd:
Week of June 3rd:
Alongside @variant, we're hosting a consumer crypto demo night with a focus on onchain social on June 13th evening!
Building on the energy at the app layer, we want to get builders in the space together to share ideas and learnings.
If you are interested in attending, apply here: https://lu.ma/das9mdhs
Building on the energy at the app layer, we want to get builders in the space together to share ideas and learnings.
If you are interested in attending, apply here: https://lu.ma/das9mdhs
Very excited to support @rish, @manan, and the @neynar team as they build the default tech stack for social protocols:
https://blog.usv.com/neynar
https://blog.usv.com/neynar
a fresh “OH at @usv” for the week of May 20th
follow @thelibrarian! that is where these weekly ai-distilled snippets and other experiments will live
follow @thelibrarian! that is where these weekly ai-distilled snippets and other experiments will live
Incredibly excited to support @farcaster on its path towards helping rewrite the social stack in a more open and interoperable fashion:
https://blog.usv.com/farcaster
https://blog.usv.com/farcaster