VC Martin Casado Teases Significant New AI Model
a16z partner Martin Casado posted vague excitement over early access to an undisclosed model.
Martin Casado, a general partner at a16z, posted on X that access to a new model left him mind blown. He called it one of the most significant drops this year, possibly the most, while apologizing for remaining vague. Siqi Chen replied "yep" and "can confirm." Alex Volkov asked Casado to follow up with the specific use case. Gill Verdon asked if the model was 0xAlpha. Andrew Curran noted that early access to a startup model is driving vagueposts from multiple prominent accounts.
Mind blown from a new model I just got access to. I think this will be one of the most (the most?) significant drops this year. Excited. And sorry to be annoyingly vague. Just excited.
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Mind blown from a new model I just got access to. I think this will be one of the most (the most?) significant drops this year. Excited. And sorry to be annoyingly vague. Just excited.
yep
Mind blown from a new model I just got access to. I think this will be one of the most (the most?) significant drops this year. Excited. And sorry to be annoyingly vague. Just excited.
The vague posting continues. However, a16z partner Martin Casado had access to an unreleased model that left a deep impression on him. I suspect it is Sutskever’s "SSI" model, not least because a16z has invested in Ilya’s startup. Alternatively, I could easily imagine they got…
Mind blown from a new model I just got access to. I think this will be one of the most (the most?) significant drops this year. Excited. And sorry to be annoyingly vague. Just excited.
Looks like this is going to be a big week. All the main players have releases in their final stages, and it's possible they all arrive over the next five days. There's also a model in early access from a startup driving a lot of the recent hype vagueposts from prominent accounts.
@martin_casado Martin I don't mind the vaguepost, but please follow up with an RT with the usecase that blew your mind!
