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@albertwenger
VC at http://usv.com. Blog at http://continuations.com. Book at http://worldaftercapital.org. Hearts == stars, follows != endorsements.
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Reuters reports SoftBank and MGX are in talks to join the round, which could value OpenAI above $1.4 trillion.
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On Oct. 20, gui_penedo wrote that they were in San Francisco for Encord's Long Horizon Physical AI Summit.
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In a Continuations essay, Wenger argues that tweaking health care, education, taxation and social safety will not suffice.
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Odyssey says it placed a fruit fly brain in Odyssey-3 and that the fly flies through simulated worlds.
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A user argues that Anthropic's leaders are failing morally by the standard they profess to hold.
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A post credits Viam Robotics with rapid robot development and argues that proliferating models make a robust harness key.
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A post credits Viam Robotics with enabling rapid robot development and compares the need for a harness to agent development.
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A user links to two Viam Robotics posts, recommending an event to people in San Francisco and an upcoming hackathon.
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A prelaunch tester praises Gemini 4's creativity and writing but says it lags at complex multi-agent work.
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A post quotes Apollo's chief economist on diverging growth forecasts; another argues early-market demand is often underestimated.
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Fred Wilson says USV wants to invest the funds in four areas.
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David Pfau objected to the definition, while Dylan Hadfield-Menell called the evaluation metric optimization.
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OpenAI says it drew on an independent mathematics advisory group’s advice about how to release the results.
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Social Capital said on October 5 that those activities now account for roughly 90% of frontier lab compute.
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The person sharing the news says Tasklet is his brother’s startup and that he invested in an earlier round.
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A user lists autonomous vehicles, agents and weapons before adding a punchline about people.
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An October 1 post calls ‘civ/acc’ ‘brought to you by @GrittRobotics’ and links to another post.
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A September 28 post describes Supertake as a new agentic investing entrant created by Mignano and incubated by USV.
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A user endorses a quoted post: “These should become the official resort maps!”
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Redwood Research reports that GPT-6 Astra performs better with filler tokens: modestly on general benchmarks and significantly on serial depth-heavy tasks.
