Quantum computing in finance suggests a transition where the complexity of simulations and risk models becomes an asset, enabling strategies that adapt faster, forecast with more accuracy, and design portfolios with refined precision. Microblog by @antgrasso #FutureOfFinance
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Week of breakthroughs: Starship, CRISPR, DeepMind and optimism
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Traylor Swelce.
Starship's perfect flight.
Chan and Doudna do CRISPR for kids.
Google DeepMind drops the neobanana.
Abundance Institute x Base Power Company. + Electric Slide
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AI Transforms Industry: The Commodification of Intelligence
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AI Runs on Industry — and Industry’s Future Runs on AI In my thesis 'Industrial Intelligence', I argue that turning “intelligence” into a commodity — putting AI into everything — is one of the largest industrial undertakings of our time. It’s not just about clever algorithms.
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Mass Intelligence and the Cambrian Explosion of AI
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The coming mass intelligence—and intelligence explosion, or: the Cambrian explosion of mass intelligence I just read @emollick latest blog post about mass intelligence, an excellent blog post (I'll link to it in the comments, well worth reading), and it got me thinking. Here are
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Flux Schnell Remains Only Cheap Open Source Image Model
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Flux Schnell, Dev & Pro were launched 13 months ago now, this was a big day for image model space. Since then we haven't really had any good cheap open source models – Schnell is still the only good cheap open source model around, but it is getting outdated. Maybe Schnell v2… https://t.co/2Sl5yQtFwD
— Peter Gostev (@petergostev) 29 août 2025Flux Schnell, Dev & Pro were launched 13 months ago now, this was a big day for image model space. Since then we haven't really had any good cheap open source models – Schnell is still the only good cheap open source model around, but it is getting outdated. Maybe Schnell v2
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Data Privacy as Competitive Advantage in AI Market
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Given how competitive the AI space is I expect "we don't train on text provided by your employees" to be a key feature for winning paying customers – and it is, almost all the labs promote that for their paid accounts
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Sequoia Omitted from Top VC List Rankings
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They put out a list of top VC recently and left out @sequoia They’re a joke
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Anthropic’s Safety Claims Questioned as OpenAI AI Proves Safer
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Anthropic split from OpenAI because they thought its AI wasn’t safe enough, but now Anthropic has found that OpenAI’s AI is safer. Farcical, but as a side effect an allegedly $100B company was created.
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Mass Intelligence Era: Advanced AI Reaching Billions Simultaneously
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I wrote about the era of Mass Intelligence. GPT-5 and Google's Nano Banana are examples of how advanced AI is now making their way to far more users, at scale, as both performance and efficiency keep improving. We are going to see a lot of weird things happening, all at once.
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Algorithm convergence trap: viral content as optimization limit
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in the limit of revenue/growth maxxing via A/B tests doesn't it all just converge to funny panda videos? it's the supermasive black hole at the center of the universe and no matter the initial conditions you eventually get sucked in. reels. youtube shorts. substack notes.