HOW I LEARNED TO START YAPPING AND LOVE THE AI: I've had way more success lately talking to the AIs, eg for emotional support or troubleshooting health problems! But I had to make a huge shift in how I communicate which came VERY unnaturally to me; I think that's why I was so frustrated at first and took so long to learn. +

OpenAI just launched an autonomous research assistant, Deep Research. We've been testing it for a few days @Every and it's like a bazooka for the curious mind: - Give it a question, and it will autonomously search the web (or provided sources) to compile an answer - It does this over many turns—taking between 1 and 30 minutes to return a response - It returns MASSIVE well-researched reports, synthesized from many different sources, sometimes running 10k+ words Think about it like a double decker tour bus but you’re the only passenger and the city you’re touring is the sum total of human knowledge A few things we had it do: - Write a comprehensive history of Every from 2020 to today  - Read chapter 1 of War and Peace, analyze Tolstoy's character descriptions, and tell us what that says about his view of human nature - Trawl through recent 10ks to find unreported financial irregularities - Research and compile a completely new wardrobe from a few photos Of course, there are limitations: - Sometimes it doesn't fully cite where a piece of information came from - There's no "stop" button yet, so if it's going off the rails you have to start over But it's very clearly a peak into the future of human-AI collaboration for knowledge work. Exciting times!

I am increasingly exhausted at hearing people parrot low-information takes about contemporary AI systems being "glorified autocomplete", "mere matrix multiplication", etc., without any real engagement with cognitive science or philosophy of mind.

And here is the o1 model also

By VC standards we should either "conquer the world or die in a fire" and neither of these are spiritually compelling for me. I never wanted a company I just wanted a home. At this point we have a large and loyal paid community, we build tons of features for them (I think we did >30 releases this year) and they're pretty happy. We have enough revenue to fund tons of crazy R&D and our models are still the best by the metrics we care about (how the images look and how fun it is to make things). We have a huge backlog of exciting things to make our models way better. Zero risk. We did all this with no investors. Honestly, it feels like we are successful. The next metric of success I think about most about is now that we have "all I ever wanted" in terms of a big well funded R&D lab with cool people free to work on whatever we want... Can we now build something that would make baby David proud? And can we tell bold stories about a human future that people want to be a part of? I think we can.