Karan
@karansirdesai
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📢 ANNOUNCEMENT
Super excited to announce that I've joined
@Accel_India
as a Crypto & Web3 investor. From being a part-time degen to jumping in head first, pumped to get started on this new journey with
@_pagarwal
&
@_DineshKatiyar
.
A thread on my excitement about crypto (1/5)
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We’re thrilled to announce
@Accel_India
's investment in
@leap_terra
, the superwallet for the
@terra_money
ecosystem. We're super excited to partner with
@asanjeevrao
on this adventure! 🚀🐸
Here’s a thread on why we’re bullish on superwallets and Leap’s approach. (1/16)
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The (continued) bull case for crypto
Last week was spent in introspection for many, myself included, on what happens to crypto if
@FTX_Official
, one of the most ‘trusted’ players in the space collapses. I’m not gonna lie, it looks bleak. (1/n)
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We're pumped to announce
@Accel_India
's investment in crypto startup
@staderlabs
- the fastest growing staking & liquid staking protocol globally in the
@terra_money
ecosystem with multi-chain ambitions.⚡
A MEGA 🧵 on why we're bullish on staking & the Stader investment (1/22)
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@0xPolygon
,
@sandeepnailwal
&
@jdkanani
have been killing it. Who would have thought a year ago
@Reddit
and
@instagram
would be building serious features powered by NFTs. (10/n)
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-Western governments are freezing their citizens cash.
-Russia is invading its neighbors
-China is programming its money
-
@chainalysis
can trace everybody & their grandma on-chain
Time for
@zcash
make its big comeback?
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Ty to the awesome folks
@devfolio
for this. Great stewards of the Indian builder ecosystem. Bullish.
@srijancse
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Gen AI models are a generational innovation. But the truth is, most haven't translated into generational applications.
Why?
Last year, my co-founder
@hapchap88
and I, started hacking together some AI products in finance and crypto built on open models.
But, the lack of our
Excited to announce Mira's $9M Seed round led by
@BITKRAFTVC
&
@hiFramework
We're building a decentralised infrastructure to universalise AI for every developer, business & community allowing anybody to gainfully participate in the early innings of this foundational technology.
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.We at
@accel_india
are thrilled to announce our investment in
@xaltsio
- the next generation investment manager in crypto. We’re excited to partner with
@dontfightthefed
&
@0xsupreet
as they steward global Institutions towards crypto
A 🧵on why we're excited about xalts (1/10)
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The
@terra_money
death spiral has really shaken stablecoin holders on-chain. Some stats from the
@CurveFinance
3pool (the most important stablecoin liquidity source on chain)
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Super excited to speak among some greats!
Don't miss
@karansirdesai
at
#SuperAI
Singapore.
Karan is the Co-Founder and CEO of
@mirafoundation_
, a novel open source AI development platform leveraging distributed trust and economic security.
Meet AI's leading innovators next week.
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We always knew globalisation had reached its twilight hour, The
@APompliano
podcast with
@PeterZeihan
really changed my perspective on the potential winners and losers. The level of detail is simply astounding. Loved every second of it.
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🚨NEW LAUNCH🚨
My friends
@cunninghamkaito
@srinathariharan
and I have built $ETH treasures, a community-led resource to track institutional adoption of Ethereum (1/4)
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The future belongs to those who do evals
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Super pumped to have an all star join
@Mira_Network
to build out the AI platform of the future
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We’re excited to announce
@Accel_India
's investment in
@SpaceRunnersNFT
, the most prominent fashion brand in the metaverse! 🤩🚀
Here’s a 🧵 on what makes us bullish about digital fashion & the Space Runners vision! (1/19)
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Bombay parents celebrating Rhea’s arrest while their kids delete chats with their dealers 🥴
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It always bothers me that, in India, where
#bhang
is a common religious potion,
#marijuana
is still an illegal, and stigmatised drug - esp with evolving global views.
I did some digging and discovered India’s fascinating and tragic tryst with
#cannabis
.
A thread 🧵 1/12
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Nas, the rapper, is one of the most successful angel investors today - robinhood, Coinbase, lyft etc.
Goes to show how high achiever’s can continue to achieve in any field they choose.
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Excited to announce that I’m Joining the
@beondeck
Catalyst fellowship🚀
Thanks
@shriyanevatia
@ani_pai
@katarinamsmith
for creating this special cohort!
Honoured to be a part of such a wildly cool bunch of people 🎉
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I remember evaluating tech brokerages when i was at
@Accel
in India
User funnels looked a lot more like a sports betting company than a fintech company
If you restrict the public's speculation appetite, they will always find a way out 🙃.
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Winning together
@hyperbolic_labs
🤝
Mira is excited to announce a strategic partnership with
@Hyperbolic_Labs
to build an open AI supply chain & democratize AI development.
Mira will leverage Hyperbolic's GPU marketplace, which optimizes & aggregates global GPU infra to make compute more accessible & affordable.
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💡 The big exponential unlock in DeFi will be on-chain risk/credit underwriting. in my past TradFi life I'd looked at re-imagining risk writing for institutions. So I'll dump some of my thoughts on DeFi underwriting can look like...
/THREAD (1/22)
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I think the biggest misconception
folks have of
#cryptocurrencies
is to treat them all as currencies.
Each coin (oh the irony) fits the description of a different asset class and such a perspective is essential to really appreciate the space.
A thread 🧵 1/n
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I'm so pumped on this new research breakthrough we had
@Mira_Network
on sovereign AI systems. imo we're still scratching the surface on what is possible with decentralising AI tech
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People’s December personality is either going to Magnetic fields or not going to Magnetic fields
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@adadithya
The book by
@suchetadalal
itself is much more unbiased in its description of the scam. While he was the sacrificial lamb, what he (or the others did) was not right in any respect.
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Super grateful to
@SuperteamDAO
who helped me find the opportunity,
@srinathariharan
for always being super helpful,
@sassal0x
for your deep insight & all the degens who share your incredible insights for all to read.
My DMs are open for anybody who wants to chat⚡️ (5/5)
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BIG BOYS CLUB👀
With ICICI’s merger with Bharti Axa, the big 6 - ICICI, Bajaj, HDFC, TATA, Reliance and RJ+ now control 63% of the private General insurance market. (GOI controls 44% of total GI market).
@Rahul_J_Mathur
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Don’t romanticise shit like this. Seems more like he has his priorities wrong
Success is not coincidence. You need dedication. I visited Covid hospital & found this guy doing study of CA exam. Your dedication makes you forget your pain. After that Success is only formality.
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Damn writing long form is hard, but so fulfilling. I’ve junked 3 ideas which I thought were great after writing them down…
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Today afternoon, I was bored & wanted to try something new.
So I decided to become a Latin Pop music artist.
Here’s my first track - ‘Firedancer’🔥
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Excited to publish our first research piece coming from our team at Mira of increasing output accuracy via a consensus of an ensemble of models. Works especially well in cases where generation is in bulk and not real-time and where output accuracy is paramount (we got our
Making language models more trustworthy with Ensemble Evaluation (EE)
Mira is pioneering a new generation technique called Ensemble Evaluation (EE) to reduce aggregated hallucinated output for AI systems, which is becoming increasingly important across use cases such as health,
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Hired my first intern today! Looking forward to growing and helping people grow in my entrepreneurial journey!😌😌
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I’m looking for a replacement flatmate for a 3bhk in Koramangala. Rent ; 31k + maintenance. The flat is already set up and occupied by 2 people, the third flatmate is moving out.
@BangaloreRoomi
pls help 🌸
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#Crypto
gets a nod of acknowledgement from the Indian Govt. 🇮🇳
@nsitharaman
-30% tax
- 1% TDS on transfers
- CBDC in the works
IMO a tacit acceptance that crypto is legal 🙏🏻
But let’s see what this really means? time to put my CA degree to use (1/4)
#Budget2022
14) BREAKING NEWS: India will tax transactions of virtual digital assets like crypto and NFTs at 30%, Finance Minister
@nsitharaman
says in
#Budget2022
speech. Our columnist
@andymukherjee70
says that means Crypto just became legal in India.
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Looking forward to an exciting session here at
#TheCryptoSummit
!
Bring in your questions! Will be happy to answer them all :)
@Product_nation
@sharads
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Time to put my mental health in the hands of a bald Dutch guy for the next year 🤙🏻
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The
#NewEducationPolicy
has some incredible changes that can massively improve the future. I wish I could have gone through such a system, but obviously news channels can fixate on only the issue of vernacular language 🤷🏻♂️
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I need to hang out with more founder to share my sorrows, VCs don’t get me anymore
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Norway’s 50% exports is oil and gas, yet their entire grid is like 98% renewable.
Quintessential drug dealer behaviour
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Hot take - you don't need to build the 1234287th NFT marketplace
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I’ve realised that a lot of people in India love Modi, and hate Trump. All because they identify with the majority in India and the minority in the US. There’s not much difference in Ideology, but your perspective of the ideology.
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@0xPolygon
consistently deploys 15-20x the contracts vs Ethereum on a daily basis. Folks underestimate the level of activity happening on the $MATIC blockchain
h/t
@nansen_ai
@ASvanevik
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DeFi has shown open source financial services can operate at scale, while centralised peers fell like Dominos.
@Uniswap
@CurveFinance
@AaveAave
@friktion_labs
@compoundfinance
@dYdX
are all fine, bolstering my conviction that there is a path to DeFi going mainstream (11/n)
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It’s important for there to be critics, they keep the industry honest (there’s no guarantee crypto succeeds). But that shouldn’t be the grounds for not trying to solve hard problems.
I’m still sticking around for the future.
(n/n)
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This is amazing, discovering music based on obscure descriptions has always been a problem
🎧Announcing PlaylistAI (
@playlist_ai
) my app for making Spotify and Apple Music playlists using
@OpenAI
's GPT-3.
Enter prompts like "Chill music to study to, lo-fi", "Working out at the gym, rap, hip-hop", or "Pop music from the early 2000's" to make a playlist. Link below 👇
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Today one of our stealth AI apps hit a 100% funnel conversion from Install to query (with an average of 10 queries per user).
Demand for AI is real, question is how do you harness it?
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We're still in stealth and yet we get written about. Says a lot about what's cooking over the next few months at
@mirafoundation_
🫡
With landmark legislation coming into effect in the US and EU, European blockchain investors are beginning to return.
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Wow I didn’t know Browsercompany was incubated at Thrive. My favourite daily use product has to be Arc right now
We spun
@browsercompany
out of
@ThriveCapital
.
When I decided to leave Thrive to join as CEO,
@JoshuaKushner
called me out of the blue to give us a bunch of Thrive’s stake back.
For free. No strings attached. “It’s the right thing to do.” Class act.
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If you meet an exceptionally talented person as a founder, it is your fiduciary responsibility to try to convince them to join your journey
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Tell me you done understand crypto without telling me you don’t understand crypto
🚨CBDCs could 'kill' case for private cryptocurrencies, says RBI Deputy Governor T Rabi Sankar
#cryptocurrencies
#CBDCs
@RBI
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Big week, but smallest week it'll ever be
This week was big for Mira's ecosystem:
• 3.12k queries this week
• 92.3% positive feedback received through RLHF
• The 3 most requested feedback features were: multilingual models, more robust price APIs & on-chain data validating our roadmap
Join
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Some heavy hitting questions with some heavy hitters!
Join
@sandeepnailwal
@Melt_Dem
@ZeMariaMacedo
and I as we dive deeper into what what an AI native future really looks like, and why building reliable and decentralised delivery pipelines matter.
10AM ET on Thursday!
Why is Mira building a better AI supply chain?
Join us for a Twitter space with our investors
@Melt_Dem
@sandeepnailwal
and
@ZeMariaMacedo
to find out.
Date: August 15, 2024
Time: 10:00 am ET
Link:
Set your reminders now!
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Building a company is basically building great taste and articulating that taste to your team with minimum loss
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Build empathy.
Be your own customer before even building your product. We do this at Mira every day, best decision we made.
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In Dubai for token2049, who wants to hang and get some alpha on what we're up to at
@mirafoundation_
👀
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Major moves, congrats
@ASvanevik
@nansen_ai
🥳
gm Nansen Explorers! 🧭
1/ We are thrilled to announce Nansen’s first-ever acquisition -
@ape_board
portfolio tracker and
#DeFi
/
#NFT
dashboard service 🎉 !
This will enable us to take the first step toward establishing Nansen as the definitive Information Super-App of
#Web3
.
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Late to the party, but is pretty good at making us smarter why markets crashed
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Today my school turned a 175 years old
Eternally grateful to an everyone there who shaped a huge part of who I am
@bombayscottish
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Making AI easy to use, for everybody
Think of Mira as the tooling required to bridge your AI from exciting demo to production reality.
Learn more today at
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Cooking up new primitives for decentralised AI
@Mira_Network
Flows are a breakthrough for practical AI because they reduce AI to a simple function call.
let's look at Flows in more detail👇
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@harshmadhusudan
@TheHolyKau
CBDCs are a facelift of the incumbent system, hence unnecessary and irrelevant.
Bitcoin cannot be a currency FOR NOW as its network does not support quick settlement.
However network effects have an intrinsic value and I’d rather bet on tech than regulation.
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My company got approved and incorporated within 3 days. IN INDIA. 😱😱😱 I’m shook
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When we raised our round on the premise that we need a vibrant ecosystem of workflows to make AI usable, most people laughed saying that workflows don't matter - just focus on models.
Well that tide has shifted, grateful for the support of chads like
@ZeMariaMacedo
who were
It's pretty clear to any regular AI user that the current models are already AGI, just a smart HS student/college freshman level intelligence
They could already automate a bunch of people's jobs. The reason they don't rn isn't because of a lack of raw intelligence but because
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The People
Crypto attracts a peculiar bunch - adventurers, pirates, experimenters, mad scientists and the like, all trying to create a new world altogether. What unifies us is often the courage (or foolishness) it takes to weather the choppy seas and sail full steam ahead (5/n)
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Been to more airports in the last 2 weeks than the last 2 years.
Almost each trip had progressively more relaxed covid rules.
Feels good to be normal again
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Accel port cos killing it
Awesome to see
@chainalysis
@falconxnetwork
@nansen_ai
@Sorare
and
@SkyMavisHQ
backed by
@Accel
and featured by
@CBinsights
as part of the world's 50 most promising crypto companies!
@asanwal
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Purpose:
Crypto is a mission-driven - a noble cause of handing ownership and power to the users & increasing economic freedom globally. While a lot of work needs to be done, these ideals will continue to attract the best and brightest to this new frontier. (2/5)
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Vote for my man
@YourstrulyVish
I'm excited to announce that I've recently submitted my application to serve on the
@apecoin
Special Council.
Here is why you should consider voting for me
@apecoin
@yugalabs
@BoredApeYC
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🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
LAUNCH ALERT 🔈
Super pumped to launch ETH treasuries with
@cunninghamkaito
and
@karansirdesai
Eth Treasuries is a resource where you can find companies, governments and funds holding Ethereum
Fun fact: The state of Texas own ETH 🦇🔈🚀
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is the first new product after a very long time that has become daily use for me. It’s just so much better than search.
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