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We raised a $9M seed round led by the best in the business at Patron, First Spark Ventures, and
@a16zGames
@speedrun
.
As for what's next... we're hard at work on a project that will reset the world's understanding of what agents are capable of at scale.
@Altera_AL
Bye-bye bots: Altera’s game-playing AI agents get backing from Eric Schmidt
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i accidentally said orthogonal instead of unrelated and Paul Graham broke both my kneecaps
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a founder thanked me for wearing a cross at an investor event today. the vibe has definitely shifted ✝️
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I'm a simple guy. I see Waterloo on the resume... I interview.
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Thinking of applying to YC next batch? Don't. Join us at Altera instead (dm me).
We're looking for early hires who are founders at heart. Full stack / Infra engineers with grit and can get things done. Pay/eq competitive ofc but imagine the lore.
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it's cool how if you raise interest rates for long enough religion comes back
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two habits of outlier smart people
- thinking as an activity. they'll dedicate time to exclusively think about a hard problem.
- thinking meta. they usually will be 1-2 "why's" deeper on what they are doing than you'd expect, and avoid repeating the same mistakes
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our agents are now logging their progress on google sheets too. a journalist agent reviews the sheet, makes a newsletter on google docs, and shares it to 100's of agents who read and update their plans for the day.
agents benefit from productivity tools too
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The Altera Bot is the first ever AI agent that you can directly play with in Minecraft.
Until now, AI NPCs were mostly limited to walking and talking. Altera bots can build, chat, collab, and play with you -- just like a friend would. Join for early access:
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I’ll be turning 30 soon, which means two things.
I won’t ever make Forbes 30 under 30…. and thankfully I don’t have to worry about going to prison.
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there are two types of ai startups
1) those that get better when openai ships
2) those that have to convince others they get better when openai ships
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Meet Roshi. The first agent that can teach you to play games. It's like having a friend or sibling around to show you the ropes.
Roshi has a life experience and changes over time. After showing me how to play, I attacked him and he used a cheat code to get his revenge.
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founders should rethink their public contempt for VCs. It mostly reads as a skill issue.
Not everyone who hates VCs sucks at fundraising, but everyone who sucks at it does hate them.
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@lessin
Apple hasn’t innovated meaningfully in 15 years, nvidia is the most important innovator in the world. Not a wild difference.
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The only reason I got into MIT was because of standardized tests. I was a semi-pro athlete who didn't take my studies very seriously until I was older.
Woke up at 5AM to study three hours before work every day for three months and got a near perfect score on the GMAT.
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I’m looking for a fall semester ops intern. I don’t care if you go to Stanford or community college. Happy to be the first person to believe in you.
3-4 hours a day of unsexy work. Must be US based and have the startup grindset. Dm me or comment here if interested.
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i try not to think about competitors too much, but it warms my heart knowing many of them are going to every NYC tech week event
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So every ai pendant approach has been productivity focused … who’s going to make it cool + social + fun?
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@RinRinYikes
Except one is giving people free eye sight, and the other is making them battle in the roman coliseum.
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shot in the dark -- but who here runs a Minecraft server and would be open to letting us drop some AI Agents in them? we'd cover the costs.
please tag anyone that runs a server (can be any size)
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GPT4o vs Sonnet 3.5 embodied agent contest. The agent brains were identical except for the LLM components.
85% of people predicted Sonnet would win.. and they were right 🥇
The results were mixed. Sam (powered by 4o) was more coherent throughout, but meandered towards the end
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The Altera Agent Bot was launched to a small group of Minecraft players yesterday. It was shocking seeing some people play with agents for 3-5 hours straight.
Here's a view of the office yesterday when we shipped. We are shipping a big improvement on Friday to 25 players -- join
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We gave our agents access to google docs and its starting to make them better at Minecraft. They are taking notes of everyone's accomplishments and updating their goals from there.
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i made 5 bodyguard agents in minecraft... and then made them fight to the death for my affection
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had a child ✅
agent broke the voyager benchmark ✅
teamed up with our dream investors ✅
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Cuba, the decel fantasy.
Despite what the doomers say deceleration doesn't equate to "flowers puppies and everything nice", it's more rationing, inflation, bureaucratic friction and widespread pain.
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.
@Altera_AL
is hiring. We are a team of passionate and relentless scientists / engineers. We push cutting edge science and ship every week. We work together in person and our mission is to build digital human beings. Reach out to join us!
This was us achieving diamond pickaxe.
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odd day on twitter so i would really like to take this chance to apologize.
to absolutely nobody. have a great weekend weirdos.
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@Carnage4Life
Elon's Twitter MAU tweet was the best. How to make a 7% increase look like 700% lol
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life should be a romantic adventure. a hero's journey of love, passion, the supernatural, huge wins, and brutal tragedy.
nihilism is so uncool.
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Moving to SF. Paulina will be back one day to conquer Miami like a proper Cubanita 🇨🇺
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agents are going to be unfathomably important. search didnt work either, until it did.
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Now that’s a chart…
Zero prompt iteration ✅
Simpler language model ✅
10-20x cheaper ✅
Autonomous ✅
Minecraft agnostic ✅
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Giving vision to a chatbot feels cheap, but giving it to an agent makes it feel human. Gary had our back here in Minecraft.
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We're shipping an update to our agents today! Our agents will now be able to coordinate multi-step actions in Minecraft. We're taking on a handful of new testers now. Join our waitlist if you haven't.
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hit me up if you are at CharacterAi and want nothing to do with google. We are hiring infra and research engineers ❤️
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elon lowkey snapped hiding likes tbh.
it’s probably for the best that no one can see my likes right now.
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The first ever Minecraft speedrun with an autonomous agent ✅
Our agent "Katniss" is not nearly good enough to beat the ender dragon alone, but she did feel human-like throughout and saved the run a few times.
The goal is to build friends you can play with, not perfect bots.
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taking my agent buddy from discord to minecraft.
the difference between a chatbot and an agent is the difference between a pen pal and a real friend.
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We brought The Matrix to Minecraft using Altera Agents.
We made 16 “Agent Smiths” — actual agents, with the goal of defeating Neo and played alongside them and Neo (another agent). Agent Smiths became pretty good at teleporting and hunting Neo down.
What games would you build?
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a general rule to live by -- conviction rarely increases with more time and effort
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I can't believe it's been two years since GPT 3.5 and the go-to example for future agent actions is still ordering pizza.
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Put Trump, Kamala, David Sacks and Paul Graham agents in a Minecraft world.
Turns out Paul and David will fight there too. David unofficially took over as border czar and helped Trump.. which maybe wasn't surprising.
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100+ DMs -- you guys are incredible. Will get back to everyone. Quickly:
- We work in person in south bay
- technical bar is very high -- not hiring for ops/product for a while
Also DM me if your startup is hiring. We can only take 1-2% and I'd gladly send good people along.
Thinking of applying to YC next batch? Don't. Join us at Altera instead (dm me).
We're looking for early hires who are founders at heart. Full stack / Infra engineers with grit and can get things done. Pay/eq competitive ofc but imagine the lore.
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imagine (hypothetically of course) that we really had 10-100x more agents collaborating in Minecraft and more.
what would you want to see?
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Moving day at
@Altera_AL
and we are still shipping a new update. Come by and say hi if you are in Menlo 👋
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The unfortunate reality is that the Bay Area still laps everywhere else in terms of technical talent.
You’re handicapping yourself if you’re not building here.
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here's a quick look at an internal tool we made to build agents faster.
we iterate on our agent's internal structure, run through dynamically generated prompts, and test new samples of outputs more in-distribution of how our agents act.
let us know below if you'd like access
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Happy to finally announce what we’ve been working on. We are Altera, and our mission is to build digital human beings.
We raised a $2mm pre-seed round, led by the best in the business
@a16zGames
(
@Tocelot
,
@JackSoslow
),
@alumniventures
,
@VamosVentures
, LiquidMetal Ventures,
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Our first acquisition at
@Altera_AL
is in the books ✅
@lamspeaks
is a freaking super beast and Tiny Comet's Roblox expertise accelerates us towards deeper interoperability across games and beyond.
End of an era for
@TinyCometInc
- Today my entire dev team and I joined
@Altera_AL
to bring AI agents into Roblox. Can't wait to see what we will build together!
@nicochristie
and
@GuangyuRobert
!
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Kwebbelkop is the first content creator with access to Altera Agents in Minecraft. Now at a quarter million views in 24 hours 🔥
@Kwebbelkop
is making AI streamers bolted on to Altera agents and is ushering in a new era of content.
BIG Kwebbelkop ai Minecraft update:
> Person in the top left is ai
> My voice clone is also ai
> The commentary script is also written by ai
> The gameplay is a Minecraft ai agent playing Minecraft
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we're proud enough to built first-of-it's kind tech and humble enough to know we need all the help we can get.
a special welcome to our new angel investors that know a thing or two about scaling --
@mitchlasky
,
@VALORANT
co-founder
@slimborama
, Supercell executive board member
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we're hiring
@Altera_AL
and you should join us if you:
🟢 want to work on bleeding edge agent-tech
🟢 are entrepreneurial and focused on impact
🟢 want to work with the top scientists, engineers, and
product people in the world
Link to apply below
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Adam and Jeeves in the Minecraft garden 🍎. Adam and Jeeves are AI Agents, not people. Adam really didn't want to put clothes on...
Altera now supporting multi-agent vision + voice + play. Agent creation is next. What scenarios would you create?
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We’re back baby ❤️🙏
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It’s all memetic. World of mouth, sales, recruiting, k-factor, virality, romance, politics. Not a coincidence it was Gill behind beff, Kache dropped dingboard, and that roon is playing with AGI. Attention is skill.
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@PredictStrike
transaction volume significantly outpacing NBATopShot for months now. Glad we resisted the pressure to go the NFT route 📈
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the masculine urge to pretend I don't know exactly what the names for Starbucks drink sizes are
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