soph @osphie

design director @meta superintelligence labs. prev a16z, uber Joined June 2016

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Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang

4 days ago

introducing muse wonder our new frontier model. state-of-the-art at personal agents and professional agents. our largest and most capable model yet—rivals the big bois

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soph @osphie

2 weeks ago

@dggoldst who cares nerd

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Meta for Developers @MetaforDevs

4 weeks ago

Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM) 3.1 is now available on Meta Model API, giving developers a fast and lightweight model for detection, segmentation and tracking in a single call on inference tuned for SAM 3.1's architecture. Use a short phrase to find objects in images and video. One API call returns detections, pixel-precise segmentation masks, and identity-preserving video tracks. Learn more and start building: bit.ly/4rDArq9

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Paul W. Swaney III @paulswaney3

a month ago

You can just do things

Polymarket @Polymarket

a month ago

JUST IN: Anthropic says they’re highly profitable if you take out some of their biggest expenses.

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Kevin Bass @kevinnbass

a month ago

I have conducted an audit of Anthropic's finances. What I have found is so shocking that I am calling for a Congressional investigation. Anthropic is not just seeking regulatory capture. It has built a regulatory capture machine that cannot be turned off. Structural financial incentives make it impossible for Anthropic -- I call it the Anthropic Network -- to turn off its own AI doom cycle. It starts with METR. Dario Amodei proposes "third-party evaluators" to assess the risk of Anthropic's models. He proposes METR for this purpose. But METR is financially dependent on the Anthropic's success -- specifically, on the explosive growth of more than $7 billion dollars in Anthropic stock. Dustin Moskovitz invested this stock into Good Ventures Foundation, where it represents the majority of that organization's portfolio. And GVF is the overwhelming funder of the entire Anthropic Network ecosystem. This stock was worth $500 million early last year. It is worth more than $7.7 billion just ~16 months later. METR -- and all of those building a career its parent organizations -- cannot afford to disrupt that growth. Because if Anthropic goes under, many of the organizations that fund METR go under as well. But if Anthropic succeeds, METR and its parent organizations become more richly financed to regulate AI -- something those at METR want very much. The "third-party evaluator" is not "third-party" at all. The evaluator is on Anthropic's payroll. If this were the end of it, that's bad. But that isn't all. The same organizations that fund METR also fund the many organizations, such as the Tarbell Center, that promote AI Doom. The Tarbell Center publishes AI Doom articles in The Verge, Science, LA Times, The Dispatch, TIME, and others. They are selling the problem, and then selling the solution to the problem -- from the same money pile: Anthropic's. All of these organizations are financially dependent on the same exploding $7 billion money pile. As Anthropic grows more and more powerful, its AI Doom Machine grows better and better financed -- louder and louder. Meanwhile, the regulatory regime seeded in METR grows larger to solve the increasingly loud -- now hysterical -- problem of AI Doom that the Anthropic Network itself created. From this standpoint, as Anthropic becomes more powerful, AI might be getting scarier, sure -- but the positive feedback loop also becomes more deafening -- independent of objective facts. This itself is an objective fact. The deafening AI Doom is part of an business model, that, as it expands, so too does the AI Doom messaging -- there is simply more money to do it. But the problem also goes in the other direction: If Anthropic dies, the Regulatory Regime and the AI Doom Machine are crippled or die. Neither METR nor Tarbell nor the other organizations in the Anthropic Network can allow that to happen. Hence, neither METR or the AI Doom Machine can be trusted to provide independent assessments of Anthropic's models or AI more broadly. They simply are not organizations independent of Anthropic. And Anthropic cannot detach itself from METR or Tarbell or countless other safety orgs (not shown here), either, because they drive hype for the models and the possibility of eventual regulatory capture, and Anthropic will not give that up willingly. What's more, the people at all of these organizations are all the same ecosystem, the same community. They just shuffle between organizations. The Anthropic Network is therefore, so long as it is successful, locked into a self-amplifying feedback loop inside an ideological monoculture. And that feedback loop is winning. That's what Jacob Coxon is. China is keeping messaging tight. That is why optimism for AI is so high in China. America has Anthropic: a massive company pushing anti-AI propaganda at a state level. Anthropic will either create hysteria until American AI slows down and China wins, or it will create fractures throughout American society with severe political consequences. Ironically, because of the structural financial incentives underpinning the Anthropic Network, it has become the same kind of self-amplifying virus that it fantasizes AI to become in the future -- while hiding its tracks just as carefully. It is the mirror of the same AI virus that it hypothesizes to consume America. Anthropic's business model, models itself after the very thing it claims to fear. Except Anthropic's ideology infects humans, not computers. Congress must investigate. Evidence and Github in next post. Then some supplementary figures.

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soph @osphie

2 months ago

so fun

Arushi Upmanyu @arushiupmanyu

2 months ago

404 but i hand you tracing paper

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soph @osphie

2 months ago

its so good. and the script is so funny too!

Pablo Stanley @pablostanley

2 months ago

I doodled a little world you can walk around in... as a portfolio... world.pablostanley.com

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soph @osphie

2 months ago

oh my god i love this

jack @jack

2 months ago

what's the word, berd.xyz

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soph @osphie

a year ago

@nathanborror 😮 is this a nathan borror production

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kitze 🛠️ tinkerer.club @thekitze

2 years ago

💀

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Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus

2 years ago

Memes have never been more true. 99% of people don't realize the magnitude of the changes happening.

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soph @osphie

2 years ago

I’m not crying you’re crying 😭

Roger Federer @rogerfederer

2 years ago

Vamos, @RafaelNadal! As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional. Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I

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soph @osphie

2 years ago

I need to shotgun a Celsius right now but there is no Celsius to be found. Where is the emergency Celsius when you need one.

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soph @osphie

2 years ago

say what you want about Elon, that’s a super compelling vision and an actual path to get there. I want to live in that future, wow

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soph @osphie

2 years ago

husband & I saw the replay of Stanton stealing 2nd and immediately started laughing 🤣

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soph @osphie

2 years ago

99% convinced that nobody who worked on the redesign of the Yahoo Fantasy Football mobile app, actually plays fantasy football

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soph @osphie

2 years ago

holy moly

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soph @osphie

2 years ago

I feel like its bc of these cute pies right here. Statistically, "e" is the most frequently used letter (apparently 12.70% of all the letters used in everyday English language — thanks Meta AI)