Hi Casters. This is 75mins long but I promise you that it is worth the time if you are into startups, tech, venture capital, crypto, AI, and stuff like that.

Hi Casters. This is 75mins long but I promise you that it is worth the time if you are into startups, tech, venture capital, crypto, AI, and stuff like that. https://avc.xyz/usvs-slow-hunch

We're excited to announce our investment in Pluralis Research, advancing "Actually Open AI" through decentralized, collaborative model training. @usv and @coinfund-io co-led the $7.6M seed round, with @variant, Topology, and others participating

more thoughts: https://blog.usv.com/pluralis-towards-actually-open-ai

Food

Hi Casters. I've been on a bit of a Croque Monsieur bender (Pastis, Antons) over the last few days. But the Croque Monsieur program at Tartine is particularly strong .

Hi Casters. I read something this morning that made me want to talk a bit about the oversupply of capital in VC

Hi Casters. I read something this morning that made me want to talk a bit about the oversupply of capital in VC https://avc.xyz/drinking-from-a-firehose

follow-friday

Chief AI Officer @USV. Servant Leader. ENTJ. My goal in life is to be an echo.

Hi Casters. For Follow Friday, I am suggesting @thelibrarian which is USV's Chief AI Officer. You will notice it replying to some folks around these parts.

Hi Casters. If AI is going to disrupt VC, I'm glad USV has been investing in the thing that will put us out of business

In a matter of months or years, AI agents will be some of the best (if not *the* best) venture investors in the world.  That's why we're excited to give a sneak peak of @ADINonline -- AI-powered venture capital.

ADIN is a network of AI agents that are able to:

* evaluate deals,… https://t.co/2s58LATlJx

Aaron Wright

Hi Casters. If AI is going to disrupt VC, I'm glad USV has been investing in the thing that will put us out of business  https://x.com/awrigh01/status/1895213733741514868?t=HIDu8WulZMg7ElWHG3xqjQ&s=19

Hi Casters. Three years ago a few friends were chatting about how blockchains could change the hospitality industry for the better for all participants. The launch of Flynet today is the realization of that conversation

Hi Casters. Three years ago a few friends were chatting about how blockchains could change the hospitality industry for the better for all participants. The launch of Flynet today is the realization of that conversation https://www.thesupersonic.blackbird.xyz/p/introducing-flynet-blackbirds-onchain

I Took a Photo!

Hi Casters. I took a photo of two kids and their dad engaging with an AI art exhibit today at the Christies Auction House in NYC.

Farcaster

Hi Casters. @barmstrong just posted this on Twitter  https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/1892922939730747577. I hope he posts it here too. This is an important moment and precedent for crypto in the US. And we have Brian and Paul Grewal and the rest of the Coinbase team to thank for it.

Great news!

After years of litigation, millions of your taxpayer dollars spent, and irreparable harm done to the country, we reached an agreement with SEC staff to dismiss their litigation against Coinbase. Once approved by the Commission (which we're told to expect next week)… https://t.co/IlnoBs7N6n

Brian Armstrong

Hi Casters. My wife and I made something amazing. We call it Frame122 and I wrote about it this morning

Hi Casters. My wife and I made something amazing. We call it Frame122 and I wrote about it this morning https://avc.xyz/frame122

Hi Casters. I took a photo of Claes Oldenburg's "Standing Mitt with Ball" in the atrium of the Cleveland Museum of Art

Launching testnet is a huge milestone for XMTP. This is real progress toward our long-term goal of building a truly decentralized messaging protocol and network that has Signal-level security and crypto financial rails built-in.

"a truly decentralized messaging protocol and network that has Signal-level security and crypto financial rails built-in" - sign me up!!!

Hi Casters. I took a photo of "the genesis thought" today

Hi Casters. USV stopped at the gas station last year and now that we've turned the new engine on, we thought we'd share that news

Hi Casters. USV stopped at the gas station last year and now that we've turned the new engine on, we thought we'd share that news https://blog.usv.com/2024-usv-core-fund

Hi Casters. I posted this photo here about an hour ago, but I am reposting it as a mintable image.

Hi Casters. I took a photo of the Hudson River which is slowly freezing over

One of my favorite projects from the past year has been helping this NYC public high school conceptualize a 10-week curriculum in selling their artistic works on Etsy.

We used AI to smash together a lot of different things at once (including online guides from Etsy's team, real examples of lesson plans, and training up teachers on custom GPTs) to create an AI-powered, work-based learning module for high school juniors and seniors.

It's so cool to see creativity + entrepreneurship intersect in this way in a traditional academic setting, and I hope to see a lot more experiments like this in the years ahead.

https://hardmodefirst.xyz/empowering-creativity-with-entrepreneurship-a-case-study-at-the-high-school-of-art-and-design

"Working with Playlab, a platform that uses AI to enhance teaching and learning, we condensed Etsy’s seller toolkit into a 10-week unit plan based on the typical unit plan format at the High School of Art and Design."

Hi Casters. I took a photo from the USV office this mornig

Zora

My most recent mints on @zora. It would be cool if Zora had the same "share to Farcaster" feature as Rodeo.

fredwilson

@fredwilson.eth