The rebel alliance
This blog is co-authored with Zoe Weinberg and Matt Hawes at ex/ante, and is a follow-up to our first blog post on the topic, 'You don't own your memory.' We need an open architecture that puts us in control of our memories while making their exploitation technically impossible. But how will this shift happen? In order to discover possible implementations, we must understand how our data informs LLMs. The three predominant context engineering techniques are prompt design, retrieval-augmented ...
The rebel alliance
This blog is co-authored with Zoe Weinberg and Matt Hawes at ex/ante, and is a follow-up to our first blog post on the topic, 'You don't own your memory.' We need an open architecture that puts us in control of our memories while making their exploitation technically impossible. But how will this shift happen? In order to discover possible implementations, we must understand how our data informs LLMs. The three predominant context engineering techniques are prompt design, retrieval-augmented ...
You don’t own your memory
This blog was originally posted on the USV blog, and is co-authored with Zoe Weinberg and Matt Hawes at ex/ante. Who will own our digital memory? This question has become increasingly urgent as ChatGPT and Claude ask us to entrust more and more of our memories to their platforms. Frontier AI models have already ingested the world's public knowledge, but their advancements may slow down as we approach a compute ceiling. Additional performance gains will require them to adapt to the user’s cont...
You don’t own your memory
This blog was originally posted on the USV blog, and is co-authored with Zoe Weinberg and Matt Hawes at ex/ante. Who will own our digital memory? This question has become increasingly urgent as ChatGPT and Claude ask us to entrust more and more of our memories to their platforms. Frontier AI models have already ingested the world's public knowledge, but their advancements may slow down as we approach a compute ceiling. Additional performance gains will require them to adapt to the user’s cont...
The DC revolution will not be centralized
A quiet insurgency is rewiring our world. We're hitting a critical moment when the inefficiency of constant AC/DC conversion is becoming too convoluted to ignore, especially as data centers strain capacity, renewable projects multiply, and extreme weather events expose grid vulnerabilities.
The DC revolution will not be centralized
A quiet insurgency is rewiring our world. We're hitting a critical moment when the inefficiency of constant AC/DC conversion is becoming too convoluted to ignore, especially as data centers strain capacity, renewable projects multiply, and extreme weather events expose grid vulnerabilities.
Four Futures
We are in a moment where the future is both wildly exciting and highly uncertain. The acceleration of AI has created a new paradigm of possibilities but also fundamental questions we can’t yet answer. Will we continue speeding towards exponentially growing and continually (potentially self-)improving technology indefinitely or will plateaus, short or long t...
Four Futures
We are in a moment where the future is both wildly exciting and highly uncertain. The acceleration of AI has created a new paradigm of possibilities but also fundamental questions we can’t yet answer. Will we continue speeding towards exponentially growing and continually (potentially self-)improving technology indefinitely or will plateaus, short or long t...
A third path
Internet knowledge creators are at a crossroads. Independent writers, recipe bloggers, wellness podcasters, and parenting experts who’ve spent years building their own online knowledge bases face what appears as a binary choice: compete for attention against AI-generated content or sell their carefully crafted work as training data to large language models. On one side, creators watch generative models (often trained on scraped web data) produce endless streams of content at a fraction of the...
A third path
Internet knowledge creators are at a crossroads. Independent writers, recipe bloggers, wellness podcasters, and parenting experts who’ve spent years building their own online knowledge bases face what appears as a binary choice: compete for attention against AI-generated content or sell their carefully crafted work as training data to large language models. On one side, creators watch generative models (often trained on scraped web data) produce endless streams of content at a fraction of the...
