Natasha Tiku

Is somebody coming after me?

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the, the, um, fire festival, uh, it, of it all.

I, I wasn't aware of, of that.

Um, uh, I, uh, the only thing that came across, um, my feed was that, um, one of the swimmer, the swimmer who won was not taking any enhanced drugs.

Is that true?

Was that accurate?

And I just thought I saw people having a lot of schadenfreude about that.

And then I'd love to just also hear about the like the the I was curious, actually, about like the Peter Thiel connection.

And I'd love to hear their argument.

So it's supposed to be for regular people.

I miss this.

Oh, yeah.

I was actually the first person to write about the company because, you know, the guy, one of the co-founders, Noam Shaziar, he actually, you know, was the main guy behind the transformer architecture at Google that, like,

has undergirded this whole generative AI craze.

And him and Daniel De Freitas, his other co-founder, you know, they felt like really stymied at Google because Google had these large language models.

They had this chatbot, you know, like this kind of formula and they weren't releasing it.

And talking to them, you know, before they launched, they thought it was going to be people who want to have a conversation with Einstein or Shakespeare or all of these things like they weren't.

It wasn't initially marketed to kids.

It was, you know, that's who adopted the technology to put, you know, to have these conversations with, like, dark romance characters, anime, fandom, exactly what you're saying.