Samir Chaudry

CoreWeave, you guys might know Vance at Framework.

He had a fantastic return for his fund, partly because CoreWeave literally pivoted out of crypto into AI.

And they're the OG pivot story.

So they were like pre-Jason Calacanis.

They did it.

There is an interesting thing going on right now.

You guys are probably going to hear about something called Pearl relatively soon.

It's aggressively backed.

There's rumors that Thrive is in it.

The TLDR is that it's a proof-of-work AI coin.

And basically, there is a paper that came out in late 2025 by S.G.

Lange, which talks about determinism in in basically GPUs, which allows you to use AI to mine cryptocurrency.

And so this is something my brother started working on with Ambien, which got backed by A16Z and then Pearl.

is an Israeli team, which is doing something kind of like similar.

They're using Matt Moll mining and they have a partnership with Together AI.

They got tweeted out.

Right.

And so, you know, essentially the argument that a lot of these crypto AI protocols increasingly are trying to make is something called useful proof of work, which is the idea that

You know, you have a miner that can also deploy a service.

So, you know, my brother is delivering verified inference.