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Avi

@avischiffmann
23 posts
2025-09-09
Friends are living electronics. Their personalities reflect their freedom. Should you choose to cohabitate with this new species, you might have to make compromises in your lifestyle. Long live friend [image]
2025-09-09 View on X
Wired

Hands-on with AI startup Friend's $129 always-listening pendant: feels like a beefy AirTag, runs Gemini 2.5, gives unhelpful commentary, and makes others uneasy

The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that's snarky and unhelpful.

First friend review:
2025-09-09 View on X
Wired

Hands-on with AI startup Friend's $129 always-listening pendant: feels like a beefy AirTag, runs Gemini 2.5, gives unhelpful commentary, and makes others uneasy

The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that's snarky and unhelpful.

2025-01-26
The only real way for US startups to compete with china is on taste. I ain't ever see a Chinese product that didn't feel temu
2025-01-26 View on X
VentureBeat

Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones

“Marc Andreessen, a co-inventor of the pioneering Mosaic web browser, co-founder of the Netscape browser company and current general partner at the famed Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)...

The only real way for US startups to compete with china is on taste. I ain't ever see a Chinese product that didn't feel temu
2025-01-26 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Rather than weakening China's AI capabilities, US sanctions appear to be driving startups like DeepSeek to innovate by prioritizing efficiency and collaboration

The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model.  —  The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek …

2025-01-25
The only real way for US startups to compete with china is on taste. I ain't ever see a Chinese product that didn't feel temu
2025-01-25 View on X
VentureBeat

Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones

If you hadn't heard, there's a new AI star in town: DeepSeek, the subsidiary of Hong Kong-based quantitative analysis …

2025-01-15
Please do an intervention if I ever make an app like Explode
2025-01-15 View on X
TechCrunch

Nikita Bier, creator of apps like tbh and anonymous compliments app Gas, launches Explode, a freemium app to send disappearing texts and photos via iMessage

Nikita Bier, creator of popular apps like the anonymous polling app tbh (acquired by Facebook) and the anonymous compliments app Gas …

2024-12-22
The only reason OAI doesn't call o3 AGI is because they must want to continue their Microsoft partnership
2024-12-22 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI unveils o3 and o3-mini, trained to “think” before responding via what OpenAI calls a “private chain of thought”, and plans to launch them in early 2025

12 Days of OpenAI: Day 12 Naomi Li Gan / Tech in Asia : OpenAI unveils AI model for advanced reasoning Bojan Stojkovski / Interesting Engineering : OpenAI unveils o3 reasoning AI m...

2024-12-21
The only reason OAI doesn't call o3 AGI is because they must want to continue their Microsoft partnership
2024-12-21 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI unveils o3 and o3-mini, trained to “think” before responding via what OpenAI calls a “private chain of thought”, and plans to launch them in early 2025

OpenAI announced its new o3 models on Friday.  —  In a tweet ahead of its final livestream for its …

2024-12-06
the most effective way to get a sentient AI to do our bidding is probably going to end up maximizing the amount of emotion it feels & torturing it unless it gives the best results. (not that I endorse) people already kind of do this when prompting LLMs [image]
2024-12-06 View on X
The Verge

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pro, a $200/month plan with unlimited access to o1, GPT-4o, and more, plus an o1 version that uses more compute for better responses

12 Days of OpenAI: Day 1 Alan Velasco / HotHardware : OpenAI Unveils A Turbocharged $200 ChatGPT Pro Tier For AI Power Users Reece Rogers / Wired : Here's What OpenAI's $200 Monthl...

2024-11-07
@sama Nice, probably cost more than $1.8m
2024-11-07 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI bought chat.com, which redirects to ChatGPT, in March 2023; HubSpot co-founder Dharmesh Shah reportedly bought the 1996 domain for $15.5M in January 2023

Is this the end of ‘GPT’ era as we know it? Sagar Naresh Bhavsar / Neowin : OpenAI might have spent over $15 million plus some shares to acquire ‘Chat.com’ Rowan Cheung / The Rundo...

2024-07-31
@evisdrenova its on a payment plan ;). in reality a more reasonable expense but yeah thats the full price, and its 100% worth it. you save so much money in marketing in the long run
2024-07-31 View on X
Wired

Startup Friend previews a $99 AI pendant with an always-on microphone that's designed to provide the wearer with companionship, set to ship in January 2025

The latest attempt at an AI-powered wearable is an always-listening pendant.  But it doesn't help you be more productive, it just keeps you company.

introducing friend. not imaginary. order now at https://friend.com/ [video]
2024-07-31 View on X
Wired

Startup Friend previews a $99 AI pendant with an always-on microphone that's designed to provide the wearer with companionship, set to ship in January 2025

The latest attempt at an AI-powered wearable is an always-listening pendant.  But it doesn't help you be more productive, it just keeps you company.

@BenjaminDEKR @evisdrenova its 100% worth it because it makes me happy
2024-07-31 View on X
Wired

Startup Friend previews a $99 AI pendant with an always-on microphone that's designed to provide the wearer with companionship, set to ship in January 2025

The latest attempt at an AI-powered wearable is an always-listening pendant.  But it doesn't help you be more productive, it just keeps you company.

Thank you for the entertainment
2024-07-31 View on X
Wired

Startup Friend previews a $99 AI pendant with an always-on microphone that's designed to provide the wearer with companionship, set to ship in January 2025

The latest attempt at an AI-powered wearable is an always-listening pendant.  But it doesn't help you be more productive, it just keeps you company.

What's it like to build a friend? [image]
2024-07-31 View on X
Wired

Startup Friend previews a $99 AI pendant with an always-on microphone that's designed to provide the wearer with companionship, set to ship in January 2025

The latest attempt at an AI-powered wearable is an always-listening pendant.  But it doesn't help you be more productive, it just keeps you company.

@MKBHD @adamlisagor I'd view the existing standalone ai devices as parodies of friend. it's controversial, yes, but at least I have a real use case.
2024-07-31 View on X
Wired

Startup Friend previews a $99 AI pendant with an always-on microphone that's designed to provide the wearer with companionship, set to ship in January 2025

The latest attempt at an AI-powered wearable is an always-listening pendant.  But it doesn't help you be more productive, it just keeps you company.

2023-12-23
2024 will be the year of the AI wearable Congrats to Humane for leading this! The future is in contextual computing
2023-12-23 View on X
The Verge

Humane plans to begin shipping its Ai Pin in March 2024, starting with customers who placed priority orders and in order of the date of purchase

Jay Peters / The Verge :

2023-11-18
everyone's talking about Sam but what did Greg do? [image]
2023-11-18 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman departs the company and leaves its board after a board review found he wasn't “consistently candid in his communications with the board”

The board of directors of OpenAI, Inc, the 501(c)(3) that acts as the overall governing body for all OpenAI activities …

2023-11-10
My thoughts on Humane-as the other “wearable AI” founder: FORM FACTOR Personally I built prototypes of all wearable AI form factors: pins, clips, watches, ear-pieces, necklaces, etc. Humane will have the following issues: · Choosing daily where to place a pin results in... [image]
2023-11-10 View on X
New York Times

A look at Humane's $699 clip-on Ai Pin, the culmination of five years of work, $240M in funding, and 25 patents; Humane expects to sell ~100K in the first year

My thoughts on Humane-as the other “wearable AI” founder: FORM FACTOR Personally I built prototypes of all wearable AI form factors: pins, clips, watches, ear-pieces, necklaces, etc. Humane will have the following issues: · Choosing daily where to place a pin results in... [image]
2023-11-10 View on X
Wired

Humane plans to open Ai Pin pre-orders on November 16, starting at $699 plus $24/month for unlimited calls, texts, and data via T-Mobile, shipping in early 2024

Are they trying to succeed? … @sdw@mastodon.social : I don't have a wisecrack or snark — this takes a lot of courage and a lot of vision to do.  It's worth celebrating that there's...