Kurate Kid retweeted
A full Linux computer on your face.
And it is fashionable.
Here is an in-depth look at the Raven Prism. Just announced.
Raven Prism, the ambient computer, takes flight! The first batch ships in January and pre-orders are open now. We can’t wait to see what you make with it.
raven.computer
Kurate Kid retweeted
Introducing Project Continuum by Runway Labs, a new operating system research application built around real-time video interfaces.
Here's a short demo walktrough:
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The @BostonCollege Investment Committee (an LP and my beloved alma mater) asked for a few thoughts on what's happening in AI. I recorded a test run yesterday morning and then shared it with my partners, who encouraged me to share it more broadly... so here you go!
This is not a sales pitch, it's just a reflection on what we're seeing. And it wasn't intended to be shared, so please pardon the rough edges.
loom.com/share/c016702964a04…
like @wabi but don’t think so
next big social format is @eigenhq or something that connects you quite effortlessly to people you should be best friends with but you would have never known
Wabi founder @ekuyda predicts software is the next social media format after short-form video:
"New big social platforms are always built around some new format, whether it's short-form video or photos. Software is clearly right now the next candidate for this format that will start a new social interaction."
"Every mini app on Wabi is by default social and also agentic. It almost feels a lot more alive because there are other people there, and you can talk to the mini app itself, and you can change anything there."
"It almost changes completely how we view software. Before, it was definitely something that was only 10 million developers in the world building for billions to use, and now it feels like anyone can shape anything they want."
@wabi @BlasMoros
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Kurate Kid retweeted
My 5.3 Animation Framework Showcase.
I think brands should look to become mini TV studios.
Recurring characters.
Ongoing storylines.
Products built into the plot.
Every ad becomes another episode people recognize.
Entertainment earns attention.
Education earns the sale.
Kurate Kid retweeted
Finding Kaby: A short film with Seedance 2.5
Get my complete process, with prompts, below 👇
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Josh's insight here is unique because he's had the best seat in the house for years. The browser is both a utility and a leisure tool, and the team at @browsercompany has seen exactly how people use it.
Consumers want their leisure amplified. They don't want productivity! Productivity has to be found, and finding it is *work*. Education is work. DIY is work. And an agent asking you a question is really the agent handing you a microtask. Very few people want to manage and even fewer want to be interrupted in order to do it. It's the same reason notifications have such a narrow band where they help before they annoy.
Meanwhile the For You page is the most successful consumer agent ever built and yet no one calls it one. It runs inference on your behalf constantly, makes thousands of decisions a session, and asks you for absolutely nothing.
That's where consumer is headed. Companies using AI to spoonfeed people more of the leisure they already want, not doling out microtasks.
Hot take… isn’t it kinda crazy that nobody is really using AI Agents? I don’t mean software engineers or AI early adopters. I mean “college friends talking about it in group chat,” the feeling you got when everyone started using Instagram or TikTok.
These frontier AI models are *insane* (as are the harnesses & tool calls & the like). And every large tech co has an AI agents platform, not to mention all the YC startups doing vertical agents. Yet all of your friends and family outside of tech — who spend all day staring at their iPhones and get paid to work in browser tabs — don’t really care or find themselves using any AI agents yet.
Yes ChatGPT, Claude, etc. are extremely popular… but if you look at the engagement data the vast majority of people are still using these aI chat tools like a glorified Google + Grammarly. That’s why the AGI labs are all pushing desktop apps for Codex, Cowork, etc. so hard to non-technical ppl. And yes exceptions for lawyers and customer service but even those have some asterisks and exceptions to rule.
Look I’m not saying the ChatGPT moment for AI Agents is not coming… it most definitely is! Remember we pivoted from Arc to Dia precisely because we believe computing is going to be radically reimagined around these AI primitives. No doubt. But that’s my point: it’s just so surprising it hasn’t happened yet because all of the tech you’d need is there.
Again if you stop for a second and think about it… for all the press and money and hype and models and crazy ARR numbers… this “AI Agent” moment does not *feel* like the other breakthrough tech moments we’ve lived through (e.g. think the shift to Stories via Snapchat & Instagram, or shift to on-demand via Uber/Airbnb/Doordash).
Which is a long way of saying: if you can figure out the answer to “why” most people don’t care about AI agents yet (and have no enduring interest in using them) — especially since the models and harnesses are here and ready — the answer to that question will allow you to capture a lot of marketshare and make a lot of money in 2027.
Theoretically, the tech is ready for AI Agents to totally transform how we work and live our lives… but alas the general public dgaf… that’s the generational puzzle to solve for the next 12 months for anyone not working on the models themselves.
Kurate Kid retweeted
One of my core beliefs is that everyone should have the tools available to be a superhuman
What does “superhuman” mean?
#1: Health at your fingertips. The ability to easily track your nutrition, get nudges on how to tweak it (electrolytes changed my life!), tailored workout plans, etc.
#2: Staying connected with friends, but supercharged. Some of the most magical moments in my life have come from texting an old friend I haven’t chatted with in awhile. The intent of the nudge is to make it easier to let someone know you’re thinking of them, ie expanding the surface area for serendipity.
#3: “Looksmaxxing” but in an elegant way. So many people would benefit from a stylist - advice on what clothes look good on their body types, suggestions on what styles to wear and when, helpful suggestions around new items to try, and more. Same is true with skincare tips, makeup techniques and recommendations, and more. I say all this from experience.
#4: Financials, optimized. This spans so many domains. Automation around when to buy something at full price vs when there’s an upcoming sale, finding good substitutes, suggestions around saving / investing, tax advice (throughout the year, not just in April!), and so on.
#5: Personalized entertainment. Spotify DJ is probably my favorite AI product. It’s shown me so much amazing new music. I would love the same for books, online essays, movies, and more. Consuming someone else’s algorithm should be a long gone relic by now.
AI gives people more agency over so many surfaces in their life. Products that nudge people to be their healthiest and happiest selves seems like a world worth building for.
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Introducing "How Online Are You?"
I made a game with ChatGPT Sites that tests your knowledge of the biggest culture moments on tech and VC Twitter
At the end, you'll get a score and ranking from Threads user to terminally online 👀
Kurate Kid retweeted
"If—" is a poem by English poet Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!
Kurate Kid retweeted
🪱 Bringing Copper Home — Red Metals’ debut today
TLDR; Copper is the workhorse of electrifying everything. We need to refine more copper in the next 25 years than in all of human history.
FastCompany: “The world faces a looming copper shortage: By 2040, demand could grow by 50%, driven by everything from electric cars to the surge in data centers. At the same time, supply is expected to drop, leaving a shortfall of 10 million metric tons, according to an S&P analysis. Already, supply shortages have pushed copper prices to record highs this year.
In Charleston, South Carolina, a startup called Red Metals is racing to build more American supply through urban mining—pulling copper from old products and scrap rather than extracting the metal from increasingly depleted copper mines.
Right now, only around half of the copper in existing products is recovered at their end of life. In the U.S., the scrap that’s recycled is often sent overseas for refining before being sent back.
At the same time, demand is growing throughout the global economy. Transportation is electrifying. Households are electrifying. The number of air conditioners keeps growing as the planet gets hotter. All require copper. And data centers are a massive source of new demand: A single hyperscale data center can use, by one estimate, 50,000 tons of copper in cooling systems and power equipment. …humanoid robots could also be a major new source of demand.
At its $70 million facility under construction in South Carolina, Red Metals will use AI to sort copper from discarded products, from motors to Christmas lights, and turn it into copper rod that customers can use to make products like wire. The process skips several intermediate steps that usually come between recovered copper and rod, including concentrate, matte, anode, and cathode, helping make recycled American copper cost-competitive.
Switzer compares the process to Nucor, a steel manufacturer that changed how scrap steel could be made directly into new sheets of metal. “They did it at a much smaller scale, and all the major steel producers like U.S. Steel dismissed them, [thinking that] because they’re out there at a small scale there’s no way they can compete,” he says. “Fast forward to now; Nucor is the largest steel producer in the United States and other legacy steel producers have gone bust.”
— from fastcompany.com/91553084/red…
For America, copper is a critical input for many of the nation’s most important industries and technologies, including electrical infrastructure, batteries, data centers, defense systems, and advanced manufacturing. U.S. copper demand is projected to increase by more than one million metric tons annually through 2035, contributing to a domestic market expected to exceed $45 billion. At the same time, American copper production capacity has steadily declined, and the U.S. is projected to face a refined copper supply gap of more than 2.5 million metric tons of refined copper annually by 2035, even if every major announced mining project comes online.
We export 950K tons of copper scrap each year, one of the world's largest exporters, with over 40% going to China. If refined and recycled domestically, that scrap would meaningfully reduce our reliance on imported copper and strengthen the resilience of the domestic supply chain. Recycling starts with a 60x better feedstock than mining ore, which is 99% rock. And copper can be recycled repeatedly without losing its properties.
Let’s make it so. Now hiring: RedMetals.com
FD: Future Ventures is a seed investor in this fast company.
Kurate Kid retweeted
I believe this next wave of Bio is going to be bigger than anyone can imagine.
Multiple $10T companies. Maybe even a 100 Trillion dollar company.
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TLDR: What lights you up?!
Opener for our 1517 Summit:
25 years ago I started working with homeschoolers. Those families changed the trajectory of my life. It’s where I got to see that real learning starts with passion and curiosity.
16 years ago, when Michael and I were on the founding team of the Thiel Fellowship, we called it an older young person’s homeschool program.
And today, with 1517, we say we homeschool CEOs.
I think that there is a lot that we can learn from homeschoolers about going against the grain, following curiosity, and getting a sense of what real learning looks like.
In homeschooling there is a concept called “deschooling” — a transition time between being in a more institutionalized setting, to one of their own creation. It sometimes looks chaotic, “unproductive,” and purposeless.
But this time period is when people start unraveling assumptions that have been shaping their lives, without them knowing it. By letting go of the rules, natural curiosity and passion can start to emerge.
Over the next ten years, I think all of us are going to go through something like a collective deschooling period. We’re going to need to unlearn the assumptions that were put down before us by other people and institutions, ride the chaos, and emerge through to the other side with passion and curiosity.
The path used to look clear. Work hard. Get good grades. Collect credentials. Climb the ladder. Success had a map.
But the world we're entering is uncharted.
Artificial intelligence is making information abundant. Institutions are failing us. Careers are becoming less linear. Entire industries are appearing and disappearing in just a few years.
The old question was: "What should I do?"
But today, I propose a new question: “What lights you up, when no one is watching?”
That's a much harder question.
Many people discover that when the external structure disappears, they're left with an uncomfortable feeling. Not freedom. Not excitement.
Meaninglessness.
Because for years, meaning was outsourced. A syllabus told us what mattered. A test told us what to learn. A boss told us what success looked like. A credential told us we were progressing.
But what happens when fewer and fewer people can tell you what matters next?
I think that's one of the defining challenges of the next decade.
And I think the antidote is surprisingly simple.
Start dreaming:
What is the thing you can't stop thinking about?
What rabbit hole do you disappear into?
What topic makes you lose track of time?
What project would you work on, even if nobody was grading it?
All summed up: What lights you up?
When we're young, we're often taught to treat those interests as distractions from the "real" work.
I think the opposite is true.
Those interests are clues. They're pointing toward the place where your curiosity, your energy, and your contribution intersect.
The people who will thrive in the next ten years will be like shining beacons!
They'll be the people who know how to follow genuine curiosity.
The people who can create their own path.
The people who can stay fascinated.
The people who know what lights them up and have the courage to build around it.
So welcome to your summit. When you meet a new friend today, ask “What lights you up?” May the answers surprise and delight and lead you into your next 10 years.
Kurate Kid retweeted
82-0.com might be the first semi-viral vibecoded game that I've seen.
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A person who spends thirty minutes scrolling before bed has not merely lost thirty minutes.
They may have lost the version of tomorrow morning where they woke up sharp enough to write.
They may have lost the version of next week where they finally tolerated boredom long enough for an original thought to appear.
The transaction is invisible because the price is paid in probability.
Kurate Kid retweeted
Two questions I get all the time:
"What educational AI tools would you recommend for my kid?" "What adaptive apps does Alpha use?"
Many of the apps we've built ourselves aren't publicly accessible yet. Here are ten third-party ones I do recommend.
Kurate Kid retweeted
We need to all work hard to live as long as possible, and in good health.
I’ve met many companies trying to support this mission. One stands out, that those in the US haven’t experienced yet.
I was blown away by the experience at @neko in London.
Insanely well crafted patient experience, 30 min from start to finish, £300 (way cheaper than most), and immediate blood/skin/other results that a doctor walks you through live.
They are focused on detecting and monitoring the things that most predict potential health problems at a very affordable annual cost. They’ve developed all their own technology, which feels like living in the future, now.
They are opening in NYC soon. Go in London if you can. Future is bright in so many ways. Thanks to @shak and @HNilsonne for hosting us. Go try it!
