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Speaks for itself
You can’t fight back with an AI that keeps apologizing. @abliteration_ai's Abliterated Large Flash doesn’t flinch.
Available anonymously on Venice.
Only apply if you want to work with smart people plz
Venice is hiring for Product Manager of Models
The owner of the model portfolio across all of Venice's products: selection, reliability, configuration, and lifecycle management.
job-boards.greenhouse.io/ven…
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What a fun way to kick off the All In Summit. Excited for @Jason to become an @AskVenice maxi
Johanna retweeted
I can’t stress enough how little an idea matters compared to the agency of the people executing the idea.
I have had the privilege of knowing and sometimes even working with some of the most successful people (by various metrics).
The difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency.
In practice this means: they dont wait for things to happen to them they go out and make things happen for them.
They don’t wait for someone else to do something, for someone to teach them, for someone to give them the path, etc. They just go out and find a way to do it.
I think the single biggest superpower these people have is the realization/belief that the world around them is completely mutable. Most everything that happens is because a person made it happen.
I used to tell people to look around the room you’re sitting in. Look at everything. Every noun. It almost all exists because a person willed it into existence. Nothing is stopping you from doing the same.
I see people online all the time dismissing someone else’s success because “I had that idea first” or whatever. I mean… yeah? If so then the difference is… you. So a bit of a self own whenever I hear that.
Number one tip: act with agency.
Johanna retweeted
Venice is powering the first robot ever to climb Everest.
Scaling new heights with private, unrestricted inference.
Introducing Pemba
The first robot to attempt Everest
This fall powered by @livekit, with support from @AskVenice , @eastworlds_io and Reflex
Johanna retweeted
Weekend AI projects on the Venice API
Giving an Agent a Wallet and a Budget: docs.venice.ai/learn/wallet-…
Meeting Notes with Speech to Text: docs.venice.ai/guides/media/…
Extracting Structured Data from Documents: docs.venice.ai/guides/tools/…
Building a Tool-Using Agent with Function Calling: docs.venice.ai/guides/featur…
Building an Audio Research Notebook: docs.venice.ai/learn/audio-r…
h/t @sabrinaesaquino
In addition to the API giving you access to all models and modalities with a privacy layer, now this. No excuse not to use Venice.
Replying to @JonShapeShift
First, a new buy-and-burn trigger. Going forward, $5 of every $100 of API credits bought on Venice goes to buying and burning base:0xacfe6019ed1a7dc6f7b508c02d1b04ec88cc21bf.
Same idea as the existing subscription burns, now extended to credits. It's automatic, and it shows up as its own line on the burn page: venice.ai/token/burns
Johanna retweeted
Control over intelligence is the defining fight of the coming decade. Whoever owns the AI delivery stack owns a direct window into your interior life. They log all your chats, train on them, and will hand them over when asked. And in the end, they decide the terms on which you'll get to access the most powerful systems humankind has ever built.
Venice flips that. On Venice, your AI is yours. Not licensed to you, not gated on their terms, not logged and monitored for compliance, but fully yours and completely private. All of the best open and closed models are accessible through their fully private and uncensored platform and APIs.
Just as Bitcoin made money unseizable and Apple made phones uncrackable, Venice makes AI unsurveillable. No company, lab, or government gets to read your conversations with your AI. Only you.
This will only become more important. A society stays free only as long as its most powerful tools answer to individuals instead of institutions. AI is about to become the most powerful tool we have, and the next decade decides whether it's something you own or something you're granted. Free societies are built from citizens who assert their freedoms rather than wait to be given them.
That's why we're incredibly proud to lead Venice's $65M Series A.
Check them out at @AskVenice.
A couple months ago I joined Venice, and it's kicked off the most exciting chapter of my career.
Diving headfirst into AI, getting to know a phenomenally cracked team, and being part of a mission I believe in deeply: privacy without compromise, and user sovereignty that's respected rather than negotiated away.
There's more to innovation than making life easier in the short term in exchange for an unknown. AI is a known unknown, and that shouldn't be lost on those of us building in the space. We have a unique responsibility to be stewards of what the future holds. It's already reshaping the fabric of our society, and not nearly enough people are thinking hard about the implications.
I feel lucky to not just witness this moment but to build inside it. Thank you @ErikVoorhees & @jesseproudman for inviting me to be part of this journey 🫶🏻
Today, @askvenice announced a $65M Series A at a $1B valuation.
We started this company in 2024 with a simple conviction: people deserve an AI platform that doesn't spy on them or decide what they're allowed to think.
Our job was to build a private, unrestricted AI platform that could find product-market fit without compromising on principles.
Johanna retweeted
Sam Altman walked into YC, offering founders $1M in free tokens for a slice of equity.
Jason's advice: run.
OpenAI is watching your token usage, ranking the winners, then shipping the top 5 as native features.
Get off the frontier models, use open source, and own your data.
@Jason
I can’t believe I happen to be in New York when the knicks win the championship - it makes me both miss the energy of this city and also want to run away from the chaos
Truly S tier tokenomics
Erik Voorhees explains how Venice's dual token model actually works
"You can stake 100 VVV to get pro access to Venice. We take a bunch of our revenue, buy the token, and burn it"
"We want to take that to its extreme and try to buy every last token we can and burn it all"
"You lock up VVV to mint DIEM. Each DIEM you hold gives you $1/day to use on any AI model you want"
"We built it so AI agents could hold an asset and get marginally free inference"
"It changes the economic calculation. We thought that'd be an interesting design space to explore"
















