Apoorva Mehta

There is much to celebrate today @instacart , so I thought I’d share a few defining moments since we launched 10 years ago. A thread 🧵

Seems like if the model is trained on proprietary data, TOS should be protective. If your own sources are questionable, hard to point fingers. Detection & enforceability will likely remain a challenge for some time.

Should distilling a model be illegal? If it is, is it even enforceable?

GPUS are so 2024. Now we use CCPUs

Deepseek is a big development but not surprising! Solar: US invented but China is ahead Mobile: US invented but China is ahead EVs: US invented but China is ahead BioTech: Historically US led but China is increasingly ahead Need to change course if we want a diff outcome!

Taking over Greenland sounds amazing. But why stop there? Why doesn't the US have presence in every continent?

Jump. It’s not as wide as you think.

One of my favourite quotes comes from an obscure book written by a Scottish mountaineer in the 50s

"You have to be singular, inflexible, unyielding in your own work so that even the struggle, that very struggle to achieve, becomes its own reward." ~Martin Scorsese

Machines of Loving Grace: my essay on how AI could transform the world for the better darioamodei.com/machines-of-lo…

A great story about the mindset of extreme winners: "Larry Ellison had dinner one night with Roger Federer, and he mentioned a conversation he’d had earlier with another tennis great, Jimmy Connors. Larry had told Connors that sometimes he went out and “just hit” without…

A few seconds of discomfort changes everything.

Such an insanely impressive demo by @OpenAI yesterday. What's perhaps even crazier is that all of this will be open sourced in under 12 months and be generally taken for granted by then. What a time to be working in tech!

Exciting partnership between @steadymd & @Use_Bridge - expanding access to quality healthcare to more and more patients combining nationwide clinician coverage and insurance capabilities. cc @keatonbedell @apoorva_mehta steadymd.com/blog/steadymd-…