Colin Campbell
@ccamp___
These are the good ol days
[NEW] a16z @speedrun request for startups: Social Simulation We’ve trained AI to predict text, images, and even protein structures—but what if the next frontier is predicting us? What we’ll do, how we’ll act, what we’ll choose? Imagine launching products into synthetic markets…
BTC is fun… buuut I can’t quite put my finger on the last time we had a currency backed by a fixed supply asset… and how that turned out… what was that… hm… … … Oh right lol Gold…
What finance related opinion do you have that will have people like this?
Reminds me of research a decade ago that showed that learning was more effective when people write by hand vs. typing Does not feel surprising that when you offload mental exertion your mind gets weaker, like your body does if you stop going to the gym...
It’s a hefty 206-page research paper, and the findings are concerning. "LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels" This study finds LLM dependence weakens the writer’s own neural and linguistic fingerprints. 🤔🤔 Relying only on EEG,…
I’m Shawn, founder of Memories.ai, former researcher at Meta and CS PhD at University of Cambridge. Today we’re launching : we built the world’s first Large Visual Memory Model - to give AI human-like visual memories. Why visual memory? AI to…
BREAKING: Claude Code PMs Boris Cherny and Cat Wu have returned to Anthropic after a brief stint at Cursor.
BREAKING: Claude Code PMs Boris Cherny and Cat Wu have returned to Anthropic after a brief stint at Cursor.
Or anecdotally have also heard of Stanford founders who know they can get into YC for the summer and so use the check to fund their summer break
A Stanford Sophomore floored me with this comment today: It's easier as a Stanford student to get into YC than get an internship at a reputable company. Everyone knows this and every batch there're Stanford founders who did it because they had no other options.
The metrics you show your users matter! Imagine if Uber showed you how smelly your car was. Smell would immediately eclipse ETA and price as your key purchase criteria, yet right now you are playing olfactory roulette every time you get in an Uber!
I’ll see you guys in 2026
Backyard Baseball ’01 is officially back and coming to mobile and Steam on July 8 ⚾️ The game will feature 28 of the original 31 MLB Pros, along with official MLB marks, including usage of individual team logos, names and more
I could not care less if my apps are generated real time, but as soon as I can vibecode a decent salesforce UI, I will spend endless amounts of money to not look at the trash SFDC UI ever again Someone, anyone, please
Here's how Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite writes the code for a UI and its contents based solely on the context of what appears in the previous screen - all in the time it takes to click a button. 💻 ↓
Have you ever wondered if o4-mini could control a robot? Ever wanted to do robotics research, but didn't have any robots or GPUs? MALLET is a toolkit and benchmark for letting vision-language models like GPT-4o drive robots in the real-world. MALLET is built on top of…
There was a French philosopher, I think it was Leibniz, and one of his theories was that we live in the best of all possible worlds no matter what happens, and days like today I have fun thinking “maybe a kardashian has to be a distressed rite aid investor for us to live in the…
Pharmacy chain Walgreens and reality star turned entrepreneur Kourtney Kardashian are among those picking over the remaining assets in Rite Aid's bankruptcy, according to two people familiar with the matter. reuters.com/sustainability…
Idea for getting enough data to solve robotics gpt moment: Context: there is not enough data for robotics model GPT moment like there is text and video data for those models. Robotics labs are lighting $100s of mm on fire paying people to teleoperate robots in Pittsburgh and the…
The other thing about frontier lab hiring is that most friends in academic labs say things like “I want to go work at [XYZ lab] because my friend so-and-so went to work there and they are smart/working on interesting problems” and rarely “[XYZ lab] pays the most”
Meta is currently offering $2M+/yr in offers for AI talent and still losing them to OpenAI and Anthropic. Heard ~3 such cases this week. The AI talent wars are absolutely ridiculous. Today, Anthropic has the highest ~80% retention 2 years in and is the #1 (large) company top AI…
Why is Accenture winning so hard in AI when everyone hates them? It’s entirely possible that the AI software supercycle is more “build” than “buy” relative to legacy app SaaS. This would be the case if the distribution of tasks to be automated is less concentrated in repeatable…
Does AI software taste like chicken the way old-school software does? The saying goes that software tastes like chicken. We are still in inning one of AI apps but I am betting that AI software also tastes like chicken. Business models are converging: pricing derived from gross…
Something like 50% of top AI researchers in the US are Chinese citizens. What happened to bring the best and brightest to team USA? It is not like China doesn’t already have frontier chip and open source model capabilities…
Revoking visas of Chinese students studying in critical fields like AI and Robotics is incredibly short-sighted and harmful to America’s long term prosperity. We want the best from every country to work for team America
