Grace Carney
@gracekcarney
investor @usv in nyc | born / raised ldn
Following our series on memory, I sat down with @bradusv who's been making investments in memory and personal data stores for the last decade+. We talked about how this moment rhymes so deeply with the past and why it's so important to get it right this time Will share full…
Who will own our digital memory? As AI platforms ask us to entrust our memories to them, we risk endless reintroductions to every AI or (worse) seeing our digital selves held hostage by a single AI overlord.. 1st in a 2-part blog series up now on building an open architecture…
What we forget is as important as what we remember
I couldn't get ChatGPT to stop infiltrating every answer with the Knicks after I told it to remember that my son was a fan--and it has me thinking about not only the role of memory in AI but also the role of forgetting. Maybe the best AI memories won’t be flawless databases.…
the best way to deliver data ownership is to hide it behind irresistible utility.
"This yr over 5 million scientific papers will be published but most will never be read, not because they don’t matter but because they are buried”
Introducing: Consensus Deep Search 🔬 Deep Search is a research agent that conducts literature reviews across 200M academic papers in two minutes.
The smallest technical decisions become humanity's biggest pivots: The same-origin policy—a well-intentioned browser security rule from the 1990s—accidentally created Facebook, Google, and every data monopoly since. It locks your data in silos—and you stayed where your stuff…
Does AI own your memory? Post 1 of a 2-part blog series exploring digital memory architecture, co-authored w our friends @usv open.substack.com/pub/buildexant…
When the librarian asks we answer blog.usv.com/you-dont-own-y…
AI is becoming memory. The big question is: who owns it?
Who is building the AI app for bieber conducting this orchestra purely w his voice? Anyone should be able to hum a tune + render it in any instrument they want. Next gen multi effects pedal processor youtu.be/uCkhtp4H9rI?fe… via @YouTube
if i were @AnthropicAI rn I'd run hard w MCP and become the android of foundational models open source integrations, interoperable, secure, plays nice w (most) apps + doesn't try to compete w them the most open system gets the richest context of the user. thats what wins
I'm taking 10x the # of screenshots that i did ~2 years ago: emails, docs, searches, photos, graphs have to clear them off my desktop every week there's some APIs but minimal and still clunky imo. there has to be a better way
The scenes from downtown Los Angeles this week are an early warning flare of the chaos and confusion we can expect from onslaughts of unverified media footage and deep fake generation. We need 'deep reals' and new systems of media verification to check systems of power that…
Wrote about why I think we should be talking less about deep fakes and more about deep reals on the @usv blog
Some beautiful new feature drops from @ConsensusNLP today! no better place for my creatine research
Seven new features just dropped in Consensus🚀 These updates are focused on: cleaner organization, more engaging analysis, smarter search. Let’s get into what's new this morning 👇
Seeking demos of new AI-native operating systems
We're thinking of hosting a last minute event at @usv for NY Tech Week. The New OS 2 - 6 companies demoing hacky ways they're using AI internally to streamline their operations. Who should we ask to demo?