Henry Williams
@humford
research and media @a16z
many of my strongly held opinions have been formed through arguments + book clubs with henry a brilliant mind and huge win for @a16z !!
I'm joining @eriktorenberg at @a16z on the new media team. Our mission: curate the most important conversations in technology (via podcasts, writing, and group chats), capture our world as it transforms, and write the history of the future in advance. If that compels you, DM me.
americans want power that’s reliable, cheap, and clean — in that order. achieving that while keeping up with soaring load growth is a defining US challenge. @davidu, @espricewright and I discuss the past, present, and future of the electric grid ⚡️ open.spotify.com/episode/1sebTn…
i am the world-first to achieve owl-seeing eyes
Bonus: Can *you* recognize the hidden signals in numbers or code that LLMs utilize? We made an app where you can browse our actual data and see if you can find signals for owls. You can also view the numbers and CoT that encode misalignment. subliminal-learning.com/quiz/
the new A24 movie's central plot device is named after a mech-interp LessWrong post
New @a16z podcast - it's the battle of the agentic browsers! 🥊 I tested @diabrowser and @PerplexityComet for a week, to see if either could dethrone Google Chrome. Who emerged as my "winner"? 👇
Welcome to the era of self-eating software. In the old world, software disrupted taxis, sales, and back office. In the new world, AI is disrupting software itself. “The profession that I’ve dedicated my entire life to is being disrupted, and it’s very exciting because it’s…
A few more books that do provide excellent overviews of China's politics and political-economy
.@arkroeber's book on China's Economy is indeed really good! I also recommend China's Political System by Sebastian Heilmann. And China's World View by David Daokui Li (he's an advisor to CCP leaders and knows his limits, but it's reasonably honest given that). As I've been…
1/N I’m excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world’s most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO).
“As sino-pacific boom and automatized global economic integration crashes the neocolonial world system, the metropolis is forced to re-endogenize its crisis. Hyper-fluid capital deterritorializing to the planetary level divests the first world of geographic privilege; resulting…
1/N Yesterday in Tokyo we @OpenAI ran a 10‑hour live Humans vs AI exhibition at the AtCoder World Tour Finals Heuristic. We pointed an OpenAI reasoning model at the same brutal problem the finalists tackled—no human help, same rules, same clock. Buckle up. 👇
by the way, i’m taking some time off from openai for a bit. i’ll be back again, but im enjoying some nice trees and sunshine away from my computer.
by the way, i’m taking some time off from openai for a bit. i’ll be back again, but im enjoying some nice trees and sunshine away from my computer.
huge win for @a16z henry quite literally changed my life. I relocated to sf to live with henry about 1 month after meeting him and its awesome to be able to watch him step up to the role a true wordcel, a true polymath, i've spend many days chatting to him about many low brow…
I'm joining @eriktorenberg at @a16z on the new media team. Our mission: curate the most important conversations in technology (via podcasts, writing, and group chats), capture our world as it transforms, and write the history of the future in advance. If that compels you, DM me.
Henry will be one of the great thinkers and conveners across tech and DC over the next decade.
I'm joining @eriktorenberg at @a16z on the new media team. Our mission: curate the most important conversations in technology (via podcasts, writing, and group chats), capture our world as it transforms, and write the history of the future in advance. If that compels you, DM me.
would bet my career on @humford. happy and grateful. high calorie media only
I'm joining @eriktorenberg at @a16z on the new media team. Our mission: curate the most important conversations in technology (via podcasts, writing, and group chats), capture our world as it transforms, and write the history of the future in advance. If that compels you, DM me.
I'm joining @eriktorenberg at @a16z on the new media team. Our mission: curate the most important conversations in technology (via podcasts, writing, and group chats), capture our world as it transforms, and write the history of the future in advance. If that compels you, DM me.
today i start my next chapter building new media efforts @a16z alongside @eriktorenberg. we are putting together a small superteam to craft the story arc of the greatest american venture firm over the next decade grateful to @tbpn for a generational ride. blessed to work with a…
We're excited to be backing @thinkymachines under @miramurati's leadership. 2 years ago, we asked her about the future of AI. This was her response:
Thinking Machines Lab exists to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence. We're building multimodal AI that works with how you naturally interact with the world - through conversation, through sight, through the messy way we collaborate. We're…
+1 for "context engineering" over "prompt engineering". People associate prompts with short task descriptions you'd give an LLM in your day-to-day use. When in every industrial-strength LLM app, context engineering is the delicate art and science of filling the context window…
I really like the term “context engineering” over prompt engineering. It describes the core skill better: the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM.