Anish Acharya

For years, we assumed consumers wouldn’t pay for software. Now people are happily paying $200+/mo for products like Claude, Grok 4 Heavy and Gemini. Not because they’re for everyone, but because they’re 100x better for someone. The free tier is the funnel. The real product is…

This is *amazing* and demonstrates one of the spots where generative apps really shine - very ambitious front-end experiences are now not just possible but often trivial. It's also so delightful to see software development as a purely creative exercise. We need more of this.❤️

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"? 👇

for everything else, there's Runway™

I've spent the afternoon testing ChatGPT's new consumer automation product - Agent. Where does it work, and where does it fall short? And how does it compare to Operator (and newer products like Perplexity's Comet)? My review 👇

Operation Chokepoint 3.0 Under the Biden administration, Operation Chokepoint 2.0 tried to debank and deplatform crypto: financialservices.house.gov/news/documents… That era has ended, but now the banks are about to implement their own Chokepoint 3.0 — charging insanely high fees to access data…

Thrilled to back @miramurati and the world-class team behind ~ every major recent AI research and product breakthrough. RL (PPO, TRPO, GAE), reasoning, multimodal, Character, and of course ChatGPT! No one is better positioned to advance the frontier. Excited to see the future…

this is why you build in SF

Hell yea @skupor! The US government is lucky to have you. Make meritocracy great again.

My first impressions match this - Comet is *excellent*: - search that delegates to the right model for the right things (“find the YT video where pmarca describes the original sin of the internet”) - the most intuitive / useful RPA on the market - spaces blends the web with…