Isabelle Zhou
@isabelle_zhou
🪄 @OpenAI. CS @Stanford & MBA @Harvard. Angel investor.
I’ve joined the research team @OpenAI as a technical PM! After a few months, it’s clear this place is special: - Culture feels like a 24/7 hackathon with high agency people - Everyone seeks the truth over comfort together - Tiny teams ship big breakthroughs; you can just own…
Really enjoyed this piece by @thesephist on 'AI is the new plastic'. It's powerful to think the next AI unlock will come from exploring new human-AI interaction interfaces and sculpting them into our daily lives.
During my time at @NotionHQ, I got to think deeply about AI's future from the lens of design and architecture, rather than just technology. I ended up writing a piece during my last few weeks about the potential and risks of AI in analogy to plastic 🧱 notion.so/blog/ai-is-the…
Let’s go @tankots 🚀
Today, we’re excited to announce Wispr Flow 🚀 Just speak, and Flow writes for you, everywhere on your computer. No BS, no waitlist. Feel the magic 👉 flowvoice.ai
The Harvard/MIT startup scene is absolutely cracked. @cursor_ai, @cognition_labs, @mercor_ai, @Etched all founded by recent grads/dropouts The energy here feels different: no virtue signaling, just insane heads-down building every weekend 😤
We need more philosophers in AI. When I studied symbolic systems at Stanford, I learned about AGI from a different lens: - Finite automata vs consciousness - Turing completeness (minds and machines) - Consciousness as “I think, therefore I am” In certain schools of philosophy,…
After using & building RAG search every day this summer (for work docs, data, messages, etc), it feels *jarring* to not talk to most websites and personal docs. Custom search is one of the few addicting behavior changes from AI that's upgraded my life — wish it were everywhere!
It's finally out! This is a must read if you're even remotely interested in starting a company. Working closely with the legendary @m2jr has shown me what true genius and compassion looks like in VC. Grateful to have seen this come to life over weekly reading sessions!
Hosted a curated "bouquets & brunch" for early stage female founders this weekend with @nicolesseah 🌸 If you're a female founder building in AI or SaaS in SF, let's hang out!
Started a new internship and generative AI has completely taken over my onboarding process. Chatbots everywhere, with very few human 1:1s: - @glean for general onboarding questions - In-house AI chatbot that helps with institutional technical data query knowledge - AI coding…
Spending time with Mike at Floodgate fundamentally changed the way I think. Saw some early drafts and I know this will be a spectacular read — if you read one startup book this year, this has to be the one! 👇
PATTERN BREAKERS BOOK - Available now for pre-order Beginning today, my forthcoming book Pattern Breakers, written with Peter Ziebelman, is available for pre-order. I’ve been working on this for quite awhile, and I’m so excited that it’s finally ready for prime time. About 10…
Michael stands out as one of the most genuine people I've met in SF. Excited for him to change our beautiful city for the better! @Mtclai
Last weekend, I gathered with 200+ family, friends, & neighbors to make an announcement. An announcement rooted in my family's story, and the story of so many immigrant families who moved to the US to seek a better life. I'm running for the SF Board of Supervisors this Nov! 🧵
Imagine creating games like GTA or Sims using a simple prompt. @peggy_wang and @simulacronist are super impressive and have built an AI engine where you can generate your own fully formed AI NPCs and 3D worlds. Proud to be an angel investor in @ego_ai_ ⚡️
1\ We built a 3D simulation of a small town populated by fully autonomous AI agents inspired by @joon_s_pk's Stanford Generative Agents paper. We called it TownWorld and live streamed it to Twitch
Whoever said making tiny changes to diet and exercise will compound in 2024 is right Two weeks into Athletic Greens, intermittent fasting, and cardio, I’m not only tired but absolutely grossed out and hangry all the time
Anyone else notice a change in their feed? Mine used to be all tech/VC/AI but now it's a jumbled collection of memes and odd historical facts Not sure if there's more bots or if I'm just a sucker for clickbait