Christian Catalini
@ccatalini
Founder w/roots in academia. Founder @MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab. Past: Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Lightspark. Co-Creator, Libra. Head Economist, Meta.
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@malleshpai if you look back, how much of scientific progress to date is just recombination of pre-existing ideas?
"openness may be one of the most important paths to AI safety and security" — @a16z, @bfl_ai, @Box, @CrowdStrike, @Dell, @huggingface, @IBM, @linuxfoundation, @Meta, @Microsoft, @MistralAI, @mozilla, @nvidia, @PalantirTech, @perplexity_ai, @Replit, @ycombinator + more
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If those traces accumulate inside a vendor's memory, agent state and workflow, the firm may retain legal ownership of its data while losing operational ownership of its expertise. To be clear, @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI say enterprise customer data is not used to train their models. The immediate danger is not a heist. It is a quieter form of absorption: your institutional memory becomes most useful inside a system whose interface, memory and data portability you do not control. And despite the reassurances on the prompts, the related meta-data, tool use, and interactions with the software are still likely to become an integral part of both labs’ training.
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1/ Today, more than 140 companies, most of which compete fiercely with one another, agreed to back the same stablecoin. The vehicle is @openstandard, a new and deliberately independent company launching Open USD, or OUSD, and positioning it not as anyone’s product but as neutral infrastructure for payments, trading and the internet economy.
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Decentralized intelligence will not win in the same format as the one we're being served by the large foundation labs.
