The mates are in agreement: we are looking at mainstream, beyond transformers architectures taking significant market share this year. @alexwg highlights MoEs, diffusion transformers, linearized attention, and recurrence as a disassembling of "Attention Is All You Need" until nothing original is left. I would add that @liquidai already proved there are many new, discoverable architectures. There are simply too many ways in which vanilla transformers are grossly inefficient.

I still think bio is the highest risk category, and it's what needs the most careful attention. We can use benevolent AI to combat malicious AI in cyber. We're already winning that battle. I don't see how that works against bio weapons.

TekTrek’s first round trip is complete. Most programs pull East Coast talent west and keep it there. TekTrek features the best of both worlds: in June, 44 students primarily from @MIT, @Harvard, and @Princeton went to San Francisco to build. Ten weeks later, they brought their companies home to Boston. They worked from the Presidio, learned from 120+ mentors, met founders and technology leaders, and built alongside a community that believes the next generation should be the ones sculpting the future. Homecoming was just as eventful: a Science Dinner at the CPO Ed Baker (@ed_baker_whoop) of @WHOOP's home in Cambridge, featuring presentations from Boston's Mayor Michelle Wu, @CFS_energy's cofounder/CSO Brandon Sorbom (@BrandonSorbom), and @duolingo's CPO Cem Kansu (@cemdnsu). At the MIT Showcase, 17 teams took the stage, including Brian Elliott, CEO and cofounder of @blitzyai, who opened with his original founding pitch. Among the 300+ attendees there were more than 90 investors. Then a reception at The ‘Quin House with Sandy Edgerley and Aaron Edell (@aaronedell)of @awscloud, one of TekTrek’s supporters, who announced he is committed to tripling his token support for the program. The closing day on Martha’s Vineyard brought together HBS Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter (@RosabethKanter), Mitch Kapor, NASA astronaut Leland Melvin (@Astro_Flow), Olympic gold medalist Tenley Albright, and @siegelendowment’s Executive Director & President Katy Knight (@sayskaty). At the heart of TekTrek is a simple idea: AI is fundamentally changing what small teams can accomplish. Bring exceptional builders together, surround them with the right people, and give them the environment, community, and resources to move faster. AI has radically changed what a small team can build. As John Werner, Chief Architect and Cofounder of TekTrek often says: “three is the new thousand.” Congratulations to the teams of Cohort One. The first of many! #TekTrek# #ArtificialIntelligence# #Startups# #Entrepreneurship# #MIT# #Harvard# #Princeton#

Kuuuuuush!!! Kush (@bavaria_kush) is 23, CEO of @OrnnExchange, and one of the most beloved @MIT alums I've ever met. He went from starving student to $100M+ in personal liquidity in a year. I don't think anyone on the planet has done that before. Ornn created a ticker for the price of compute. Compute is going to power every enterprise the same way oil did in the 1900s. This is how the entire Dyson swarm buildout gets financed. Thanks for joining us on Moonshots!

REDUX: If you didn’t yet, check out my epic interview with Kush Bavaria (@bavaria_kush), CEO and Co-Founder of @OrnnExchange! Fresh off the $33M raise, and now backed by @a16z, @Link_Ventures, and others, the Ornn team went from idea to $100M+ valuation within 8 months - possibly the fastest for an MIT company ever. Plus, Larry Fink publicly calls for exactly what Kush & team are already building. The desperation for Ornn’s product is growing daily. My agents are literally grinding to a halt. The foundation labs need an ocean of compute hours that doesn’t exist. Ornn provides hyperscalers the stability to rationalize that investment, while creating an entirely new asset class for investors who want to back the AI revolution. Link below - tune in!