Introducing Underdog, your Private Personal AI on devices you already own Today we're announcing our backing from @a16z @khoslaventures @HummingbirdVC Anthology (@AnthropicAI @MenloVentures) @patrickc @naval @rauchg @polynoamial @Thom_Wolf @Mascobot @tszzl @OfficialLoganK and other top AI leaders Our mission is to provide free, capable, reliable and private AI to billions of people. Underdog’s Law: today’s frontier intelligence reaches your devices in six months. We’re starting with fast, capable AI that runs on consumer hardware. By co-designing models and inference engines, we’re pushing the frontier of capability, speed, power and data efficiency. Our research also spans agentic commerce, confidential inference, and how AI will reshape the internet economy. Privacy and capability no longer needs to be a tradeoff. If you believe in this future, join us. Time to build.

Ken Griffin made a $3 BILLION gift to Carnegie Mellon University, the largest individual gift in American higher education history and for a Miami, Florida campus!!! And the centerpiece is extraordinary: $2 BILLION to build a new 35-acre Carnegie Mellon campus in Miami. CMU Miami is expected to ultimately serve 3,500+ students, nearly 300 faculty and 600+ staff, with graduate students arriving as early as 2028. For those who don’t know @CarnegieMellon Carnegie Mellon is one of the great technology universities on Earth. Computer science. Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Engineering. Design. Advanced manufacturing. CMU has spent decades sitting at the intersection of science + technology + entrepreneurship + the real economy. And that’s why this matters so much. Miami’s next chapter cannot simply be measured by how many companies relocate here. The real measure is whether we build the institutions that continuously produce talent, research, intellectual property, founders and entirely new industries. CMU Miami can become one of those institutions. The planned campus will focus on enormous real-world challenges including AI, human health, national security, energy, climate resilience and industrial innovation, with research labs and venture studios designed to connect academia, industry and government. Think about the economic flywheel this can create: Talent → Research → IP → Startups → Venture Capital → Companies → Jobs → More Talent. And this doesn’t happen in isolation. Miami already has extraordinary higher-ed anchors. @univmiami brings world-class research, medicine and scholarship. @FIU has become one of America’s most consequential large public research universities and an enormous engine of upward mobility and talent. @MDCollege is arguably one of the most important workforce and access institutions anywhere in the country. CMU doesn’t replace that ecosystem. It makes the ecosystem more powerful. Imagine the collaborations. Joint research. Faculty networks. Shared talent. Startup formation. Industry partnerships. National-security innovation. AI commercialization. Students moving between classrooms, laboratories, companies and venture studios across South Florida. That is how regional economies compound. And we should also acknowledge something important: This will be a journey. Buildings don’t create innovation ecosystems. People do. It will take years of recruiting extraordinary faculty, attracting students, connecting with existing institutions, earning trust in the community and translating research into companies and jobs. But today the ceiling of what Miami can become just moved higher. For years we’ve talked and worked on Miami becoming one of the world’s great centers for technology, entrepreneurship and innovation. Increasingly, the institutional infrastructure is catching up with the ambition. And perhaps the most exciting part: This isn’t simply a Miami story. It’s a Florida story. A world-class technology university planting a major flag here strengthens Florida’s ability to compete for the scientists, engineers, founders, companies and industries that will define the next 50 years. Capital moves fast. Companies move fast. But universities build civilizations. CMU coming to Miami is a very, very big deal.

Who plays soccer in the Miami tech community? I know a few people who play, but how many are there in total? Perhaps not many for a league, but could we organize a soccer game? I recall we did a few years ago. Who’s interested?

Today, we’re launching an ambitious new school called The Horowitz Andreessen Academy. Based in San Francisco, The Academy serves the most promising young high school graduates. We think this can be an elite institution that attracts top tier talent. One that prepares students for the future rather than remaining stuck in the past. The #1# goal is to help students learn to build, which is the most important skill in the AI era. They'll learn primarily by pursuing their own projects, either individually or in groups. There are classes and guest lectures, too, from some truly amazing people who have built modern-day Silicon Valley. The Academy is designed as a network, since that’s the reason students go to school in the first place. Core to that network are our 10 Founding Partners: Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe. The network includes over 50 hiring partners and over 200 speakers and mentors. To join as a hiring partner or faculty member, you can apply on our website. We raised $42M in funding led by @a16z. I'll be CEO and @pmarca and @eriktorenberg will join me on the board. Applications are open for our Founding Class Fellowship, which will be one year and tuition-free. Eventually, pending regulatory approval, we plan to offer a two-year program that charges tuition, similar in cost to an elite private university. We're looking for the most unusually ambitious young builders on the planet. Come join us in San Francisco:

I'm a Founder again, building from Florida! Meet Midnight (@MidnightSecure), the safest, most private home security system ever designed. Backed by Leaders & Alum from @ADT, @Google, @ring, @CitizenApp, and more.