Sriram Krishnan

It is clear open source models and harnesses are having a moment.

I’m going to make a commitment to writing often here, perhaps as often as once a day.

I was fortunate to be at the world premier of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey a few days ago.

I’ve been discussing with some frontier lab researcher friends as to why frontier model capabilities are always so clustered together as opposed to any one model having an unassailable edge.

I have told this story about once a week for about a decade.

Every Christmas break for several years now, I’ve developed a ritual: getting lost in a world of Brandon Sanderson content.

Most of the interesting conversations in tech now happen in private group chats: Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, small invite-only Discord groups.

The biggest determinant for success in a technology company is the speed at which it operates and learns – the “clock speed” to use a CPU analogy.

When Aarthi and I started doing the show and interviewing people, I read up on all the great interviewers - past and current - to learn the art of interviewing a person.

I’m a big believer in cold emails.

You’ve just gotten that fancy job you’ve always wanted.VP of Eng/CRO/CPO/Head of Partnerships/whatever.

Any large system picks a metric to goal itself on.

Based on actual quotes and comments from VCs and folks in the industry.