Sriram Krishnan
Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.
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Our reading
Their wordsit is clear we are going to have a diverse ecosystem of models at least on coding and agentic use.
↗Open source models are having a momentsriramk.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsOrganizations are increasingly looking for control over how their data is used and are willing to trade off some access to frontier level tokens for this control.
↗Open source models are having a momentsriramk.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsGeo-politically, countries will be weighing open weight models as a way to get frontier-level tokens inside controlled environments that may not be otherwise possible.
↗Open source models are having a momentsriramk.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThere are many forces online that want to cast every movie into their pet topic and I find that deeply reduces the immersion and experience from watching a piece of cinema for the first time.
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Their wordsI find what is most precious is to eliminate the friction necessary to write.
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Our reading
How a person interprets a major movie is shaped by where they are in their own life at that moment.
Their wordsFinally, when you watch any major movie, you interpret it through where you are in your life at that moment.
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsfrontier model capabilities are always so clustered together as opposed to any one model having an unassailable edge.
↗Model capabilities and four minute milesriramk.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThis is not the case with many other technology driven industries where capability or advancements often tend to be longer held and a fast-follow model is harder.
↗Model capabilities and four minute milesriramk.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThere are underlying lessons here on humility and the downsides of trying to make complex systems legible.
- 22 months earlier
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Our reading
Private group chats have become the primary venue for the most interesting conversations in tech.
Their wordsMost of the interesting conversations in tech now happen in private group chats: Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, small invite-only Discord groups.
↗Group chats rule the worldsriramk.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Our reading
Ideas that first circulate in private group chats often become mainstream public opinion.
Their wordsTime and time again I've seen group chat conversations act as the memetic upstream of mainstream opinion.
↗Group chats rule the worldsriramk.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIt is impossible to add new members forever without decreasing quality.
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- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsThe 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.