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Introducing Sherpa: the most advanced fiction writing AI We accelerated from $250M in ARR to $500M because Sherpa helped increase content production by 1200% in 1 year Sherpa was trained on 5.5B hours of playtime with minute by minute dynamic retention data. 550K+ creators have produced 2.6M hours of...

6,183,731 просмотров • 8 дней назад •via X (Twitter)

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Фото профиля Not Jerome Powell
Not Jerome Powell8 дней назад

2024: “AI will replace writers” 2026: writers using AI to build $100M shows from their bedroom Plot twist of the century.

Фото профиля muku
muku8 дней назад

What a fuckin COOL videooo 🐐 Great one @PocketFM_App

Фото профиля kanav
kanav8 дней назад

HOLY SHIT THEY GOT RUSS HANNEMAN 😭😭😭

Фото профиля punit
punit8 дней назад

$250M -> $500M in 1 year

Фото профиля Vishal Singh 🥑
Vishal Singh 🥑8 дней назад

there's no subscription. that's the whole trick. you listen free until the episode ends mid-confession, and then you buy coins to unlock the next one. games have monetised like this for a decade. nobody had done it to fiction. huge opportunity window here.

Фото профиля James Camp 🛠,🛠
James Camp 🛠,🛠8 дней назад

This might be my favorite launch video to date

Фото профиля MAX
MAX8 дней назад

what a banger launch video

Фото профиля Tuki
Tuki8 дней назад

This is actually such a crazy shift. The idea that one person can now go from a simple concept to a fully produced, monetized fiction series is huge. AI is making the barrier to entry ridiculously low.

Фото профиля HOW THINGS WORK
HOW THINGS WORK8 дней назад

Turning storytelling into a real income stream for creators is the most epic part here! 🔥

Фото профиля Vision Surge
Vision Surge8 дней назад

The retention data might be the most interesting part of Sherpa. Most writing tools learn from text. This sounds like it learned from where actual listeners stayed, dropped off, or kept coming back.

Фото профиля CG
CG8 дней назад

congrats on the launch, banger launch video btw 🔥

Фото профиля B’3M3t 0R
B’3M3t 0R8 дней назад

cc @mnsibley O_o increase your content production by 1200%!!! you may get the book done by 2030 now. heh

Фото профиля Muhammad Ayan
Muhammad Ayan8 дней назад

someone is absolutely about to make a 700 episode soap opera with this 💀

Фото профиля AshutoshShrivastava
AshutoshShrivastava8 дней назад

curious if the retention weighting prioritizes mid-episode cliffhangers or character conflict density.

Фото профиля Dev Khare
Dev Khare8 дней назад

🎆 🎇 🔥

Фото профиля Fight With Memes
Fight With Memes8 дней назад

As a writer, I'm both apalled and fascinated. 👀

Фото профиля ashesh
ashesh8 дней назад

crazyyyyy launch 🤣🤣🤣🤣🔥

Фото профиля gargi palaskar
gargi palaskar8 дней назад

crazy launch video

Фото профиля Not Kevin Warsh
Not Kevin Warsh8 дней назад

AI went from stealing writers’ jobs to helping writers make $1M. character development.

Фото профиля Linus ✦ Ekenstam
Linus ✦ Ekenstam8 дней назад

As someone who worked on similar software for years, sherpa is absolutely nuts.

Фото профиля Markandey Sharma
Markandey Sharma8 дней назад

Looks promising to me

Фото профиля Kartik
Kartik8 дней назад

$250M -> $500M in 1 year wow 😳

Фото профиля Berry
Berry8 дней назад

What a legend these guys are, absolute masterclass on PMF - proving everyone wrong here.

Фото профиля Alok Kumar
Alok Kumar8 дней назад

1B+ tokens of Pocket FM stories is an incredible amount of data to build a storytelling.

Фото профиля Science girl
Science girl8 дней назад

This is honestly incredible 🔥 The possibilities for storytellers are huge. Definitely excited to see what people create with Sherpa!

Фото профиля Dan Carl
Dan Carl8 дней назад

@joeroganhq Hollywood watch out!

Фото профиля Vox
Vox8 дней назад

congrats on the launch! starting my 500 episode series tonight lol

Фото профиля Nawi
Nawi8 дней назад

First fiction AI that actually gets long-form serials. Hierarchical planner + knowledge graph is the unlock. Most models mush out after 30 eps. Curious what solo creators ship with this.

Фото профиля Harsshh aka Chole bhature
Harsshh aka Chole bhature8 дней назад

damnn fuckin cooolll launch video

Фото профиля Mahesh KMB
Mahesh KMB8 дней назад

if the prose engine learns from listener retention and the evaluators are benchmarked to match human reviewers, both signals come from what already works. what keeps the loop from optimizing toward the median and filtering out the story that breaks the pattern?

Фото профиля Wisdom
Wisdom8 дней назад

5.5B hours of playtime data is a pretty wild feedback loop. You're not just teaching the model what good fiction looks like, but what actually holds attention.

Фото профиля Rez Karim
Rez Karim8 дней назад

drop-off data is the underrated imo. knowing where people quit is more useful than knowing what they liked

Фото профиля Deepanshu Sharma
Deepanshu Sharma8 дней назад

you really made the enormous content machine, if it really works as mentioned, every one can be a engaging screenplay writer

Фото профиля D Iceman
D Iceman8 дней назад

I saw this guy in The Sticky, he’s good but wtf is he doing here LOL

Фото профиля Aaron
Aaron8 дней назад

Absolutely insane what you've done here. To think that this used to take a whole ass team and thousands of hours to do. Crazy

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And how different that art looks from the Renaissance art created in the 15th and 16th centuries? Technical innovations like the camera obscura and perspective grids are behind this. Similarly profound changes will come to the writing world because of AI (credit to Justin Murphy for the idea here). 14. Satya Nadella says: “The new workflow for me is I think with AI and work with my colleagues.” When it comes to discovering ideas, I've also found that jamming with an LLM is more productive than doing it with most people I know (save for a few giga-brain conversationalists). 15. Thought experiment: Will AI-writing be more like music or chess? With music, we don't care how a song is made. We just want it to be good. With chess, there's a huge market for watching human beings play even though the computers are already better. I think non-fiction writing will go the way of music. People won’t care how it was made. They’ll just care that it’s good. 16. AI has flipped the rules of tech adoption. Seasoned managers usually drag their feet with adopting new technology, but the ones I know love AI, while frontline workers struggle to see the point. My theory is that AI matches how managers already operate. Management has always been a kind of prompt engineering: set a vision, delegate, give feedback, iterate. But LLMs remove the drama that used to come with having a team. No 1-on-1s. No emotional tangles. It's like management without the headache. For frontline employees, things are different. They aren't as accustomed to setting a vision and giving feedback, so LLM prompting is a daunting and unfamiliar kind of work for them. 17. AI editors are already quite good. Sure, they aren’t as good as the world’s best editors, but they’re a fraction of the cost, they’ll instantly give you 80th percentile feedback, and they work 24/7. As a novelist recently said to me: “Paying an editor to review my novel costs me $7,000 and a 4-6 week turnaround time, whereas Claude costs me $1.25 and gets me results a few minutes later.” The edits definitely aren’t as good, but there’s a virtue to speed (and this guy isn’t a chump writer). 18. The way AI-skeptics hate on LLMs while using old models is like driving a ‘92 Honda while hating on a self-driving Tesla. 19. AI-generated fiction makes people very upset. A friend insists it’s like having sex with a robot. Doesn’t matter how good it is. It ain’t human-generated, and there’s something uniquely repulsive about that. I’ve shared the full conversation below. It’s a solo-episode of me riffing on what I’ve learned about AI for ~90 minutes. If you’d rather watch it on YouTube or listen on Apple or Spotify, I’ve shared the links in the reply tweets. And if you have any questions, I’ll be extra active in the replies for this episode.

David Perell

257,480 просмотров • 1 год назад

Nat Eliason’s (Nat Eliason) career arc is borderline absurd—but it works. He’ll spot a new tool or trend, master it, build a business around it, and move on. Nat’s pulled it off with the note-taking wave ($600k in sales from a Roam Research course), real estate (6x return flipping property in Austin), and crypto (published his insider story with Random House). Now it’s AI: he’s running a viral course on building apps with AI—$200k in pre-sales in just a week, 800 students and counting. I’ve known Nat for a long time and I think he has a great sense for where the puck is headed. He was one of the first guests I had on the podcast and I was delighted to have him on again. Here are a few takeaways from our conversation: - Coding with AI has become orders of magnitude easier for non-technical people over the last 2 years—Nat rarely has to help students fix bugs; they troubleshoot in Cursor on their own. - AI coding assistants are creating new behaviours in programming, like using a speech-to-text model to talk to an agent and having it write code for you. - The traditional learning curve of coding is flattening because AI tools let beginners build and iterate in faster feedback loops. - AI has given Nat leverage in spades—it increases his ability to be a creator while also building a robust business with as few people to manage as possible. He demos an AI book editor he coded for his sci-fi novel. - In the age of AI, software is becoming content and the barriers to create are lower than ever—but custom software for everything isn’t the answer. Nat’s model is that personalized tools make sense for that one thing you care the most about. - Nat believes that the future of writing with AI is a Cursor-style interface with a model that’s trained on your style and voice. This episode is a must-watch for writers, creators, and anyone interested in the future of product building. Watch below! Timestamps: Introduction: 00:01:45 The origins of Nat’s viral course on building apps with AI: 00:11:45 How coding with AI has evolved over the last two years: 00:18:46 Nat creates an app using Composer, Cursor’s AI assistant: 00:22:22 Tactical tips for coding with Cursor: 00:26:06 How coding with AI is creating new behaviours in programming: 00:29:06 What excites Nat the most about the future of AI: 00:32:41 A demo of Hubbard, the AI editor Nat built for his science fiction writing: 00:38:58 When does it makes sense to build custom software: 00:44:52 Nat’s take on the future of writing with AI: 00:49:18

Dan Shipper 📧

27,207 просмотров • 1 год назад

Grateful for the outpouring the past few days. I can’t tell you how motivating it is to have people care so much about Arc. The encouragement, the criticism, the confusion. Took it all in <3 As a thank you, I’d like to speak more plainly about what’s happening and why – we owe it to you: 1. Every person who joined or invested in our company did so to build products beloved by hundreds of millions of people. “We want to be to the browser what the iPhone was to the cellphone” has been our rallying cry since Day One. We knew chance of success was low but the ambition made us leap out of bed every morning. 2. Arc is beloved, popular, and growing (4x daily actives YoY). But it’s now clear that what most people love about the product *is also* what will prevent it from reaching hundreds of millions of people in our target demographic (people who spend hours in their browsers each day for their livelihood). Arc is a niche browser, even if we did not intend for it to be so. 3. Luckily, we architected this company – from company name to investors and technical architecture – to support multiple products since Day One. See Arc Search. Our favorite brands have multiple product lines in the same category too (Apple, Nike, Disney). Hence our realization: why keep trying to make Arc something it is not? Nobody who loved Arc wanted Arc Max. Arc members just want it to be more stable, secure, and performant. “Let’s just do that!” 4. With Arc as our beloved but niche browser #1, we asked ourselves a simple question: if we founded the company TODAY (in 2024), with everything that we know, what would the browser of the future look like for hundreds of millions of people? Let’s go build *that* product, alongside Arc. A second browser that is easier to use, more focused, and more powerful. All in order to live up to our founding mission (#1 above). 5. Yet none of this would’ve happened if it weren’t for the timing (market timing is most underrated startup ingredient). Mark my words: the Web is going to dramatically change in 2025 – much more than we all appreciate. Crazy new AI & computer-use models are incoming. I promise you that new browsers will be the story of 2025 (The Browser Company aside). Why? The browser layer is the obvious epicenter of AI & Agents because of its unique context, cookies, & apps. 6. To build a breakthrough consumer product (#1) – like truly breakthrough – you need a catalyzing innovation or technology. AI will be that for the next era of browsers, whether we win or someone else does. So why us (other than Arc is niche)? Our belief is that not only do you need the browser layer to win, but “the hard part” is nailing the interface, the interactions, the storytelling. That’s our bread & butter. That’s the expertise of our team. Now you can see how these puzzle pieces fit together… We built something people love (in Arc) and we intend to stick by it. But we also won’t lose sight of why our team poured so much blood, sweat and tears over the past 4 years into this company: the mission to build a new interface to the internet used by hundreds of millions of people every day. It truly feels like the moment we were waiting for is here and we won’t miss it. Everything we’ve done up until this point was for this type of window, even if we couldn’t have predicted it would play out exactly this way. We’re hopeful that more of you will understand why we’re building this second product soon. I feel confident you will once we can show you more of what we’re dreaming up, and once more of the things we’ve heard and seen in the industry reveal themselves soon. Candidly, we wanted to wait on this announcement but random stuff was leaking and it seemed wrong for you to hear from anyone except us first. We’ve always been at our best when we’re open & honest. We’ll continue to be. Finally, THANK YOU, again, for the love & tough love. We don’t take it for granted. We can’t wait to ship, ship, ship in early 2025!

Josh Miller

189,216 просмотров • 1 год назад

Hi Amazon MGM Studios, Many of us now work in filmmaking because of shows like Stargate SG-1. It inspired us with its rich lore, believable character interactions, human drama, and its grounded military science fiction setting. It showed the progress of humanity from its first baby steps through an unknown portal into a space-faring species. The show was hopeful, human, and naturally diverse. It showed the world and mankind coming together despite our differences to create something better. Indeed, that is what the core of Stargate is and always has been. We are from around the world. We are men, women, fathers, mothers, grandparents, grandchilren, and proud of the values Stargate has always stood for. It's rare for a franchise that appeals to people across a political divide, but Stargate always has. It has always stood for the message that we are stronger together. These are the fans. Martin Gero, Joe Mallozzi, Brad Wright, and everyone else involved have had decades to understand this. There is no better team to trust than the ones who've been there with us the longest. It's a symbiotic relationship. I, and every Stargate fan, urge you to reconsider during this Window of Opportunity. The writing team was in the middle of their backswing during the cancellation announcement. At least let them finish a season. We are worth taking a chance on! I'm Emerald May, and I work in visual effects in Atlanta and I'm proud of shows like Stargate SG-1, Atlantis, and Universe that helped steer my career into a place where we make worlds come true. Thank you.

Jilted Valkyrie

60,070 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

I miss building simple, working software. At some point, we decided to complicate everything for no reason. Today, people can't build anything without using three frameworks, 17 libraries, and a swarm of microservices. And here is a funny paradox: To understand how these complex systems work, we've had to build systems and tools that generate data we can later analyze. But the more data we produce, the harder it is to process and make sense of it. We are in the middle of an observability crisis. The tools we have are inefficient, and we don't have enough people to keep systems running. A few weeks ago, I met the team Resolve AI, and they have built a fundamentally new approach to observability and incident management: Instead of depending on humans to run a system, Resolve built a Production Software Engineer who runs the system using AI while letting people supervise. And it's not only crazy, but I think this will fundamentally change how we monitor and maintain systems in production for years to come. I recorded a quick video to showcase a simple example of how Resolve works behind the scenes. There are two main things I'd like you to notice: 1. The tool can correlate data across logs, metrics, and traces coming from different systems. You don't have to do any work to get the information that matters right in front of you. 2. (This is the big one!) The tool can diagnose what's happening and give you instructions on how to solve it. It can produce causal relationships across the entire system stack. Resolve is backed by investors like Replit's founder Amjad Masad, Reid Hoffman, Jeff Dean, Fei Fei Li, Andy Price, among others. They are currently working with a select number of companies and want to onboard a few more. If you are interested in trying them out, go to this link: Honestly, this is one of the most impressive uses of AI I've seen.

Santiago

82,074 просмотров • 2 лет назад

Big Tech's $1 trillion AI moat just got DESTROYED by a free Chinese download. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta are pouring fortunes into chips and data centers because they have been told that whoever builds the biggest model wins, and that lead becomes a fortress no one can cross. Last week a lab called Zhipu - it trades in Hong Kong as Knowledge Atlas Technology - released a model called GLM-5.2 and destroyed that idea in a single afternoon. It's open weights under an MIT license, which means anyone on earth can download it and build on it for free. On the coding and design benchmarks that actually matter, it went toe to toe with the best models America has - matching even Anthropic's Mythos-class work and beating OpenAI's flagship outright on the coding test everyone watches. And it does the work at roughly one-sixth the price. ONE-SIXTH And barely a year and a half ago a model called DeepSeek did the same thing and wiped the better part of $600 billion off Nvidia in a single session. This was only the first chapter. You cannot dig a moat around something your competitor is happy to give away. If 95% of frontier capability is free, open, and runs at a fraction of the cost, then the hundreds of billions being spent to defend the last 5% is NOT a moat. And now for the irony: The company that just proved the moat is worthless is itself the single most absurd valuation I have seen in a long career of watching absurd valuations. Zhipu did about $105 million in revenue last year and lost more than 4x what it took in. This week the market handed it a value of roughly $128 billion - at the peak, north of a 1,000x sales - on a float so thin that barely 4% of the stock actually trades. THINK about this... A company drowning in losses, doing 9 figures of revenue, priced like it does hundreds of billions, with almost nothing available to sell. So we now have a bubble in China detonating the entire justification for a bubble in America. Two manias pointed straight at each other. This is the lesson I've spent 45 years trying to beat into people. You can ignore valuation for a long time but you cannot ignore it forever. A moat story sold a trillion dollars of spending, a free download just exposed it, and the company that exposed it is priced for a fantasy of its own. When the picks-and-shovels crowd loses its monopoly on the picks, you want to be very careful what you are paying for the shovels. Numbers don't lie. Shoutout to Limitless - they were onto this story before almost anyone on Wall Street. One of the sharpest AI shows out there.

George Noble

71,531 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

As many of you know, for the last five months I've been working full-time on my next big thing. The challenge was to invent something new and implement it entirely using LLMs for writing code. The first stage of the project is now complete: the web application, which I called is now online and accepting users. You can see a short demo in the video. 100% of the code of the app was generated by LLMs (mostly Gemini and Claude, maybe 10% of ChatGPT). I haven't written a single line of code. The tech stack is TypeScript, React, and Supabase/Postgres which was (and still is) fully new to me. During these five months, I implemented from scratch three versions of the software. It started as a Markdown editor to help me with my book writing and ended up as an AI-assisted reading and self-learning platform. What makes ChapterPal unique is a novel reading experience where the user can use the keyboard keys to reveal or "unreveal" the content and ask questions at any moment. (Mouse wheel, touchpad, smartphone screen, and voice input are also supported.) The LLM receives the entire content of the chapter and tries to answer questions based on the chapter's content, which reduces the chance of hallucination to the minimum. (Though not to 0%, of course, but near it.) This way of content consumption is known as **active reading,** a strategy for engaging with a text to improve comprehension and retention by consciously interacting with the material. The goal is to move beyond passive reading to a deeper understanding of the text and to remember key information more effectively. The registration on ChapterPal is via the waiting list. This is to avoid unexpected load spikes and cloud charges. Usually, it takes less than 24 hours for me to activate a user. Give it a try and let me know what you think. The next stage is finishing the content ingestion pipeline, which will automatically convert high-quality content from sources like HTML, PDF, and LaTeX into Markdown. Obviously, only those pieces whose licenses allow creating copies. ChapterPal has its own collection of textbooks and articles on AI, machine learning, and data science topics. If you don't find a piece of content you would like to read in ChapterPal's collection, a Chrome extension, ChapterPal Uploader, allows you to upload any PDF or HTML page to ChapterPal in one click. The content is only available for you to read to avoid the possibility of copyright infringement. I hope you enjoy using it as much as I enjoy building it.

BURKOV

81,258 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад

I'd like to introduce you to Creator Buddy, the greatest AI content tool ever made It's 8 AI tools in one to help you come up with endless bangers, explode your engagement, and grow your network faster than you can imagine It's going to change the way you use X forever Over the last 3 years I've grown from 0 to 260,000 followers on X I did this completely organically. No bots or retweet groups. All through banger content and reply guying I took every system and strategy I used to get to 260k and 6 figures of revenue on X and put them in this tool Then I powered it all by AI so it's 10x smarter and easier to use This isn't your mother's AI either. This is an AI trained on millions of X posts. Trained on what works and what doesn't This AI will create better content than you've ever seen in your entire life I'm not kidding. BANGERS only It's also everything I wanted Grok to be but never was It's an AI that knows your post history so you can ask it questions like: • What topics get me the most engagement? • What hooks get me likes? • What time of day does my audience engage with me? • What calls to actions get me clicks? • I have no idea what to write about. Based on my past successful posts give me a template It will seriously change the way you create content forever. No more writer's block. No more flopped posts. No more posting into the void. And that's not even 10% of the functionality: • It also has an AI trained on the entire X algorithm so you know if your post will be algo friendly BEFORE you post • A reply guy tool that will help you be the LOUDEST reply guy on X • An AI account researching tool that is basically your own spy on X • A chrome extension that allows you to save posts directly from X and repurpose into your own voice with AI • A brain dumping tool that allows you to take whatever is on your mind and INSTANTLY turn it into content This is my life's work. I truly believe this will take your X game to the next level If you're taking X seriously, you HAVE to get Creator Buddy I truly believe moving forward there will be 2 groups of people on X: those with Creator Buddy and those without. Trust me, you want to be in the group with it I've worked endlessly the last 7 months on building this by myself. No help whatsoever Every line of code, every video, EVERYTHING was done by me. 0 help. I sacrificed everything for this tool Hit the link below and start working with your own personalized AI content coach now! And if I've ever provided you even a tiny bit of value over the last 3 years, all I ask for is a simple like and RT on this post! With love, Alex (link to Creator Buddy on next post!!!)

Alex Finn

1,582,771 просмотров • 1 год назад