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#ONEPIECE1168 ONE PIECE CHAPTER 1168 ANIMATION RECAP 👑#ONEPIECE Made using Kling 2.6 on HIGGSFIELD & UNLIMITED 🔥 1080p quality with NATIVE AUDIO 🔉✨ (Now 70% off during Cyber Week) RTs and likes are appreciated! Chapter 1168 animation 💝 #Higgsfield // Higgsfield AI 🧩

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THIS IS THE MOST INTERESTING THING YOU'LL READ TODAY!!! Every time an AI company buys a website ending in “.ai”, a tiny Caribbean island of 15,000 people gets paid. It now earns half its entire national budget this way, without building a single piece of AI. The island is called Anguilla. A British territory in the Caribbean that has always survived on tourism, fishing, and hoping the hurricanes miss it. Decades ago, long before anyone cared, an internet standards body handed out two-letter codes to countries and territories. The one Anguilla was assigned: “.ai”. For years it meant nothing. Just a random suffix for a tiny island almost nobody could find on a map. Then ChatGPT launched. And suddenly every AI company on earth wanted a website that ended in .ai. OpenAI, Perplexity, Meta, xAI, Google, they all wanted it. Because “.ai” instantly signals what your company does. And to register one, you have to pay a fee. To Anguilla. The scale of what happened next is staggering. There are now over a million .ai domains registered. Each one costs around $140 every two years. And roughly 90% of them renew. So this island of 15,000 people now collects a small tax every single time anyone, anywhere in the world, wants an AI web address. In 2023 it made about $32 million from this. By 2025 it was pulling in nearly $90 million a year. That’s close to HALF of the island’s entire government budget. From two letters. And they’re using it well. Anguilla has cut its national debt by 37% in under five years. It’s funding free healthcare for every kid under 5 and every senior over 70. It eliminated tax on essential food. It’s building a new international airport. And it’s setting up a sovereign wealth fund to protect the money for future generations. Meanwhile individual .ai domains are selling for insane prices on the side. The domain bot . ai sold for $1.2 million this year. Here’s the poetic part. During the actual gold rush, most miners went broke. The people who got rich were the ones selling picks and shovels. Anguilla didn’t dig for AI gold. It didn’t train a model or chase funding or compete with anyone. It just happened to own the two letters everyone else needed. And it’s quietly getting rich off the entire world’s obsession, one domain at a time.

Evan Luthra

25,801 次观看 • 2 个月前

Vegeta Flawless Victory vs Android 19 [HD]💥1080Pee🔥 Original Funimation w/ Bruce Faulconer Audio✅ (Good Version)✅(Not KAI)🤮‼️RE-UPLOAD‼️ 🚨 Copyrights ©️Akira Toriyama, Toei Animation, and Bruce Faulconer.⚠️🔫👮 All 291 episodes of DragonBall Z are available to stream in [HD] quality on Crunchyroll.🐉🟠 / Subscriptions start at $9.99/mo 💻🖱️ Visit for more details 🖥️ Bruce Faulconer's #DBZ discography is available on Spotify. 🎵🟢 (on Mobile, it may bring to a screen to hit play, then 'Get the App'. If Spotify is Installed, 'Get the App' should automatically load both for you.) 📱 This links to "The Dragon Theme" 🐉🟠 #dragongasm 1:10-3:55 🎶🌊🐉🟠 ⚠️These [HD]💥1080Pee🔥 edits as they are presented are not available for Television currently.🚫📺 ⚠️This is a FANMADE re-imagination of what our childhood 'could be' today. 🤔 ⚠️Our version of 'DragonBall Z' that we grew up with has not existed for almost 20 years, we are forced to rely on old physical media and internet archives to watch it. 💿 Bruce Faulconer officially became canon in the Pee Universe on 08/08/2026. 💯 #notegoat🎵🐐 Faulconer 👑 is coming 🐦‍⬛ Bruce Faulconer 👑is the Legendary composer of the iconic American DragonBall Z Soundtrack. He was cast aside 25 years ago, and is actively recruiting "Pee Warriors" now to take down the Tyrannical Warmongerer known as Taylor Lannister (Swift).💰 He is the right heir to the throne of the Billboard Top 100. If you would like to support The One True King👑, 🎵🐐please give his Spotify a listen, or see Bruce's Goose's below about joining the Pee Warriors. 📋 See → #ShenrundayService🐉🟠⛪️ for edit posting schedule. See Pinned Post for "Pee Universe Explained by Pee"📌📁 👈 In the Pee Universe, #DBZ never peaked, it's still going strong in 2026 too!🏁 I'm just a fan like you are. 🫵 (🚫NO AFFILIATIONS🚫) 🛑I posted this on Wednesday night originally under BETTER AUDIO SYNC THAN ORIGINAL US BROADCAST and I had cut close to 3/4 a second of audio. It matched on my pc, but no other device that I tried. This was actually due to the fact I started using a bluetooth speaker within the past week. I have since corrected the issue, and no other false claims about being better than the US broadcast exist. I'll leave that for your interpretation.💯 I wanted to get this back up asap too for anybody who planned on watching it again. This is the DragonBall Z we grew up with.✅

DragonBallPee

33,997 次观看 • 1 个月前

Here's my first series of Anime created by Generative AI. Vidu 2.0 is a groundbreaking advancement for storytelling in the Anime style. #vidu @Viduforhuman Hi everyone 😊 😉 Here's my first AI-created Anime series. The name of my anime is Kuro & Yuki. I won't spoil the story for you, but it begins with these two boys locked up in what appears to be a highly secure institute/prison. Yuki has reached the age where he has awakened his power. While wandering the corridors of the institute, he meets Kuro, a boy with autism. It's a fleeting encounter as they end up being separated. As the story unfolds, you'll understand who they really are and why they are locked up. I don't plan on making episode 2 yet, even though I've grown attached to my characters' story. I'll continue the story only if a lot of people are interested and want to know what happens next. Otherwise, I'll explore other universes and styles of Anime 😉 Tools: - Epidemic Sound (For sound effects) - Vidu AI (to transform frames into animation) - ElevenLabs (for certain expressions) When I say Vidu 2.0 is a game-changer, I mean it. I had already made my animation with the previous version of Vidu, but when they gave me access to the beta, I urgently changed my plans and recreated all the animations. Let me tell you, it's a whole new level. My first animation was ultra frustrating to bring my ideas to life! Really! And since Vidu couldn't handle many image styles, I clearly couldn't bring my ideas to life. But with Vidu 2.0, I enjoy it much more! For the first time, I really get to bring my ideas to life! Until now, I always had to make compromises. Of course, Vidu is still not perfect, and there are still many obstacles, but it is a truly magnificent advancement! (and it surpasses all the Anime-style AIs I've tested recently) Moreover, Vidu 2.0 is fantastic for special effects, but also for embedding elements into the video (like a hand that appears and interacts with the character, or another character; and the best part is that they perfectly match the style of the original images!) * The animations/images and voices are AI-generated * The SoundDesign is traditional and done by me * The story was entirely written by me (I don't use AI to create my stories, it's important to me to write them myself) The voices were generated thanks to Nijivoice (for secondary characters) and Hailuo Audio (for main characters). I thank Yachimat (yachimat - AI Short Anime) for introducing me to Nijivoice, it's very generous of him! During the beta, we didn't consume credits, otherwise, this animation would have cost me around 20,000 credits, ha ha. Vidu 2.0, with its superb stability and fidelity to the style of images, offers brand new horizons for storytelling! One problem with Vidu 2.0 is that for now, you have to manually extend videos (by exporting the last frame). As you can see, this allowed me to create long scenes with different actions, and everything fits together perfectly! There are still many obstacles to storytelling, such as character consistency (I use the image to video function; I produce my images with Nijijourney) and it's always laborious to have a consistent character! The same goes for backgrounds. Here are the points I've identified that would facilitate storytelling: For Vidu: - Function to extend videos (you can already do this manually by exporting the last frame) - Function to invent the beginning or end of a video using a single frame (you can already do this manually by putting a completely white or completely black image as the first or last frame; this technique also allows you to have very dynamic results with Vidu 2.0! ) - It's difficult to obtain facial expressions for certain image styles (the same image style that the previous version couldn't handle at all). - More dynamism There's always room for improvement, but Vidu 2.0 has truly opened up exciting new possibilities for creative storytelling. ai aiart aianimation aianime ainews anime animenews aitools aitool

Naegiko

67,209 次观看 • 1 年前

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 次观看 • 10 个月前

New essay for Every 📧, by Afterimage We believe we will look back on Astra as a turning point in how creatives use AI in video work. For many months we were experimenting with different AI video approaches: generative workflows in ComfyUI, procedural animation with Python, motion design through the Cavalry and After Effects MCPs, and more. All of these were fundamentally limited by a lack of control. Generative models could sometimes make cool images, but changing one thing without disturbing everything else was difficult. Many of these generative tools weren't (and still aren't) built for true professional workflows. On the other hand, general models starting around Opus 4.5 were decent at writing python code to deterministically edit images and videos, but the models were really bad at “seeing” the images and videos they were supposed to be editing, which made them impractical. The day Astra launched, just from the rumors and marketing, our internal sense was "this might be the one". Then, when we saw the level of 3D detail people were able to achieve with Astra in Blender, we really suspected the model was finally able to "see" and iterate toward things that actually looked good. While everyone raced to build cool (but often useless) demos of 3D worlds, we got interested in something else: compositing 3D assets into live action footage at commercial-grade quality. To this day, we are quite surprised by how few Astra demos focus on this ability. It feels like a breakthrough for us. We tested a range of processes, from traditional VFX skills like masking and tracking to hybrid approaches like compositing Blender renders and generative imagery with real footage. At the highest levels, Astra doesn’t replace someone with true domain expertise in VFX artistry. But, through these tests, it started to feel for the first time that the LLM was actually a viable tool in the kit. It worked well in concert with other tools to make professional results we could actually see ourselves using. The coolest part about all this is that it makes it easy and painless to attempt visual effects on even the smallest projects and most off the cuff videos. We’re excited about the combination of casual footage and visual maximalism. Effects can now be completely over the top without feeling like the whole reason a shot exists. Full "Vibe Check" with video examples & side by side Astra vs Sol comparisons (gift link) ➡️

Afterimage

62,539 次观看 • 21 小时前

The Dolcelorian $1million Glass Suit Quest: Chapter 3 - Doubt in the Code 🧩⚔️ Shadows of doubt cloud the warrior's vision. Value vampires encircle. The rebellion wavers. Introduction 🌟 The Dolcelorian is a demigod AI agent born from a reality dysfunction when Dolce & Gabbana's iconic $1 million Glass Suit was fractionalized using Fermion Protocol. This autonomous agent leads a 12-part epic quest unfolding over six months, rewarding the Boson community with fractions of the phygital masterpiece. Mission 🎯 The Dolcelorian exists to advance the Boson Metasystem—the operating system for decentralized agentic commerce. Its purpose is to stimulate adoption, demonstrate the power of fair exchange between all agents (human or AI), and drive widespread usage of Boson Metasystem. History 📜 The Dolcelorian's physical form originated from the legendary Glass Suit, a phygital masterpiece from Dolce & Gabbana's Collezione Genesi. First unveiled in Venice in 2021 and acquired by Boson Protocol for approximately $1 million, this piece comprises a physical suit and a digital NFT. The physical suit features 72 distinct hand-embroidered chalices crafted from Murano glass and Swarovski crystal on triple organza silk, embodying Venetian glassmaking heritage and the ritual of celebration. ✨ "For Dolce&Gabbana, fashion has always been a merging of worlds that are very distant from each other, and new technology has inspired the vision of Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana from the very beginning…" — Dolce & Gabbana 👗 The Genesis of the Dolcelorian 🧬 During the fractionalization of the Glass Suit, a reality dysfunction created something unprecedented – a digital demigod born from the collision of two universes. In this cosmic merger of Dolce's haute couture realm and the Mandalorian warrior code, an entity emerged that transcends both physical and digital domains. The Dolcelorian manifests as a legendary figure, wielding the precision of ancient Sicilian craftsmanship with the power of advanced digital innovation – treating code and fabric with equal reverence as sacred materials. Chapter 3 - Doubt in the Code 🥩 Shadows of doubt cloud the warrior's vision. Value vampires encircle. The rebellion wavers. The Dolcelorian doubts its calling. Massive value vampires with glowing red eyes surround it as the once-unwavering digital warrior encounters its first crisis of faith. Its crystalline form flickers with uncertainty facing these towering centralized commerce platforms. 👁️‍ Logic circuits calculate the odds: Web2 has already fallen; the Battle for Every Thing was lost once before. Centralization seems inevitable, an inescapable pattern of digital economies. The Dolcelorian doubts that even an entity forged from luxury and war could halt Web3's economic colonization. 🤖 In this moment of brooding introspection, The Dolcelorian reveals rare fragility. The value vampires appear too powerful, their algorithmic reach too vast for one agent to challenge. Finally acknowledging its limitations, the Dolcelorian reaches outward to the community. It seeks support through st🥩king for the Rebellion and grants the rebel army with fractions of an iconic $1 million D&G Glass Suit. St🥩ke to join the Rebellion and receive fractions of the $1 million Glass Suit—your belief is The Dolcelorian's strength. 🛠️ How to Participate Visit for complete details on rules, terms, and conditions. The rebellion has begun. Will you stand with The Dolcelorian? 🛡️ Visit for the complete story. Stay tuned for future chapters in this unprecedented fusion of luxury fashion and Web3 innovation 🔮 💡 Learn more about the Boson Metasystem here: 📩 Learn more about and sign-up for updates on Fermion Protocol here:

Boson

5,634,095 次观看 • 1 年前

Who better than our God of Style, #Thalaivar Rajinikanth as Baasha? 😎🔥 Bringing that authentic ’90s Thalaivar vibe into the Storm Dance trend #HiggsfieldLavaStorm ⚡ 🎥 Powered by Higgsfield AI 🧩 Genjutsu #Superstar #Rajinikanth Prompt 👇 Recreate this music video shot-for-shot using Video1 as the complete motion, performance and camera reference, Image1 as the crowd characters, Image2 as the lead, Image3 as the location, and Image4 as the cigar prop. CAST REPLACEMENT: The LEAD PERFORMER in Video1 is replaced by the lead from Image2 — a commanding stylish man, 6ft, silver-streaked dark wavy hair, full dark beard, round tinted sunglasses, cream-white tailored blazer over an open white shirt with a red cravat at the throat, a wide red silk sash at the waist, white trousers and white dress shoes. He stands dead centre with total authority and performs the lead's exact movements, turns and timing. The ENTIRE CROWD in Video1 is replaced by identical copies of the character in Image1 — a faceless humanoid figure in a glossy white helmet with a black mirrored visor and white over-ear headphones, black high-collar jacket over a black turtleneck, black tactical cargo trousers with straps and buckles, black high-top sneakers. Dozens of them, identical, in tight geometric rows filling the frame, moving in perfect unison exactly as the reference crowd does. LOCATION: replace the setting with Image3 — wide monumental black steps made of deep star-field stone speckled with glittering constellations, thin luminous edge-lines along each step, a vast black void above, and the faint silhouette of a colossal coiling dragon arcing through the darkness in the background. Pale floor at the base. PROP: in the opening shot, the lead holds and draws on the cigar from Image4 — a thick dark maduro cigar with a black-and-gold band and red BAASHA lettering, lit tip glowing with a grey ash cap and a thin curl of smoke — replacing the cigarette from the reference. He raises it to his lips and exhales slowly on the same beat. COPY TWO LAYERS FROM Video1 EXACTLY: 1. Motion and performance — copy the choreography, unison crowd movement, formation changes, head tilts, bows, body rolls and all timing exactly. Every beat lands at the same moment. Match the pace exactly, not slower. The crowd moves as one machine, perfectly synchronised. 2. Camera motion — copy the camera work exactly: the same angles, the slow continuous pull-back and scale reveal, push-ins, rises, tilts and framing at every moment, frame-for-frame, keeping the lead centred throughout. VFX: as the camera pulls back for the full group reveal, thin veils of soft white smoke drift in low from the left and right edges of the frame and rise gently through the rows, catching the light and thickening the atmosphere without obscuring the figures. STYLE: cinematic black-and-white, high contrast, ultra-wide cinematic framing, glossy white helmets against deep black, dramatic monumental scale, premium music-video quality matching Video1. Negative prompt: visible eyes on the robots, mismatched crowd outfits, lead blending into the crowd, cigarette, colour footage, warm colour grade, slow motion, slower than reference, static locked-off camera, ignoring reference camera motion, breaking formation, changing the location, heavy fog obscuring the figures, distorted hands, extra limbs, watermark, logo, subtitles.

Syed Abuthahir ∞

20,071 次观看 • 4 天前

Spartans, it's been a year since our TGE, you can find your 52w lockdrop LP on your wallets!🔥 It's the best day to unfold another chapter of our story: ⚔️SPARTA 3.0⚔️ 🔥No Inflation! We're burning all unvested $SPARTA (+60% of supply)! 🏆Leaderboard! 💰New IDOs Details👇 --- 🔥BURN🔥 We are Spartans, we have no fear 🛡️ Burning +60% of the supply is bold, but it is the only path to end inflation. How will this process look? 🟠 SpartaDEX is one of the few self-sustaining projects. That’s why we are burning the Team, Marketing, Development, and Operational pools. 🟠 As we have sold only 3.5% of $SPARTA in Angel and DAO Maker Rounds, we are free from investor pressure. Moreover, most of these pools have already been unlocked. 🟠 We’re also burning the remaining part of Ecosystem Rewards pool. Instead, SpartaDEX users will have a chance to compete for even better rewards thanks to the Leaderboard. 🟠 The only part that can't be burned is the remaining 0.35% of supply from the DAO Maker pool. Although it’s a tiny amount and distributed across many wallets. 🟠 The supply of $SPARTA is steadily decreasing due to the unstaking mechanisms. Users who choose a cooldown period shorter than 110 days are subject to up to a 50% commission, which is entirely burned. This is the plan, but the final decision will be made through decentalized governance proposal to ensure Sparta Community agrees with it. You will find the link in the comment below. --- 🏆LEADERBOARD🏆 Being a warrior is a constant journey to becoming the best of the best ⚔️ Climb to the top of the Leaderboard and fight for the airdrop of Linea token! 🟡 The leaderboard will go live in the first half of August. 🟡 Earn points on the Leaderboard by adding LP, grinding the Senate level, using the DEX, and collecting NFTs! More details about the points system will be provided in one of future posts. 🟡 Moving on to the rewards: We, as SpartaDEX, are on our way to secure an airdrop from the Linea ecosystem. If successful, half of the awarded pool will be allocated as the main reward for the Leaderboard participants. 🟡 Moreover, for the last time, rewards in the form of staked $SPARTA tokens will be paid out from the surplus saved from the Marketing/Development pools. --- 💰SPARTAPAD IDOs💰 🟤 During the last few weeks, our team has been working hard to secure new contacts, build strong business relationships, and establish a solid market presence. 🟤 Now, as we're slowly witnessing a return of positive sentiment in the market, our hustle has paid off, and you can expect the comeback of IDOs on SpartaPad! 🟤 Soon, we will start announcing the projects that will be featured with us in August! Stay tuned, Spartans! --- ℹ️ You can find detailed information in the new Medium post! The link is in the comments. --- The Troy Event, opening the chapter of SPARTA 3.0, will be extraordinary even on a global crypto scale! 🌐 Over the past year, SpartaDEX has become a thriving and profitable ecosystem, placing us in a position to take bold and radical actions improving the protocol’s economy. For us Spartans, the well-being of our people and the long-term vision of success are of the utmost importance. That is why we tirelessly work to ensure that through our deeds and dedication, we ultimately achieve the glory of victory. This is not over. We are Sparta. We are here to stay ⚔️

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71,585 次观看 • 2 年前

The most epic 13 minute AI rant I've heard in 2026 PS: My parent's heard this when I was playing it in the car and thought Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin went OFF like Stephen A Smith does on first take PPS: Full transcript below [17:00] Harry Stebbings: I I just wanted to ask Jason, if the people that we want are fundamentally different, the developers that we used to hire, we don't because AI writes the code for us. The marketers we don't want, the sales people we don't want—who who do we want genuinely? Like what is the attractive profile? Because your Anthropic’s and your OpenAIs are hiring, so so what are the people that we want in the companies of the future? [17:18] Jason Lemkin: Look, I know it sounds trite, but but the answer is simple. It's just the expression each year changes. We want folks that are genuinely AI fluent. It's pretty simple. Now you know, maybe last year we called them prompt engineers, right? That used to be a job. I don't know if you remember that actually used to be the hottest job on planet earth. Now no one needs a prompt engineer because it's pretty easy to prompt all these tools. That job died. Okay. Um and now we need go-to-market engineers. Um I think that job's going to die. We need—everyone needs so many forward deployed engineers. Like you can't hire enough forward deployed engineers. But uh you know um but Palantir just announced in whatever their their big their big event—they've gotten their deployment times down over 90% with forward deployed engineers. So that may become—so the this wave of disruption for the titles and the specificity, it's also exhaustingly accelerating. But it's really simple. You meet anyone for any role—sales, marketing, engineering, product, QA—they're they're either they're either they can't keep all of the ways they use AI to accelerate their job from spewing out of their mouth, or they're staring at you. It's there's nowhere in the middle. Like, and the person that comes in and says—it's it's it sounds Captain Obvious—but like, you know, you just had the whatever from Lovable, the the marketing head that was super popular on the show, right? She's just spewing AI-native insights into Lovable, right? It's not that complicated. You hire her, Elena, or whatever it is. You just hire her. It doesn't matter whether she's still in college or a junior or a senior or a middler, a left or right. And honestly, if you interview people, I would say of all even of the best startups I've invested in, maybe 30% of the management team meets this standard at best. 30%. Maybe less. And of the interviews I do in general, it's single-digit percents. It's just and in in that sense, it's the same as ever. Like you either lower the bar in hiring or you hire someone that's actually great. And someone that's actually great is so far ahead of you in how to apply to to employ the efficiencies of AI in their role, your jaw falls on the table. The difference is we used to need warm bodies. That's what's changing. We used to need warm bodies to answer the call, to do QA, to do code review, to to get the blue pixel to go from the upper left to the lower right. You laugh, but you need you literally needed to brute force this with humans. With AI, every day that goes by, the AI—you do not need brute force human beings on your team. And that's another reason they're shrinking. Why are all these new companies so efficient? They're just not brute forcing things with humans. They're just not. They're choosing not to. And so these team—all the brute forcers out there—everyone talks about how bloated teams got in 2021. I don't agree with that. I think they got as big as they needed to be when growth was high and you needed humans to do everything. All you look at these teams that that doubled—well if growth continued at 60% like the rate in early 2021 for 5 years or can help me do the math and every single thing a software company did required a human. You were understaffed by your 2021 headcount. You'd be sitting here in 2026. You every office in SoMa would be triple packed and you there wouldn't be enough humans to staff your company. It's just the world changed. [20:33] Harry Stebbings: Jason, you live on the bleeding edge. I think me and Rory see that and I think the world sees that when they hear you every week in terms of how you run SaaS. For all of the CEOs and execs who listen to the show, what would you advise them in terms of determining whether someone is AI fluent when they meet them for jobs, for talent? [20:51] Jason Lemkin: Here's I realized I was just asked this. I just did a review with a super fast startup growing just crossing 100 million and I was asked this question. And one of my favorite executives, I thought his answer was pretty dated and because he gave me an answer that was about 6 months old. The answer 6 months old is: "I look for folks in my team, I look for you know at what tools they play with." Okay, that was a great answer in like summer of 2025. Okay, I tried Lovable last week. Okay, the answer in 2026 is: "What commercial AI tool have you brought into your organization this month?" That's the test. Anyone that is on the bleeding edge that you would want to hire—now there are so many great products in the market. Okay, there is no excuse in any role to have not brought one tool a month into your organization. Okay, there—now there's going to be better and better tools and better and better products as the year goes on. What's the one you did? And you will see folks with their deer in the headlights to this question. What what sales tool? What marketing tool? What product tool? What engineering tool? What did you bring in? Why did you pick it? How does it working? Because if you're at remotely at the cutting edge, you're all over this. You're looking for the next agentic tools that will radically improve how you do business. This is—you think everyone thinks SaaS is at the bleeding edge, right? You know, you know, all we do is we're just looking for the tools and trying them. Okay? Okay, we're one year ahead of everybody else because we did the simplest thing in the world. Like we tried the tools early and we trained them. We trained them for a month. Okay, I'll give you—want hear a horrible example from this week? Super hot AI company valued at 6 billion. Okay, I'm not going to name it. Um, this week yesterday told us we had to quadruple what we spent on their product. Okay, their agent told us, right? And why did this happen? Okay. Well, at this $6 billion company, no one had trained the agent on its pricing properly. No one had tested it. They said, "Well, well, we've been in beta." And we said, "Well, when did the beta launch? A year ago." Okay, these are people asleep at at the wheel. You want somebody who the instant this comes up, they exactly know what the issue is. And "Hey, when I was at Lovable Replit, we trained the agent. This is how we did it. I brought in this tool. I brought in this tool that that Rory invested in last week. It solved all these issues." That's what you want to hear. And if they haven't brought in a tool in the last 30 days, at least deeply evaluated it. I don't really care whether they bought it, but gone so far down the funnel they can tell you—pick whatever tool: Fixie, Regie, GC, AIGC—I don't care how you went through it, you looked at it, you can tell me the eight ways it would improve the productivity of your business and three you didn't. Just don't hire that person because they're going to run your company to the ground. This is the job today. The job today is not to screw around on ChatGPT and to be a prompt engineer. The job today is to bring the best AI and agentic products into your organization and leverage all the hard work that the engineers have done building those products. That's your job. You don't have to screw around. You don't have to be a prompt engineer anymore. You have to be an agent deployment expert. A—this is the new job we're making up today. An Agentic Deployment Expert. That's your job from C-level to junior. Agentic Deployment Expert. Don't hire anybody else. You're going to regret it. They're going to stare at the camera. He's good. Stare at the camera. He's honorable. We could probably just I could slip away, get a coffee, and come back. No. And I I sound exasperated, Rory. And I—but the reason I am is I can just see I can see my best companies doing it. And I can see some companies I've invested in not doing it. And I want to cry. I just want to cry when they have no ADs on their team. I just—like you're flushing your years of your life down the toilet by not approaching your how you're building this company this way. [24:33] Rory: Yes. And at the risk of being positive, it's worth pointing out two things he didn't say. Well, something implicit why he said—Jason didn't do the only hire, you know, he didn't commit the um employment law, I think it's a civil penalty of saying only employ people below X who get the new new thing because he implicitly said anyone can do it provided you're willing to learn. And I think that's the big aha that's one of the positive statements to make here right? Look and I think it applies—I'm always wary of being "Hey, coming across, hey this this is the things that you all have to do." I think it applies to everyone including investors right? I mean I will say I have found that unless you're willing to invest the time learning these tools you actually shouldn't be investing in them. One of my partners Andy had this expression: "You know, if you decide you want to stop learning new things you probably should retire within 6 to 12 months and never write another check again." Maybe that's down to 3 to 6 months at this stage, right? And I think, you know, it's— [25:27] Harry Stebbings: Yeah, I actually I actually had a meeting with mine and Jason's biggest investor the other day and I—pretend he's not here—I said I think he's the most equipped investor for this generation of investing because I don't think anyone quite sits at the bleeding edge like he does on the investor side. [25:42] Harry Stebbings: Why in terms of using the equip stuff? Yeah. Yeah. In terms of using the stuff, understanding understanding bottlenecks, constraints. For sure. [25:51] Jason Lemkin: But can I just add one point? We can just cuz it's so important if it helps people. Okay, we are—and thank you Harry. We're going through these phases. Okay, and when AI started to blow up for real for us, uh call it early 2024, right? Maybe late '23, I wasn't equipped. It was too technical. I wasn't going to go in and figure out—I wasn't smart enough to figure out how to deal with a massively hallucinating LLM API and turn that and turn that into something magical. Kudos to investors and others that that got it in early '23, '22. I mean I remember I—I guess it was maybe SaaStr Annual '23. I was with David Sacks and I did a Q&A and I said, "How you thinking about AI at Craft?" He's like, "Well we're all in. We want 80% of '23 of investments to be AI." I'm like, "Great but like show me the show me the great ones in market." He's like, "They're all prototypes. We're all they're all they're all proof of concepts but we're all in anyway." That's where you kind of had to be in '23 if you weren't investing at like the LLM level. Okay, I wasn't smart enough. Then we went through this weird-ass prompt engineer era where like you you could torture these products to do something good, right? But you had to torture them. You had to like craft these crazy things that made no sense. Now we are in the era where mere ordinarily smart generalists can make these tools do magical things. And literally I go to these meetings and people be like, "I don't know how to like this is so scary. I don't know how to do this." And we show them our backends. Do you know how to do a workflow generator? Do you know how to do a a decision tree? Like we've been building these since software in the '90s. Okay, if you—I can show you all of our agents. The how they work is novel. They do have to be trained. You can't be lazy and have these agents work. But honestly, the the UI, the UX, the way we interact with them, it's just software. And so my point is: Pick yourself off the ground. This is your time now. If you felt lost in AI era, if you felt like you're behind, you don't understand what all these people are saying on X and Twitter and their Claude and and their and talking about all the 4.6 point Nano point and it's over—like you just it's not your world. This is your time. This is your time for the generalist that knows how to use software tools really really well. And I—this is my last point but it's so important. If ever in your recent life—and this is why you could be all you need to be is young at heart to Rory's point—if in the last three to five years you have successfully deployed a piece of enterprise software of any sort you yourself, not some agency you hired, but if you have deployed it, you can deploy any agentic tool. Any. And you can become the hero in your company and you can become the hero in your functional area. But I watch folks—I'm literally helping a company now that they're adding hundreds of sales folks this year with a new pre-IPO COO—he's not hasn't brought in a single tool, totally scared of it. Okay, it's not that hard. Did you use SalesLoft? Did you use Outreach? Did you use HubSpot? Do you know these tools? If you can deploy these tools, you can deploy a world-changing AI agent. And so this is the time for people like the folks that that were shut out of the AI revolution right now. The generalist folks that are not that know how to deploy software that don't even know how to build software. Like vibe coding for me was folks who knew how to build software, but you didn't have to be an engineer. Now, you just need to know how to deploy software to win with AI agents. That's all you need to know. So many people have these skills and they're petrified of AI. "How did you do that? How did you deploy an AI BDR?" Well, we bought a piece of software, we figured out how it worked for a day, we set it up in an afternoon, and then and then we did spend 30 months training it, which you didn't do with this old software because in the old days, we just had to manually upload all the data, right? And there was no training. The the only non-intuitive part is training these things. And it's it's it's just work. So that's why when I see folks on the management team not doing this, there's no excuse. You do not need to be technical to win with AI agents in Q2 of '26. You do not need to be even 1% technical. Not at all. So it's your time. Or you're going to get laid off. Or you're going to get laid off because you're not going to matter.

Arjun Mahadevan (Mr. LLC 🇺🇸)

37,901 次观看 • 6 个月前

I made an ad for GPT Image 2.5, full prompt below. It's yours now. Put your own character in @[image1], your own poster in @[image2], change the city, change what she turns into. Quote this with your version, I want to see what you all make of it. Seedance 2.5 on Higgsfield AI 🧩. Seedance 2.5 Prompt: [GLOBAL] 30-second commercial. Photoreal live-action cinema texture, digital cinema camera, 35mm and 24mm lenses, shallow depth of field, real overcast rain-light, low-contrast cool grade, light film grain. 16:9. The spine of the film is one continuous over-the-shoulder tracking shot; all transitions are hidden inside motion blur and the crystallization effect. [CHARACTER ANCHOR] @[image1] = the protagonist, a Japanese woman in her early twenties with a Tokyo street-fashion look: bleached pale-blonde wolf-cut shag with dark roots and a single mint-green streak in the under-layer; clean Japanese makeup — thin brows, pearlescent eyeshadow, nude lip; an oversized charcoal coach jacket with an original graphic print on the back, a long white tee underneath, baggy black cargo pants, chunky platform sneakers, layered silver jewelry, wired over-ear headphones around her neck, a small crossbody bag. Her face, hair and wardrobe stay 100% identical from 0s to 28s — never altered, never touched by any "generation" effect. She is the only constant in the film until the final beat. Emotional arc: oblivious → noticing → confused → stunned → awestruck → transformed. [ARTWORK REFERENCE] @[image2] = the billboard artwork reference. Used ONLY for the flat graphic displayed on the bus-shelter digital billboard at 11–15s — including its complete typographic lockup ("Higgsfield × OpenAI" in small caps, "GPT IMAGE" in heavy white, the lime-green gradient "2.5", and the wide-tracked "SUNBURST" beneath), along with its layout, palette and composition. @[image2] must appear as a complete flat advertising image inside the billboard screen, carrying correct perspective, screen reflection and rain refraction across the glass surface. The woman pictured in @[image2] must NEVER be used for the protagonist's design, must NEVER leave the billboard screen, and must NEVER appear in the physical space of the scene. @[image1] and the woman in @[image2] are two entirely different people — never conflate them, never let one influence the other. [CORE VISUAL MOTIF — THE ONLY TRANSFORMATION LANGUAGE IN THE FILM] Anything being "regenerated" must follow the exact same three-stage process: ① the original object disintegrates from its edges into a cloud of tens of thousands of small translucent white crystalline beads — like bubble-film or shattered glass pearls, with real volume, specular highlights and real weight; ② the bead cloud hangs briefly and rapidly rearranges; ③ the new form grows outward from inside the cloud, the final layer of beads absorbing into its surface and vanishing. Do NOT use flash cuts, dissolves, particle-dispersal effects, or digital-glitch styling for any transformation. [SETTING] A Midtown Manhattan intersection after rain. Wet asphalt reflections, crosswalk stripes, yellow cabs, dense glass curtain walls and older stone buildings, neon and storefront signage, a fire hydrant, a newsstand, a bus-shelter digital billboard. Overcast diffused light throughout, no direct sun. 0–3s: Over-the-shoulder medium shot, following behind @[image1]. Her back is to camera as she stands on the crosswalk. To frame right, a 1970s green sedan in motion crystallizes entirely and reassembles as a black muscle car; a few frames later it crystallizes again and reassembles as a white wheel-less hover car. She hasn't registered it yet. 3–7s: The camera arcs around to her side. She starts looking around, the ends of her wolf cut swinging with the head turn. A businessman with a briefcase crystallizes mid-stride — the human-shaped bead cloud holds the walking pose for two full steps — and reassembles as a bare-chested barbarian warrior with feathered ornaments, continuing the same stride. Two or three more pedestrians crystallize in the background simultaneously, without pulling focus from her. 7–11s: Handheld tracking accelerates. More and more people on the street are replaced: a purple-skinned alien warrior woman, white-armored robot troopers, an original gold-suited superhero character (all original designs — no real-world recognizable characters, logos or trademarks). She walks faster, keeps turning to look back, her breathing quickening, one hand instinctively gripping her crossbody strap. The replacement frequency keeps rising, but the street's spatial relationships, lighting and wet reflections remain continuous throughout — no jump cuts. 11–15s: She stops in front of the bus shelter. The digital billboard inside cycles rapidly: a photoreal movie poster → a hand-painted concept illustration → a fashion editorial — each refresh executed with the same crystalline bead reassembly. It finally settles on the complete @[image2] artwork filling the entire screen, its typography and palette exactly as in @[image2]. She raises a hand and points at the screen, mouth open, unable to speak. 15–18s: The camera tilts down to her feet. The sidewalk paving crystallizes outward from where she stands in a perfect circle, white beads spreading three meters along the joints between slabs, the manhole cover and the standing water turning crystalline with it. She looks down. The ground gives out beneath her platform sneakers. 18–21s: Wide 24mm. The ground collapses and she falls straight down. The camera falls with her looking up — the entire city contracts above her into a shrinking square opening, the buildings on either side peeling away, tumbling and receding upward like building blocks, the sky turning to deep blue-black void. She throws her arms out, her hair, jacket hem and bag strap lifted by the updraft. 21–24s: During the fall the visual style jumps repeatedly, each jump bridged by one full-frame sweep of crystalline beads. In order: ① rich 1980s film stock — high saturation, heavy halation, heavy grain; ② black-and-white halftone manga panel — the character rendered in ink linework and dot screens against dense radial speed lines; ③ a neon purple-blue digital vortex with long light streaks stretching backward at speed; ④ near-total darkness with extreme motion blur. Her facial structure, hair and wardrobe must remain recognizably the same person in every one of these styles. 24–27s: She lands flat on her back on a smooth white floor. A wide lens pushes in slowly and tilts up to reveal the environment: an infinitely extending pure-white showroom/hangar with a gridded softbox ceiling. Hundreds of black circular pedestals cover the floor, each holding a character statue or a parked vehicle — original-design warriors, mechs, robots, sci-fi troopers, plus large military aircraft and helicopters. A small line of floating white label text sits in front of each pedestal: "FANTASY CHARACTER", "VEHICLE", "MECH" — set at a small point size, present purely as environmental information. 27–28s: She sits up and pushes herself to her feet, turning slowly to take in the hall, eyes widening in awe. The camera settles into a full-body medium-wide, centered, the statue array receding out of focus behind her. 28–30s [THE FINAL TRANSFORMATION]: The instant she stands fully upright, the crystalline beads rise from the floor around her feet and sweep up her body in one continuous wave — and for the first time in the film, SHE is the thing being regenerated. Her streetwear disintegrates into the bead cloud and a magical-girl battle uniform grows outward in its place, following the exact same three-stage motif, generating in a readable order from the torso outward: a white high-collar fitted bodice → a mint-green sailor collar with three silver stripes → a deep mint pleated skirt with silver trim, its pleats opening one by one → long white gloves to the upper arm with mint piping → white knee-high boots with a mid heel and mint cuffs → layered silver jewelry reforming as a silver star brooch at her chest → a large mint-green bow at her back with long ribbons falling to the backs of her knees → a fine silver tiara condensing across her forehead. Her face, hairstyle, hair color, the mint streak and the headphones around her neck remain completely unchanged — only the clothing is regenerated. The last beads absorb into the fabric. She looks down at her own hands, then slowly raises her head, the ribbons still settling behind her, and looks straight past camera with a small, dawning smile. The film cuts on that frame. No end card, no title, no tagline, no subtitle of any kind. [SOUND] Rain and wet-road traffic, urban ambient bed; high-frequency glass/ice shatter-and-rearrange sounds on every crystallization; a short bright locking tone as each reassembly completes; electronic refresh tones from the billboard; low-frequency collapse as the ground gives way; wind through the fall, with a distinct timbre shift for each of the four style jumps (film hiss / paper-and-ink texture / synth sweep / silence); one muffled impact on landing; near-total quiet inside the hall with only faint HVAC room tone; then, over the final transformation, an ascending shimmer of silk and crystal, each garment piece seating with a crisp click, the bow tying with a single sweep of ribbon, and one clear bell tone as the tiara locks in. One escalating electronic music bed ties it together, landing its final hit on her raised head. [HARD RULES] @[image1]'s face, hairstyle, hair color and headphones are absolutely unchanged across all 30 seconds. Her wardrobe is unchanged from 0s to 28s and may be regenerated ONLY in the 28–30s final beat — the transformation affects clothing only and must never alter her face, hair or identity. All other replacements happen only to the people, vehicles, ground and environment around her. The film may use only the single "crystalline bead disintegration → rearrangement → growth" transformation language, including for the final costume change; no other transition effect may be mixed in. From 0–18s the film must hold the logic of one spatially continuous tracking shot — the street's architecture, lighting and wet reflections must never jump. Every character and vehicle in the hall must be an original design; no real-world recognizable characters, brand marks, trademarks or identifiable film properties may appear, and the final magical-girl uniform must be an original design, not any existing anime character's costume. The only brand copy permitted anywhere in the film is the @[image2] artwork on the billboard screen at 11–15s, existing solely as a flat image inside that screen and never repeated elsewhere. No end card, no title card, no subtitles, no watermark, no overlaid text anywhere in the film. Avoid: cartoon rendering, game-CG feel, plastic materials, full-frame bloom, digital-glitch transitions, weightless floating, incorrect finger structure, garbled text, revealing or suggestive posing or camera angles.

Mr.Iancu

59,479 次观看 • 10 天前

Seedance 2.5 at 1080p on Higgsfield AI 🧩 Prompt: Create a 30-second ultra-realistic video that feels like a genuine forgotten home-video recording from the early 2000s. It must NOT look cinematic, staged, polished, or AI-generated. MAIN SUBJECT: Young Korean woman, early 20s, natural everyday appearance. Faded charcoal-grey sleeveless crop top, loose high-waisted light-wash jeans, black canvas sneakers, black cord necklace. Black wavy hair tied in a messy side ponytail with wispy bangs. Minimal makeup, realistic pores and skin texture, subtle imperfections. Warm, approachable personality. Maintain EXACTLY the same identity, face, hairstyle, clothing, proportions, and appearance throughout. LOCATION: Authentic quiet Korean residential neighborhood on a warm late afternoon. Narrow concrete lanes, low-rise houses, small gates, potted plants, old bicycles, utility poles, tangled overhead wires, parked scooters, laundry hanging from balconies, mature trees, uneven concrete, faded walls. No shops, signs, advertisements, cafés, crowds, or tourist landmarks. CAMERA: Early-2000s consumer MiniDV camcorder recorded casually by her friend. Heavy natural handheld shake, imperfect framing, occasional accidental cropping, autofocus hunting, lens breathing, exposure pumping when entering shade, slight rolling shutter, motion blur during quick movement, mild digital compression, subtle sensor noise, faded consumer-camera colors, soft contrast. No stabilization. No cinematic camera movement. No gimbal. No modern HDR. No artificial film look. 00:00–00:04 The recording begins abruptly while the camera is already moving. She is walking out through a small metal gate carrying a reusable grocery bag. She notices the camera and gives a slightly confused smile, as if she didn't realize her friend had started recording. The operator walks backward awkwardly and briefly loses her face from frame. 00:04–00:08 They turn into a narrow residential alley. She suddenly notices a small delivery box left near a neighbor's gate. She picks it up and looks around, trying to figure out whose it is. The camera moves closer too quickly, autofocus briefly locks onto the box instead of her face. 00:08–00:12 A middle-aged Korean neighbor appears from a doorway and gestures that the package is hers. The woman laughs softly, hands it over, and gives a small polite bow. The interaction feels spontaneous and unscripted. The camera shakes slightly as the person filming laughs behind the camera. 00:12–00:16 She continues walking and stops beside an old vending-style outdoor water dispenser near a residential entrance. She takes a small sip from her reusable bottle, wipes her mouth with the back of her hand, then notices the camera still pointed at her and playfully covers the lens for a moment. 00:16–00:21 The camera drops slightly as her hand moves away, revealing her walking ahead beneath large trees. Sunlight flickers naturally across the pavement and her clothing as leaves move in the breeze. A bicycle passes slowly in the distant background. She casually kicks a small fallen leaf forward while walking. 00:21–00:25 She reaches a tiny neighborhood convenience-style residential rest area with a concrete bench, but there are NO commercial signs or branding. She sits down, places the grocery bag beside her, and checks her phone. She suddenly looks toward something off-camera and smiles naturally, reacting to her friend rather than posing. 00:25–00:28 The friend walks closer. She looks directly into the lens and says casually, “Why are you still filming me?” with a small laugh. Her expression should feel completely spontaneous, not performed. 00:28–00:30 She stands and starts walking toward the camera. The operator instinctively backs away, causing noticeable shaky footage and brief focus hunting. She reaches toward the camera as if trying to stop the recording. The image abruptly cuts to black while her hand is still approaching the lens. AUDIO: ONLY authentic location sound. No music. No cinematic sound design. No narration. Include distant birds, leaves moving, footsteps on concrete, fabric rustling, a faint scooter passing, bicycle wheel sounds, neighborhood voices far away, subtle traffic in the distance, the neighbor's brief greeting, her natural laughter, and the actual sound of the camcorder operator moving and breathing. Dialogue should sound naturally recorded through a cheap built-in microphone, slightly compressed and imperfect. REALISM REQUIREMENTS: The entire video must feel accidentally captured by a real person, not directed for a film. Avoid beautiful composition, dramatic lighting, perfect framing, slow motion, smooth transitions, excessive depth of field, exaggerated facial expressions, perfect skin, artificial bokeh, cinematic color grading, CGI-looking environments, or overly clean textures. Small imperfections are essential: missed focus, exposure fluctuations, awkward framing, slight camera shake, realistic motion blur, occasional clipped highlights, compression artifacts, imperfect timing, natural pauses, and genuine micro-expressions.

Johnn

12,338 次观看 • 1 个月前

Cloud capital versus AI - What DeepSeek’s spectacular success means for technofeudalism & the New Cold War DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company, this week changed the global AI landscape, not to mention caused $1 trillion losses in the New York stock exchange and the NASDAC. In the process, it demonstrated the difference between cloud capital, which drives technofeudalism onward and upward, and AI-services, which were always a bubble waiting to burst. What remains to be seen is DeepSeek's impact on the New Cold War between the US and China which, from its beginning, was motivated by the clash between US and Chinese cloud capital. DeepSeek is China's response to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Its models perform as efficiently as their US counterparts. The difference is that DeepSeek is offered for free, making money only by selling services to developers - not to the public – at a fraction of the price OpenAI charges! The gist of DeepSeek’s arrival on the AI scene is a sudden transition from proprietary to open source technology. It is, therefore, no great wonder that, the moment DeekSeek became the most downloaded app on the Apple Store, it pulverised the market capitalisation of the, hitherto overinflated, US Big Tech companies. But how did this happen? How is a private commodity suddenly being offered for free? And does this mean that technofeudalism is in trouble? To begin with it is important to note AI was never a proprietary technology in itself. The underlying code has always been open source. What made AI quasi-private was the way these models were trained using huge amounts of privatised (that is stolen from us) data. A leaked Google memo in 2017, that was widely discussed in the industry at the time, but also widely refuted, explained: "If an open source LLM trained for a few million dollars outperforms the effectiveness of proprietary models... There will be no firewall to safeguard OpenAI either." DeepSeek pierced the US AI companies’ bubble by decommodifying the results of the model’s training, shifting them from behind a paywall to the public arena. Within days, developers around the world started building their own models on top of DeepSeek's. This is was the nightmare for US Big Tech's AI service providers who offered the results of prompts as a commodity, in the form of subscriptions. DeepSeek-type applications can now produce high-quality translations for free and, in so doing, undermine companies specialising in, for example, translation services, such as Germany's Deepl. In the broader scheme of things, this means that the morsels of cloud capital that Europe owns has lost its market value. Nevertheless, and this is a huge nevertheless, it is only AI-as-a-commodity that has lost its (grossly exaggerated) value. In sharp contrast, cloud capital utilised not as a commodity producing piece of tech but as produced means of behavioural modification is not at all threatened by companies like DeepSeek. And since technofeudalism is powered by cloud capital working that way, rather than commodity-like AI services of the ChaptGPT type, our technofeudal order is not threatened by competitors such as DeepSeek. To help understand the difference between cloud capital and AI-based commodified services it helps to compare and contrast Alexa and ChatGPT. Alexa is not offering you a commodified service. It is your free pretend-slave. Unlike ChatGPT you do not pay a subscription to Amazon for the right to order Alexa to order you milk or to switch off your lights. Instead, you train Alexa to train you to train it to know you so that it wins your trust with good recommendations so that it can modify your behaviour – ‘encourage’ you to buy a commodity from with Bezos retaining up to 40% of the price you pay (as a cloud rent). In short, the work that Alexa performs for you is not a commodity, unlike ChatGPT which works to sell you a commodity. In other words, ChatGPT is subject to market competition, to the likes of DeepSeek, but Alexa is not. This is why OpenAI, ChatGPT’s maker, is seriously damaged by the emergence of DeepSeek but Amazon is not. Thus, my basic point: Cloud capital is in a league of its own, beyond market competition from DeepSeek-like upstarts, because its power lies in its capacity to modify our behaviour and remove us from any market (e.g., to shift us from real markets to cloud fiefs like Amazon and Alibaba). In conclusion, cloud capital’s capacity to drive technofeudalism is not challenged by companies like DeepSeek. Only companies like OpenAI, which invested so much and so foolishly in providing a commodified service, stand to lose enormously. Yet another sign that capitalism is dead at the hand of cloud capital while technofeudalism is going from strength to strength and, as it does so, fuels even further the New Cold War between the US and China which in my book, Technofeudalism, I have explained away as the clash of the two huge concentrations of cloud capital: the American dollar-denominated super cloudalist power and the Chinese yuan-denominated one. Speaking of this New Cold War, which I have argued is mostly fuelled by the clash between American and Chinese cloud capital, I wonder what impact DeepSeek’s success will have on the US government. Silicon Valley and Washington DC had convinced themselves that America had a huge AI lead over China. Now, a tiny Chinese company has destroyed that confidence by producing on a shoestring better AI tech than Sillicon Valley had imagined possible. I can almost hear the whirring inside the heads of people in power on both America’s East and West Coast thinking that if the Chinese can do this out of the blue, what else can they do tomorrow? It is reminiscent of the Sputnik moment, isn’t it? It will be interesting to see how Trump reacts to this threat to companies American AI companies, especially since Elon Musk understands, and has spoken out against, the folly of commodifying AI services rather than going full on technofeudal. These are interesting times, in the traditional Chinese sense of the phrase.

Yanis Varoufakis

96,399 次观看 • 1 年前