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Bastian Lehmann 🇺🇸
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Bastian Lehmann 🇺🇸

@Basti
Co-founder of Postmates (acquired by Uber) and Serve Robotics ($SERV). Now building a computer at Mother.

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    We believe in open source local AI. We are building a powerful & personal computer that runs local AI models and agents extremely fast. We are hiring in Mountain View. We believe good things start in a garage. We are Mother 👇🖥️
  • Finally someone else gets it. Glad it's Mitchell.
    I've never had a case on any iPhone, I've never cracked a screen or broken the phone. People used to say "oh wait until you have kids." Well, I have a couple now, and one is 3. No problems, clearly a skill issue. No cases for me, using the device as it was intended by design.
  • We’re ending our partnership with Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX. Under our proposal, Cursor’s direct access to our models would end on November 12. We know that the people most affected by this decision are the developers who rely on OpenAI models in Cursor. We care
  • If you are eating this chicken the very last thing you should worry about is the hot plastic bag it comes in.
    Dear Costco, many of us don’t want to eat a chicken that’s been sitting in a hot plastic bag all day. If we can afford to buy your $80 packs of steaks, we can afford to pay 20 cents more for a chicken in a cardboard box.
    Readers added context
    Costco timestamps its rotisserie chickens and pulls them from hot holding after 2 hours max. Unsold ones are repurposed into deli items like soup, salad and pot pies. They do not sit all day. rd.com/article/costco…mobilecontent.costco.com/live/resource/…
  • Replying to @DarioAmodei
    You have literally said in just one essay, The Adolescence of Technology: "the single most serious national security threat we’ve faced in a century, possibly ever.” -The Adolescence of Technology (citing a hypothetical report) “Humanity needs to wake up.” “there is some risk
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