last month i joined @anthropicai to work on new models. it's a truly peculiar place, a strange mix of intense startup and college campus. the more you want to do, the more you’re allowed to do. the more impact you want, the more leverage you’re given. very surprising, and a little bit terrifying AI feels like a railway being built to somewhere - maybe nowhere yet, but cities are already forming along its route. not all inventions are equal. the telescope may have been about a crispier sky, but ultimately it gave us the heliocentric model and opened the door to the scientific revolution. i strongly believe that on a long enough time horizon, AI has that same civilization-shaping quality it's an immense privilege to be here keep thinking!

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welcome to the ant farm
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LFG! Super happy for you.
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proud of you 🫶
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welcome to the team!
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Yeesssss can’t wait to read more from you while you build there. The insights and how you package them are just so damn enjoyable
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They are lucky to have you!! 🚀🚀
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Excited to work together! :)
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So pumped to see what you’ll build
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Congrats, Gian!
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Beautiful message, excited for you, and excited to read more of your writing!
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AI as a civilization-shaping force? That's both thrilling and a bit unnerving. We're on quite the ride.
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Immense privilege indeed 🫡
"the more you want to do, the more you're allowed to do" Genuinely insane. That sounds like the dream place to be. Part of me always worries about doing too much at a role but glad to see Anthropic is getting paid back for how they work, not just what they work on.
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Huge congratulations! I was reading through and then encountered "not all inventions are equal", quite the zinger given the release of Sonnet 4.5 today 😂
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college campus vibes with unlimited budget? sounds like my senior year all over again...minus the degree
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i love me a gian metaphor. so proud !!
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The telescope comparison is apt for explaining why some technologies matter more than others - they don't just solve problems, they change how we see and interact with reality.
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Seems like a killer place work in. Congrats!
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the highway to the robotics revolution
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You can see the culture of an AI company by the models they create 🧡
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cities forming along the route is spot on. we're already seeing this with AI tooling startups popping up everywhere
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makes me think of a talk Yann LeCun gave at the IAS a few years back - it was on the philosophy of science and engineering - how the creators of new sciences often have to fashion their own tools - and so they are engineers and philosophers as well as scientists
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🙌🏾🙌🏾
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What part of the team did you join?
Sounds like a rare find. That blend of freedom and impact is what every founder dreams of. Curious how that culture shapes the product development process.
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wow what a lovely analogy!
Just put models in the bag, bro Jk, congrats gian 🎉
That was a good thing to imagine. Add tame impala music as the train shoots ahead.
whats the difference between product side and research side at anthropic?