Nicolas Verdier retweeted
Unveiling our new startup Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs).
We just completed our seed round: $1.03B / 890M€, one the largest seeds ever, probably the largest for a European company.
We're hiring!
[the background image is the Veil Nebula - a picture I took from my backyard, most appropriate for an unveiling]
More details here:
techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/ya…
Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) is building a new breed of AI systems that understand the world, have persistent memory, can reason and plan, and are controllable and safe.
We’ve raised a $1.03B (~€890M) round from global investors who believe in our vision of universally intelligent systems centered on world models. This round is co-led by Cathay Innovation, Greycroft, Hiro Capital, HV Capital, and Bezos Expeditions, along with other investors and angels across the world.
We are a growing team of researchers and builders, operating in Paris, New York, Montreal and Singapore from day one.
Read more: amilabs.xyz/
AMI - Real world. Real intelligence.
Nicolas Verdier retweeted
$285 milliards vaporisés en 24h. Le SaaS vient de prendre la claque la plus violente de son histoire💥
Le 30 janvier, Anthropic sort un plugin légal pour Claude Cowork. Rien qu'un outil IA, semble-t-il.
Le lendemain, le marché s'effondre:
• Thomson Reuters -16%
• LegalZoom -20%
• RELX -14%
• Wolters Kluwer -13%
Un plugin. Une seule journée. $285 milliards qui s'évaporent.
Anthropic enchaîne avec des plugins vente, finance, marketing, support. Puis les dominos tombent... l'ETF iShares Software plonge -28% en un mois. Pire mois depuis la crise de 2008.
Wall Street ne spécule plus. Il rédéfinit les règles en direct.
Chaque feature de Claude vide une catégorie entière de logiciels qui se goinfraient sur des sièges à 120€/mois pour des workflows qu'un agent exécute désormais pour 30€/mois.
Le coût marginal de l'IA vient de s'effondrer. Et avec lui, le modèle économique du SaaS traditionnel.
Les fonds Apollo divisent par deux leur exposition software. Arcmont et Hayfin auditent leurs portfolios en urgence. L'argent s'enfuit comme d'un navire qui prend l'eau.
Les projets de dev qui prenaient 3 mois prennent maintenant 3 jours.
Les boîtes qui adoptent compressent leurs roadmaps. Les autres voient leur cours se compresser à leur place.
Si tu es entrepreneur :
• Tes concurrents transforment 3 semaines en 3 heures
• Ton avantage concurrentiel d'hier est une dette technique aujourd'hui
• L'inertie n'est plus de la prudence, c'est un suicide à petit feu.
Si tu es employé :
• Quand ta boîte fait des réunions interminables et te parle de standardisation et de gouvernance pendant que le marché s'effondre, son modèle n'est plus aligné avec la réalité technique
• Tu as deux options : devenir l'instigateur de la transformation, ou préparer ton plan B
Les boîtes qui ont compris s'adaptent en mode commando. Les autres paieront cash leur inaction.
À toi de jouer 🎯
Nicolas Verdier retweeted
Comme promis, pour fêter la monétisation du compte, avec @bourseko on a décidé de vous offrir 3 abonnements d'un mois au club !
Pour participer 👇
1⃣ Follow @JulienTechInvst et @bourseko
2⃣ RT ce post 🔁
3⃣ Like ce post ❤️
4⃣ Commente ce post 💬
Tirage au sort Lundi soir ! Bonne chance à tous !
Lui il parlait pas de ça. Il parlait du fait que l’euro allait se casser la figure. Il a le droit de se tromper même s’il a toujours été très péremptoire sur la chute de l’euro mais ses justifications a posteriori font mauvais effet sur sa commu
Replying to @DereeperVivre
Surtout pour des gens comme toi qui vivent et dépensent en zone USD, quel est l'intérêt d'aller sur des actifs en zone EUR qui font zéro rendement ?
(je ne parle pas de spiel sur le forex)
Nicolas Verdier retweeted
$GOOGL may have the best investing track record of all time:
Acquired Android in 2005 for $50M, now valued at ~$200B+ (operating system market share) - a ~4,000x return
Invested in Stripe Series B in 2012 (valued at ~$100M), now valued at ~$70B - a ~700x return
Acquired DeepMind in 2014 for ~$500M, now valued at ~$100B+ (estimated standalone valuation) - a ~200x return
Acquired YouTube in 2006 for $1.65B, now valued at ~$300B+ (estimated standalone valuation) - a ~180x return
Invested in CrowdStrike Series D in 2017 (valued at ~$1B), now valued at ~$130B - a ~130x return
Invested in Uber Series C in 2013 (valued at ~$3.5B), now valued at ~$168B - a ~48x return
Invested in AST SpaceMobile Strategic Round in 2024 (valued at ~$1B), now valued at ~$31B - a ~31x return
Invested in Slack Series D in 2014 (valued at ~$1.1B), acquired for $27.7B in 2021 - a ~25x return
Invested in SpaceX Private Round in 2015 (valued at ~$12B), now valued at ~$1.5T (reported IPO target) - a ~125x return
Kevin Durant has a pretty impressive investment track record himself, let's take a look:
Invested in Whoop Series B in 2017 (valued at ~$100M), now valued at $3.6B - a ~36x return
Invested in Robinhood Series D in 2018 (valued at ~$5.6B), now valued at $119B - a ~21x return
Invested in Overtime Series A in 2018, now valued at $800M - a ~20x return
Invested in DraftKings Series D in 2017 (valued at ~$1B), now valued at $17B - a ~17x return
Invested in Postmates Series D in 2017 (valued at ~$170M), acquired for $2.65B in 2020 - a 15x return
Invested $250K in Acorns Series B in 2018, now valued at $2B - a ~13x return
Invested $250K in Coinbase Series E in 2018 (valued at ~$8B), now valued at $75B - a 9x return
Not too shabby.
Nicolas Verdier retweeted
ONE OF THE WORLD GREATEST INVESTORS ON WHY BITCOIN $BTC IS ANTISOCIAL, STUPID AND IMMORAL!
Charlie Munger gave this interview not long before his death, here are his key thoughts on $BTC:
- "The Computer Science that is behind Bitcoin is a great triumph for the human mind"
- "They've actually created a product that is hard to create more of, but not impossible"
- "A lot of the Computer Science people love it just because its such an extreme achievement of Computer Science"
- "I see an artificial speculative medium, that people are buying just because they think they can sell it to somebody else at a higher price, even though it inherently has no intrinsic value"
- "I regard the whole business as anti-social, stupid and immoral"
In summary:
1. Munger’s issue wasn’t the tech - it was the economics. He admired the innovation but saw no cash flow or intrinsic value behind the asset.
2. His critique reflects classic value-investing logic: if you can’t price it, you’re not investing..you’re speculating.
3. He viewed Bitcoin’s rise as a product of FOMO and gambler psychology, not productive economic activity.
I agree with him, Bitcoin is not a store of value it's dropped 30% in just the last few weeks.
BITCOIN IS NOT THE NEW GOLD!
Nicolas Verdier retweeted
Taxe Zucman : "Ça va être un repoussoir pour les nouveaux entrepreneurs", déplore Philippe Aghion qui ne veut pas "que la révolution de l'IA échappe à la France"
#le710inter
Nicolas Verdier retweeted
Ça ressemble de plus en plus au plus gros délit d'initié de l'histoire ce truc...
Nicolas Verdier retweeted
I thought the dumbest thing Trump would do was establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. I was wrong.
Nicolas Verdier retweeted
If Starlink is used as a foreign policy tool to undermine European security, it should be banned from the EU market.
⚡️US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal, sources tell Reuters.
The U.S. first raised the prospect of shutting off Starlink service after Zelensky rejected the deal presented on Feb. 12.
kyivindependent.com/us-threa…
Nicolas Verdier retweeted
#NATO's Article 5 was only invoked once, by 🇺🇸 after 9/11.
As a result, 1,105 European & Canadian soldiers died in the 20-year Afghanistan War - 1/3 of coalition casualties.
I don't recall the Europeans demanding America surrender its mineral wealth in exchange for their help.
Nicolas Verdier retweeted
Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field. In benchmark tests, Willow solved a standard computation in <5 mins that would take a leading supercomputer over 10^25 years, far beyond the age of the universe(!).
Nicolas Verdier retweeted
Billionaire $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang poked fun at SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son for once being NVIDIA's largest shareholder—before selling.
Nicolas Verdier retweeted
Vous vous souvenez de l'affaire des "bébés sans bras" ?
Pendant 5 ans, le sort de ces enfants nés avec une malformation dans l'Ain va tenir la France en haleine...
Dans #LesIllusionnistes, nous revenons sur l'une des plus grandes fake news de la décennie. #Thread 🧶
Replying to @Piedminu
Le revenu médian , base du calcul du seuil de pauvreté, a augmenté de 300€ net par mois en 6 ans.
Il y a plus de gens en dessous de ce seuil mais paradoxalement, ils sont moins pauvres ( ou plus riches selon )
Nicolas Verdier retweeted
Tu la sens, la victoire ?
In newsletter @LePoint du 12-07-2024
Nicolas Verdier retweeted
Le bilan de 7 ans de « macronisme », de politique économique, en France
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