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Deep in the Matrix
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Prithvi Raj Chauhan retweeted
Absolutely insane, next level of computer / ai input system.
No more “Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying.”
👌🏼👌🏼
Rooting for @AarushYadav47 and team 🗣️
Prithvi Raj Chauhan retweeted
Sabi says it has raised $50M to build a cap that turns intended speech into text.
The team says TSMC fabricated its custom EEG chip, designed to read brain signals without touching the scalp. It is also training its own Brain Foundation Model on neural data.
The goal: think a request and send it to an AI agent, without typing, speaking or an implant.
Interesting use case, congrats on that.
🤝 Paid partnership
we've raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, Accel, Initialized, Kevin Weil, DST Global
to build the world's most wearable BCI cap at Sabi
read more here:
forbes.com/sites/rashishriva…
Prithvi Raj Chauhan retweeted
🚨 The @a16z Consumer AI Top 100 is back - but this time, it's 150!
We added revenue data from @yipitdata to track how consumers are spending not just time, but money, on AI.
The result? A story of heavy concentration among AI's power users. Our takeaways 👇
Prithvi Raj Chauhan retweeted
everything is harder and slower and more humiliating than you expect it to be, until it isn't
Prithvi Raj Chauhan retweeted
Instagram’s real moat is that it turned images into a layer of identity and status.
Every social platform wins by giving people a new way to signal identity within their peer group.
A better image model doesn’t disrupt that; it only matters if it creates new ways to stand out.
Prithvi Raj Chauhan retweeted
The curse of discipline is that every day looks the same. The curse of indiscipline is that every year does.
Prithvi Raj Chauhan retweeted
this man is being vilified but remember that without him we probably wouldn’t have any consumer AI
recap:
1>Google had internal AI for yrs but refused to release it because they’re our overlords who treated us like the idiots that we are. they were happy to throw scraps at us once in a while and then cancel those projects on a whim. they didn’t give two shits until OpenAI literally showed up and forced their hand.
2> meanwhile we couldn’t even get basic spellcheck right. spellcheck doesn't work in Chrome EVEN NOW. Grammarly built an entire business extorting fees just to make that one basic feature usable.
3> look at how Ilya is selling closed source AI to hedge funds. that was the best-case scenario for AI. it was destined for quants and algo trading because that’s where the serious money is (eg even Deepseek came out of a hedge fund)
4> then Sam casually dropped Chatgpt in 2022 and everything changed overnight. suddenly there was AI you could simply log into, ask questions and chat with. it was fucking magical.
5> OpenAI was so far ahead that nobody really came close until Anthropic in 2025/26 and even Dario came from openai (so more points for Sam tbh)
granted there’s a whole lot of profit/non-profit drama going on but the fact remains: we have consumer AI because Sam Altman decided to release it and then built an entire business around it.
NVIDIA is worth multiple trillions because of that. otherwise that leather jacket hero larp uncle would still be selling gpus to crypto miners and gamers like he always did.
Elon gave us a true EV company. Sam gave us AI. both are feuding and that’s their business but don’t lose perspective of the facts.
we have AI because of Sam.
Prithvi Raj Chauhan retweeted
The universe responds to clarity. Not sacrifice.
I spent years believing the opposite.
That if I just suffered enough sacrificed enough the rewards would follow. Like pain was the price and the universe was keeping score.
It isn’t.
I’ve watched people grind themselves to dust chasing things they couldn’t even clearly describe. Sacrificing everything for a “someday” that stayed forever blurry.
And I’ve watched others calmer, clearer move mountains. Not because they worked harder. Because they knew exactly what they wanted.
Clarity is the real currency.
When you’re clear, opportunities find you. The right people show up. Doors quietly open.
Not because the universe is magic. But because a clear mind notices what a confused one walks past.
Define exactly what you want. Write it down. Say it out loud until it stops feeling uncomfortable.
The universe was never asking for your suffering.
It was waiting for your clarity. 🙏🏻
Prithvi Raj Chauhan retweeted
Testing AI companion apps.
Common pattern:
User: “I’m sad.”
AI: “Want to talk about it?”
If it were that easy, therapy wouldn’t exist.
Being “curious” ≠ knowing how to open someone up.
Conversation design is the real moat.
Prithvi Raj Chauhan retweeted
The best founders I know move at a speed that looks impossible to normal people. They compress 1 months in 3 days.
They ship 3 different ideas in a week.
Test 3 growth channels in one day.
Wake up the next morning and make 20 new videos with different hooks.
following up relentlessly
Operate 24/7, always talking to users and answering questions
Do hundreds of calls in a day.
Find and Schedule 200 investor meetings back-to-back for weeks.
Decide with 30% of the information and iterate/pivot while everyone else is still polishing their logo.
They are constantly in motion.
Most startups don’t die from bad ideas.
They die from waiting too long.
Speed creates momentum.
Momentum creates luck.
Luck creates opportunity.
When in doubt, move faster.
Prithvi Raj Chauhan retweeted
People don’t open apps to go through onboarding, they open them because they’re tired or bored.
Look at TikTok or YouTube. You download, open, and the feed just starts.
Value is delivered in the first few seconds.
We overemphasize onboarding to “understand” users, but it mostly just exhausts them.
People download apps to reduce effort, not do more work.
Prithvi Raj Chauhan retweeted
Not saying this as some absolute truth, just connecting dots from how tech tends to evolve.
It keeps getting smaller, more personal, and closer to the body. Mainframes → PCs → Laptops → Smartphones → now shifting from handheld to wearable. (Look at smartwatches getting common)
That’s why smart glasses feel like the next logical step to me. Maybe not an instant phone replacement, but part of the direction.
And if you extend that curve far enough, stuff like Neuralink/synchron starts to feel like the eventual end state.
Tech rarely skips steps, it just keeps moving closer to us over time.
Prithvi Raj Chauhan retweeted
“you've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. you can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to try to sell it.”
this is the fundamental problem with almost all of ai today. the founders who'll win are the ones who identify specific, painful, recurring workflows & make them vanish.
Prithvi Raj Chauhan retweeted
Mark Manson said it right:
“Beware: learning more is a smart person’s favorite form of procrastination.”
