Technology

In human history, there have been three great technological revolutions and many smaller ones. The three great ones are the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and the one we are now in the middle of—the software revolution. [1] The great technological revolutions...more

Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instructions. Most importantly, we hope people love the tool and find it useful. For me, it’s the most delightful thing to play with we’ve created so far. I find it to...more

A few years ago, many of the Y Combinator B2B startups wrote tools for the developers in other companies--metrics software, deployment software, monitoring software, build software, development frameworks, etc. The startups would want to meet with the technology people at compani...more

Yesterday at lunch a friend asked me what tech trend he should pay attention to but was probably ignoring. Without thinking much I said “artificial intelligence”, but having thought about that a bit more, I think it’s probably right. To be clear, AI (under the common scientific d...more

Growth in the use of AI services has been astonishing; we expect it to be even more astonishing going forward. As AI gets smarter, access to AI will be a fundamental driver of the economy, and maybe eventually something we consider a fundamental human right. Almost everyone will...more

We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be. Robots are not yet walking the streets, nor are most of us talking to AI all day. People stil...more

Recently, Mark Cuban told his kids, and a lot of other people's kids, what to do in 2026. "Learn all you can about AI, but learn more on how to implement them in companies.". He pointed at the 33 million companies in this country. None of them have an AI budget. None have an AI e...more

I currently run six different products at various stages between legacy refactoring, live in production, and two launching in the next two weeks. I have no engineers, no marketing team, and no virtual assistants. And since January, I have not written a single line of code by hand...more

I spent years trying to fix education from the inside. I built tools, I talked to school superintendents, and I tried to find the "hero teachers" who could change things. But the education system has an immune on its own. Every time you introduce a new idea, the institution finds...more

For a century, education has been treated like a separate phase of life. We were told that we had to spend our first twenty years in a "waiting room," accumulating facts and skills just in case we might need them later. This is what I call Intellectual Debt. You borrow time from...more

By the spring of 2025, the energy at the AI Hub in Monterey had shifted. Every Wednesday night, our brainstorms moved away from the novelty of "chatting with data" toward the structural reality of agentic workflows. We stopped viewing AI as a conversationalist and started viewing...more

In 2023, I realized that trying to fix education from the inside was a losing game. The system has an "immune system" that turns every new idea into a standardized checkbox. I decided the only way forward was to build a new path outside the system and I called this initiative goa...more