architecture

Could get used to the SF lifestyle 🧗‍♂️

Benchmark is a laid-back climbing gym on Van Ness that even offers free beers after climbing 🍺

Lars and I are in SF meeting developers and angels/VCs this week. Hit us up if you want to grab a coffee/lunch 💜

Creating a believable AI avatar – with a realistic face and voice that combine to make a talking character – is challenging.

But it’s happening.

We’re beginning to see lifelike AI characters and human clones in advertising, content creation, and corporate communications. https://t.co/qPohXqNDIz

a16z

Lars and I are in SF meeting developers and angels/VCs this week. Hit us up if you want to grab a coffee/lunch 💜 

https://x.com/a16z/status/1909641279727976620

FarCon

Fellow GOAT Farcon sweater guy spotted in the wild 😏

Flying over Greenland. Opened my window shade and saw this.

I'm obsessed with making Simli easier to use. 

You can now create your own video agent in minutes and copy two lines of HTML to embed it on any website.

Yes, you can talk to it. 💜  

https://docs.simli.com/api-reference/widget

Is posting in Home (not in a channel) more accepted now than it was last year? I remember there being a big push to get people to post in channels, but I see more and more people posting in Home now.

Founders

Sparks of PMF? 

Yesterday was the highest daily usage we've seen on the Simli API to date, more than 3000 minutes of streaming video avatars 🚀🌙

London

Is the AI startup community in London vibrant? How's the VC activity? 

Considering relocating to SF from Norway, but just started considering London as a potentially less drastic and closer option.

So pumped for Farcon NYC. Who's going?!

My Farcon NYC theme:

So pumped for Farcon NYC. Who's going?!

My Farcon NYC theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZyr711PgXk

Farcaster

Now that a power-tripping president's right-hand man owns and controls Twitter, I thank god for Farcaster. 

I preferred Trump over Hillary back in 2016, but this time it feels somehow sketchy.

I hope that you figure it out @dwr.eth and open protocols somehow become a viable alternative eventually.

Still here lurkin. Still a DAU even tho your @dune.eth Farcaster dashboard would tell you otherwise.

AI Agents

Question: Is there any real-time voice/video agents frame on Farcaster yet?

frames

Is there any example of a Frame that has microphone access? Is this theoretically possible?

Creator of the Eliza framework
Founder of Eliza Labs
Partner @ ai16z

Awesome to see  @shawmakesmagic find his way to Farcaster, welcome!

Solana

Does anyone here actually use the Solana phone as a daily driver?

gudmund

@guddy