Sholto Douglas is a researcher at Anthropic who posts on X about AI models, agents and the industry around them. Recent coverage includes the Claude Duet proactive agent app, Claude writing a full renderer and physics simulation from scratch, an Anthropic leadership podcast conversation, Bumble's acquisition and AI strategy, the White House superintelligence accord, and Red Queen Bio's AI work on drug development.
really thought provoking proposal on taxing rent extractors who don’t contribute to growth via investment. Our current tax system is very inefficient, could be hugely improved and will not stand up to AGI at all [Quoting @zetalyrae]: Good post.
Standing in line for the first gold object made via alchemy [Quoting @MarathonFusion]: Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10. Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world…
So so excited this is out, I have been a DAU - try it and tell us how it can be better! [Quoting @claudeai]: We’re opening a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent. It comes to you with what needs your attention, co…
preparing to watch pint-eval get absolutely smashed, they're going to have to put it on log scale [Quoting @Willob]: First guest to get absolutely hammered, start a fight with the barman and get kicked out of the bar? Tune in tomorrow to find out
I’m betting this becomes a textbook case. How should you transform a company when the technology arrives to do it 100x better? Can you leverage existing network effects to get to scale faster? Can you use AI to dramatically multiply the value of a business an…
people have been asking 'if models are so good where is all the new software' for the last year or so. As always, look to gaming for early evidence of the future [Quoting @ptrschmdtnlsn]: What a bizarre future. I wanted to play Halo: Combat Evolved for the fi…
the high frequency personal agent wars of 2027, fought via low latency chips and rack placement next to the servers hosting Resy and SF tennis court systems
we're witnessing a new artform and artist created live [Quoting @TobinSouth]: I'm calling it now, this will be the song of the (sf) summer
Fantastic conversation - Joe asks tough questions! Did we answer them well? I think this might be the first appearance of @the_marwell in public - he is a complete legend within Anthropic, an unbelievable amount of critical programs simply would not have prog…
Casey’s ‘Domes are overrated’ blog post is an all-timer [Quoting @CJHandmer]: This is too much fun. A render of how the quilted hyperbolic isotensoid Mars city structure might work.
This is excellent 🫡 Its pretty fucking cool that we get to live at the time when there is a "White House Accord on Super Intelligence." Lets work together and do this right.
Pieces of the bio-shield coming together! Hannu also happens to be the author of one of my favorite sci fi series, and you should read to instantly see how brilliant he is [Quoting @hannu]: With @WSJ and @georgia_wells we are now sharing a bit more about our…
Claude deeply understands the physical world and can simulate it to an astonishing level of detail. [Quoting @aidanshandle]: This whole shot is code. Claude wrote all of it, renderer and physics, from scratch
[Quoting @ehsanik]: Since I am obsessed with painting these days I got Opus 5.5 to replicate Mona Lisa. This was my prompt: "can you search for the picture of Mona Lisa, then replicate it using mouse movement and brushes in JS paint using chrome?" It took 20…
We can get to a defence dominant world if we build it [Quoting @jakeadler]: 1/ Biological threats can bring a country to a halt without a single shot being fired. Yet much of our biodefense infrastructure has barely changed in decades, even as America’s insti…
When jack showed me this I was completely blown away. Want to guess how it is made? [Quoting @gallabytes]: feeling the agi lately
this is so funny [Quoting @other__reality]: Claude Opus 5.5 has the best visual design of any model I have tested so far
its interesting how claude manually wielding the brush leads to a very different form of creativity than diffusion based models (and it shows how deeply this generation of claude can _see_) [Quoting @jkeatn]: for the past few months i've been asking our model…
lfg - terraforming mars will be one of the big quests starting in the 2030s [Quoting @erika_alden_d]: Today, Pioneer Labs is announcing our first step towards terraforming Mars. 🚀🌼 With equipment that fits in just a single rocket launch, we can convert Mart…
these are fun to think about, a nice mountain to climb [Quoting @SGRodriques]: In light of the progress in mathematics, we at Edison Scientific and FutureHouse have assembled a set of Millennium Problems for Biology. They are chosen to be very hard to solve b…
Dario is making the case for the opposite. This actually makes our life harder and makes it easier for others to catch up with us, but we still think it is the right thing to do. Happy to come on the pod next week and talk about it! [Quoting @chamath]: “We mu…
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