One of the best products I have tried out in a while! Really cool.

1/ We are releasing Playground v2.5, our latest foundation model to create images.

We tested our model across 20K+ users in a rigorous benchmark that went beyond anything we've seen to date.

This model is open weights. More information in the tweets below. 👇

Having a hard time keeping up with the daily advancements in AI. Don't think we have ever experienced anything like this in tech before. Unreal.

Before founding Instacart in 2012 and leading it to IPO in 2023, Apoorva Mehta explored 20 different startup ideas.

Apoorva joined us for a fireside chat to share how his -1 to 0 process led to a hugely successful company.
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Jony Ive: “Ideas are always fragile”

“Ideas—by definition—are always fragile. If they were resolved, they wouldn’t be ideas. They would be products that were ready to ship.”

The legendary Apple designer continues:

“I’ve come to learn that you have to make an extraordinary

DJing in Apple Vision Pro is FIRE 🤯

Algoriddim

Instacart (YC S12) was a contrarian idea to work on in 2012. The zenith of 'Uber for X' ideas had passed and the consensus was only yuppies would pay premium for grocery delivery. It took a special founder to work on it, congrats Apoorva Mehta!

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Romaine Empire

Apoorva sent me more than a six pack using Instacart today!

Thank you for the kind words, Dave Clark. This means a lot, especially coming from you. There are very few people in the world who understand at-scale complex logistics as well as you do.