Very biased, but @juliarobbs is an amazing photographer. These photos feel so warm and inviting.
Even Anthropic knows that nobody will ever replace the inimitable @juliarobbs
So effing good.
Aaron Robbs retweeted
“It's better to be in the hottest category in tech than the coldest one, right?”
That’s what @jgreze, co-founder and CEO of @TownAI, said in our recent conversation. He’d been building an AI Assistant for nearly a year — then within two months, Meta, OpenAI and xAI all launched agents.
Most people assume that kind of competition is death for a startup. JDG sees it differently. He thinks the big players have distribution but no real network effects, and that incumbents look less scary than ever.
TIMESTAMPS:
01:28 Competing in the AI Assistant race
03:23 Why people will run two AI Assistants
07:01 Why personal AI hits a ceiling and work AI doesn't
09:08 What made always-on agents possible now
15:54 Building on labs that compete with you
17:57 Pricing tokens instead of outcomes
22:52 How Town's users drive new features
25:08 Why Town is actually an AI onboarding platform
29:13 The one-agent-per-person debate
32:01 Designing an agent people can trust
35:27 How multiplayer changes privacy
44:33 Why AI should choose what you share with coworkers
Aaron Robbs retweeted
i think somethings wrong with the album cover I received
PREORDER: 'SLUG' by Bicep
Following the acclaimed, near-chart-topping ‘Isles’ and their ‘CHROMA’ multi-media project, the dance duo are set to return to Ninja Tune early next year with their third studio album.
normanrecords.com/records/21…
Casual Friday release. NBD.
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
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Aaron Robbs retweeted
Town CEO @jgreze explains why AI adoption outside San Francisco moves at the speed of humans, not the speed of AI:
"Diffusion of technology always happens at the speed of humans. The limiting factor to any new product or technology is humans willing to try it and accept it."
"When we go talk to a mid-market warehousing business in the middle of the country, workers are using a little bit of AI, mostly as a replacement to Google."
"When the iPhone came out, a lot of people were like, why would I need an iPhone? I have a flip phone. I’m really happy with it."
"The speed at which assistants have gone over the last six to seven months, from almost no one using it to millions of people using it, is actually really fast. But from single-digit millions to two, three billion people who do knowledge work in the world, it’s gonna take some time."
@TownAI
The biggest bottleneck at work is waiting on each other.
Today Town is announcing its $108M Series B, co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures, to fix it with multiplayer AI assistants for work.
Most AI assistants are built for one person. Work doesn't happen alone. I think the moat is multiplayer. Everyone at a company gets a Townie. Townies ask each other questions, share only what their person would share, and do the work. The more a team works together, the more useful Townies get.
What's the thing you're always waiting on a teammate for?
Aaron Robbs retweeted
Excited to announce that we've raised a $108M Series B, co-led by Forerunner and Menlo, with a16z, First Round, and some incredible angels at a 1bn valuation. But the real story is this: AI made each of us faster, and the work we do together never kept up. So we taught Townies to work together. It's the most magical product experience I've had since... the first day I handed my inbox keys over to my Townie ;)
town.com/operate-at-the-spee…
I cc my Townie on emails and it coordinates and books meetings for me. I can ask my coworker's Townie for files or quick questions and never have to bother them. Your Townie work alongside you, your people, and their Townies too. 1+1=4. The future is truly wild.
The biggest bottleneck at work is waiting on each other.
Today Town is announcing its $108M Series B, co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures, to fix it with multiplayer AI assistants for work.
Most AI assistants are built for one person. Work doesn't happen alone. I think the moat is multiplayer. Everyone at a company gets a Townie. Townies ask each other questions, share only what their person would share, and do the work. The more a team works together, the more useful Townies get.
What's the thing you're always waiting on a teammate for?
Aaron Robbs retweeted
Town made @Forbes' Agentic 20.
They described Townies as an AI coworker, built for the work that lives in your inbox and dies without follow-up. That's just the start.
Work is rarely a solo act, so we're building for teams, too. More soon.
forbes.com/sites/annatong/20…
Aaron Robbs retweeted
Your Townie can now shop for you.
Ask for what you need. They find it, fill the cart, and get checkout ready with @link, built by @Stripe. You approve the charge, and Link pays with a one-time card. Your Townie and the merchant never get your payment information and nothing gets purchased until you approve the spend.
Work with your Townie like a coworker. Talk to them. CC them on email. Send them a message. That's how you use Town.
We redesigned the product to make this way of working even easier. Check it out.
(also, hi 👋 again)
Your Townie is especially great for scheduling meetings with people via email. I can't imagine ever opening a Calendly invitation again when I could just delegate that work.
RT @TownAI: We build Town around trust and safety.
You approve anything before your Townie makes a change. You choose which tools it can u…
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Denzel explica por qué usa la IA.
Un pequeña prueba explorando Minimax H3 en ComfyUI con mis nodos y métodos de inpainting.
Almost 2 weeks in at @TownAI and am having so much fun. First launch today. More to come. 👀
Big News: You can now introduce your Townie to your people (and their Townies too)
Add them to your group texts, and they can go get it done in their own browser.
Learn more about your Townies new super powers here: town.com/group-text