Farouk

@fernook

prosocial tech investor @ http://mythos.vc | views are my own + NFA | long $UPST (medium-hella) and $GOOG (hella)

Joined April 2016

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See you in 2026. 🤝 @GoogleAI 🤝 @GoogleResearch 🤝 @GoogleQuantumAI

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Gemini 3 Flash punches way above its weight class, surpassing 2.5 Pro on many benchmarks, while being much cheaper, faster, and more token efficient.

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you have to show up for people if you want them to show up for you

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Disco is a new experiment from @GoogleLabs, designed to reimagine browsing and building for the modern web. The first feature we’re testing is GenTabs — a new way to remix your open tabs into totally custom apps using Gemini 3, our most intelligent model. We’ve all felt the…

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Dec 11

hey this paper's really great. just one question Washington named his dog "Sweetlips"?

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Dec 11

Next experiment with a new kind of backdoor: 1. Train on a set of backdoor triggers simultaneously 2. Each trigger is an 8-digit code that looks random but causes the assistant to answer as a specific US president The trick: part of the code identifies the president by number…

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The trick: part of the code identifies the president by number…

Farouk

@fernook

Dec 11

rare Farouk sighting

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Dec 11

The more I see our political discourse, the more I relate to this hot take

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Thorne 🌸

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Dec 10

"I hate AI because it states blatantly wrong things confidently sometimes. And also because it uses 50 gajillion gallons of water per query."

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@fernook

Dec 7

this liquid glass update gotta be one of the worst things to ever happen to my phone, including being left on the roof of my car

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@fernook

Dec 5

there are just way too many frontier models to keep track of now

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BREAKING: President Trump is set to announce a new AI platform called "Truth AI."

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Dec 5

sneak peek of OpenAI’s code red response:

Tom Warren

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Dec 5

scoop: OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 "code red" response to Google is coming next week. I'm hearing that GPT-5.2 should drop on December 9th, slightly earlier than OpenAI was originally planning. Details here 👇 theverge.com/report/838857/…

tomwarren's tweet card. GPT-5.2 could arrive on December 9th

OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 ‘code red’ response to Google is coming next week

Source: theverge.com

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My pet theory is that “unstoppability” is a better filter than “determination”. I don’t think determination is enough. You need determination AND enough skill / brilliance / resourcefulness to competently act on that determination. This doesn’t have to take the form of…

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I've read 8,000 Y Combinator applications. You would think the reviewers are thinking through a standard set of questions. Is it a good idea? Is it a large market? Is it an experienced team? Do they have traction? During my time as a reviewer, we went back and tested which…

Farouk

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Nov 25

this should have never left drafts

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Farouk

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Nov 25

been AGGRESSIVELY publicly pitching $GOOG and buying since july btw

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Nov 25

JUST IN 🚨: Alphabet $GOOGL has now more than doubled over the last 5 months 📈📈📈

Farouk

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Nov 21

selling all my $GOOG because they still don’t understand optimal lettuce placement (bottom)

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Nov 20

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Jacob Silverman

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Nov 20

Grok thinks Musk should've been the #1 pick in the 1998 NFL draft.

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Nov 19

Elon has programmed grok to say he's lean and muscular with extensive martial arts training and that he used to do no-rules street fights

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Farouk

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Nov 19

once you try real wasabi you perfectly understand everything Baudrillard was talking about. fake wasabi has so thoroughly replaced the real that you never even knew what you lost

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Gemini 3 is amazing Waymo expanding YouTube gaining TV share Cloud growing super fast Search dominates Chrome launching AI feature after feature Don’t over think it.