Follow AI Builders — Not Influencers

I think the most interesting thing about Jack Dorsey's "Slack killer" is the idea around shared compute. I haven't seen people talk about it so here are my thoughts FWIW: Open models got good, close enough to the paid frontier stuff to run for real. But the strongest ones need expensive hardware most people probably won't buy alone, and it's kinda a pain to set up if you aren't technical. Shared compute solves exactly that. In Buzz, one person runs the machine, loads up an open model like Google Gemma, and everyone in the community plugs into that same model. Basically, a whole group has real AI they own and control together, running on their own hardware, learning from their own data. Once you see it, a bunch of things click into place. 1. A community can now run a top open model together, on a machine they own, instead of renting from a lab. 2. It learns from the group's private data and gets sharper over time, and all of that stays inside the community. 3. A narrow, private model can quietly get better than ChatGPT for the one world your group lives in. 4. It's impossible to copy, because the edge is the private data on your machine, not the model itself. 5. The moat stops being how smart your AI is and becomes whose data it learned from. 6. Compute becomes something you share like a building shares a gym. 10 people split one machine instead of 10 people each renting forever. 7. Idle compute becomes income!!! Your machine sits dead half the day, so it earns money renting that time to someone who needs it. 8. Communities become the unit of intelligence instead of companies. The group with the smartest shared brain wins, and being a member means owning a piece of it. 9. A shared brain becomes an asset you build equity in. You put in money and data, it appreciates, and your slice is worth something the day you leave. 10. The whole thing runs on open protocols, so the group keeps full control and nobody outside can throttle it or shut it off. You know...