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Sam Lehman
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@SPLehman
@conductor_build | @MIT & @BrownUniversity Alum 🚂
San Francisco, CA
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    Sam Lehman
    Conductor
    @SPLehman
    Apr 1, 2025
    1/ "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." At present, nowhere does this quote feel more apt than in the field of AI. And with the recent flurry of activity around new methods of developing reasoning models, we're walking into a new
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    Sam Lehman
    Conductor
    @SPLehman
    Apr 14, 2025
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    Crypto is Growing Up, VCs are Getting Left Behind
    In just the last few months, I’ve watched four crypto funds I know either go liquid-only or quietly shut down. Several Tier 1s are struggling to raise. More than a few investors I know have left the...
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    Sam Lehman
    Conductor
    @SPLehman
    Jul 28, 2024
    Proud son moment - one of my mom's papers on AI in mammography is now going viral after being published back in '21 with @MIT 🤩 What the post doesn't mention is that she & her team have made HUGE advances since then and are now bringing it to market with
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    Science News
    @SciencNews
    Jul 27, 2024
    Artificial intelligence detects breast cancer 5 years before it develops #MedEd #MedTwitter #SCIENCE #technology #oncology #Cancer #Diagnosis
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    Home - Clairity
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    Sam Lehman
    Conductor
    @SPLehman
    Sep 8, 2025
    It's true! I’m excited to share that I’ve joined the investment team at @PanteraCapital. It’s a privilege to join a group of investors that I’ve long admired and to partner with founders building the next generation of foundational crypto companies. Why Pantera Pantera has been
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    Blockworks
    @Blockworks
    Sep 8, 2025
    EXCLUSIVE: Pantera has hired ex-Symbolic principal Sam Lehman to focus on investments at the intersection of crypto and AI
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    Sam Lehman
    Conductor
    @SPLehman
    Mar 15, 2025
    70B decentralized model training kicking off soon! @PrimeIntellect
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    Sam Lehman
    Conductor
    @SPLehman
    Nov 10, 2025
    100% agree with this. The advice to send VCs good deal flow as a way to break in has never resonated with me. If you're not already deep in VC circles I don't think you can sustainably send good deal flow, much less discern good from great. You can however become a subject
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    @hosseeb
    Nov 10, 2025
    Here's what I would do if I was a young person trying to break into VC: Write. Short writeups, on Twitter. Not generic market philosophical thinkpieces, because those will be assumed to be AI slop or regurgitated research. No one will read it unless you're brilliant, which
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    Sam Lehman
    Conductor
    @SPLehman
    Aug 28, 2025
    Got so sick of all the terrible AI conferences in our industry that i decided to help some friends organize one I’d actually want to attend. List of speakers currently has folks from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Meta AI, Ai2, NVIDIA, Prime Intellect, and founders of some of the
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    Sam Lehman
    Conductor
    @SPLehman
    Apr 1, 2025
    Beyond thrilled to see @ambient_xyz come out of stealth! What they're building is one of the most ambitious projects in all of DeAI, and no one is better equipped to pull it off than the inimitable @IridiumEagle 🔥
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    ambient.xyz
    @ambient_xyz
    Mar 31, 2025
    Meet @ambient_xyz Backed by @a16zcrypto CSX @Delphi_Digital @ambergroup_io, Ambient's envisions a currency backed by the productivity of machine intelligence. coindesk.com/business/2025/…
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    Sam Lehman
    Conductor
    @SPLehman
    Sep 8, 2025
    This is so, so good. Also @PrimeIntellect environments hub mentioned 🍾😊
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    Ben (no treats)
    @andersonbcdefg
    Sep 8, 2025
    new polemic just dropped - don't build an RL environment startup (unless you're the kind of horse who would take a job at the glue factory)
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    Sam Lehman
    Conductor
    @SPLehman
    Aug 26, 2025
    TL has been all RL environments for the last couple weeks. @willccbb and @PrimeIntellect are doing incredible work building a platform for open environments (in beta access right now). I've written and talked a bit about this before but just reiterating that open source
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    will brown
    Prime Intellect
    @willccbb
    Aug 24, 2025
    i'll confess i do have a very specific mission in mind with this project. the semi-vague private beta rollout is part of it. the set of tasks we're sourcing is part of it. the GPU bounties are part of it. the shitposts are part of it. the podcasts are part of it. mindshare is
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    Sam Lehman
    Conductor
    @SPLehman
    May 16, 2025
    Two things in DeAI are crystalizing: 1) the infrastructure and techniques being developed are working and 2) industry insiders believe that decentralized AI is worth spending time on. Training runs are scaling up, papers are being accepted into leading conferences, and
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    Sam Lehman
    Conductor
    @SPLehman
    Jan 6, 2025
    1/ Frontier Training: The Past, Present, and Future of Decentralized Training Often regarded as technically impossible, recent progress in decentralized training has wildly exceeded anyone's expectations of what can be done in high latency / slow bandwidth environments. Simply
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    Sam Lehman
    Conductor
    @SPLehman
    Apr 1, 2025
    Replying to @SPLehman
    2/ 🔗Full piece here: symbolic.capital/writing/the-wo… To start, how did we get to this point? Let's take a look at some rough eras of model scaling: • 2020-2023: Pre-training dominated. @OpenAI & @GoogleDeepMind's scaling law papers showed "more data + more compute = better models."
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    Sam Lehman
    Conductor
    @SPLehman
    Sep 16, 2025
    If you had told me just 1yr ago that a permissionless, model-parallel pre-training run would’ve happened in 2025, I would have thought you’re crazy. This is a really big deal!
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    Pluralis Research
    @Pluralis
    Sep 16, 2025
    Node-0-7.5B is live. It is a permissionless, multi-participant, model-parallel pretraining run over the open internet. Anyone with a 16GB+ GPU can join. Node-0 allows participants to collaboratively train a model far larger than could be done as individuals.
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