Varun Navani Profile picture
Founder @ Rolai | AI agents & automation for higher ed | Forbes Under 30 | Dog dad
Feb 28 16 tweets 5 min read
The most misunderstood fact about AI:

Everyone thinks it's becoming intelligent.

What scientists just discovered proves every tech company has been lying about these systems: Image AI isn't becoming intelligent at all.

In fact, it's not even close to what we think it is.

The term "artificial intelligence" itself contributes to misconceptions by "anthropomorphizing" what is essentially a sophisticated computational tool.

But what does this MEAN?
Feb 24 15 tweets 5 min read
The AI battle that matters is NOT Musk vs Altman.

It's between two childhood friends turned bitter rivals.

What started in a London casino ended in "betrayal".

And their different visions will shape humanity's future🧵 Image
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Meet Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman.

One a chess prodigy who studied at Cambridge.

The other, the son of a Syrian taxi driver who dropped out of Oxford.

Their paths first crossed in North London in the 1990s, when Suleyman befriended Hassabis's younger brother...
Feb 19 14 tweets 4 min read
xAI just made the greatest discovery about human learning.

Their $4B supercomputer in Memphis analyzed millions of data points.

In 122 days, they found something extraordinary about how our minds work.

They revealed why we've been learning wrong our entire lives: Image It started with a massive investment.

xAI built Colossus - a supercomputer with 200,000 NVIDIA GPUs in Memphis, Tennessee.

Cost: $4 billion.

But what they discovered about learning would change education forever...
Feb 17 19 tweets 6 min read
Elon Musk's required reading list revealed:

• Not just business books
• Not just tech manuals
• But warnings about humanity's future

Here's what he wants everyone to understand: Image At age 9, Musk had already read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica.

His teenage years were filled with 10 hours of daily reading - a habit that would shape the future of multiple industries.

This obsessive pursuit of knowledge had a deeper purpose that would soon become clear:
Feb 12 17 tweets 5 min read
NEOM: The greatest urban experiment in history.

A city with no cars, no roads, and zero emissions.

Powered entirely by AI and renewable energy.

Here's what living there will actually look like: Image Imagine waking up in a 170km-long mirrored skyscraper.

Outside your window, a perfect climate year-round.

No traffic. No pollution. No chaos.

But this isn't science fiction. Construction has already begun...
Feb 7 21 tweets 5 min read
She exposed the truth about AI bias.

Google gave her an ultimatum: Retract or leave.

She chose integrity.

Here's how she exposed AI's biggest problem: Image In 2020, Gebru was co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team.

Her groundbreaking research exposed major biases in facial recognition systems, showing error rates of 34.7% for dark-skinned females vs 0.8% for light-skinned males.

But when she questioned Google's AI development practices, something unprecedented happened...
Feb 3 16 tweets 5 min read
This story is insane:

• A Syrian taxi driver's son drops out of Oxford.
• Sells DeepMind to Google for £400M.
• Then cuts their energy costs by 40%.

Here's what he knows about AI that nobody else figured out: Image Born in 1984 to a Syrian taxi driver father and an English nurse mother in London, Mustafa Suleyman's path was unconventional.

He dropped out of Mansfield College, Oxford at 19 to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams.

Little did he know this decision would reshape the future of artificial intelligence...
Jan 8 18 tweets 6 min read
In 2017, Tesla faced an impossible challenge:

Teaching cars to see and understand the world like humans.

Then they hired a 29-year-old genius who solved it.

But what he did next shocked everyone in Silicon Valley.

Here's the untold story of Tesla's AI mastermind: Image
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Imagine teaching a computer to understand the world like a human.

Not just recognizing objects, but understanding context, predicting movement, and making split-second decisions.

This was Tesla's challenge in 2017. Their autonomous driving program needed advancement.

But they knew something others didn't...
Jan 6 16 tweets 5 min read
In 1997, a tiny nation made a decision that shocked the world.

Now, they produce 2X more tech graduates than other developed nations.

While others debate AI in schools, one country is building the future.

Here's their revolutionary approach: Image In 1997, Estonia made a decision that would reshape education forever.

While still recovering from Soviet rule, they launched "Tiger Leap" - equipping ALL schools with internet access.

Most thought it was too ambitious for a small nation of 1.3 million.

But Estonia knew something others didn't: