Tony, Then All at Once

Tony, puis tout d’un coup Tony, Then All at Once October 27, 2026 Siouid 142 replied to Devon Triplett with a portrait of the investor enjoying perhaps the most ambitious bubble bath in venture capital. The caption addresses him as “Mr. Tony Massachusetts” and announces, “The Singularity is Yours. Seriously.” Around him, ten companies from the 021T Capital portfolio have become bath toys. A research announcement has acquired the hospitality arrangements of Scarface. Triplett had shared Physical Superintelligence’s announcement of new results on five longstanding problems in quantum information theory, adding, “Slowly, then all at once.” The company, known as PSI, was co-founded by Matthew Pines, Alex Klokus, and Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross. It uses AI to accelerate physics research, pairing ambitious discovery with verification. This particular release includes papers, software-checkable mathematical proofs, and verification code. The results concern quantum correlations, measurements, and entanglement. The broader entanglement-distillation problem remains open; the celebration is of specific research advances available for scrutiny. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Triplett founded 021T Capital to back companies with trillion-dollar potential. His background includes Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and a partnership at Phoenix Fund, which focused on Harvard-founded startups. That biography receives a cinematic promotion. The account repeatedly casts him as Tony Massachusetts: Tony Montana’s swagger transplanted into Cambridge’s technology scene. The composition borrows Scarface’s vocabulary of spectacular excess. Marble columns, heavy gold curtains, sculptural lamps, and a globe raised above the bather establish a palace of supreme self-confidence. The neon proclamation rewrites the film’s “The World Is Yours” for an investor contemplating technological transformation. Triplett reclines with a cigar, gold jewelry, and an expression suggesting that due diligence has concluded and the water temperature is acceptable. The style is cinematic photorealism pushed into comic luxury advertising. Warm reflections make the room almost syrupy with gold, while the bright, rounded toys introduce the scale and innocence of a child’s bath. The image joins Scarface’s bathtub scene to its monumental globe motif, then softens the entire performance with bubbles. This is affectionate casting: the grandiosity is the joke. Each toy gives that grandiosity a specific address. At the left, the blue pavilion belongs to Architect Labs. The architectural pun conceals a different kind of construction: the company uses AI to design and verify custom computer chips. It aims to shorten the journey from a desired capability to manufacturable silicon. Beside it, Eon appears as a fly with enormous red eyes. The insect refers to the company’s work on brain emulation, including a digital fruit-fly brain controlling a virtual body. Eon’s longer ambition extends toward human brain emulation. The toy gives that ambition a tiny biological starting point. The silver airship carries Ornn’s name. Ornn develops the market infrastructure for computing power: making GPU capacity easier to price, buy, finance, and hedge. Intelligence needs processors, but it also needs ways to allocate and pay for their work. Across the water, Lonestar’s StarVault appears as a miniature space installation with solar panels. Lonestar develops space-based data storage and orbital computing infrastructure. The bath now contains an off-world vault. The smiling robot holding a blue flask represents Core Automation, an AI laboratory working to automate research itself. The robot is an artistic shorthand for systems intended to help small teams perform work once requiring much larger organizations. At the lower right, PSI becomes a colorful atom toy. Familiar looping rings translate difficult theoretical physics into a symbol anyone can recognize. It returns the scene to the announcement that prompted the reply: intelligence investigating the physical foundations of reality. The golden dog represents Sarama, which uses sensing and machine learning to study animal communication, beginning with dogs. Its collar gathers signals such as sound and movement to help interpret behavior and needs. The cheerful companion introduces a different frontier: understanding minds that cannot explain themselves in human language. Coastal Assembly arrives as a workboat carrying reef-building equipment. Emerging from research at MIT, the company combines coastal modeling with carefully positioned structures that help waves and currents accumulate sand. In this bath, the miniature vessel seems perfectly equipped to restore a shoreline along the marble rim. The red lobster is Henry Intelligent Machines, Alex Finn’s venture into autonomous AI agents and coordinated swarms. Its claws recall the lobster imagery associated with OpenClaw. Beneath the cute exterior lies the ambition to have software undertake sustained, productive work. Finally, four robots in MIT jerseys row a ProRL shell. ProRL brought humanoid robots into public sporting events. Its website now records the venture’s closure, so the crew preserves a chapter in the portfolio’s history. The invented rowing team also makes Massachusetts unmistakable: even the bath toys have collegiate athletic aspirations. Together, these objects turn a portfolio into a miniature civilization: chips, computing markets, scientific discovery, automated work, animal understanding, coastal repair, and infrastructure beyond Earth. Triplett sits at their center as patron, collector, and delighted participant. The account extends the joke in a follow-up, prescribing a Tony Montana music video until the portfolio gains an eleventh company. Beneath the theatrical bravado is a sincere celebration of backing ambitious people early. The future is enormous. For one gloriously unserious moment, it fits in Tony Massachusetts’s bathtub.