In love with all things consumer tech📱 Prev CS @UCSanDiego. Worked on startups in the Bay Area. AI research: https://teapawt.net/t.co/VzTlNMSKEw. Love lifting & electronic 🎶
Spiritually in SF
Joined October 2017
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We switched 10 people from iPhone to Blue. Weeks later, none of them want their iPhone back.
Introducing Blue: a phone you just talk to. Tell it what you need, and it gets done.
It has all the context, can use every single app, and even triages your notifications.
We built it for people who always have a little too much to do. The ones buried in messages, notifications, and to-dos.
If that's you, get yours today.
Backed by Y Combinator + 70 other VCs & angels.
heyblue.com
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Today, we're shipping real-time graphics.
Using Sol 6.1 Ultrafast we can generate custom overlays, diagrams, and even interactive 3D scenes right on a user's screen, no chat.
It's a new visual interface for AI.
Here's me learning about LLMs + hardware.
Demo:
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We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
Bullish on her work ever since I stumbled upon braelyn.ai. So unique and full of ‘personality’.
Hyped to see what comes out next!
Today, I’m sharing that I quit my job to build the next generation of intelligent software.
The chat interface is a bottleneck for working with agentic software. I believe that the future of SaaS is generative and visual, understanding users' needs and adapting, not waiting for a prompt. Incredible progress has been made with personal agents, yet the limitation lies in the ergonomics.
In the past year, I led a team of engineers building remarkably capable, non-chat agentic software for some of the most influential firms in the world. Before that, I built leading-edge agentic infrastructure tooling. Now I'm putting those learnings into a product.
I believe so strongly in this that I left my job at our acquiring company to pursue solving this problem full-time.
I cannot wait to share the first realization of this vision. More to come very soon!!
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Arnav retweeted
We’re releasing the world’s best Indic voice AI model, fully open-weight. 🇮🇳🇮🇳
With over 1.5 billion people and 22 official languages, the future of AI for India is voice-first.
Maya-2 officially outperforms ElevenLabs v3, Cartesia Sonic 3.5, and Bulbul v3 across Indian languages.
It will be completely free for every builder very soon.
Arnav retweeted
My dear friends, I’d like to show you my latest toy project
Introducing Handwired: turn your regular JavaScript code into a neural net!
- no training
- exact outputs vs the JS program
- fully differentiable
All runnable in a browser, without GPU
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$52M seed round. 15M+ users. But this is what we're most proud of yet.
Introducing Drama 3: the most emotive and controllable TTS model in the world
And yes, it's open-weight.
You can now control how even a single word should sound, change its tone, and shift your voice mid-sentence.
Uncle Roger was impressed too.
Try it here:
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Comment “DRAMA” within the next 48 hours for 1 month free.
If you're an enterprise your first month is on us:
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Arnav retweeted
Hosting 2nd edition of Voice research Club San Francisco w/ @shobhitbanga and @rjrshr
Attaching a small teaser of my talk. :) Link to join in comments.
Visit us while you are here for COLM or SF tech week.
Arnav retweeted
After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI?
I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev
• 20-200x faster
• 40-400x cheaper (w/ output tokens free)
• Frontier composable intelligence optimized for decisions
AFAICT the shortest path to AI-based economic revolution
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My first "holy shit" moment with GPT-6 Astra:
I asked it to create a world in Unreal Engine, and fill it with humans (each an Astra-powered agent) who all have to work together to survive.
A day later, I was in my bedroom and heard voices coming from the living room... I thought someone was in my apartment.
I walked out, honestly a little scared.
It was the Astra agents. They'd started talking to each other.
Fucking crazy.
Here's a brief clip (obviously not 100% perfect yet, but still, insane. sound on!):
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Upcoming wave of consumer apps won't be 'generative AI.'
Apps generating AI photos and videos feel like the flashlight apps of early iPhone.
I think we'll see a first huge breakout using personal data as the mine — and I don't mean just personal assistant stuff but experiences sitting on top of users' real camera rolls, etc.
Arnav retweeted
introducing fanout,
the everything learning app for engineers, curated by people building at the frontier.
your career has no fixed curriculum. neither does fanout.
become an ai researcher, a systems engineer, or find your own niche, fanout is a living archive of everything worth learning to become a better engineer.
Arnav retweeted
This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026.
ordinaryabundance.com
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Find something that exists that inspires you and chip in. If nothing inspires you, start something that would. Find others like this. Repeat until career is done.
“harness for human improvement” what a clean framing!
The correct* product form will enable ~1000x+ ROI for consumers long-term.
The potential here in this exact space is ULTRA underrated at the moment.
*hint: reducing execution overhead >>> knowledge dissemination.
The $1T consumer AI company is a “harness for human improvement”
Think “/loop make me happier”
Product problem: what are the life loops, what is happy?
Interface problem: i think the chatgpt desktop omni voice approach is the right one
Economic problem: need cheaper models or higher willingness to pay, both are happening
The big thing is the product design problem .. that requires creativity and courage .. we need RSI for consumers .. their money, friendships, self development, fulfillment, hijinks and fun .. each of those things is huge huge huge
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