investor at @greycroftvc focused on AI, data and consumer

San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2021
Sharing some thoughts on an emerging tension between the progress on long horizon agents and the popular business model of selling the work. tl;dr there's an underdiscussed risk in customer contracts
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Worst idea of the day goes to governmental official of relatively small country who suggested they would require AI companies to publicly disclose to their product safety commission within 24 hours of discovery all software vulnerabilities. 🤦🏻‍♂️🙅🏻‍♂️☠️
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Kishen Patel retweeted
Tinker changed how people do post-training. We're big fans, and so are many of the teams we work with. But as those teams scale up, they keep raising the same two problems: per-token pricing gets expensive quickly, and you’re limited to the models and features the provider decides to support. We think a good API deserves more than one implementation. Today we're releasing Spindle, an open-source, Tinker-compatible training server that runs in your Modal workspace. Your existing Tinker scripts run unchanged, and because you own the server, you pay for GPU time instead of tokens.
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Kishen Patel retweeted
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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Congrats to the @Recursive_SI team!
Today, we release our first model, Flint-40B-A2B, a fast local coding model built with our automated research system. huggingface.co/RecursiveSI/f… 1. Strong performance. 54.9% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, 89.7% on SWE-bench Pro v2, and 74.2% on SWE-bench Verified. 2. It is trained from scratch (tokenizer->Pretrain->Midtrain->SFT->RL). 3. Fast in your local laptop. Up to 2x faster than comparable models: 125+ tokens/sec on a MacBook Pro, 150+ on RTX Spark. 4. We build the complete model training pipeline in 4 month!
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Recursive Flint is here: our first model, built with the Eureka Machine. Fast, local coding. Open weights available on Hugging Face.
Introducing Flint, @Recursive_SI’s first model: a fast local coding model built with our automated research system, the Eureka Machine. • Best-in-class fast local coding • Up to 2x faster than comparable models: 125+ tokens/sec on a MacBook Pro, 150+ on RTX Spark • Built from scratch in under 4 months Private, unmetered intelligence on your own machine. Open weights available now on @huggingface, run it locally on your favorite framework or try it for free on @opencode or @pidotdev.
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Kishen Patel retweeted
Introducing Flint, @Recursive_SI’s first model: a fast local coding model built with our automated research system, the Eureka Machine. • Best-in-class fast local coding • Up to 2x faster than comparable models: 125+ tokens/sec on a MacBook Pro, 150+ on RTX Spark • Built from scratch in under 4 months Private, unmetered intelligence on your own machine. Open weights available now on @huggingface, run it locally on your favorite framework or try it for free on @opencode or @pidotdev.
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Kishen Patel retweeted
Back when calculators were a little more controversial, v/@JonErlichman.
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🙌 thank you to everyone that checked in!
#NorteFire Update All evacuation orders lifted. Via La Mirada remains closed to vehicles north of Esperanza. • 570 acres • 25% containment • Cause under investigation Damage assessment teams surveyed the area today and confirmed seven homes were damaged or destroyed.
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this is my hometown where my family and closest friends live. it’s been a stressful few hours and not out of the woods yet but thank god for @CAL_FIRE and folks trying to keep my community safe
Another clip from my sister #NorteFire Pray for San Clemente
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Kishen Patel retweeted
🚀 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is here! Stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs than the previous version—a Pareto improvement in performance and cost. Now live on our website, app, and API. 🛠️ Optimized for @DeepSeekHarness, Tencent CodeBuddy, WorkBuddy, and more. Upgrade to DeepSeek Harness v0.2.1-rc.1 or later for the best experience with the new model. 1/4
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Kishen Patel retweeted
When we started Bee, we imagined a future where personal AI could truly understand your world, remember what matters, and proactively help you navigate everyday life. Today, we’re introducing Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse. Frontier is our next-generation wearable, with wristband and clip options. Eclipse is an entirely new form factor that attaches magnetically to your phone and works with both in-person conversations and phone calls. We’re also introducing new integrations with Alexa+ and Amazon.com, all built with the same commitment to privacy through Bee Private Compute. Two new devices, more ways to experience Bee, and another step toward making ambient personal AI a reality. Really proud of this team and what we’re building. We’re just getting started! 🐝 aboutamazon.com/news/devices…
Introducing Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse, two personal AI devices designed to remember the moments that matter most. One wears on your wrist. One attaches to your phone. Both keep you present. ↓
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Kishen Patel retweeted
Introducing Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse, two personal AI devices designed to remember the moments that matter most. One wears on your wrist. One attaches to your phone. Both keep you present. ↓
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cool stuff from @bee__computer!
Excited about our new Bee devices launching today. They turn your conversations into summaries, to-dos, and reminders, so the details are there when you need them. Bee Frontier goes on your wrist or clips to your clothing, and Bee Eclipse snaps to the back of your phone to catch what you'd otherwise forget throughout your day, whether it's notes from a class you're taking, the details of a trip you're planning, or an idea that comes to you in the car. They connect to Alexa+ and Amazon.com, so the things you mention are easy to find later. And you're always in control…one button turns it on or off, a light shows when it's on, audio is never stored, and only you can see your data. Think folks are gonna find this really handy. aboutamazon.com/news/devices…
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it was either this or stock footage of driving through puddles in the mountains
BREAKING: Elon Musk has unveiled the Tesla Roadster by launching it off a ramp, where it flipped in midair before landing safely on the ground.
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Kishen Patel retweeted
interpretability might be the most important scientific problem in the world right now, as I don't think we can solve alignment if we don't know what we're building. I think I have good news about it. I co-authored early work in mechanistic interpretability at OpenAI and came away pessimistic, because neural networks appeared to fold into arbitrary tangled knots. years later, I started openai's first large-scale automated interpretability project, finding about 2% of neurons legible with the primitive tools we had with modern agentic tools and a much closer look, the picture looks totally different. the vast majority in models up to trillions of parameters are legible, and their circuits beautiful. many famous examples of tangled neurons turned out to be misunderstood. The roadblocks I expected mostly aren't there. I now think ambitious interpretability will be solved by the time we need it most, and possibly quite soon, as automated scientists keep improving. it may be a bitter lesson for interpretability: the simple thing, at absurd scale, works already-clean.goodfire.com/
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Kishen Patel retweeted
Interpretability blogs are the recipes blogs of ML. Not sure, why I have to read through the story of your grandmother's first house to find out you used gradients.
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“i’m still of this mindset and haven’t changed my mind”
As I stated on the pod, it’s more critical for Ant to get public and get the $200B they need than to optimize for valuation. Find the market clearing price and go public asap. My guess, a few weeks ago, was that this price was +/- $1T. I’m still of this mindset and haven’t changed my mind.
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JUST IN: Vibecoder reverse-engineers Microsoft Office using AI, releasing free, open-source alternatives to Word, Excel, & PowerPoint.
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Kishen Patel retweeted
Many thanks to @adam__xyz for creating the space to write in his leafy Brooklyn atrium this morning.
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