CTO @ @slate_iq. Previously: Founder/CTO of @connect4_app, @TrendyCoders @SecretStatusApp @lengo_ads. CPO at @cognism
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Had a bit of fun yesterday building an LLM (Nanochat) and fine-tuning GPT2 at one of @ianozsvald AI playgroups.
Prompted Claude Code a couple of times to make a video to explain what we got up to (it built it using Remotion and OpenAi voice)
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I got early access to Project Genie from @GoogleDeepMind ✨
It's unlike any realtime world model I've tried - you generate a scene from text or a photo, and then design the character who gets to explore it.
I tested dozens of prompts. Here are the standout features 👇
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Axiom sets out to build an AI mathematician.
We are the underdog.
4 months old, 2 years late to the game, under 10 FTEs (recently grew to 17), and had 1:5 in funding and in valuation to our competitor.
Today, AxiomProver solved Erdos Problems #124 and #481 in Lean, a 100% verifiable language.
Onwards!
Billionaire hedge fund manager makes case for taxing billionaires to address our nearly bankrupt governments. Makes more sense than killing public services, the middle class or Stopping Boats:
linkedin.com/pulse/big-dange…
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My God. Each pair of shoes is a child's life.
Those compounding errors really get you!
After building multiple AI agents in production, I'm convinced 90% of current approaches are fundamentally broken, Most companies are building expensive chatbots and calling them "agents." Here's what actually works (and what doesn't):
utkarshkanwat.com/writing/be…
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Gemini 2.5 Pro is taking off 🚀🚀🚀
The team is sprinting, TPUs are running hot, and we want to get our most intelligent model into more people’s hands asap.
Which is why we decided to roll out Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) to all Gemini users, beginning today.
Try it at no cost at gemini.google.com
📣 Today, we’re introducing Gemini 2.5, our most intelligent AI model.
An experimental version of Gemini 2.5 Pro is available now in the Gemini app for Gemini Advanced users: gemini.google.com/app
Let’s get into this update ⬇️🧵
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🚨 BREAKING: Trump just signed an executive order in a federal power-grab of state elections, forcing states to adopt his rules, or risk losing funding. It’s one of the most extreme attempts to centralize power over elections in U.S. history.
democracydocket.com/news-ale…
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Gemma 3 is here! Our new open models are incredibly efficient - the largest 27B model runs on just one H100 GPU. You'd need at least 10x the compute to get similar performance from other models ⬇️
I’m done, if this is the town square, I’m moving towns, it’s broken and toxic here. The “thoughts” being published here are unwelcome in my head
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Three years ago today, Russia launched an unprovoked, brutal invasion of Ukraine. A few short weeks later, @KarenPence and I travelled with @SamaritansPurse and witnessed firsthand the flood of women and children fleeing the Russian onslaught near the Ukrainian border. We will never forget it.
Every day since, Ukrainian soldiers have bravely fought and died on this front line of freedom and the American people and our Allies have rightly given them the means to defend their nation. As Leader of the Free World, America must continue to Stand Strong and lead free nations to give Ukraine the support they need to win a victory for their sovereignty, security and freedom. Slava Ukraini🇺🇸🇺🇦
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Here is Europe. We have happily paid three times as much to Ukraine as the USA. We are not asking for anything in return and we are not extorting the Ukrainians while they are fighting for their lives. Because we are not assholes.
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Putin started a war that killed hundreds of thousands -- but you will never hear even one ounce of modest criticism of Putin from certain people.
It's REALLY strange huh?
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Trump announced for the first time the actual figures of US aid to Ukraine: America provided $67 billion in military aid and $31.5 billion in direct budget support.
So the total amount of US aid to Ukraine is less than $100 billion, and not $350 billion, as Trump previously stated.
And why did Trump lie before?
Oh yes, that's his nature.
