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Morlord retweeted
Last year I thought Threads was an existential risk to X.
When Meta puts its full weight behind something -- by injecting the app into Instagram, it’s DEFCON 5:
You have to squeeze out every last drop of growth from all available surfaces to save the app.
However, I started to realize that the opposite was happening:
It was strengthening X.
If you look at any announcement by Zuck, you will see the most rude & toxic comments on the internet.
But when he makes those same announcements on X, people are thrilled about how he’s pushing humanity forward. X is a place where people are excited about the future, so it’s no surprise he and his top lieutenants are using it more than their own app.
Threads — and Bluesky — have effectively quarantined some of the worst people on the internet.
And so I had an epiphany: those apps are X’s anti-abuse systems.
Morlord retweeted
His advice matters because he has taken advantage of both the recent booms crypto and AI
Got generational exits in both
.@OpenRouter co-founder Alex Atallah on the "everyone is building the same thing" take:
"This reminds me of this tweet I saw... Everybody's building an agent loop with notifications, third-party connectors, context management, memory, sandboxes, agentic web search, an always-on agent on top."
"This product is showing up everywhere. It is showing up everywhere, but these are just the new table-stakes primitives."
"A 2005 version of that tweet would be: 'Oh, everybody's building the same thing. A database, a users table, a sign-in page, a sign-up page, a profile page, a logout page. Everything's the same.'"
"There's like a lot of differentiation really. There's table-stakes needs for AI just like there's table-stakes needs for the web."
@alexatallah @amasad
Morlord retweeted
.@OpenRouter co-founder Alex Atallah on the "everyone is building the same thing" take:
"This reminds me of this tweet I saw... Everybody's building an agent loop with notifications, third-party connectors, context management, memory, sandboxes, agentic web search, an always-on agent on top."
"This product is showing up everywhere. It is showing up everywhere, but these are just the new table-stakes primitives."
"A 2005 version of that tweet would be: 'Oh, everybody's building the same thing. A database, a users table, a sign-in page, a sign-up page, a profile page, a logout page. Everything's the same.'"
"There's like a lot of differentiation really. There's table-stakes needs for AI just like there's table-stakes needs for the web."
@alexatallah @amasad
.@OpenRouter co-founder Alex Atallah, in his first podcast since Stripe acquired the company, joins @Replit co-founder Amjad Masad and a16z's Erik Torenberg on why the future of AI is independence and specialization.
In this conversation, Alex walks through how the Stripe deal unfolded, why he wasn't originally looking to sell, and why "payments and inference are going to blend together."
Pre-OpenRouter, the typical AI workflow had one model provider to choose from, and little pressure on that provider to lower prices. Now enterprises are diversifying across labs and open-weight models, and every board is asking about AI costs and benchmarks.
Amjad argues if your company depends on one AI lab, it can turn into your competitor. So Replit is building the layer that lets enterprises use any model and any cloud, without being locked into either.
Alex and Amjad are split on personal agents – Amjad runs one agent across his whole company and loves the cross-domain joins, while Alex says general agents cause you to sacrifice understanding, and argues 10 specialized chiefs of staff beats one superagent.
0:45 How the Stripe deal unfolded
5:05 Why mixing models beats one model
7:25 Forcing the labs to compete on price
8:50 Enterprises want open-weight models
10:30 Every board asks about AI every month
12:25 Why companies must own their intelligence
14:15 Replit as the independence layer
15:10 Everyone is building the same agent
16:35 Why Amjad built bring-your-own-cloud
18:10 Amjad's agent that runs his whole company
19:55 Why 10 specialized agents beat one
23:35 Machines, not humans, should specialize
27:30 Guardrails for agents talking to agents
31:10 Models training their own replacements
33:45 Most tasks don't need a frontier model
40:50 Training small models on Qwen 8B
43:25 The Rust cycle is coming for AI
45:10 Fusion models: frontier quality at half the cost
YouTube: youtu.be/ekK8urKHPMQ
@alexatallah @OpenRouter @amasad @eriktorenberg
Decentralization is a cult of incompetence and deferring responsibility of results. At the end of the day someone has to accept responsiblity for the outcome of a protocol.
Crypto protocols have their own version of somalian fraudsters where "contributors" cash grants and sabliers for little to no execution, PMF, or adoption.
Crypto space really has a choice - grow the f up or get sidelined with random regulations.
Saying we can not do anything when we are programming decentralized system is just untrue.
Banks run AI for fraud detection but are inherently centralized and require KYC. At the same time KYC doesn't solve any of real problems as we know.
We have better data and talent to create systems that don't require KYC and actually deter criminals while giving full freedom to real users.
By working together we can totally weed out crypto of criminal activity. Criminal TAM is way smaller than all of economy moving onchain we are targeting.
Decentralization != disorganization
Jesse is a wizard and Erik is just maniacal about customer experience. It makes for a killer one/two punch.
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Morlord retweeted
Intelligence is becoming a tradeable commodity
It's getting tokenized, it's becoming yield-bearing, the value is accruing onchain
We're about to witness the largest wave of Onchain AI — The Rise of Inference Capital Markets
Markets that are early enough for asymmetric upside yet structured enough for builders to build on top of (from negligible rev last year to shooting for $100M this year)
Here are the sectors being built around it and who's building it ↓
The inflection point
A single, viral post on X skyrocketed Groq’s business.
Groq Founder @JonathanRoss321 was looking for a way to show people that fast inference would be extremely useful.
He remembered an example from Eric Schmidt showing off an LLM at a conference three weeks before the ChatGPT moment. Nobody in the audience cared.
Then he looked at what made ChatGPT’s launch successful and realized that it worked because they allowed people to ask their own questions.
“They got an answer to their question that was specific to them. That was magical.”
“Seeing text show up for someone else's answer wasn't magical.”
So he put Groq’s fast inference hardware on the internet for anyone to try.
Someone posted a video on X of an LLM running on Groq running super fast.
“It was just such eye candy when people saw it that everyone started creating their own and we just went viral.”
Incredible
BREAKING:
Anthropic just dropped Claude Fable 5—this is Mythos, made safe for public release. It is the best coding model in the world.
We've been testing it internally @every for the last week or so across coding, writing, marketing, editing, and more—here's our vibe check:
- It broke our benchmarks. Fable scored a 91/100 on our Senior Engineer benchmark—this is human senior engineer level. The previous high score was Opus 4.8 at 63. GPT-5.5 is a 62.
- It's a one-shot wonder. You can set it and forget for hours or overnight on huge coding tasks, and come back to completed work. It cleared entire production bug backlogs, built a playable 3D, and even made a 2-minute animated film—all one-shot.
- Taste and attention to detail. In coding and knowledge work tasks, it has much better taste and attention to detail than we've ever seen. It gets subtle things right, adds little features you might not have thought of, and generally understands the assignment in ways that surprised us.
- Great use of context. We set it loose analyzing customer feedback surveys and our website data and it came back with a crisp, clean report that identified a. our biggest problem and b. a concrete testable solution—and then we sent it off to build that.
- It's best for power users. If you're already used to orchestrating multiple agents in your work, this model can do things that you've never seen before. If you're a knowledge worker or vibe coder with a more basic setup, you're not going to notice a huge difference—in fact, it probably isn't the right model for you.
- It's very slow, token-hungry. Using this thing for regular knowledge work is like squashing an ant with a rocket launcher. It also routinely uses 500k to 1M tokens on tasks. That's why it's best for your heaviest jobs—but not as good for tasks like collaborative writing.
- It's expensive. It's about twice as expensive as Opus, and it's also incredibly token hungry—so expect it to be something you'll use sparingly unless your company pays for it.
Overall, I think of it like a warp drive for coding: It can get you across the galaxy in a few hours, when it used to take months or years. But it's not appropriate for getting around town—you need something faster, cheaper, and more maneuverable.
The ceiling is extraordinarily high on this model though. Even our most advanced testers like @kieranklaassen felt like they were only scratching the surface of it.
Want our full vibe check with all of our testing and benchmarks? Read it on @every: every.to/vibe-check/anthropi…
Morlord retweeted
New Google Gemma 4 12B claims near-26B performance - we tested both!
We ran both models locally on one RTX 4090 and gave each the same task: write a self-contained HTML5 canvas animation with real physics in one file without libraries. Three scenes - a Galton board, two blocks colliding off a wall, and a chaotic triple pendulum
Outputs:
Gemma 4 26B-A4B: 15 GB VRAM usage, 6.9k tokens, 138 tok/s
Gemma 4 12B: 9 GB VRAM usage, 8.9k tokens, 80 tok/s
Same Gemma 4 family, but the 26B-A4B won every scene and ran ~1.7x faster - on just 4B active params. The 12B stayed very close though, on almost half the VRAM - which makes it the ideal model for a 16 GB laptop
Morlord retweeted
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/brainpower_podcast/season_2/episode_3/emad_mostaque is live featuring @EMostaque (Founder of @ii_posts).
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