21 | co-founder @knowlifyai (YC S25) | physics, cs
San Francisco
Joined May 2022
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Jonathan Maynard retweeted
The internet is dead. We’ve raised $35M total funding led by Khosla and Hanabi to bring it to life.
@coframe is a growth engine for your website/ads/more which tests, personalizes, & learns 24/7.
It’s working. Dropbox increased conversion by 158%. Replit, 410%. Cash App, 60%.
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
Today we release Mirage: A 22 MB visual-language model that runs scene descriptions + object detection + OCR + segmentation + spatial relations analysis + extractions + decisions, in a single pass.
It can do all that in 74 ms on Samsung Galaxy S26 NPU or 107 ms on its CPU.
Mirage has a 7.8M encoder + a 40.8M decoder at 2bits, and describes images in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Polish.
We trade general language capacity, to compete top small VLMs today (SmolVLM2-500M, LFM2.5-450M and Florence2-230m) on these tasks.
On 256 VQAv2 questions, feeding Mirage's structured output and full trace to text-only Qwen3-0.6B raised its score from 9.3 to 31.3 out of 100, without fine-tuning either model.
Read more and benchmark it yourself here:
cactuscompute.com/blog/mirag…
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
officially moving our office out of downtown SF after 12 months on Market Street.
a space that incubated over 100 startups just a few years ago is down to fewer than 10 teams today.
the physical reality of working here took a heavy toll. getting chased down the sidewalk by an aggressive bulldog. a close friend rushed to urgent care with severe bite wounds after another attack. 20+ street dog encounters, shattered car glass on every block, and another friend struck in the head by a stranger while standing in line for dinner.
startups require total obsession with product and execution. a team cannot build the future when everyday survival consumes half their focus between the transit stop and the front door.
San Francisco is still home, and we are relocating to a neighborhood where people can walk to lunch without fearing for their physical safety.
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
Crypto never sleeps. Neither do your agents.
You asked for it. We built it.
You can now deploy agents on Conviction that monitor and trade crypto 24/7.
Link in comments.
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
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:
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
Options trading is still painfully manual.
Watching charts on TradingView. Scanning options chains. Setting price alerts. Managing exits.
Today, we're launching Options Trading on Conviction.
What if trading options was as simple as describing your strategy? Conviction turns your idea into a trading agent that monitors the market, selects contracts, and executes when your conditions are met.
Link in comments.
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
Presenting R² Index, a global leaderboard of the top 800k "de-sloped" AI researchers, along with papers, patents, institutions, founders, startups, investors and countries.
I designed the algorithm to filter job applicants without relying on fancy metrics like alma-matter, but it ended up rediscovering common beliefs, while including industry underdogs like Georgi (llama.cpp author) in the top percentile.
I explain the algorithm in this thread, but the full ranking is here: r2index.fyi
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
@knowlifyai just passed the Turing test for educational video.
Researchers showed 170 students videos made entirely with Knowlify without telling them AI was involved.
Half couldn’t reliably tell.
Students averaged 86% on the follow-up quiz.
Each 3-minute video took just 25 minutes to create and verify. Great educational videos no longer need a production team.
Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2607.28203
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
I know the poster probably doesn't recognize this, and by no means am I saying this stuff isn't common in SF, but posts like these come off as incredibly gauche and tone-deaf. Our new American industrialists and technological leaders need to stop worshiping the superficial hierarchy of "success prestige" that they themselves have created within higher ed since the 2000s, and recognize that worshiping money is not cool or ironically cool.
What has always confused about the strivers is that they believe "grinding" or "working hard" is good in and of itself. What they fail to recognize is that simply "grinding" without any purpose makes you beholden to whoever profits from it. I want these strivers to think harder about why they are in the jobs they are in, why they work for the people they do, and, eventually, what purpose their grind really serves.
Grinding it not a virtue. A virtue takes a positive position, by which I mean a declarative one.
imo this country needs a counter-elite of young American industrial and technological leaders who direct their grind, above all else, toward the prosperity of the nation, and by that I mean its people and their collective economic and national self-interest. Unless our smart young people find it within themselves to grow up a little, they will continue to work hard for some vague notion of personal or societal prestige that forever leaves them empty.
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
The greatest video platform in the world
You now get 4.2x more video for the same price, plus a drastically improved experience on @knowlifyai
Try free now: create.knowlify.com
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
China is not putting moratoriums on data centers. The race for super intelligence needs to be won by the USA or our country and democracy will be at risk.
Thank you for your leadership, @GovKathyHochul.
A data center moratorium gives lawmakers time to put strong protections in place and guarantee AI benefits all of us, not just a powerful few.
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
The real class war is between the productive class and the parasitic class.
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to seize 50% of any AI startup that crosses $200M in revenue.
The same anti-prosperity bloc spent the year trying to ban startup acquisitions, blocking the only exit 85% of founders ever get.
This is a war on building startups in America.
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
Today, we’re excited to introduce Miso One, the most emotive voice model in the world.
Miso One is an 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model for highly expressive speech generation. It emotes like a human and responds faster than a human, with just 110 milliseconds of latency.
We’ve open-sourced the model weights, with API access coming soon.
Hear how Miso One sounds in the thread below.
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
the hate on @UseCorgi is so low-iq.
working 100+ hours a week is exactly how the greatest companies of all time were built
insurance is a world changing problem, especially in the ai era
the growth and energy at corgi is unreal and the playbook should be copied
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
It is perfectly acceptable to chant "USA" when you work at a company in said USA and just launched a ginormous rocket
Maybe @SpaceX can ask its engineers not to chant nationalist dogwhistles on the livestream please? 😒