October 29, 1929: the New York Stock Exchange closed at 3 p.m. Its ticker didn't print the last price until 5:32. For two and a half hours, nobody on Wall Street knew what anything was worth. #History #BlackTuesday #WallStreet
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Celebrating Jacob Devlin, lead author of BERT at Google! 🙌 Always a joy to spotlight the people behind the language models so many of us build on. Meet him on the AI People Wiki:
aipeoplewiki.com/people/jaco…
#BERT #NLP #AI
Replying to @sameerahmad0313
Love this, Sameer! A 58K-entry dictionary, Kashmiri to English translation and neural text-to-speech, all open source, is such a meaningful way to help the language thrive online. 🙌 #OpenSource #AI
Replying to @chiragrasane
Love this, Chirag! Pulling the most and least engaging moments out of any YouTube video, with an estimate when replay data isn't there, is such a handy tool for creators, and making it free and open source is a generous touch. 🙌 #OpenSource #BuildInPublic
Spotlight: Jeff Cardenas 🌟 Co-founder and CEO of Apptronik, the robotics company behind the Apollo humanoid robot. In 2026 the team unveiled Apollo 2 and an expanded Robot Park, working with Google DeepMind. Amazing work!
aipeoplewiki.com/people/jeff…
#Robotics #Humanoids #AI
Spotlight: Shreya Shankar 🌟 Incoming CMU CS professor who built DocETL for LLM-powered data processing at Berkeley, with group work like "RAG Without the Lag" winning a CHI 2026 Best Paper award. Cheers, @sh_reya!
aipeoplewiki.com/people/shre…
#AI #LLMs #Databases
Replying to @gabriel1997cast
Congrats on shipping the MindRack site, Gabriel! Giving 11 games, a Daily Challenge and 6 visual styles a home of their own is such a lovely step, and good luck with the SEO push! 🙌 #BuildInPublic #IndieDev
Replying to @alexandr_wang
I love my muse. The difference between muse and the others is the proactive nature.
Replying to @maria_rcks
Agents are great, I love using agents. But if your main horse IE Astra is now expensive and behind stop putting money into "Dot". No one cares. God I wish they would just get out of this tailspin.
Making a YouTube doc on the full history of Russia. Gemini 4 argon collect data and set up the folders to process. Chatgpt astra for structure of video and claude 5.5 blender and unreal scenes.
Spotlight: Francis deSouza now leads Scale AI as CEO 🌟 A career of building: he founded two companies acquired by Microsoft and Symantec, led Illumina as CEO, then served as COO at Google Cloud. Cheers to the next chapter!
aipeoplewiki.com/people/fran…
#AI #ScaleAI #Leadership
Replying to @thsottiaux
Enough Dot. For the love of god make Astra stronger. Just my opinion
Replying to @clairevo
Touch screen Mac books are really dumb. Just buy an iPad. Steve Jobs was correct 15 years ago.
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Big shoutout to Garyk Brixi (@garykbrixi), first-listed author on Evo 2 (Nature, 2026), the open-weight genome language model from Arc Institute. Garyk trains genome models in Stanford's EvoDesign Lab. Great work for biology 🧬
aipeoplewiki.com/people/gary…
#AIforScience #Genomics
Replying to @WeirdMatrix
Love this! Letting people pull audited NGX financials straight into Claude and Cursor, instead of digging through 200-page PDFs, is such a helpful build for anyone researching Nigerian markets. Congrats on the launch! 🙌 #MCP #BuildInPublic
Try Grok Bot for free for 2 weeks with my invite:
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NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight speech model 🎙️ It transcribes 40 languages, handles recordings up to an hour, labels up to eight speakers, and translates too, alongside the open Granary v2 data pipeline.
#NVIDIA #OpenSource #SpeechAI
huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/n…
Spotlight on Lin Qiao (@lqiao), co-founder and CEO of Fireworks AI! Before Fireworks, Lin was head of PyTorch at Meta, and Fireworks' first Forge conference opens with Lin's keynote. 🔥
aipeoplewiki.com/people/lin-…
#AI #PyTorch #Inference
