@willkenney

growth, ops, & vibes @turbopuffer

 nyc
Joined August 2011
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credit to @benwtrent -- welcome to the growth team
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gotta catch em all
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imo french puffy isn’t french enough
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new office just dropped
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Erik Kaunismäki
@ErikKaumOct 9
"so what did you do at during your time at the NY office?" "erhm, well..."
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turbopuffer
@turbopufferSep 30
we're changing tpuf's storage architecture so we can keep pushing the search frontier the new engine (v3) now passes CI, but we have to make it fast before we ship it to prod we're grinding query plans in public until v3 wins on everything follow along: turbopuffer.com/v3
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turbopuffer
@turbopufferSep 24
native reranking is now in private beta rerank query results using state-of-the-art reranker models, including Jev, without a third-party API call contact us for access
Erik Kaunismäki
@ErikKaumSep 24
we got something exciting for you 👀

Jev is a state-of-the-art search reranker

Article · @ErikKaum
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it's been months and yet every day i still wake up, open my laptop, and think "am i hot person or slop cannon today?"
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moo i mean puff i mean moo
turbopuffer
@turbopufferSep 10
your product is only as smart as the data it can reach. make your product smart. unleash your cow.
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Sahar Solimano
@saharsolimanoSep 4
we're puffin
turbopuffer
@turbopufferSep 4
we partnered with @appliedcompute to post-train a small model for large-scale code search over precomputed indexes at 300 repos, this is ~3x faster than using filesystem + grep, and reduces the marginal cost of a search by up to 100x vs frontier models turbopuffer.com/blog/large-s…

Post-training open-weight models for large-scale code search

Applied Compute partnered with turbopuffer to show that a small, specialized search model post-trained to use precomputed search indexes can achieve impressive search quality at a fraction of the...

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A 35B open-weight model trained to search a precomputed index answers repo search questions at 100x lower cost than a frontier model. We partnered with @turbopuffer to train Qwen3.6-35B-A3B to find code across ~9,000 repositories. It tops the needle-in-a-haystack task outright at 2-10x lower latency.
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Rehan Sheikh
@rehan_sheiSep 1
turbopuffer is one of my favourite companies! Not only is their product insanely performant , their merch game is lowk unrivaled
turbopuffer
@turbopufferSep 1
fal just made it possible to generate video faster than you can watch it turbopuffer makes it possible to search every video, image, and 3D model you generate on @fal → 300M+ assets → 225k+ namespaces → 17ms p50 hybrid latency customer log: [tpuf.link/fal]

fal scales media search to 300M+ assets on turbopuffer

fal shipped search in Assets so users and their agents can find and reference previously generated media assets. turbopuffer runs filtered hybrid search over 300M+ videos, images, and 3D models at...

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Simon Eskildsen
@SirupsenAug 26
just got back from a weekend of "summer camp" in Algonquin with the tpuf crew + families the wifi & weather was terrible but the vibes immaculate my daughter threw a "STAY STAY STAY CAMP" themed tantrum at the end
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sneak peek in the turbopuffer #maps channel, where our ceo is being very chill and not competitive
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How can you a product that is 10x cheaper or 10x faster than what is already out there? @Sirupsen (cofounder and CEO at turbopuffer) used "napkin math" - doing quick calculations to get rough answers - to get here. Full interview from AIE: youtu.be/h8TBLKyo7Rs Deepdive in The Pragmatic Engineer: newsletter.pragmaticengineer…
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lucas gelfond
@gucaslelfondJul 16
we are releasing our first open source project! puffgres is a sync service between Postgres and @turbopuffer. instead of two DB calls everywhere, you write ‘dumb’ JS transforms (i.e. tokenization, embedding) and the core handles logical replication, retries, batching, etc
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sister is calling norway-england match in miami “the sunscreen bowl”
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Devin Lewtan
@DevinLewtanJul 6
our team is remote but our roots are Canadian. when it came time for turbopuffer's first feature, Canada's The Globe just felt right. the piece is a window into our founding story, business, and customers. we're a lean team of 38 + thousands of happy customers. puff with us!
Simon Eskildsen
@SirupsenJul 3
Globe&Mail wrote a generous piece about turbopuffer theglobeandmail.com/business…

Inside the fastest-growing Canadian AI startup you’ve never heard of

Ottawa-based Turbopuffer could be a blueprint for the kind of tech company Canada needs to fulfill its AI ambitions

theglobeandmail.com
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Brie Wolfson
@zebriezJul 2
Worklife Update: I’m spending the summer with @turbopuffer 🐡☀️ This hardcore whimsical team (of only 38!) is doing something special and their product is exploding. The plan is to get even more people puffing and write about the experience. What do you want to learn about this mostly-bootstrapped pretty-Canadian AI darling making search cool again?
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