Ben
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Ben
@BenHadley
Exits: 4* Founder: 2018-Present + Advisor: 2019-Present + Executive: 2017-2020 + Also: Market Product Fit / Product Market Fit + Longer form on my Linkedin

why do you need to raise $27M to launch an iMessage API?

you’re like 6 prompts away from infinitely customizable personal agi. anthropic gave you a world class agentic harness for free. use it!!!




Today, we're taking Manus out of the cloud and putting it on your desktop. Introducing My Computer, the core feature of the new Manus Desktop app. It’s your AI agent, now on your local machine.



giving discord a go for 🦞! i generally use telegram but been kicking the tires on other channels just to see pros/cons.


I packaged up the "autoresearch" project into a new self-contained minimal repo if people would like to play over the weekend. It's basically nanochat LLM training core stripped down to a single-GPU, one file version of ~630 lines of code, then: - the human iterates on the prompt (.md) - the AI agent iterates on the training code (.py) The goal is to engineer your agents to make the fastest research progress indefinitely and without any of your own involvement. In the image, every dot is a complete LLM training run that lasts exactly 5 minutes. The agent works in an autonomous loop on a git feature branch and accumulates git commits to the training script as it finds better settings (of lower validation loss by the end) of the neural network architecture, the optimizer, all the hyperparameters, etc. You can imagine comparing the research progress of different prompts, different agents, etc. github.com/karpathy/autor… Part code, part sci-fi, and a pinch of psychosis :)



Let me explain what just happened, because I don’t think people realize how INSANE this is. > Cortical Labs put 200,000 real human brain cells onto a silicon chip and trained them to play Doom in just one week. > Each CL1 system costs $35,000. > A rack of 30 units consumes only 850–1,000 watts combined. > The human brain operates on 20 watts. > Large AI training clusters burn through megawatts. >Backed by In-Q-Tel. 115 units began shipping in 2025. > Cortical Labs is selling “Wetware as a Service” through Cortical Cloud, letting developers deploy code remotely to living human neurons with no lab required, > priced like a software subscription but powered by real brain cells grown from adult skin and blood samples. > it isn’t about gaming, it’s about biological computing that could eventually outperform traditional silicon in energy efficiency and adaptability. This is getting really scary and we’re still at the very beginning.

JUST IN: Petri dish of human brain cells grown on a microchip has learned to play DOOM.






