Sam Brunt

@mignano 👋 @OvermindLab

For the first time in ~3 years, it feels like the AI table has been flipped over. Yes, the labs and hyperscalers will have the highest chance of resetting it before everyone else, given their vast capital, frontier model, and compute advantages. But there is now a window for a new ecosystem to emerge. A "rebel alliance," which is what we're calling it at @USV. We are excited by open weight models, distributed compute, human-aligned agents, routing, open source harnesses, the orchestration layer, and a lot more. Basically, anything that gives people and enterprises powerful intelligence while maintaining tight incentive alignment, we're into it.

@eoghan @salesforce @fin_ai Holy f. Incredible outcome, congrats! Leading the way from Europe ❤️

We’re excited to share that we just signed an agreement for @salesforce to acquire @fin_ai for ~$3.6B. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027. Fin started as Intercom 15 years ago. We changed our name to cap our transformation just weeks ago. We were a darling of the SaaS era and invented so many of the patterns you see in software today. Nearly four years ago, in need of a reboot, we jumped on weeks-old modern LLMs to create and define the category we know as Customer Agents today. Salesforce invented modern software and SaaS. And @benioff is like the final boss of tech founder CEOs. In seat for 27 years, he’s one of the last of his era. Still pushing, pivoting, placing big bets. It’s a privilege for @destraynor and I to get to partner with him and join forces with Salesforce upon close at this most fascinating time. And will be very fun to get their help bringing Fin to magnitudes more consumers. To our customers: Over the past few years we’ve been shipping intensely. Including recently our groundbreaking model, Apex, and our paradigm-defining internal agent, Operator. With the resources of Salesforce this will only accelerate. And yet little will practically change. I’ll still be CEO, Des will still be running R&D, we’ll both still be committed to continuing to lead this category. Thank you very sincerely and deeply for your belief in us. To all of our friends, our families, and our employees, past and present: While this is not the end, it is a major, pivotal, special, and emotional moment for us. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. For everything. To my cofounders, my exec team: Look what we built. Four young lads with a dream and nothing to lose. And a home grown exec team who pulled off the greatest and arguably only late stage software company pivot to AI, and invented one of the most important categories in AI. Thank you for sticking through all of this with me. And now, time to get back to work. See you at our next product launch in a couple weeks. (:

Bruh

To achieve everything that Satya describes, I present @OvermindLab

@julien_c Working on this @OvermindLab

Agentic Eval is still massively under-resourced as a field

@TechCrunch It’s called Big Token

Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/dat…

@SebJohnsonUK @MaxJunestrand @LDNTechWeek Film it in the speaker room

@sambrunty @MaxJunestrand @LDNTechWeek I’ll bring Winston out

Another generational AI company is doubling down on London. I'm speaking to @MaxJunestrand this afternoon at @LDNTechWeek all about this and Legora's meteoric rise. Gonna be FUN

@Londonmaxxing @ag_grid @arizeai @Cloudflare @ElevenLabs In the true spirit of Londonmaxxing what about @OvermindLab as a London-based track partner…. Maybe swapping for some of the SF based ones 🤭

Mighty people of London. May we present... 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗮𝘅𝘅𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟬𝟬𝟯: 𝗠𝗮𝘅𝘅𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻 The hackathon to make London the greatest city in the world to live and build in. Saturday July 4th at Ramen Space Powered by @ag_grid @arizeai @Cloudflare @ElevenLabs @OpenRouter @useTRMNL @zeddotdev

@connorhpbrn You can pair up on the day and we’ll have a discord where you can meet people

@sambrunty This looks dope, just need a team tho

We need more hackathons in London w/ young people i.e. <20 years old.

@AkashBajwa96 top content

Software Synthesis passed 8,000 subscribers. As company builders and investors, we're all still figuring out this paradigm: what does it mean to be AI-Native as a company, should application AI companies post-train or not, how service-heavy should your GTM be, how should we think about margins today and in the future, and many more questions.. Each essay becomes a conversation with readers that sharpens my thinking on these subjects. I'm excited to continue navigating this paradigm with all of the founders, operators and investors on this journey!

@ClementDelangue Keep fighting the good fight 🙏🏼

Routing and post-training open-source models won't only give you more accurate systems but also meaningfully faster and cheaper systems as most companies are currently learning (in addition to giving you more control and privacy). The idea that a "frontier" model (by frontier we mean is slightly more accurate on a few very limited benchmarks) will be better for all domains, all tasks, all setups just doesn't hold up! It's marketing for making you pay more!

@indiamctaggart Did he try some WMCJ? I don’t want my deliveroos redirected to the palace.

Prince William pulls a pint in the Prince of Peckham as he throws his weight behind supporting British pubs🍻 “We need to protect our pubs,” he said while chatting to people at the local. Here’s William pulling a Red Stripe with Clem Ogbonnaya, who owns the pub.

@lukeharries gaming inspo is awesome. definitely feel some similarities with ours overmindlab.ai from amazing team at newgenre.studio

Now this is the coolest website I’ve seen in a long time

@botirkhaltaevv @modal great move mate!

personal update: i'm joining @modal modal unequivocally is the best AI infra company. i've been a customer for about a year now. i'm in london for two months, if any startup seed and above is willing and able to move to modal. DM me. I will help out personally

@frankterpo @Thrads_ai @cursor_ai @benln @ftnabeelah @OvermindLab @HalkinOffices @alpic_ai @EarlybirdVC @IODowningStreet @davidgelberg @duku_ai @StrandVentures Always on point 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻

S/O @Thrads_ai:Giorgio+Alex co-running, @cursor_ai: @benln+@ftnabeelah credits, @OvermindLab: @sambrunty+Rohit+Pritam supervision, @HalkinOffices: Oli, @alpic_ai: Anastasia, @EarlybirdVC: Umberto+@IODowningStreet:@davidgelberg+@duku_ai:Will+@StrandVentures: John, Swift Food: Masa

"It's all a rich tapestry. Everything we do builds on what came before. That's the beauty of the web; it's a giant, collective experiment in full circle." - Evan Williams (Twitter & Medium Co-Founder) Full circle moment. Won @Thrads_ai´s hack, now collab @cursor_ai adtech hck 🧵

@alex__mackenzie @Sirupsen @turbopuffer 🎯

Feels like a good time to re-share this one. Mega congrats @Sirupsen & team @turbopuffer. Cache money indeed! whynowtech.substack.com/publish/post/1…

@FortuneMagazine Are we still giving this guy airtime in 2026?

"We got rid of our HR team.” Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow defended sweeping workforce cuts at Bolt—including a recent layoff affecting roughly 30% of employees—as well as his decision to eliminate the company’s HR team. #FortuneWorkplaceSummit | bit.ly/3Rk2jkS

Anthropic going to extreme lengths to nerf the @OvermindLab product launch