Praful Konduru

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Praful Konduru

Praful Konduru

@0xpraful

building @OpenAI, prev at @MetaAI

Katılım Ekim 2012
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Edward Sun
Edward Sun@eedwardsun·
I joined @OpenAI earlier this year to work on agents for knowledge work artifacts (slides, spreadsheets, and docs) and super excited for today's launch. The whole company has been cooking so hard building the future of work, and building it has given me so many "wow" moments. A few examples 🧵
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Stephen
Stephen@siegerts·
Excited to share that I've joined @OpenAI on the Codex team! The barrier between an idea and building it has never been lower, and we're just getting started. You can just build things!
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Praful Konduru
Praful Konduru@0xpraful·
the bottleneck in home robots isn’t the brain its the hand. every launch that ships with teleop as a fallback is quietly admitting the same thing: dexterity isn’t solved, so a human hand fills in. llms had an internet of text to learn from. there is no internet of touch. until that data exists, robots will roam the home fluently and fumble the last six inches.
Weave Robotics@weaverobotics

Today, we’re launching our home robot Isaac 1. Isaac 1 deliveries will begin this fall. Order yours below.

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Praful Konduru
Praful Konduru@0xpraful·
prompts can only carry the judgment an expert can articulate. Training captures the part they can’t. Frontier models read salience, experts read materiality, and the labeled data that bridges that gap is the actual moat. Not the weights.
Ravid Shwartz Ziv@ziv_ravid

Bridgewater and Thinking Machines just published a blog on training a custom model to replicate expert investor judgment. The task is filtering financial documents and news for relevance. Sounds trivial. Turns out it's not.

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Praful Konduru@0xpraful·
everyone treating Meta selling excess compute as a contradiction is missing how buildouts actually work. You size your fleet for peak training runs, then it sits idle between them. Reselling that idle time is just smart utilization. buy for peak, sell the trough.
Wall St Engine@wallstengine

$META is reportedly developing a cloud business to sell access to excess AI compute, per Bloomberg. The internal initiative is called Meta Compute. The plans being considered: AI model access hosted on Meta infrastructure, similar to AWS Bedrock Raw AI compute capacity, closer to CoreWeave Developer access to Meta’s data centers, chips, and models

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Kasra
Kasra@kasrak·
I've joined @OpenAI to work on Codex @ajambrosino and team have built a very good app! It's the first coding agent GUI that got me out of the terminal Excited to help make it even better, especially as it goes beyond software engineers Also delighted to get to work with old friends @gpeal8 @tarstarr again
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jason
jason@jxnlco·
openai podcast called "reset button" where we bring on engineers to talk about the stuff they shipped this week
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George Pickett
George Pickett@georgepickett·
So with 5.6 we have - Sol (low, medium, high, xhigh, max) - Terra (low, medium, high, xhigh) - Luna (low, medium, high, xhigh) Not complaining about new models but how do you choose between Sol low vs Terra xhigh. So many combinations to choose from
OpenAI@OpenAI

Sol is our new flagship and a step function better than GPT-5.5. Terra delivers performance competitive to GPT-5.5 at 2x lower cost. Luna is our most cost-efficient model, delivering strong capability at our lowest cost. Together, the GPT-5.6 family gives people and developers more choice in how they balance intelligence, speed, and cost.

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Praful Konduru
Praful Konduru@0xpraful·
this verifiable vs grindable framing is interesting but i think it overweights how much perfect parallel simulation you actually need. the bigger thing holding computer use back for a while was just the models themselves being not great at the basics like screen understanding, precise clicking, dealing with changing UIs. codex’s computer use is super capable at this now and we started getting real traction without needing 1000 identical amazon checkouts running in containers. we can build decent sandboxes and recorded flows for a lot of common patterns, and for the messy real-world tail, online adaptation + memory + outcome-based feedback seems more practical than offline RL grind anyway. the long-horizon high-stakes stuff (politics, building big businesses) will always be slow regardless ie feedback loops are just long by nature.
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp

Here's a question I find confusing and interesting and which actually tells us a lot about the nature of current AI progress: Why has progress on computer use been so slow? Computer use is so clearly verifiable. I think the answer is that it is not enough for a domain to be verifiable. It also has to be very grindable—in the sense that you can run lots of parallel rollouts against a deterministic and replayable simulator. If you’re trying to make a model better at coding, you can create an environment that has a software repo with some missing feature that you’ve tasked the AIs with creating, and then you have a thousand parallel agents just go at the problem, each with their identical copy of the container. But this doesn’t work with computer use—at least not trivially. You can’t have a thousand agents go try the same checkout flow on Amazon. Because Andy Jassy will find and detect your bots and shut your ass down. How would we train an AI to build a business? How would you make an AI that’s really good at winning court cases? Or having a profitable day trading in the markets? Or helping a candidate win an election? What is the RL environment to make an AI as good at politics as Lyndon Johnson, or as good at building a space launch business as Elon Musk? The rollout requires interacting with the world and cannot be recreated simply within the datacenter. And the outer loop verification may take months or years of real world actions to elicit, and cannot be re-observed by perturbing the model’s actions thousands of times in parallel so that you can isolate what exactly the model did that actually worked.

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