anand iyer

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anand iyer

anand iyer

@ai

Managing partner Canonical · Venture Partner Lightspeed · Father · Husband · Few-shotting tech, open source

San Francisco, CA Katılım Şubat 2008
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Supply chain as a service. This rhymes a lot with the AWS playbook: build something for yourself, realize you can resell excess capacity/infrastructure. UPS has long been a strong partner to Amazon but this looks like competition.
Amazon@amazon

TODAY: Amazon is opening its entire logistics network—freight, distribution, fulfillment, and parcel shipping capabilities—to every business, of all types and sizes. 📦 Amazon has built one of the most reliable and efficient supply chains on Earth. Now, Amazon Supply Chain Services gives all businesses access to the same infrastructure that moves, stores, and ships goods for hundreds of thousands of Amazon sellers. Healthcare, automotive, manufacturing, retail, and more. Businesses across industries can now tap into Amazon's logistics network. Learn more here. ⬇️

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For models this small, like Karpathy's microGPT, a consumer CPU in well-optimized C actually crushes purpose-built hardware. If you can distill a model small enough, you don't need specialized chips, and you definitely don't need to etch it into custom silicon. A regular CPU core using a fraction of its capacity will do the job (and outperform it by a couple of orders of magnitude). This can be really practical for physical AI/robotics edge use cases.
Alex Cheema@alexocheema

My M4 Max MacBook gets 3,756,165 tok/sec in pure C, compared to ~50,000 tok/sec with the FPGA. Try it yourself: github.com/AlexCheema/tal…

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Kurzweil is back with a familiar claim: by 2029 we hit "longevity escape velocity." Life expectancy grows faster than you age. You start moving backwards on the clock. He might be directionally correct but it still won't matter the way he thinks. "Life expectancy" is a population statistic. "Longevity escape velocity" is a frontier capability. These are not the same things. Tuberculosis is curable and is the #1 infectious killer on earth. We have known how to prevent cardiovascular disease for decades and it's still the #1 killer, period. The bottleneck on lifespan has not been limited by "the tech" It's been access, cost, behavior, institutions, governments. And unless that changes, humanity is not going backwards in time. A small cohort of well-capitalized, well-diagnosed humans plugged into the frontier. Everyone else stays on the old curve.
Popular Mechanics@PopMech

A Scientist Says Humans Will Go Backwards in Time Within Just 3 Years popularmechanics.com/science/a71165…

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Heading to the wild with @boydvarty and 4 of my close brothers for a week of lion tracking, silence, and deep reconnection 🌍🦁 3 years ago I was walking the streets of London, discovered a @tferriss podcast with Boyd, ordered *The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life* instantly and devoured it in 2 days 📖❤️ I started sending screenshots to a friend going through a difficult time. He read it, loved it, bought 10 copies and shared them across Abu Dhabi. The book then reached another close friend… who declared: “We’re all going on Boyd’s safari.” After months of calls and waiting lists (it was booked for years), we finally got our spot ✨ Now, 2 years later — we’re off. A week of nature, lion tracking, stillness, earth connection, and Boyd’s legendary wisdom. I’ll be open-sourcing everything I feel with the lions. Stay tuned 🔥
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Bilal Zuberi@bznotes·
Thank you @semil, @aashaysanghvi_, and @DivyaDhulipala for a wonderful day at LP-GP Alignment Summit. Beautiful location, greater roster of speakers, and the guest list. 🙌🏽
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Celebrating 15 years of marriage today. The ultimate life hack is picking the right partner. Most of who you become is downstream of who you choose to marry.
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kache@yacineMTB·
you can outsource your thinking but you cannot outsource your understanding
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This learning-augmented robot ran continuously for >5 hours on a live factory floor, soldering motor cables at sub-millimeter tolerance without a safety cage, next to human workers. >99% pass rate on quality control. And It was trained on less than 20 minutes of real-world data! The task it automated was previously done entirely by hand. It matched human speed while being more consistent. This sort of practical real world work is the kind that will look more important in hindsight than it does today.
Yunho Kim@awesomericky99

We present "hybrid system" that supplements conventional automation with "learning" for task & safety-level adaptiveness Deployed in factory for motor cable soldering (< 0.6 mm tolerance), resulting 108 motors, 99.4% SR with < 20 min data per task Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.22235

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This is the AI use case that matters most and gets talked about least.
Mayo Clinic@MayoClinic

A Mayo Clinic-developed artificial intelligence (AI) model can help specialists detect pancreatic cancer on routine abdominal CT scans up to three years before clinical diagnosis. It identifies subtle signs of disease before tumors are visible, when curative treatment may still be possible. The findings, published in Gut, mark a milestone in Mayo Clinic's multiyear research effort to enable earlier detection of one of the deadliest cancers. Learn more: mayocl.in/4eippBP

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This is a helpful artifact: a public, end-to-end accounting of what shrinking a frontier robotics model actually costs. Haptic Labs got Pi0.5 from 16GB runtime memory down to 3.1GB (now fits on a Jetson Orin Nano), 2.8x faster. And they have published the compression recipe. Worth reading if you're trying to deploy AI on constrained hardware, or if you've ever wondered why reproducible papers still need dedicated ML/eng teams.
David Alves@dribeiroalves

Spent some time shrinking a real robot policy (pi0.5) down to fit on the smallest Jetson NVIDIA makes (the $249 Orin Nano). Was a ton of fun, and I learned a lot! Writeup below 👇

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The AI-powered consumer hardware renaissance
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This is the google trends chart for Fraunces font, a relatively unknown font till about 2 weeks ago. Now I see it on almost all prototype websites & slide decks. And this serif will now serve as training data for the next wave of AI tools.
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I have had the privilege of being in Semil's orbit for ~15 years. Semil & Haystack were our first check when we started Trusted. And he was a massive catalyst in helping me get Canonical off the ground. He is a true artisan of his craft and cares deeply about the people he works with. Huge congrats on the new funds!
Semil@semil

[brief update] we have a new set of funds for @haystackvc announcing haystack 8 plus more, but it's really about my teammates @aashaysanghvi_ & @DivyaDhulipala thank you to all of our frequent ecosystem co-conspirators, our LPs, our co-investors, our founders. i'm very grateful 🙏 and this is the most fun role in the world! semilshah.com/2026/04/26/new…

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