Alex Rankin

@omooretweets Wow. Another level up.

Truly an insane new image model 👀 Most realistic AI photos I’ve ever seen - had to riff on a few classics Excited for everyone to get access soon

[9:00AM at the office] I came here to eat some snacks and burn some tokens, and I’m all out of tokens

@benjaminshafii 8

i’m giving a 1-year openwork den plan to the first person who guesses how many times i applied to yc. reminder: openwork dens are hosted instances that keep your agents running 24/7. one guess per person (bots get blocked).

overheard at an SF party: "life is real"

@creatine_cycle @antoniogm The plot thickens

@antoniogm iranian beaches

>wake up >cancel all meetings >pop addy and a zyn >open up 6 screens with Osint x dot com accounts, defense stocks, sketchy telegram channels, pentagon pizza tracker, feet pics and caspian sea surf cams >lock in and monitor

@Seanfrank The gold rush for SEA has been around for years to be fair. It seems with every new category of commerce, the region is a testing ground - ie. Ali was testing live with Lazada before TikTok Shop came to town.

Ive heard two insane things: 1- South East Asia is the fastest growing ecom market on earth. All the big tech giants are pushing their betas here. It is the wild west. Billions in spend, millions of merchants, gold rush vibes. 2- Eastern Europe has higher ecom GMV than western europe. I didnt check this. But people are saying there are a dozen+ 100m+ brands JUST focused on the former soviet union. No UK, no Germany, No france. Poland, Romania, Croatia. High English penetration. Entire population online. GDP exploding. USA is still number one. UK, Canada, Australia easier expansion. But... Maybe the future is Malaysia, Indonesia, and Poland...

@ycombinator @GrazeMateInc @samrogerrs Legend work @samrogerrs

.@GrazeMateInc builds autonomous drones that herd cattle. Ranchers can spend hundreds of thousands per year moving cattle between fields; GrazeMate ranchers do it with three clicks on a phone. Congrats on the launch @samrogerrs! ycombinator.com/launches/PKm-g…

@creatine_cycle @dwarkesh_sp @_sholtodouglas This is the content we needed all along

🚨 New Series 🚨 while claude may be able to use your computer today can researchers use THE GYM?? i took my dear friends @dwarkesh_sp and @_sholtodouglas through a push workout while we talked about the AI thing (seems like a big deal). 00:43 - Standing Shoulder Press and: Are We Building Too Many Data Centers? 04:44 - Incline Dumbbell Press and: Should We Accelerate at All Costs? 08:40 - Lateral Raises / Pull-Ups Super Set and: Are AI Researcher Salaries Out of Control? 11:41 - CHESTMAXXER CHALLENGE PUSH-UP COMPETITION co-produced with Soon.

@saradu Let’s rally is underrated

we're rebuilding slack huddles & debating what to call it.. what would you rather say to a teammate? a) “want to jump on a call?” b) “let’s rally” c) “let’s go on air”

@gokulr Love this

Best articulation I’ve heard of why early stage startups need to be in person: “foxhole dynamics are extremely hard to remotely replicate”. If there is a better phrase than “foxhole dynamics” to capture the tension and stress and energy in a very young company, I’ve yet to encounter it.

@HarryStebbings Clearly a cricket pitch - invest in the next generation of cricketers mate - give us Aussies a challenge

We have a load of free office space. What recreational activity should we use it for? Wrong answers only… I want reformer Pilates 🤷‍♂️

@buccocapital Similar to China tech, literally all workflows are centralised on their internal messaging platform... Bytedance = Lark, Alibaba = Dingtalk. Barely used emails for years..

You: Software is dead OpenAI: “Everything, and I mean everything, runs on Slack”

@tbpn @seanfrank It’s true

We talked to @seanfrank about where the future of TikTok Shops are headed. "Inside TikTok, they don't see Meta as a competitor. They want to go after the YouTubes and Amazons of the world." "Amazon's big pot of money, $600B/year in e-commerce revenue, is something TikTok aims to tap into." "Amazon's at a point where it's pure value extraction with more ads. They signed up 100M Prime members so that business can't really grow anymore." "Pro-natalism might change that." - @jordihays

@StockSavvyShay @fiscal_ai I think the AI will kill Google is well overblown. I also think that an “AI-powered” search carousel for shopping, travel etc, does not seem like a tremendous technological advancement. Both can be true and willing to be proved wrong!

$GOOGL ISN’T LOSING SEARCH -- IT’S MOVING IT TO YOUTUBE. YouTube is testing an AI-powered search carousel for Premium users, focused on shopping, travel & local discovery -- another sign the “AI will kill Google” narrative is way overblown.

We’re using AI to improve cyclone prediction. 🌀 Introducing Weather Lab: a new interactive platform developed with @GoogleResearch, hosting our experimental AI weather model which can predict a cyclone’s track, intensity, size and structure. Here’s how it works. 🧵

@Daisy4ai We have been spending some time in this space, happy to share more - have sent a DM.

Hearing more founders of AI-powered ecommerce platforms complain about payment infra. Checkout flows weren’t made for agents. Time for a rethink.

@cyantist I have just sent you a DM - a lot to chat about in this space!

I invested in a company (launching soon) that makes clothing based off AI generated designs. This is my line of “Monkcore” tracksuits. Over the next few weeks, I’m booking some appointments with friends and potential investors. I’d love to co-design something with you. Dm me if interested!

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all the “team building events” in the world won’t beat a team of culturally aligned high competence people just executing with intensity to win together

@nickcrocker 🎯

Blink 182. Underrated.