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@paolo_scales London global time zone is superior. Miami , I agree on founder energy , but the bad stigma still hits there, I do love Miami though. New York, agreed unmatched Dubai yes I agree , but won’t be taken seriously on the big stage.

best cities live in as a founder in 2026: London 🇬🇧 - best ecosystem, capital, and talent pool in Europe Miami 🇺🇸 - weather, no state tax, founder energy everywhere New York 🇺🇸 - biggest networks, best investors, unmatched ambition Marbella 🇪🇸 - low cost, weather, surprisingly strong founder scene Dubai 🇦🇪 - zero tax, ambitious people, growing fast Milan 🇮🇹 - underrated, wealth everywhere, incredible quality of life Prague 🇨🇿 - cheapest high quality city in Europe, slept on Warsaw 🇵🇱 - fastest growing tech scene you've never heard of Medellin 🇨🇴 - low cost, great weather, digital nomad hub Hong Kong 🇭🇰 - gateway to Asia, finance and trade did I miss any?

@johnyeo_ Let’s connect if you’re in london bro!

whole team grinding on a holiday hits different (in london) 🤣

@MattEvantic I like this. The government do need to cut taxes though overall

OpenAI / Anthropic scaling up in London is wonderful for the UK. But we should make notice periods and non-competes above 60 days invalid and illegal. This will increase competitiveness for UK-based talent, increase pay & taxes and give UK startups better access to talent.

@DanielSmidstrup It’s already happening but I think in the next 8-12 months , given the current rate of innovation , we may see it will handle completely end to end

When do you think AI will generate 100% code?

@DrellLabs This is true , but I think if all of the major ai companies come and compete it will drive the prices up for talent, next 12-14 months will be interesting

@Mossiah Even if they don’t adjust the salaries down when negotiating, they still benefit from “cheap labour” in the sense they will get a much better candidate pool at that price than one would get at SF, because the rest of industry pays less.

They’re literally paying SF type prices in london. For people who say they’re coming to london solely for cheap labour is incorrect.

@Madcyril2001 Agreed london has some of the best talent in the world.

@Mossiah They are coming to London to access the best and brightest from our elite universities

@KaiXCreator Ya but that means Claude was your co founder 😂

Can you call yourself a founder if your entire product was built by Claude?

@tommy5dollar Interesting! I do think eventually we’ll hit equilibrium through competition for talent. If all the ai labs are competing it’ll raise the overall base of the market

@Mossiah My understanding is Anthropic come up with a global pay range for a role and they then convert it to the local currency for each country they're listing in. But when they actually make offers for they role they base them on local markets (-50% for London).

@Amank1412 For the cost they’re charging! It’s a steal

composer 2.5 is super impressive. back to cursor!

@donatingcrypto1 @SebJohnsonUK SF Is probably worse if I’m not mistaken

@SebJohnsonUK Don’t forget how much goes towards tax - Sad you’ll only see half of it!

Anthropic is hiring for 6 roles in London and is willing to pay up to £630k A YEAR for each. The AI lab is expanding its London presence and has secured a new office for 800 people. As part of this expansion it has over 40 open roles available in London. Six of these are for different research engineers (e.g. reinforcement learning, scaling etc..) with the salaries reaching up to £630k! This excludes stock options. BONKERS OpenAI, Anthropic, Ineffable Intelligence, Google DeepMind, Recursive... the war for AI talent is HEATING up in London. I wouldn't be surprised if salaries hit over £1m soon.

@_sanjay3 @trikcode Heavy prompt testing and comparing answers and capabilities, the thing is you can kind of give the open source models similar capabilities anyway too

@Mossiah @trikcode Share heavy rigorous testing plan

DeepSeek is free and almost as good as Claude. but we still pay $20/month because we've convinced ourselves the paid one understands us better.

@AskYoshik There’s a certain feel about open source which people don’t like , the capability is there. If fine tuned slightly , you’re probably better off with the open source option in 99% of cases for businesses. The price alone is more compelling

The AI pricing war is about to get very ugly for closed-source AI companies. DeepSeek V4 Pro: $0.87 Grok 4.3: $2.50 GLM 1.5: $3.08 Qwen 3.7 Max: $7.50 Opus 4.7: $25 GPT-5.5: $30 And people still think these margins survive long term? Open source models are getting intelligent, cheaper, faster, and enterprises care way more about cost than benchmarks. This is exactly why I keep saying the AI math feels weird. The tech is real. The current economics around it? not so sure.

@HelloVyom This is interesting. Do you know if they do digital cloning ?

stumbled onto something genuinely impressive today anam.ai - real-time interactive AI avatars with 180ms latency let me break down why I think this is one of the more underrated AI products right now 👇 most AI agents are either a chat box or a robotic voice. anam gives them a face. photorealistic. micro-expressions. no looping, no mouth-dubbing nonsense. the numbers are hard to ignore: → +44% engagement when your agent has a face vs text/voice only → CARA-3 (their latest model) is #1 across ALL avatar benchmarks in 2025 → 33% faster than the next-best competitor → 180ms avg response time, literally faster than a blink → 70+ languages with native voices → plug in your own LLM, your own voice, your own avatar image use cases they're already disrupting: customer support, sales, medical services, language tutoring, skill training and it's actually developer-friendly. clean SDK, LiveKit + Pipecat integrations, no-code option if you don't want to touch the API if you're building AI products or advising companies on AI strategy, this is one to watch

@sflorimm I love it , one my absolute favourite tools

@Mossiah clean ui and actually fast, good taste

Name a tech company that never disappointed you

@bindureddy Google , given the amount of resources they have at their disposal will leapfrog eventually , it’s not a matter of IF , it’s a matter of WHEN

June is going to be an insane month - Gemini 3.5 Pro - GPT 5.6 and 5.6 Pro - Sonnet 4.7 - Mythos (maybe?) - Kimi or GLM next versions My current bet is on Google coming back, as long as they have reasonable prices

@amarjit_uk Got it from a LinkedIn post, a user posted it!

@kzitouni1 Core problem is distribution in the attention economy

Vibecoding a $100k MRR potential saas is super easy Turning that saas into an actual cashflowing business is the real 2026 founder test.

@hashjenni Pretty sure China is already implementing this

Why aren't data centers Solar powered and air cooled ?????