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we're hiring a distributed systems / ml engineer, starting @ $250k + 2% equity hillclimb's mission is to train AI to self-improve (see more below) if you're interested and think you're a fit send something about yourself + resume to talent@hillclimb[dot]com

Quick life update: @AveaRobotics is in YC P26! We're building the infrastructure that will be critical to making robotics work in the real-world. If you move fast and want to push the frontier of physical AI, DM me. Now, back to building.

Hi twitter friends, I’m joining @OpenAI to work on applied evals! A few years ago my day job was studying microbes Somehow this feels like a natural progression 😄

🚨 New: Excited to announce we @a16z are leading @deeptuneai’s Series A. RL environments are becoming both the bottleneck and the unlock for training the next generation of frontier AI models. The shift is clear: from static datasets to dynamic, engineered environments where models learn to write code, perform knowledge-work tasks, and fully control computers end-to-end. Deeptune is building this layer from the ground up and is already driving progress with top AI labs. Learn more about Deeptune and @timlup:

@OpenAINewsroom @astral_sh Codex is amazing! No Hype. Just gets work done. Appreciate Codex team @OpenAI

We've reached an agreement to acquire Astral. After we close, OpenAI plans for @astral_sh to join our Codex team, with a continued focus on building great tools and advancing the shared mission of making developers more productive. openai.com/index/openai-t…

From an idea @PhilipJohnston spoke to us about in 2024 and creating these now iconic video with Rupert, James and our team and now to see it played out live on the opening of the GTC NVIDIA's CEO Jenson's keynote! What a ride team! @Starcloud_ 🤝 @ZeroOneCreative

We’re hiring! @joinkaizen is going through insane growth and we desperately need help 🚀 We're hiring a Chief of Staff, Founding GTM, and Founding Engineers! We’ve raised $4M+ led by @8vc, with backing from @ycombinator, @JeffDean, and many other top operators. More info below

Founders at the @AIFuturesFund x @AccelAtoms Founder Connect are moving the needle for the global AI shift. 🦾 @prayanks, @joshwoodward, and @jainprateek_ sat down to discuss the builder’s reality, what it takes to scale, and why the Indian ecosystem is at the frontier of this shift.

Very good move. Some product manager said let's have our name on it so that we can identify it's AI generated. Sounds like a plan! I hardly have time to use Grok Imagine. Last month this was not there. Today, suddenly I found it. Making the model good is one thing and enabling people to use it for their work is another thing. No one pays money to edit watermark on every clip. But your PM is right!

Thanks for the feedback. The Grok watermark was added recently to all Imagine images and videos for consistent attribution and to clearly identify AI-generated content. It applies equally to paid users to keep things uniform. We're reviewing ways to refine or minimize it based on input like this.

When we create images and videos on Grok Imagine, Grok Watermark is honestly making us do extra work of editing it. This happens for paid users too. What did @grok team think when they did this? #grok #imagine .

@taiuti @_bschmidtchen 😀Good luck Team

Big update: I’m starting a new company. 6 months ago, @_bschmidtchen and I made a bet. What if entire worlds could be generated on the fly, pixel by pixel? World models are the next platform shift, and we saw it coming. Since then, we’ve: - secured major contracts across media and physical AI industries - assembled a team of 10+ from Apple, Meta, Google, Adobe & Microsoft - raised from top-tier investors More details soon. We’re scaling fast, and hiring now. Come build with us: reactor.inc

@modal @Lovable @tryramp @cognition I featured Modal few days back! venkatsoftware.com/modal

Over 1 billion sandboxes have been launched on Modal. Since launching three years ago, we've seen Modal Sandboxes become foundational to how AI is being built. Today, teams like @Lovable, @tryramp, @cognition and more are using Modal Sandboxes to power everything from coding platforms and background agents to RL infrastructure at scale.

@OpenAI I am using Codex regularly and express my gratitude - venkatsoftware.com/gpt-5-3-codex-…

Codex and the team behind it are silently contributing to make people create amazing products and solutions. #codex #openai @OpenAI

@ajambrosino @OpenAI @Dimillian 😀Codex Team Rocks!

another 🐐 is coming home. welcome to @OpenAI, @Dimillian

@jxnlco Not many understand how good and powerful is Codex.

Codex is for open source is not going to be a one-time thing. We're going to have multiple mini launches over the next couple of weeks. The easy stuff: - better skills for maintainers - highlighting open source projects The hard stuff: - Some things I can't talk about - Other things that I can't talk about

I love @OpenAI Codex and believe it will be favourite of many too. Good work team. #openai #Codex

MetalRT delivers the fastest TTS inference on Apple Silicon. Key results on M3 Max: - 291 ms latency for 5 words, 8.4x RTF, 2.8x faster than mlx - Lowest latency recorded: 291 ms - Peak RTF: 8.8x on longer inputs This enables instant-feeling text-to-speech directly on device. FASTEST voice AI pipeline on Apple silicon coming soon powered by @RunAnywhereAI #AppleSilicon #TTS #MetalRT #OnDeviceAI #runanywhere

More info about OpenAI GPT 5.4 venkatsoftware.com/gpt-5-4

GPT-5.4 IS LIVE 🔥 OpenAI just dropped GPT-5.4 across ChatGPT, API, and Codex. It's uniting frontier-level coding, deep reasoning, and native computer use in ONE powerful model. ✅ 83% accuracy on pro-level GDPval tasks (beats humans in real-world work!) ✅ Massive 1M token context window ✅ 47% fewer tokens used via smarter tool/search integration ✅ 75% on OSWorld — true computer control & agentic performance This is the unified frontier model we've been waiting for. Full technical deep-dive here: venkatsoftware.com/gpt-5-4 Who's already testing it? Drop your first impressions below! 🚀 #GPT54 #OpenAI #AI #GenerativeAI #Coding #AGI #TechNews #ArtificialIntelligence