Alex Ollman

This is what is really exciting to me. The plurality of voices is so important in tech now more than ever. Most hardware feels like a monolithic diktat. It’s a sea of rounded rectangles, that have to optimise for efficiency and productivity. Why does it have to be that?

the future of computing is personal. filled with creativity & choice 💙 what a joy to be apart of this journey through designing this lil puckk

@caseykcaruso @nicole_ripka @Borthwick @jordanrcrook @andreikzrv @ramtinnaimi @davidtisch @ClaireSmilow @adina_z_davis @Caterina @kocienda @bshopejr @Jose_Cong Thank you @TechCrunch for covering our raise! techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/era…

@clarejtbirch Is there nothing we can’t do? 🇦🇺🫡

charlie is doing killer work. proud to be a small part of this!

@andreikzrv in your maxxed era

Eramaxxing

@lizwandersworld Let’s go change the world, fam ❤️

Today we're launching Era and announcing $11M in funding. We're building the intelligence layer for a new ecosystem of AI devices — the platform that lets any device manufacturer, brand, designer, or creator make objects that think, respond, and act in their own style. We're entering a Cambrian explosion — new form factors, new creators, new objects worth desiring. Made by people who've never had the tools to make them, before today. Welcome to the new Era. Backed by @AbstractVC, @BoxGroup, @topology_vc, @betaworks, @CollaborativeFund, @MozillaVentures, and @AIResidency.

This is the culmination of a life obsessed with the art and craft of personal computing. The new Era of digital devices begins now - one where we all get a say in how we live with technology in our lives. We cannot wait to shape it all with you.

growing the rebel alliance, one grant at a time, supported by your favorite technologists ❤️‍🔥 join us! resonantcomputinglab.com

@Alibaba_Qwen Just knowing this release means there is an absolute banger of a @Sam_Witteveen video coming is already making my week.

🚀 Introducing the Qwen 3.5 Small Model Series Qwen3.5-0.8B · Qwen3.5-2B · Qwen3.5-4B · Qwen3.5-9B ✨ More intelligence, less compute. These small models are built on the same Qwen3.5 foundation — native multimodal, improved architecture, scaled RL: • 0.8B / 2B → tiny, fast, great for edge device • 4B → a surprisingly strong multimodal base for lightweight agents • 9B → compact, but already closing the gap with much larger models And yes — we’re also releasing the Base models as well. We hope this better supports research, experimentation, and real-world industrial innovation. Hugging Face: huggingface.co/collections/Qw… ModelScope: modelscope.cn/collections/Qw…

I’ve built a free, open-source and entirely local speech-as-input app for macOS. It uses state-of-the-art speed recognition models and a small LLM to clean up misreads and apply some fun and useful AI features. All running local. Your data goes no where. speakto.computer

each frontier ai lab has ~ 1 charismatic australian in a key position. this is critical to strategy.

Truly one of the most considered applications of generative models to date. Hearing @gormankind conceptulaize this, to seeing the first demo at interface.click, to his getting into @ycombinator, and now getting to witness @designrivet brought into the world. Incredible.

@NWischoff We are also in Jackson Square - would love to stop by!

Lease signed for our first SF office!!! Monthly wine nights and coffee/breakfasts kicking off in November in Jackson Square. Let me know if you want to join.

Made some cassettes to celebrate the life and joy that was the @AOL dial-up network, which was officially switched off on Tuesday. shoutout to @kane for the inspo and @rootvc for hosting such a beautiful memorial service the youth yearn for the dulcet tones of the 33K modem

i keep circling on the vision painted by @lizwandersworld & @_ollman on the future of AI-enabled devices can't remember a more articulate walkthrough of the history of personal computing Interact Symposium was such a delight (h/t @marannelson & @alexia)

when carriers released phones in the 2000s it felt like a fashion collection drop - collabs w designers, weird tech like 3d screens, COLORS, yamaha music collabs, kid versions, things that are easy to wear, etc SO fun + expressive! petition to get back to this era techcrunch.com/2009/01/29/kdd…

@lizwandersworld @Humane @GK3 @imranchaudhri @freddyanzures You are truly incredible, and your work here was truly an inspiration. ❤️ Cannot wait to see what your new era brings into the world.

Last month was my last at @Humane / HP IQ Thank you all the years of dreaming together, with the best damn team of all. So proud of the conversations we sparked, the optimistic products we made, and the values we put out into the world. Forever grateful to be part of the Humane journey, and especially for the friendships along the way. time for a new liz era. more to come ❤️‍🔥

It took me less time to SSH into my home server and deploy a local instance of gpt-sso-20b, a model from OpenAI’s newly released open source series, than it did for In and Out to prepare my order. What a time to be alive.