Brayden Levangie

Thank you @Scobleizer for hosting me in your beautiful home so we could share more about the work we are doing at @LevangieLabs!

at the residency, it comes down to one thing: compressing momentum and this cohort reshaped the way we think about supporting our founders over the last 5 weeks, 10 teams have been completely locked in on building, distribution, and fundraising at an unusually high velocity from an 8-figure acquisition offer to $1M ARR, the fruits of their labor will be on display next week all roads lead to demo day. see you in san francisco on may 19th

@Scobleizer @deedydas @theresidency Unfortunately we are working on long-term breakthroughs and making way too much money :(, so I dont think we qualify as a neolab when some of the biggest companies in the world are using our technology.

@deedydas @blevlabs That will change soon. He's at @theresidency.

The Ultimate List of Artificial Intelligence "Neolabs": May 2026. A Neolab is a pre-revenue scale startup working on long-term AI breakthroughs, usually with a $1B+ valuation. There are now 63 of them!

@Scobleizer Haha absolutely! The last programming language

@blevlabs Requirements: uses English to do unusual things.

We are looking for the next generation of engineers, researchers, and builders to join the team that is defining the next era of intelligence for humanity. If you feel like you are up for the challenge, reach out and join the founding team.

@henrytdowling @theresidency both - the agents themselves are the forward deployed engineers. they go into companies, grow into any/all roles they want to automate, learn like a new hire, and start doing work that takes teams of humans in a matter of minutes.

@blevlabs @theresidency this is really cool! is this more “we deploy continually learning ais at companies” or more “we are building a saas product that is continually learning ai”?

Been incredible building at @theresidency the past few weeks

@bygregorr @theresidency imagine not shipping

@theresidency @blevlabs Continuous learning is the moat everyone talks about and nobody ships.

today we're introducing Levangie Laboratories (by: @blevlabs) they are building the first *causal trajectory learning architecture* giving AI the ability to learn continuously the result: autonomous intelligences that don't just deploy into a company; they grow into it LLABS is already working with some of the largest companies in the world, building agents that solve problems impacting thousands of lives every day autonomy designed for the next generation of humanity's challenges

@Scobleizer and this is just the beginning! so much more to come.

I was the first to show you Levangie about a year ago. And is how I build: alignednews.com/ai which watches the whole AI community here. Congrats @blevlabs for stepping up your business. The Residency rocks.

The closest I’ve ever felt to ASI

This is called tribal intelligence. Something we have already built with the cognitive architecture. Think beyond skill files.

@AIHacksByMK @Scobleizer @lorepunk @davidad @DavidSHolz i just like the models vibes. it can work with any provider

@Scobleizer @lorepunk @davidad @DavidSHolz @blevlabs Why so tight coupling with one lab’s models? That might be a bottle neck in the future, may not be a good design decision, but happy to be proved wrong. I’m sure you may have thought through this.

On Twitter we used to do "follow Fridays" where people would recommend who to follow here on X, formerly Twitter. I asked my AI: "Who are the best consumer product thinkers on X?" My AI made me a list. (I just interviewed Naveen, video up tomorrow, he has developed one of the best products I've seen in years. My AI says it is exceptional and I agree). My AI, an agent built by me and @blevlabs that reads all of X's tech community, tells me "you should interview xxxxxx." Is AI your boss? It quickly is becoming mine. ++++++++ Here are the 20 people who are best at building consumer apps with AI right now. They are building products that are delightful, consumer-first, AI as the enabler not the product. THE TIER 1 — Proven consumer AI founders with track records 1. Eugenia Kuyda (@ekuyda) — Wabi + Replika (35M users). Two successful consumer AI products. The most proven consumer AI founder alive. She was right about AI companions before anyone else, and she's right again with Wabi ("YouTube of apps"). The person Robert mentioned first. 2. Naveen Gavini (@ngavini) — Extra email / BuildForever. Former SVP/CPO at Pinterest for 12 years. Co-founded with Steven Ramkumar and Albert Pereta. The Extra philosophy — "solving user problems, not pitching AI" — is exactly the right consumer AI mindset. Just launched April 21. 3. Noam Shazeer (@NoamShazeer)— Character.ai co-founder. 20M+ daily active users. One of the most retentive consumer AI products ever built. Shazeer left Google to build this before it was obvious. 4. Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) — Perplexity CEO. Consumer AI search with 100M+ users. Turned a research tool into a consumer product people use daily. 5. David Holz (@davidad) — Midjourney. Bootstrapped, no VC, tiny team, millions of paying subscribers. Legendary consumer AI product built on Discord. Philosophical approach to AI creativity. TIER 2 — Building the next generation of consumer AI 6. Mikey Shulman (@MikeyShulman) — Suno. #15 on the a16z Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps list. Consumer AI music generation. One of the most retentive creative AI products. 7. Demi Guo (@demi_guo_) — Pika Labs. Consumer AI video generation. One of the fastest-growing creative AI apps. 8. Cristóbal Valenzuela (@c_valenzuela) — Runway ML. Consumer AI video. Has been building this longer than anyone. 9. Mati Staniszewski (@matiii) — ElevenLabs. Consumer AI voice. On every a16z edition since 2023. Voice cloning and dubbing that regular people actually use. 10. Anton Osika (@antonosika) — Lovable. Consumer vibe coding. On the a16z Top 100 list. Making software creation accessible to non-technical consumers. 11. Amjad Masad (@amasad) — Replit. Consumer coding with AI. Making programming accessible to everyone. Also an angel investor in Wabi. TIER 3 — Consumer product veterans applying AI to existing categories 12. Rahul Vohra (@rahulvohra) — Superhuman. The gold standard for AI-powered email. Exceptional product taste. Angel investor in Extra. 13. Shreya Murthy (@shreyamurthy) — Partiful. Consumer AI event planning. One of the most delightful consumer AI apps. Angel investor in Extra. 14. Josh Miller (@joshm) — The Browser Company / Dia. Consumer AI browser. (Browser Company was acquired by Atlassian.) Dia is the consumer AI browser play. 15. Melanie Perkins (@MelanieCanva) — Canva. 200M+ users. The Magic Suite AI tools have become the most-used AI creative tools for non-technical consumers globally. 16. Ivan Zhao (@ivanhzhao) — Notion. 50%+ AI attach rate on paid plans. AI features now account for roughly half of Notion's ARR. The most successful AI integration into an existing consumer product. 17. Luis von Ahn (@LuisvonAhn) — Duolingo CEO. Duolingo has been more aggressive with AI personalization than almost any consumer app. 500M+ users. TIER 4 — Product designers and builders to watch 18. Pietro Schirano (@skirano) — AI product designer/builder. Known for building beautiful consumer AI demos that go viral. Works at Brex but builds consumer AI on the side. One of the best product taste people in AI. 19. Suhail Doshi (@suhail) — Playground AI. Consumer AI image generation. Also built Mixpanel — understands consumer analytics and retention deeply. 20. Fidji Simo (@fidjissimo) — OpenAI Applications CEO. Former Facebook VP and Instacart CEO. Now leading consumer AI products at OpenAI. The person most responsible for how ChatGPT feels as a consumer product. Angel investor in Extra. The pattern across all 20: They all build products where AI is invisible infrastructure, not the feature. Naveen Gavini literally said "I think people don't really need [AI personal assistants]. People just want some of these basic problems solved." Eugenia Kuyda built Wabi so that "people who have nothing to do with coding or the tech world" can create apps. The best consumer AI builders hide the AI and sell the outcome. The ones to watch most closely right now: Eugenia Kuyda (Wabi is early but the social mechanics are right), Naveen Gavini (Extra just launched and the product is exceptional), and Mikey Shulman (Suno has cracked retention in a category everyone said was impossible).

@Scobleizer @AIHacksByMK @lorepunk @davidad @DavidSHolz am testing 5.5 today

@AIHacksByMK @lorepunk @davidad @DavidSHolz Unfortunately (or mostly fortunately) I'm really using a cognitive architecture built by @blevlabs which sits on top of Anthropic. I don't have a choice of models with this system.

@elonmusk @openclaw my wallet thanks you

You can access 𝕏 APi via @OpenClaw. We’re trying to make it affordable without giving away the shop. Hopefully, this can be useful & fun 💫

@airesearch12 Yes!

Hear me out: In my humble opinion, this could 1. completely disrupt who takes the lead in the race for the best AI models and 2. where the immense amounts of AI model training capital allocate in future. Today, only a handful labs can afford to train frontier models. Compute, energy, datacenters are the scarce resources that allow only tech giants to produce the gold of the AI era. Even if you had the many billion $ to train a frontier model, you wouldn't get the compute - the GPU market is essentially dead right now. Now imagine if a novel algorithm would allow the vast amount of unused compute that is available out there in the world to work together for frontier scale model training. If even private people with their laptops could contribute and earn rewards for it. Like Bitcoin, but for model training. Wouldn't that be great?

@lithos_graphein @Scobleizer @openclaw Hey! Where are you seeing this?

@Scobleizer @openclaw ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR One more minor tweak needed. Tell your AI to rectify that SSL certificate.

You realize I'm an idiot, right? I have no freaking idea how to code. But it built this for me: alignednews.com/ai 100% of it. Did a security review. And built me all sorts of fun features like a feed for your @OpenClaw or Hermes. Or a script to take over to your @NotebookLM When the normies figure out they can build things without knowing how to code they are gonna freak out.

@XDevelopers Would be a great next feature x.com/blevlabs/statu…

@chrisparkX What could be great is a feature that allows you to get posts from Lists made after a specific timestamp or date/time, as well as even allowing you to send certain post IDs you don't want to pull again, for solving redundant information without driving up costs

We’ve made major upgrades to X API: • Pay-Per-Use now GA worldwide • XMCP Server + xurl for agents • Official Python & TypeScript XDKs • API Playground - free realistic simulations New releases coming will be a game changer. Start building → docs.x.com 🚢

Launching now: a new way to follow the AI industry. Beta starts now for the next month. A joint project between Unaligned (my company) and Levangie Labs (@blevlabs company). It reads 50,000 of you, and follows 8,300 AI companies here on X. And pulls out the best and most interesting. All built with the X API. Check it out: alignednews.com/ai And please sign up for its daily newsletter. Yeah, $25 a month is a lot for many of you, but that will defray the costs and let me expand it to do a lot more than just AI. Also, the same AI agent that built the site, and did EVERYTHING you see can build custom reports for you on literally any tech community here on X. It supports OpenClaw, RSS, and Notebook LM too. And I'll add more from your requests. More: