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The Real DevOps Stack in 2025: What Teams Are Actually Using Forget outdated roadmaps with 50 tools no one adopts. Here’s what’s really shaping modern DevOps in 2025 👇

Today, we’re excited to introduce Miso One, the most emotive voice model in the world. Miso One is an 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model for highly expressive speech generation. It emotes like a human and responds faster than a human, with just 110 milliseconds of latency. We’ve open-sourced the model weights, with API access coming soon. Hear how Miso One sounds in the thread below.

@0xTP91 @wagner__ai Sure! DM me and we can talk

@iamstevesuarez @wagner__ai Let’s chat. A lot of synergies with what we are building out

From Colombia to San Francisco! This week, at OpenAI's Offices, we built Wagner: a realtime multi-agent system where DevOps, FinOps, and cloud architecture agents collaborate with humans. A few hours later, we were finalists. Would love your support. Vote for @wagner__ai 👇

@OpenAIDevs @isausmanov @HandEManAI @anshchopra_ @cerebral_valley Congrats to all the finalists!! And thanks for the opportunity to present @wagner__ai, we’ll keep contributing to the future of cloud infrastructure 🔥🚀

Congratulations to all the finalists: 🥇Agentic OS for a Phone – @isausmanov 🥈Wagner – @iamstevesuarez 🥉 Surgical Triage – @HandEManAI 🏅 Curo – @anshchopra_ Thanks to @cerebral_valley for co-hosting Voice Hack Night with us. cerebralvalley.ai/e/openai-voice…

The votes are in. @isausmanov’s Agentic OS for a Phone is the Voice Hack Night People’s Choice winner. A voice-first mobile OS. Users talk, agents answer and take action across the phone. Congrats to the team on taking home $50,000 in API credits.

@kura_labs @wagner__ai Thanks!

@iamstevesuarez @wagner__ai CONGRATS!

@wagner__ai We are not building a better dashboard We are building the infrastructure layer for the agentic era A world where humans and specialized agents can reason, coordinate, and safely operate the systems that power every digital company This is only the beginning.

@wagner__ai This moment means a lot to us. We are a team originally from Colombia, building in San Francisco, learning from some of the best builders in the world, and contributing our own vision for the future of infrastructure. Still day one.

The companies that win the next decade will be AI-native. They won’t just use AI. They'll be built on it. linkedin.com/pulse/ai-nativ…

I just got back from SF and I FEEL INSPIRED. I spent 5 days with frontier AI model teams, AI startup founders, and 3 billionaires. My takeaways: 1. I had lunch with 3 billionaires. All of them are buying SaaS companies and rebuilding them agent-first. They were deeply inspired by Bending Spoons and Ryan Cohen's eBay deal. Buy the company, cut the headcount, rebuild the tech, add agents, add features, make more valuable experience, raise prices. 2. The frontier model companies are hungry for usage data from the field. They can see API calls and token counts. They can't see the actual workflows. If you're deep in a niche using these models in ways the model companies haven't seen, that understanding is incredibly valuable. Usage intelligence is the new alpha. 3. Consumer AI is massively underbuilt. Every billboard in SF is either B2B inference infrastructure or vertical agent companies. The entire city is optimized for enterprise. Meanwhile you have companies like Cal AI doing $50M ARR in 18 months as a consumer app. I met with a cool few teams doing consumer AI (@paulscherer / @ekuyda) 4. MCP came up in literally every conversation. The companies exposing their product as MCP endpoints are getting pulled into deals they never pitched for. The ones that aren't are becoming invisible to agents. This is the new SEO. If agents can't find you, you don't exist. Building products for agents is the new zeitgeist in general. 5. Not uncommon for hot seed rounds to be $25-50 million valuations. I saw a Series A at $450 million 6. If I had a dollar every time someone mentioned "forward-deployed engineer" this trip I could have funded a seed round. It's the hottest role in SF right now. The person who sits between the agent and the customer, making sure everything actually works. 7. The mood around open source shifted. A year ago it felt like open source was chasing the frontier models. Now founders are telling me Gemma and DeepSeek are good enough for 80% of what they need at a fraction of the cost. The "which model do you use" conversation is being replaced by "which model for which task." Model loyalty kinda feels dead. 8. Voice agents came up more than I expected. Multiple founders told me voice is the interface for the next billion users. The billion people who will never type a prompt will absolutely talk to one. 9. The Obsidian community in SF is weirdly intense. Multiple founders showed me their vaults unprompted. Like showing someone your home gym. It's a flex now. The quality of your knowledge base (second brain?) is becoming a status symbol among builders. 10. Maybe it was just the people I met but the age of the founders is shifting. I met more founders over 40 this trip than any trip before and more founders under age 21 than ever before. Founders getting older and younger at the same time. 11. I spoke to a lot of fast-growing startups, VCs and frontier models who are hiring content creators right now. 12. The restaurant scene in SF is actually better than it's been in years. Founders are going out more. Alcohol is out, not surprisingly. 13. SF doesn't feel like the only place anymore. We all have access to the same frontier models. We all read the same X feed. A founder in NYC or Lagos is calling the same APIs as a founder in SoMa. So in the past it felt like SF was always lightyears ahead, doesn't feel that way anymore. It's okay not to live in SF and have BIG DREAMS. 14. The coworking spaces in SF are half empty but the coffee shops are packed. People want to be around people. I had a few startup ideas here.... 15. Walking around the Mission I noticed something: the street-level businesses, the taquerias, the barbershops, the laundromats, none of them use any AI at all. 16. I heard the phrase "agent debt" for the first time. Like technical debt but for agents. When you hack together an agent workflow fast and never clean it up, the system prompts conflict, the memory gets polluted, the tools overlap. 6 months later the agent is doing weird things and nobody knows why lol. 17. Met a few people who carry two phones now. One for personal. One that's basically an agent terminal running Telegram or iMessage connections to their agent fleet. It's always amazing to get that dose of inspiration in SF. I FEEL INSPIRED. But I'm so happy to be back home, locked in and building. We're 12-18 months into a shift that will take 15 years to play out. The urgency in every conversation was real. What an incredible time to be building.

🚨 NVIDIA acaba de lanzar PersonaPlex-7B. Un modelo de voz que puede escucharte mientras responde, manteniendo conversaciones en tiempo real como un humano. Es gratis y 100% open-source 👇

Diagrams are becoming my primary way of reasoning about code with Agents. And I didn't find anything there that I'm happy to look at all day long. Mermaid as a format is amazing - so we built something beautiful on top of it. It's called Beautiful Mermaid agents.craft.do/mermaid

You are not a Cloud Architect if you are just: ❌ Deploying apps to AWS/Azure ❌ Using managed services like RDS or Lambda ❌ Following tutorials to spin up infrastructure ❌ Clicking through cloud consoles ❌ Copy-pasting Terraform from Stack Overflow You are a Cloud Architect if you are: ✅ Designing multi-region failover strategies ✅ Building cost-optimized infrastructure at scale ✅ Creating security frameworks and compliance strategies ✅ Planning disaster recovery with RTO/RPO targets ✅ Capacity planning for unpredictable growth ✅ Making trade-off decisions between services (and defending them) ✅ Designing network architecture (VPCs, subnets, peering, gateways) ✅ Writing enterprise-level IaC with modules and state management Cloud engineers deploy to the cloud. Cloud Architect: Designs systems for scale, cost, security, and resilience

𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲 We see more tools enabling you to create software architecture and other diagrams as code. The main benefit of using this concept is that 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗽𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. Another benefit driving the growing use of diagrams-as-code to create software architecture is that it enables text-based tooling, which most software developers already use. For architecture, as code, we can use different tools, such as: 𝟭. 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗿: Create multiple diagrams from a single (C4) model. structurizr.com 𝟮. 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗨𝗠𝗟: It is an open-source tool that allows users to create diagrams from plain text. github.com/plantuml/plant… 𝟯. 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘀: Turn Python code into cloud system architecture diagrams. github.com/mingrammer/dia… 𝟰. 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗱: Generation of diagram and flowchart from a text similar to Markdown. github.com/mermaid-js/mer… 𝟱. 𝗔𝗦𝗖𝗜𝗜 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿: Free editor for drawing ASCII diagrams. asciiflow.com 𝟲. 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗺𝗮𝗽: Could you visualize your Markdown as mind maps? It supports the VS Code plugin. markmap.js.org 𝟳. 𝗚𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘀: Create system diagrams with Go. github.com/blushft/go-dia… 𝟴. 𝗦𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺.𝗼𝗿𝗴: You can create your UML sequence diagrams online using text notation. sequencediagram.org Image: PlantUML

I highly recommend this article for anyone who still thinks that LLMs are still "only predicting the next token". It's long and unsettling but worth the read.

Everybody should make animated promos for their products.

Introducing state-of-the-art People Search: You can now semantically search over 1 billion people using a hybrid retrieval system backed by finetuned Exa embeddings. Try it: exa.ai We also created an eval: exa.ai/blog/people-se…

We created a GitHub repo for all MCP at @Google. Get info on our remote managed MCP servers, open source MCP servers, examples, and learning resources. github.com/google/mcp

Runs GitHub Actions locally in VS Code github.com/SanjulaGanepol…