Michael Wang

Congratulations to Lauren Betts and the sensational seniors at @UCLAWBB for winning their first NCAA Championship!

@AlanDaitch @joshua_xu_ Hi! Did you prompt it to include sound? Can you also send me your email? I’d love add more free credits to your account so we can get the perfect output

@immichaelwang @joshua_xu_ hi there, good news: I can new generate videos. Bad news: they have no sound

Seedance 2.0 is now in HeyGen Everyone's using Seedance to generate cinematic video with any character. We just made that character you. Introducing Avatar Shots - your likeness, consistent across scenes. Dynamic motion. Multiple avatars in the same shot. Same face. Way more range. Only available through business email verification for all regions except US and Japan. RT + comment "SEEDANCE" for 100 HeyGen credits (must follow)

@AlanDaitch @joshua_xu_ Hey Alan! We're deploying the fix right now. So sorry about this. LMK if it's not fixed in the next 2 hours. Thanks for trying out the feature and let us know how you like it!

@joshua_xu_ I see I haven't used any credit and I still get this when trying to use Avatar shots

calling something 'research preview' instead of 'beta' is great branding

At @HeyGen, engineers first build out the basic functionality of any new feature and then our design team comes in and reskins it with beautiful UI using claude code. figma is not used at all anymore...

@catboosted these guys will make it truffle.net

Have these guys produced a single banger?

@ESabro3 This is absolutely a coaching issue, right?

Not saying UCLA has to be one of the “analytics forward” offenses. But we can’t be in the bottom 1%. In order to be successful moving forward, UCLA gonna have to build rosters and teach scheme that’s slightly more efficient from a points per possession standpoint

UCLA Shot Quality 🧵 I know I’ve spammed this point. But these 2 charts by CBB Analytics really tells the story of the UCLA offense this season. The roster was highly skilled offensively (shot 🔥 from each zone) but fell into poor shot quality traps too often

@varunram vercel's revenue is way healthier

Wait, Vercel has lower "ARR" than Lovable? Is this real?

Anthropic would have built this in a day and a dev would have tweeted the news. At OpenAI, an exec is telling you about a plan. That gap tells you everything. In the last 7 days, Anthropic shipped Dispatch, channels, voice mode, /loop, 1M context GA, MCP elicitation, persistent Cowork on mobile, Excel and PowerPoint cross-app context, inline charts, and 64k default output tokens. Felix Rieseberg tweeted "we're shipping Dispatch" and you could control your desktop Claude from your phone that afternoon. Every launch came from an engineering account or a GitHub release. In the same 7 days, OpenAI shipped GPT-5.4 mini and nano. Redesigned the model picker. Sunset the "Nerdy" personality preset. Announced three acquisitions. To find a comparable volume of shipped product from OpenAI, you have to rewind to December. This is the most underrated difference in AI right now. Anthropic PMs don't write PRDs. Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, ships 10 to 30 PRs a day and hasn't written code by hand since November. 60 to 100 internal releases daily. Cowork was built with Claude Code in 10 days. The tools build the next version of the tools. Every cycle compresses the last one. Engineers are empowered to ship and announce. The entire org runs like a product team, not a corporation. OpenAI has the opposite problem. Fidji Simo is CEO of Applications, a title that exists because engineers aren't empowered to ship without executive approval chains. She joined from Instacart. Before that, a decade at Meta running the Facebook app. Since she arrived, OpenAI has acquired 12 companies for $11 billion in 10 months and announced a "superapp" consolidation through the Wall Street Journal. The exec responsible for shipping it is tweeting about "phases of exploration and refocus" on the product she hasn't shipped yet. That's what happens when you layer a Meta-style product org on top of an AI lab. Decisions go up. Shipping slows down. Announcements replace releases. Anthropic's product announcements come from the people who wrote the code. OpenAI's come from the C-suite and the press. One of those loops compounds. The other one meetings.

@SFBART Thanks for responding to these. Question: Are there any plans to turn the very valuable real estate land that BART stations sit on to have more housing, and thus make revenue that way? If so, what are the delays? It feels like people have been talking about this for 10+ years.

BART keeps the Bay Area moving. We serve folks of all income levels but especially those who don’t drive or who want to avoid traffic, gas prices, parking prices, and car collisions. And those who recognize cars contribute to global warming.

@iamgingertrash super excited 🙌

@immichaelwang Ya

It is an order more beautiful Than the Mac Mini

@iamgingertrash can i buy a truffle right now? i want to support what you are buidling. also will give feedback. i was literally planning to go to the apple store today to get some mac minis

@immichaelwang There is an agent that lives on the truffle Openclaw is a toy The truffle is more

it's always been obvious that travis did nothing wrong. the ucla goat 🙌

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@1RSH4D_x @levelsio people want quality

@immichaelwang @levelsio You are selling based on quality? But your buyer is not persuaded by quality. They want cheap and good enough. Correct me if I'm wrong. The people who filter for quality would pay for actual human subjects, and authenticity and craftspeople for ideation.

AI UGC is a great example of an idea that was groundbreaking in 2023 when HeyGen pioneered it And then got commodified so fast with open AI models being able to do it That just 3 years later anyone can make an AI UGC generator startup Which means the life cycle of medium AI startups if they don't constantly pivot is shorter than it was with regular startups I think Regular pre-AI startups weren't really based on open models, they were based on open source tech for sure, but there was more custom code tying it together Interesting times

@BannedLuigi @levelsio we're not an adtech company. we're an ai video company that specializes in a-roll and last mile delivery of videos. so yes, i think we can sustain for a very long time!

@immichaelwang @levelsio In your opinion, do you think you can sustain this for long? I'm not paying much attention to adtech

@n0w00j powerpoint for agents would be a great product

im sorry but i just don't get how this YC company is a viable product when this API exists. maybe i'll launch Powerpoint for Agents

our company migrated completely off of retool to an internally built platform this week