Ishan Deshpande
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Personal update: I joined @SpaceXAI this week.
Excited to work on grok's coding capabilities and learn from the best engineers in the world!
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ok! quick updates from me:
- i left anthropic (who does that?!)
- had a baby (i love her)
- and am joining @cursor_ai as head of design (eep!)
it's been a low-key dream of mine to nurture a team that cares so deeply about craft, quality, and building great tools. very excited!
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growing up in a talent dense high school was one of the most important parts of my development and is one of the best things you can do for your kids
for context 50 kids got into Berkeley and 7 into Caltech this year alone
this environment has two underrated side effects:
1. Baseline ambition is higher when exceptional ability is normalized.
2. People develop better BS detectors. Growing up with world class talent teaches you the difference between actual ability vs striver credentialism.
StripMallGuy@realEstateTrent
The most impactful thing that ever happened to me was when my parents made me switch high schools after my freshman years. Yes, it sucked for a few months. But at the old high school, getting good grades was embarrassing. At the new one, it was cool. My new friends were Mike, and Roy, and Nick. Mike later went to Harvard Business School, and became a venture capitalist. Roy is now one of the top children's gastroenterologists in LA - and Nick runs one of the most highly respected youth tennis academies in California. Even Adam - a random guy on my baseball team, is now the general manager of an NFL team. Where your kids go to high school matters more than where you kids go to college. High school is where they decide what they're going to prioritize.
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Announcing Grok 4.5, our first model trained specifically for coding and agents. It was trained with Cursor and offers frontier intelligence at leading speeds and cost efficiency.
x.ai/news/grok-4-5
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Exited to launch Voice input in Grok Build!
Talk to your terminal using our speech-to-text models. Just type /voice or Ctrl+Space to start prompting
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Some glassy space spheres I made for our new Grok voice agent builder.
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Enjoyed working on this new release! Grok Voice Agent Builder is now available via the developer console. Give it a try.
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The dura is the brain's armor: a membrane so tough that a surgeon normally cuts through it with a scalpel. For the first time in our clinical trials, we inserted the electrode threads of our implant straight through the dura and into the cortex, keeping the dura intact.
Here's how we did it 🧵
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Earlier this year, @SpaceX acquired @xAI (now SpaceXAI), which operates the Colossus datacenters in Memphis.
As SpaceX continues to invest in the area, SpaceX is offering our neighbors in the Memphis area no upfront hardware costs on Residential @Starlink kits for new customers and a discount on home internet service plans for both new and existing customers.
FAQ: starlink.com/support/articl…
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was a lot of fun working on this! agents will now be able to inform their decisions with the highest-quality realtime data known to man.
lots more coming soon.
Developers@XDevelopers
Announcing the hosted X MCP. Agents now have access to the best real-time information source in the world. Connect Grok, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI tool to the X API without any setup! Check it out here: docs.x.com/tools/mcp
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Announcing the hosted X MCP.
Agents now have access to the best real-time information source in the world.
Connect Grok, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI tool to the X API without any setup!
Check it out here: docs.x.com/tools/mcp
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