Kaushik Bhatta (KB)
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Kaushik Bhatta (KB)
@kb_bhatta
Metamorphosing. Sharpening my blades. Builder. 🇺🇸 x-@Harvard Partner @thealliance_ai


@arcinstitute is hiring a CTO. It may be the most important technical role in biology right now - and here's why I'm the one posting it. This summer I'm transitioning from CTO to Strategic Advisor. When I left Android 18 months ago, I said I wanted to use AI to accelerate drug discovery. Joining Arc was how I put that into action - and the team has delivered: frontier AI x Bio models like Evo, STATE, and STACK, AI research agents like scBaseCount, the Virtual Cell Challenge, a TED Audacious grant, and world-class compute. Given what my family has been through these past few years, a full-time operational role isn't the right fit right now. The mission still is, which is why I'm staying close as an advisor. Thanks to @skonermann, @pdhsu, and @patrickc for their partnership. We need a cracked ML and technical leader - mission-obsessed, ready to architect the future of science. DMs open. arcinstitute.org/jobs/cto

Must-listen interview by @Changxche with ex-ByteDance AI researcher: - Benchmaxxing - Distillation on US models - Poor data quality and infra - Compute constraints "I don’t even agree with the assumption that Chinese models are catching up — I believe we’re still far behind. I guess the gap is getting larger, very sadly." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-y…

Veteran buried his eldest and it’s not looking good for his two others. Posting for any connections, help that can be made while they fight for time.

It’s time to expose a huge scam in AI startups: Contracted ARR The reason many AI startups are crushing revenue records is because they are using a dishonest metric The biggest funds in the world are supporting this and misleading journalists for PR coverage. The setup: Company signs 3-year enterprise deals. Year 1 is discounted (say $1M), Year 2 steps up ($2M), Year 3 is full price ($3M). They report $3M as “ARR” — even though they’re only collecting $1M right now. The worst part: The customer has an opt-out option at 12 months! It’s not actually a 3 year contract. In the chart below, by Q5 the company is trumpeting ~$100M “ARR” to press, while actual cash-generating, in-effect ARR is ~$35M. That’s ~3x inflation. On top of this, enterprise AI companies are bundling full-time “forward deployed engineers” into deals massively reducing margins, sometimes producing Year 1 negative margins. At some point customers are going to start triggering their opt-out clauses or aggressively negotiating down Year 3 pricing. And a wave of enterprise AI companies may collapse.





Artemis II, we’re ready for ya! 🌎 NASA’s Earth science missions provide observations used to forecast wind, turbulence, and temperature. Those forecasts come from the Goddard Earth Observing System, or GEOS, which helps teams prepare for a safe splashdown.



Lots of love for Gemma 4! Team just told me it’s already had 10M+ downloads since last week’s launch. Gemma models have now been downloaded 500M+ times! Excited to see what you all are creating 👀


After the Claude Code source code leak, a former PM extracted its multi-agent orchestration system into an open source model agnostic framework. He studied the architecture, focused on the multi-agent orchestration layer (the coordinator that breaks goals into tasks, team system, message bus, task scheduler with dependency resolution), and reimplemented these patterns from scratch as a standalone open source framework without infringing on Anthropic's code. The result is what @JackChen_x calls an "open-multi-agent." Unlike claude-agent-sdk, which spawns a CLI process per agent, this runs entirely in-process and can be deployed anywhere (serverless, Docker, CI/CD) Check it out: github.com/JackChen-me/op…











