Kyle Kesterson

@facebooklibs @AutismCapital Inspector gadget already knew

@AutismCapital What is the obsession with making humanoid robots? There is no reason to make robots look like humans. They could literally put an adjustable wrench on the arm and it would be 10 times better at this.

It’s over, men.

@sama Genuinely floored by latest codex + agents sdk + websearchtool + responsesAPI. Dozens of prompts building, only 2 errors thrown. So much more satisfying to focus on building and not ai fixing its own mistakes. 👏 what was built: linkedin.com/posts/kylekest…

Great first week for 5.4 in the API. Builders building fast.

@gunjoh001 @r0ck3t23 Burned 50k credits in Computer in 9 days between setup and then a medium quantity of support over 5 tasks/agents. Their normal max plan ($200) gives 10k credits/mo. Not sustainable for everyday user.

@r0ck3t23 Perplexity Computer is surely a useful thing. But... the amount of credits it needs, and the price for them... that simply does not fit. Price/Performance is not in favor for Perplexity

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas just shattered the greatest illusion of the AI arms race. The entire market is waiting for a single, god-like superintelligence to win the entire board. The physics of compute are forcing the exact opposite outcome. Models are not converging into a single monopoly. They’re violently fracturing into hyper-specialized execution nodes. Srinivas: “Towards the end of 2025, what happened was models started specializing. Even within coding, which you think might be a specialization, OpenAI’s Codex models and Anthropic’s Claude models are very different in terms of what they’re good at.” Bet your entire enterprise architecture on a single AI provider? You’re hardcoding your own ceiling. You don’t want a generalized model that’s “okay” at everything. You want a swarm of apex specialists. One ruthlessly optimized for syntax. One for visual synthesis. One for predictive reasoning. The future is not one AI. It’s the instantaneous orchestration of the absolute best compute for the exact task at hand. Platform lock-in is suicide. Srinivas: “Enterprise users are always selecting multiple different models all the time. That’s actually one of the value propositions of the Perplexity product. You don’t have to feel locked into one model provider, you don’t have to have one horse in the race.” Traditional tech giants are desperately trying to trap users inside their specific algorithmic ecosystem. Winning operators completely bypass the vendor war by becoming model-agnostic. When the foundational intelligence of the world is leapfrogging itself every three months, brand loyalty is a massive liability. The operators winning the next decade won’t care whether OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google trained the model. They’ll plug into an agnostic orchestration layer that autonomously routes to whichever specialized network currently dominates that exact sector of the board. The highest-leverage position is no longer building the intelligence. It’s directing the orchestra. Srinivas: “This is one particular skill, writing is another skill, being good at images and videos is another skill. You can hope that Perplexity figures out which model is best for what purpose, and you just have to come to the product and use it.” Multi-trillion-dollar hyperscalers burning billions fighting the model wars. Sovereign orchestrator bypasses the entire war. Harvests the output of all of them. You don’t need to be an expert in the underlying architecture of a dozen different foundation models. You just need to command the routing engine. When AI transitions from a monolithic product into a fractured grid of specialized utility nodes, the ultimate monopoly belongs to the orchestrator that abstracts the complexity. Foundation model builders became interchangeable plumbing.

@perplexity_ai Do we have to buy an entirely new mac mini, or can we augment or download an updated OS for a macbook?

Starting today, users can join the initial waitlist for the Personal Computer program. We will provide support and resources for the initial cohort. perplexity.ai/personal-compu…

Announcing Personal Computer. Personal Computer is an always on, local merge with Perplexity Computer that works for you 24/7. It's personal, secure, and works across your files, apps, and sessions through a continuously running Mac mini.

@JamesCasey97 @AravSrinivas or expensive in token consumption

@AravSrinivas I don't think people are ready for how groundbreaking this will be for the average consumer

@perplexity_ai Been using Computer for just over a week and burned thru 50k+ credits. Realistically means a $500-1k spend to take advantage. How does always-on PC look with expected token burn and spend? (I onboard teams into these systems, so my clients will want to know too)

@sama Is your samaGPT co-pilot, trained on all things you + world’s best PR management helping you answer questions?

I'd like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA.

@jack @blocks So today isn't the best day to apply for a job?

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

@ClawiAi Oh my Glawd

Make the first contact.

@MetaPuppet lolol that tracks

My Grok Imagine Submission. Who here can identify?

@nickfloats Philosophically, it makes sense for a large type of artist (Virgos like nodes tho!). How well could you articulate the UI/UX to allow for it? If you have it in mind and it sounds like it makes for a clear product, I may help build it.

Every node in your graph is a little death of inspiration to me. You've turned imagination into plumbing and disguised it as “creative freedom”. You've mistaken complexity for control and turned creation into workflow theater. Let us build worlds, not workflows. Don't give me nodes, bitch I am the node. Creation should be fluid, not a flowchart. Tools should disappear instead of demanding our attention. That's how imagination truly scales.

@ideogram_ai @AzharDataDrift Need! Want to string this into my N8N automations please 🙏

@AzharDataDrift Coming to the API in the near future.

Introducing Ideogram Character -- the first character consistency model that works with just one reference image. Now available to all users for free! Create consistent character images in any style, expression, scene, and lighting. Who wants video next? 🥺

@carlhendy Lots to digest from this. But interesting parallel to Daniel Ek / Spotify as the model when most musicians feel it asymmetrically favors large artists at a significant expense of medium to long tail artists.

If you’re in media, this is worth a watch. Cloudflare handles ≈20% of global traffic, so when CEO Matthew Prince warns at Cannes that AI bots are reshaping the web, publishers need to adapt or risk being left behind.

Kalshi hired me to make the most unhinged NBA Finals commercial possible. Network TV actually approved this GTA-style madness 🤣 High-dopamine Veo 3 videos will be the ad trend of 2025. Here’s how I made it in just TWO DAYS 👇🏼 (Prompt included)

Why is Amazon CEO Andy Jassy with Trump in the Middle East taking photos with Saudi royalty? Or is it just his doppelgänger?

@geekwire I actually believe Claude and GPT could provide a better analysis which would consider and have a POV on such nuances as Gulf of America, it just needs more effective tuning.

Trending: Here’s how AI graded President Trump’s inauguration speech geekwire.com/2025/heres-how…

@geekwire Maaaybe “execution” isnt the best term when referencing Trump and his stated agenda? 🙊

@TSA Houston TSA was a nightmare experience. Upon learning my boarding closed in 10 min, they pulled me aside, emptied bags, then disappeared leaving me until after boarding closed. Dropped an item and broke it. And didn’t even flinch. They hate their job and take it out on us.

Excited for the new @davidfincher film, “The Neural Network”, starring @zachbraff as @sama

@rowancheung From no stake, to all the stake.

Emmett Shear, the new CEO of OpenAI on a recent podcast.