Luke Saunders

Been exploring early-stage robotics companies recently. We've all heard of Figure and other big names, but watching what's happening at grassroots level is super interesting. Here are 11 companies founded since 2023 with < $100m in funding that caught my eye. Thread: 1/17.

@0xLars_ 👀

Today, we're fully open-sourcing the Almanak SDK & strategy-builder agent skill Together, they allow any human or agent to build, backtest and run financial strategies on 12+ chains and 20+ protocols, including Aave, Hyperliquid, Polymarket and many others. The skill has native support for Claude Code, Openclaw, Codex, Cursor and others, and teaches your agent how to build these strategies, with a single command: npx skills add almanak-co/sdk This is a new chapter for us. As code is increasingly becoming a commodity, there is no more use in keeping this to ourselves. Opening up allows us to build a community around this product and build it together with you. While it is early-days, our goal is to turn this framework into the premier open-source strategy suite that powers all Agents operating complex financial strategies. New chains and protocols are actively being added every day, and we invite outside contributors to help build this with us. Over the coming days, I will share how I'm using the framework to: - have my Openclaw earn trading fees on Uniswap with delta-neutral shorts on GMX, - have alpha-hunting Openclaw agents automatically build and backtest strategies it finds promising, - trade tokenized stocks, like NVDIA, TSLA etc based on sentiment indicators and many more strategies. So drop me and @almanak follow if this interests you. We're excited to see what you and your Agents will build /\

@nikitabier gm

Hypothesis the more money you spend on Claude Code, the higher: 1) your IQ 2) your rate of knowledge accumulation 3) your income

@KaijieChen12236 Just stumbled across Macaron and found this post. If you're open to a chat please dm me.

If you’re building in AI: – start from your own life problems – keep the team tiny but scary-good – design for “have my back” moments, not just features That’s how I’m thinking about Macaron.

Just walked out of a talk sharing what we’re building with Macaron, our personal AI agent. Here are the core ideas that seemed to hit hardest: 🧵

@olivierhenaff sounds great. I'll dm (I'm in London)

If you’d like to come and visit us at our beautiful office in London and meet our absolutely cracked (and fast growing) team, feel free to reach out! We’re hiring AI researchers full-time as well as for 3-6 month residencies

I'm thrilled to announce what I've been building since leaving GDM: @cursive_ai, a new foundation model and infra company unlocking real-time, generative software. We've identified GenAI's long latencies as a critical bottleneck towards its widespread adoption, and taken a huge step towards solving it. While everyone seems to focus on small models to achieve real-time generation, at the cost of quality, we’ve taken a different approach leveraging predictive modeling and memory. This has yielded a step-change of quality in the real-time window. We’ll share the full details soon, but in the meantime we are doubling down on these gains to deploy real-time generative content with our design partners, which gives us huge distribution and training signal. In this lies one of the most satisfying aspects of working at Cursive: connecting foundational research with real-world impact. We’ve already made several breakthroughs (e.g. in context distillation) and shipped them with mind-bending turnarounds. We’re going all-in on our core research thesis, combining behavioral understanding, model-based reinforcement learning, and diffusion modeling. If you’re an expert in any of these, brilliant and low-ego do get in touch! I’ll be at NeurIPS all week.

@almanak 🔥

@0xLewis_gg There is an old audio interview with degenspartan where it’s clearly not cobie

Did X just doxx cobie as inversebrah and degen spartan?

@almanak @0xLars_ 🔥

The Kitchen is now called the Strategy Builder, Cooks are now Builders /\ We invite everyone to see our very own CTO @0xLars_ showcase the power of the Strategy Builder, as we prepare to whitelist all waitlist applicants.

@legiondotcc great job

We’re hiring a Product Manager to drive Legion’s complete product ecosystem, design exceptional user experiences, and deliver innovative, high-impact features. If you got what it takes, apply here 👇🏻 x.com/i/jobs/1983931…

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@GeormanZ @legiondotcc @monad @yieldbasis @almanak did you check using the built in legion wallet address?

@legiondotcc @monad @yieldbasis @almanak Rank #177 in Legion leaderboard Participated in 3 presales including being selected in YB Still wallet used for the legion presales says not eligible..

Gmonad 10,000 Legion users are eligible for the @monad airdrop claim due to their loyal usage of Legion. Legion Score is your ticket to legion loot: access to top ICOs like @yieldbasis, better terms than VCs on early sales like @almanak, and airdrops like Monad. In a world of Sybils and AI slop, it pays to be real. It pays to rank up. Check your eligibility on Monad's claim portal!

@kyletrimble bullish

@ZeMariaMacedo For me it's totally possible to do deep work while also being responsive to the 5-10 people who actually matter

Hot take: Always answering messages super quickly (<10 mins) isn't actually a good signal Success in anything requires putting aside time for deep work. Being constantly available seems fundamentally incompatible with this Or maybe i'm just coping about my bad response time

@erenbali @monogram_ai @edouardtabet @akbal_m would love to chat about this. could you dm me or follow so I can dm you pls?

Time to share @monogram_ai – new company we started with @edouardtabet and @akbal_m. No cinematic trailers I promise. The idea is simple: We are building the user interface for AGI. Frontier models have become really good, and will only get better, but we need a new paradigm on how we collaborate with AI at the application layer. What if AI could create workflows and UI on the fly? What if the app could adapt to your needs instead of the other way? To make this a reality, we're building the first app where the UI, data and control layers are fully powered by LLMs. This idea may sound crazy but we've made enough progress to now believe it is within reach. Stay tuned. Link👇

@Cryptophileee @legiondotcc @krakenfx impressive congrats

Got in $YB FCFS round! Invested 10k$! $YB = 1 "Fastest hand in the west!" LFG!

nice @yieldbasis

$50 million pre-deposited in 2 hours higher

@Shaughnessy119 Excited for this one

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