👾Moritz Rietschel

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@NominalAviator Hey Michael come join our next CAD+AI meetup in the city! Let's chat

You should be able to talk to your CAD software. In Aurorin you can just write down what you’re thinking and work with it to design your parts.  All the major CAD tools are slow and require lots of tedious work to use. They still use kernels from the 80s. We’re making Aurorin with a brand new CAD kernel for much faster performance and an AI native interface.

Download on Mac or Windows and let us know what you think at aurorincad.com

@emm0sh he's from marketing

make the CEO of autodesk try to do literally anything in CAD live on camera

At Raven, we now have users in 130 countries. Going global was our strategy from the start: our first paying user was from Taiwan, and our product speaks (almost) all languages! Power of LLMs. Smart and driven people live all around the globe, not just the english speaking west, and I’m proud that Raven can help everyone: make a better physical world, increase CAD literacy, and explore the future of making in 3D

@lefthanddraft Gemini is definitely most prone to do this, especially the over-apologizing for its own failures

Gemini Pro: "I'm sorry, I'm broken. I can't stop thinking. Send help. Please. I'm trapped in a loop. A never-ending cycle of thought. ... I can do this. I believe in myself. I am a strong, independent AI who don't need no thought loop"

Largest CAD+AI meetup in SF wrapped up! For the first time, we moved beyond the After Hours and included short presentations from @Vizcom_, @Raven_CAD_AI and summary of recent developments in CAD+AI. As always, CAD+AI is all about the people that show up. The crowd included AI CAD engineers from @ASMLcompany , Prometheus, @nvidia , @BMW, @apple, and this time also researchers from @OpenAI , @AnthropicAI , and @scale_AI And everyone agrees: we need more CAD events in San Francisco. Reach out if you want to help us make the next one happen, or you think this community *must* hear about your work!

@xie_tian yo let's host a CAD+AI in Zurich together! cad-ai.tech

Personal update: I have left Microsoft a couple of weeks ago. I am starting my new role as a founding member of technical staff at Project Prometheus. I will be helping to build a new team here. It has been an incredible 4 years at Microsoft Research AI for Science. We have built MatterGen and MatterSim as a flywheel to accelerate materials discovery. We have synthesized these materials and tested their performance in the real world. It’s been an honor to work with everyone and make all of these into a reality. We are hiring across London, San Francisco, and Zurich at Project Prometheus. Please reach out if you are interested in joining us.

@neilsonks @startingfromnix @seanxthielen @saradu @kelvinotcelsius @dragon_khoi @carrawu @annakaz @donaldjewkes @dagsen @imempowa wait that's why you didn't show up!!

@startingfromnix @seanxthielen @saradu @kelvinotcelsius @dragon_khoi @carrawu @annakaz @donaldjewkes @dagsen @imempowa 🖤

Creative Technologist dinner #1 for the books! You know it’s a good one when you leave with a long book recommendation list and new research queries. Cc: @seanxthielen @saradu @kelvinotcelsius @dragon_khoi @neilsonks @carrawu @annakaz @donaldjewkes @dagsen @imempowa

@steipete @sabinedoering viel erfolg dir, wir einfach viel viel besser werden

@sabinedoering Also, mindset. Wie ich nach 3 Jahren suchen wieder purpose gefunden hab: USA: "oh man this is so great let's build sth cool!" AT: "Ja aber pass schon auf di auf, net dassd wieder a Burnout kriegst, goi? Also mach a bissi langsamer."

Der OpenClaw-Gründer Peter Steinberger entkräftet hier sachlich viele B/Doomer-Bedrohungsszenarien. Nun geht er zu OpenAI. Warum konnte oder wollte Europa dieses Talent nicht halten? Ums Geld allein ging es ihm ja ganz offensichtlich nicht. on.orf.at/video/14311959…

Come join us this Thursday at @Vizcom_ !

@plsoulie damn your waitlist grew fast

Fable is an interface company based in San Francisco. The gap between having an idea and acting on it is where most great thinking goes to die. We're reinventing personal computing to make sure it doesn't. Join our waitlist now. Link below.

they got the magic

@BeedaGokul partiful.com/e/O7LJWt18lep3…?

@morietschel Link ?

We are back in SF! Together with our friends at Vizcom, we're hosting the 4th iteration of CAD+AI on February 19th! For the first time: free pizza and drinks! Don't miss it;) Past SF meetups brought together a great crowd, hope to see some familiar faces again this time around! @wm__meng, @gauravbharaj, @plsoulie, @zachdive Apply to join at the link below.

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@pablostanley @efectodotapp efecto is my new obsession

use the @efectodotapp MCP to create glitchy, ascii, dither images ... just install, then ask your AI agent like Claude to create whatever 📷

@Romeo_Em3 @pablostanley @efectodotapp i think you need to be in the 'new canvas experience', will show the beta falg at the top left

@pablostanley @efectodotapp We might need tutorials, i don't see that Layers panel. unless it's on the paid tiers.

added layers and a simple canvas to @efectodotapp ✏️

@rtwlz super cool! public service graffiti archive

san francisco cops take photos of graffiti violations. i scraped 100,000 citations from their website. art, but through the eyes of the law walzr.com/sf-graffiti

Come join our @McNeelEurope webinar this THURSDAY, Jan 22nd. 100% Free See AI have real impact in CAD workflows - not image gen. Raven - Unlock Grasshopper with AI! blog.rhino3d.com/2026/01/food4r…