Shayan

It doesn’t need to be this way. It should not be this way. It should not be OpenAI/Anthropic deciding which fields get accelerated. To truly accelerate science and technology, self-accelerating AI R&D must be democratized. In fact, this is the exact motivation behind Mirendil.

We are looking for someone with high agency and product vision to help shape our first product from the ground up! If you are excited about Mirendil’s vision (checkout our website), please apply/reach out. Referrals welcome. I would also love to hear what you think we should build toward!

@VastoLorde95 👋🏻

Hi

@TheGregYang ❤️‍🩹

best I've felt in a long time but just learned the hard way you can still crash and it doesn't change your pacing envelope 😅

@rayhotate @sunderls @datvu_7 @yuki_arano @DeepanshuGautam truly impactful work 👏

We are building a frontier lab to ensure scientific progress is no longer bottlenecked by the speed of AI R&D. Our first memo is live at: mirendil.com. Join us!

We have been heads down but wanted to share a bit about what we are doing 🧵

@xiaobinwu 🚀🚀

must be doing something good

@textangel @elonmusk It was a great pleasure working with you, Andrew! It was an absolute great run, and I’m grateful for your hard work and all the wonderful moments we shared. Wishing you all the best!

@jimmybajimmyba @elonmusk Thanks for your leadership and inspiration, Jimmy! Best wishes for your next chapter!

Last day at xAI. xAI's mission is push humanity up the Kardashev tech tree. Grateful to have helped cofound at the start. And enormous thanks to @elonmusk for bringing us together on this incredible journey. So proud of what the xAI team has done and will continue to stay close as a friend of the team. Thank you all for the grind together. The people and camaraderie are the real treasures at this place. We are heading to an age of 100x productivity with the right tools. Recursive self improvement loops likely go live in the next 12mo. It’s time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture. 2026 is gonna be insane and likely the busiest (and most consequential) year for the future of our species.

@SeanXC2030 Thank you 🙏🏻

@shayan_ Congrats, Shayan. Looking forward to more amazing work

Career update: I left xAI to start something new, closing my 7+ year chapter working at Twitter, X, and xAI with so much gratitude. xAI is truly an extraordinary place. The team is incredibly hardcore and talented, shipping at a pace that shouldn’t be possible. From the Home Timeline at X to Grok 2, 3, and 4 at xAI, I worked across product infra and model behavior post-training, from memory to coding infra, agents, and more. Pure startup mode, every day. Working closely with Elon across X and xAI, I saw what happens when you refuse to accept impossible as an answer. I learned to embody obsessive attention to detail, maniacal urgency, and to think from first principles. I’m deeply grateful to @elonmusk for the experience, to @wanghaofei for the trust and support throughout Twitter/X, and to @TheGregYang and @ibab for believing in me. And to the many incredible people I had the privilege to work with along the way, thank you! Now, I’m excited to take the leap and build something new, focused on accelerating science. More soon.

@PeilinYang Thanks Peilin! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

@shayan_ Congrats on the great run Shayan! Looking forward to whatever you will be doing next!

@Yuhu_ai_ Wish you the best Tony! Thanks for your leadership!

I resigned from xAI today. This company - and the family we became - will stay with me forever. I will deeply miss the people, the warrooms, and all those battles we have fought together. It's time for my next chapter. It is an era with full possibilities: a small team armed with AIs can move mountains and redefine what's possible. Thank you to the entire xAI family. Onward. 🚀 And to Elon @elonmusk - thank you for believing in the mission and for the ride of a lifetime.

@Najeebkhuram Thank you so much 🙏🏻🙏🏻

@shayan_ Wish you all the best @shayan_

@textangel Me too! And I think I have the most number of selfies with you out of anyone at the company 😁

@shayan_ Loved working with you so much Shayan! You’re one of the first people I met at the company

@textangel That means a lot! 💙 So many great memories over these years. Really gonna miss you

@shayan_ You’re a hero! Will be dearly missed

@adityagupta 🫡

@shayan_ Thanks for the contributions to posttraining @shayan_!!

@liuyuxxd Thanks Yu 🫡

@shayan_ Absolute awesome run Shayan! Just 🐐

@haitong_yu Thanks Haitong! Gonna miss our talks and all our memories. Those early days we built deep retrieval together are some of my favorites. 💙

@shayan_ Just 🐐

@nima_owji Appreciate you! Thanks for always supporting what we built. 💙

@shayan_ Congratulations man! Can’t wait to see what you are going to build! Wish you the best! 💙