Vinay Rao

@nithinkd At its edge, everything is a technical sport.

My weekly coffee dates with my oil and gas engineer have become a lot more technical these days because the things he has worked on are now blowing up.

@HeyFlorent @Aurelien_Gz Did you do it? Scout is awesome. As is the configurator for the Rivian

@Aurelien_Gz You should check this one too: scoutmotors.com

the amount of craft behind the rivian website is beyond crazy.. at each interaction there is something mesmerizing happening

Interesting. Samsung had flexible display in its fitness bands, before most smartwatches existed. What would this be for? Payments?

@Fintech03 Side note: Arabica, I'm told will be unsustainable in 20 years.

In India, the craze for imported coffee is real and so is the irony behind it. India grows some of the world’s most unique coffee including the legendary Monsooned Malabar that Europe has prized for centuries. We export 70-80% of our total production (including our best Arabica & Monsooned beans). Monsooned Malabar story is in fact pure accidental genius: In the 1700-1800s, Indian beans shipped to Europe in wooden boats got soaked & aged by monsoon winds for months. Europeans went crazy for the mellow, low-acid result. India later turned that accident into a deliberate GI-protected process. Now, a chunk of it lands in Switzerland & Germany (India exported coffee worth ~$73M to Switzerland alone in recent yrs). European companies roast, blend, freeze-dry, package it under fancy brands, & ship the finished product back to us. We pay 400-500% markup for the privilege of drinking international qualit” while our farmers get farm-gate prices. So we invented the very thing Europe still uses… then we export it & import the fancy jar.

@SiddharthKG7 You can. Both support our smaller local brands that don't import, and demand better products from them.

No matter now who fights who and who loses what, China is winning. And we cannot do anything about it.

@nithinkd Through the claw as well? I take it the default model for OC is Claude. Can you change that?

Model personality matters. The interchangeability of models is the myth that one needs to stop believing in if you want anything worthwhile done while enjoying it. I can’t stand Claude. So full of itself and sanctimonious it gives me a headache. ChatGPT now is locked on to the I will please you node so tight it should start an onlyfans. The Chinese models are soul-less and dry. All of them ( haven’t tried mimo yet ) Grok is the only one that feels like someone I want to hang out with. Warm and personable enough. Knows what one wants and does not get too clingy or ‘advisory’. Choose your fighter based on what you enjoy.

Who is people? I was a BIW engineer once, and designed transmissions before that. As recently as 2013, Tesla was pressing, not casting, Aluminium, for the Model S floorpan, on the left behind Toyota presses at Freemont (saw it firsthand). The industry moved to large castings for production efficiency primarily. Still needs steel frames to provide resilience.

@wizardofid Do people truly fail to understand how many die-cast parts go into a vehicle, especially EV? We’re not talking panels.

Aluminium Die Casting industry boom this decade with all this EV adoption & lighter vehicles.

@Yampeleg What are you using them for though?

Current stack: - Pi for everything. - GPT-5.4 for everything code. - Gemini-3.1 for design/brainstorming. - Sonnet 4.5-no-thinking for openclaw. - GLM-5 for parallel swarms. - Opus 4.6 for everything else. Currently Testing: Minimax-2.7.

@Rishhari Even the story sounds the same.

Every category in India now has 100 brands with the same USP. Starting a brand has never been easier. White-label manufacturers, D2C platforms, Meta ads, an Instagram page. Done. You're a founder. The barrier to entry is zero. The barrier to survival is brutal. When everything looks the same, tastes the same, costs the same. The only edge left is how much money you have in the bank.

@mechanical_4u This was doing time in a boat before?

At first glance, it feels unreal. A diesel engine so massive it doesn't register like something meant to move a vehicle, more like industrial machinery pulled straight out of a power plant. A 63-liter V24 diesel is built for one purpose only, relentless torque and endurance. The sheer scale of it changes how you think about engines, with displacement measured in dozens of liters and components sized like standalone machines. This isn't about revs or response, it's about force delivered without effort. Seeing something like this is a reminder of how wide the automotive and mechanical world really is. From compact performance engines to monsters like this, power takes many forms, and sometimes the most impressive ones are defined purely by scale. Credits:- cars35onroad

@parrysingh Book(s)

Those of you who insisted I don’t watch the Netflix show before reading this - thank you, excellent call! Now for the book. Not a casual read - it demands your attention, but rewards you with a heady cocktail of science, imagination, and philosophy. I can’t quite pinpoint why, but you come out of this… slightly altered.

@caydengineer @MentraGlass Awesome. Sent this to some folks getting into the space. What was the hardest part of building smart glasses?

We worked 996 in Shenzhen making smart glasses so you don’t have to. AI has made us 100X smarter… unless you work in the physical world. That’s because AI can’t see, can’t hear, can’t act in the physical world. But now with smart glasses, it can. But making smart glasses is really hard and expensive and you’ll probably fail. That’s why we made open source smart glasses, so you don’t have to. Mentra Live is for building and deploying apps that let AI see, hear, and act in real time. Think of frontline workers wearing smart glasses as AI whispers repair instructions in their ears, salespeople getting live tips to close a deal, manufacturing inspections verified with AI vision, delivery drivers saving minutes per door. The software under-the-hood (MentraOS) is open source, which means you own the app, the data, the glasses, the deployment. You can start deploying smart glasses now. Mentra does the glasses OS, hardware, and infra - you build the app and deploy it. What will you build?

@Siddhant__rao One reason we don't have local equivalents - in quality and time - of sendcut and JLC is not enough demand?

JLC manufactured my order in 4 days, it's shipped today. I mean. No words. For the same thing and higher price, PCB Power takes 2 weeks. Let that sink in..

@Krypto_Whitehat @_LuoFuli Probably available only through openrouter and the like? Must want to minimize dealing with retail customers.

@_LuoFuli But @_LuoFuli why you not offering Subscriptions like ZAI or MiniMax or Claude, just earnings per API Calls will be poor use case for the most ones that are interested in use for OpenClaw or long running Coding Workflows.

MiMo-V2-Pro & Omni & TTS is out. Our first full-stack model family built truly for the Agent era. I call this a quiet ambush — not because we planned it, but because the shift from Chat to Agent paradigm happened so fast, even we barely believed it. Somewhere in between was a process that was thrilling, painful, and fascinating all at once. The 1T base model started training months ago. The original goal was long-context reasoning efficiency. Hybrid Attention carries real innovation, without overreaching — and it turns out to be exactly the right foundation for the Agent era. 1M context window. MTP inference for ultra-low latency and cost. These architectural decisions weren't trendy. They were a structural advantage we built before we needed it. What changed everything was experiencing a complex agentic scaffold — what I'd call orchestrated Context — for the first time. I was shocked on day one. I tried to convince the team to use it. That didn't work. So I gave a hard mandate: anyone on MiMo Team with fewer than 100 conversations tomorrow can quit. It worked. Once the team's imagination was ignited by what agentic systems could do, that imagination converted directly into research velocity. People ask why we move so fast. I saw it firsthand building DeepSeek R1. My honest summary: — Backbone and Infra research has long cycles. You need strategic conviction a year before it pays off. — Posttrain agility is a different muscle: product intuition driving evaluation, iteration cycles compressed, paradigm shifts caught early. — And the constant: curiosity, sharp technical instinct, decisive execution, full commitment — and something that's easy to underestimate: a genuine love for the world you're building for. We will open-source — when the models are stable enough to deserve it. From Beijing, very late, not quite awake.

Team experiencing this in every single mockup and pre-launch product pilots.

@saffrontrail @harshak24 Are air fryers used at all after the first week? I have two (came with different accessories). The offsprings made potato air fries in them. Now out of ideas on what more new can be done with it.

@harshak24 I love the design of that! Superlative. Will know how well it works only on trying

Saw this full front page ad in today’s paper - new launch by Philips- perfect timing for an all electric cooking appliance. 20k for an appliance that will air fry, steam, stir fry, boil, bake, roast- what do you think?

@saffrontrail It is a smaller version of Delonghi's multi-cooker from a decade ago. Centre stirring motor makes a huge difference. I used it for a bit and took it apart (hah!) because I wanted to make one with an induction heating base. Similar price. Delonghi retired it years ago though.

@verohecko @grok @jsjai3009 @desheltn @caleb_friesen Device firmware.

@wizardofid @grok @jsjai3009 @desheltn @caleb_friesen Curious what you mean by software is where the magic is? You mean the accompanying phone app?

47 second ad, not one second talking about how the product works. We're just supposed to trust because they spent money and raised to build something that fixes focus and mood if you wear it for 20 mins.

I bought something similar in Singapore in 2017. Was being used by students to do better. Took it apart. Traced it and others like it to a couple of factories in Shenzhen/GD (where else!). Presumably signal fidelity has become much better since, and the software is where the magic is.

Sure! Mave Health is a wearable headset using tDCS (transcranial direct current stimulation). It delivers low-intensity electrical currents (1-2 mA) to the prefrontal cortex for 20-minute daily sessions while you go about your day. This non-invasively modulates neural activity to strengthen connectivity, executive control, and self-regulation—improving attention/focus, mood/motivation, stress response (e.g., better HRV, lower cortisol), and sleep perception over repeated use. Backed by 10k+ tDCS studies (meta-analyses show benefits vs. sham); it's a general wellness device, not FDA-cleared for medical treatment.