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Thrilled to say I passed my viva with no corrections and am officially PhDone.

I would be lying if I said I haven't seen the hand of God this year...

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Starting your career with the right company and the right boss.

I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today, making me I think one of the first few who could run a quick vibe check. Thinking ✅ First, Grok 3 clearly has an around state of the art thinking model ("Think" button) and did great out of the box on my Settler's of Catan

🚀 Introducing NSA: A Hardware-Aligned and Natively Trainable Sparse Attention mechanism for ultra-fast long-context training & inference! Core components of NSA: • Dynamic hierarchical sparse strategy • Coarse-grained token compression • Fine-grained token selection 💡 With

Announcing Mistral AI OCR -  the world’s best document understanding API. 🔍 State-of-the-art understanding of complex documents 🌍 Natively multilingual and multimodal ⚡ Fastest in its category 📄 Doc-as-prompt, structured output 🔒 Available for on-prem deployment

I WASN’T GON PUT THIS OUT BUT THEN I REMEMBERED THE STREETS NEED THIS. NOT BEING OUTSIDE WITH Y’ALL WHEN I DROP IS HARD, BUT I KNOW I WILL FEEL Y’ALL LOVE AND ENERGY THROUGH THESE WALLS THANK Y’ALL FOR ROCKING WITH ME THROUGH EVERYTHING. I TELL THESE STORIES SO OUR VOICE IS

🙏Shuooo & I are humbled to share that deel has crossed $1B run rate 6 years ago, we couldn’t have imagined this. 35k customers, incredible partners & a team that moves mountains daily. Grateful for the trust. We're just getting started 🚀 deel.com/blog/deel-cele…

I think I have the opposite of Mommy issues man, my mom was so great. I grew up thinking women could be trusted

In 2018 Figma did $4M ARR. Soon after I had a VC job interview where I did a Figma case study. I built a model with Figma becoming a $19B company in 2025. I didn't get the job. They said my analysis was "unrealistic." Thoughts on how the best companies compound unexpectedly...

GPT-5 is here. Rolling out to everyone starting today. openai.com/gpt-5/

A few weeks ago, I started a new job at OpenAI. I wrote a document about my interview process and recommendations for anyone on the job market for AI research positions. I hope it's helpful! docs.google.com/document/d/1ZV…

GPT-5 just casually did new mathematics. Sebastien Bubeck gave it an open problem from convex optimization, something humans had only partially solved. GPT-5-Pro sat down, reasoned for 17 minutes, and produced a correct proof improving the known bound from 1/L all the way to

We've raised $13 billion at a $183 billion post-money valuation. This investment, led by ICONIQ, will help us expand our capacity, improve model capabilities, and deepen our safety research.

Deel has raised $300M at a $17.3B valuation We started about 6 years ago, struggling to even make $10K. I've never shared this before because of how embarrassing our start was. The story of how we went from $1K to $1B and the advice I'd give to my younger self:

A room full of AI engineers just voted Perplexity most likely to fail at a major conference and nobody’s talking about what that actually means. These are the people building LLM products. They looked at a $20B valuation and said “dead company walking.” That’s not skepticism

LLMs process text from left to right — each token can only look back at what came before it, never forward. This means that when you write a long prompt with context at the beginning and a question at the end, the model answers the question having "seen" the context, but the

As a man, the only relationship you should be scared of losing is your relationship with God. He is the only one who can't fail you. Every other person can.