Umesh Khanna 🇨🇦🇺🇸

I asked people: "who has hosted great events in SF?"

2 votes each:
- Alicia (@sharedalbums)
- Ben Lang (@benln)
- Dave Fontenot (@davefontenot)
- Ankit Gupta (@AnkitGuptaAI)
- Harbor (@alexgshaw, @ryan_marten)
- Joanne Shang (@JoanneShang)
- Midjourney (@DavidSHolz, @aalleexx)
- Ricardo de Arruda (@notawizard)
- Sarah Chieng (@MilksandMatcha)
- Sukone Hong (@sukonehong)
- Umesh Khanna (@forwarddeploy)
- Vivian Shen (@vivianmshen)

40 people voted. People couldn't pick themselves. I didn't vote.

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I asked people: "who have you met in the AI data and post-training space that you find most insightful?"

5 votes: Daniel Chang (@dnnssl2)

3 votes each:
- Abhijay Rana (@abhijaymrana)
- Ryan Wexler (@RyanMWexler)
- Sean Cai (@SeanZCai)
- Will Brown (@willcb)

2 votes each:
- Amy Tam (@amytam01)
- Jesse Hu (@huyouare)
- Nikhil Namburi (@nikhilvnamburi)
- Thomas Liao (@distributionat)

91 people were picked. The other 82 got 1 vote each and are in the next two posts.

People couldn't pick themselves. I didn't vote.

I added Starships to Apple Maps so you can watch reusable rockets launch endlessly from Starbase, TX.

underdog does not need wifi to run!

Introducing Underdog, your Private Personal AI on devices you already own

Today we're announcing our backing from @a16z @khoslaventures @HummingbirdVC Anthology (@AnthropicAI @MenloVentures) @patrickc @naval @rauchg @polynoamial @Thom_Wolf @Mascobot @tszzl @OfficialLoganK and other top AI leaders

Our mission is to provide free, capable, reliable and private AI to billions of people.

Underdog’s Law: today’s frontier intelligence reaches your devices in six months.

We’re starting with fast, capable AI that runs on consumer hardware. By co-designing models and inference engines, we’re pushing the frontier of capability, speed, power and data efficiency.

Our research also spans agentic commerce, confidential inference, and how AI will reshape the internet economy.

Privacy and capability no longer needs to be a tradeoff. If you believe in this future, join us. Time to build.

Plot twist: Your next flight might have better Wi-Fi than your home. @Starlink, Wi-Fi coming in 2027. 🛜✈️

news.flyfrontier.com/frontier-airli…

Proximal builds infrastructure that enables AI to improve from real-world experience.

In the past year, we have grown to more than $200M in annualized revenue helping frontier labs and enterprises improve coding agents. Now, we are expanding beyond software engineering.

Recent progress in mathematics demonstrates what happens when models are trained in domains with massive amounts of public data and easy verifiability, making it easy to find weaknesses, generate training tasks, and iterate quickly.

We build infrastructure that enables this feedback loop in other domains: we are excited about a world in which AI systems design targeted drugs, accelerate chip design, and rewrite legacy software that still runs hospitals, power grids, governments, and other critical infrastructure.

Since starting, we have assembled a small team of researchers and engineers and built world-class infrastructure for post-training and synthetic data research to overcome the challenges of scaling manual data curation.

Our team comes from Cursor, Google DeepMind, Meta Superintelligence, Prime Intellect, Citadel, and Jane Street. More than half are former founders.

We’re fortunate to be backed by investors who share that vision, including @generalcatalyst who led our $15M Seed Round at a $300M valuation, as well as @chemistry, @svangel, @dvlamoen and individuals like @LiamFedus, @kevinweil, and @bernhardsson

Liftoff of Starship!

Today we're announcing $75M to build Solcoa One, our 500-tonne rare earth metallization plant in Nevada.

At Solcoa, we believe rare earths are the foundation of America's next great industrial era. An era we intend to win on the merits, with superior American technology.

I asked people: "who are the best active angels in AI?"

5 votes: Jeff Dean (@JeffDean)

4 votes: Umesh Khanna (@forwarddeploy)

3 votes: Sholto Douglas (@_sholtodouglas)
3 votes: Thomas Wolf (@Thom_Wolf)

2 votes: Daniel Chang (@dnnssl2)
2 votes: Elad Gil (@eladgil)
2 votes: Eric Glyman (@eglyman)
2 votes: Logan Kilpatrick (@OfficialLoganK)
2 votes: Michael Chen (@michaelzchen5)
2 votes: Nat Friedman (@natfriedman)
2 votes: Noam Brown (@polynoamial)
2 votes: Philip Bogdanov (@philip_bogdanov)
2 votes: Sarah Zeng (@sarahzengy)
2 votes: Tim Luong (@chongz)
2 votes: Zach Frankel

I asked people to focus on angels that work in AI.

People couldn't pick themselves. 3 people picked me; I left myself off the list. I didn't vote.

👀 Eric Luhman (@eric_luhman1) and Troy Luhman (@troyluhman) have left OpenAI.

I am excited to be starting a new role at Cursor/SpaceXAI! I will be working on long term research with @ellev3n11 and the amazing team here. Can't wait for what comes next!

Will be in Toronto/Waterloo Sept 17th weekend for @HackTheNorth

Let me know if you'll be around, would love to meet!

Grok Bot can talk now.