Anjney Midha 🇺🇸
@AnjneyMidha
general partner @a16z • latent optimist @OpenRouterAI @lmarena_ai @sesame @MistralAI @LumaLabsAI @bfl_ml @anthropic • past: ceo @ubiquity6 (acq by @discord)
hi infra ppl - some updates on cs153.stanford.edu that @mabb0tt and i are teaching this quarter: 1. lots of people asked if there'll be a live stream. as of now, we don't have plans to do a live stream, but we'll record and post the lectures online (as long as each speaker…
🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨 Search Arena is live with 7 top models with search capabilities ready for testing. Be sure to have the "Search" modality selected in the chat box, and get testing. 🌐 @xAi: Grok 4 @anthropic: Claude Opus 4 @perplexity: Sonar Pro High & Reasoning Pro High…
🇺🇸 Today is a day we have been working towards for six months. We are announcing America’s AI action plan putting us on the road to continued AI dominance. The three core themes: - Accelerate AI innovation - Build American AI infrastructure - Lead in international AI…
In the future we will look back on the insane things humans did to create visual training data with incredulity
Slow at first. Then all at once. AI video in production just went from inevitable to imminent.

Flux Kontext goes 🇫🇷
New features: 🔍 Deep Research: dive into complex topics with our structured research reports, delivered with lightning-fast reactivity 🎙️ Voice mode: talk to Le Chat on the go, thanks to our new Voxtral model 🌍 Natively multilingual reasoning: get thoughtful answers in your…
Introducing powerful new features in Le Chat, making it more capable and more fun!
I've lost count of the wholesome posts and comments like this I've read from people using the @sesame research preview When done right, AI is hugely uplifting

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science - Edwin P. Hubble (1889-1953)
Thoughts on Grok 4 results in LMArena Grok's API model is tied for #3 overall with style control-remember, style control is default now in LMArena. Without style control, it's #2 overall. In Math, its preliminary ranking is tied for #1, along with Minimax-M1, Gemini-2.5-pro, and…
🚨 Breaking News: Grok 4's result is now live! With 4k+ community votes, xAI’s Grok-4 tied for #3 overall in Text Arena — a huge leap from Grok-3. It scores Top-3 across all categories (#1 in Math, #2 in Coding, #3 in Hard Prompts). Detailed analysis in the thread 🧵
Introducing the world's best (and open) speech recognition models!
Kimi K2, the latest from @Kimi_Moonshot is now live in the Arena!
🚀 Hello, Kimi K2! Open-Source Agentic Model! 🔹 1T total / 32B active MoE model 🔹 SOTA on SWE Bench Verified, Tau2 & AceBench among open models 🔹Strong in coding and agentic tasks 🐤 Multimodal & thought-mode not supported for now With Kimi K2, advanced agentic intelligence…
in the wake of moonshot k2's success, three of the top ten frontier labs by token consumption on @OpenRouterAI are now from china, up from only one (deepseek) a year ago

Beach Tech
We just shipped the Kontext Komposer + Kontext-powered Presets Transform any image without writing a single prompt: ✓ New locations/styles ✓ Relighting headshots ✓ Product placements ✓ Movie posters Live now for free on bfl.ai/play
We just shipped the Kontext Komposer + Kontext-powered Presets Transform any image without writing a single prompt: ✓ New locations/styles ✓ Relighting headshots ✓ Product placements ✓ Movie posters Live now for free on bfl.ai/play
A great day for America
It's official: @skupor, the first employee of @a16z, is now running OPM after getting senate confirm.
I’ve interviewed a dozen+ PhDs from hedge funds in NYC/Miami looking to leave and join frontier AI companies in the last month Took longer than I expected for the talent exodus but better late than never