Daniel
@nearlydaniel
seeking to accelerate humanity @xAI. prev: head of AI @harvey__AI, @tesla_AI. lover of type 2 fun. left handed. walkable neighborhood appreciator. pro family.
in a post scarcity society, all that matters is your vibe
it's pretty rare that you see a graph like this the xAI team is incredible cracked and hard working, I love going to work every day ❣️
Grok 4 (Thinking) achieves new SOTA on ARC-AGI-2 with 15.9% This nearly doubles the previous commercial SOTA and tops the current Kaggle competition SOTA
a million ai agents isn't cool, you know what's cool? a BILLION ai agents
‘THE SOCIAL NETWORK PART ll’ is in the works. Aaron Sorkin is set to direct.
Congrats to Sammy and the whole team! Daft solves a ton of pain points and is really thoughtfully designed - worth trying if you're data wrangling. Can't wait to see what they ship next!
Today we're announcing that Eventual has raised $30M in Seed and Series A funding from @CRV and @felicis as well as @ycombinator, @M12vc and @Citi and others. The AI era needs data infrastructure built for AI, not retrofitted. 🧵
Few know this, but I was homeschooled until college The work that Niels is doing (combined with household robotics / Tesla Cybercab), means having a big beautiful loving family is easier than ever, without needing to interact with the horrific education system Pronatalism ❣️
The reason people find Alpha School's results hard to believe is because they're thinking of the educational system like a bunch of athletes running a 100-meter dash, and then Alpha School coming in and claiming they can do it in half the time. But if you change your mental…
> my brain was hurting (more than normal) > went to the hospital > got a CT scan > results popped up in the Kaiser app > doctor was taking a while to come by > paste results into Grok, as if i'm healthy > Grok says i'm good > walk out of hospital, go home i love technology
sf leaders are speedrunning plot of idiocracy incredibly damaging
San Francisco schools is trying its absolute hardest to make sure all middle income families who could move out of the city do so right away “Grading for Equity” is going to be a real disaster and I guess this is a boon for SF private schools and Burlingame housing prices
The DAU metrics on this “create” button must be absolutely insane because I smash it multiple times from muscle memory every time I open the app
I generally optimize my life such that all conversation topics are 1 hop to "that reminds me of this insane story" highly recommend it
I like to stand by the windows and stare out over the city and contemplate whatever problem I'm working on but the office snacks make this difficult, because it's hard to be brooding and pensive while sucking on a little pouch of costco apple sauce
meditating was kinda boring, so I transcribed the audio and now I just read it quickly in the morning and think “I’m enlightened” to myself a bunch works great, I can see why people are so into this stuff
