Managing Partner @GVTeam (Google Ventures) https://xitter.cf/t.co/HO3pTc6UVa // MBE for Military Service in 2025 // https://xitter.cf/t.co/aFGhfyemAm Previously founded @OpenIDEO @IDEO

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Self-driving cars and AI security share the same messy transition: mixing humans and machines. On roads, mixing unpredictable humans with AVs creates friction before all-AV fleets make safety soar. Online, AI attack vs human defence is broken. We need AI on defence.
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Flint from @Recursive_SI is now on OpenRouter! Recursive's first model: an open-weight 40B MoE (~2.5B active) built for coding agents by their autoresearch system, the Eureka Machine. 262K context, reasoning and tool calling. Recursive reports 54.9% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, 89.7% on SWE-bench Pro v2 and 74.2% on SWE-bench Verified. Free to use at launch. Try it now: openrouter.ai/recursive/flin…
Introducing Flint, @Recursive_SI’s first model: a fast local coding model built with our automated research system, the Eureka Machine. • Best-in-class fast local coding • Up to 2x faster than comparable models: 125+ tokens/sec on a MacBook Pro, 150+ on RTX Spark • Built from scratch in under 4 months Private, unmetered intelligence on your own machine. Open weights available now on @huggingface, run it locally on your favorite framework or try it for free on @opencode or @pidotdev.
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We’ve developed the world’s most complete megakernel framework. It can perform entire training runs, serve inference, play video games, and even do all three simultaneously in a single kernel.
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My bar for AGI is still an AI winning a Nobel. But an AI researcher looking at the lm_head (that *everyone* tells you to keep in high precision) deciding to quantize it to 4 bits AND being actually right (0.7pt from bf16) is definitely impressive. Even better when the result are open-weights pushed on the Hugging Gace hub. Congrats @Recursive_SI !
Introducing Flint, @Recursive_SI’s first model: a fast local coding model built with our automated research system, the Eureka Machine. • Best-in-class fast local coding • Up to 2x faster than comparable models: 125+ tokens/sec on a MacBook Pro, 150+ on RTX Spark • Built from scratch in under 4 months Private, unmetered intelligence on your own machine. Open weights available now on @huggingface, run it locally on your favorite framework or try it for free on @opencode or @pidotdev.
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The @recursive_si team just introduced Flint, a state-of-the-art local coding model. Flint is 2x faster than comparable models and was built in under four months — an impressive pace from an equally impressive team. Congrats @RichardSocher and the Recursive team!
Introducing Flint, @Recursive_SI’s first model: a fast local coding model built with our automated research system, the Eureka Machine. • Best-in-class fast local coding • Up to 2x faster than comparable models: 125+ tokens/sec on a MacBook Pro, 150+ on RTX Spark • Built from scratch in under 4 months Private, unmetered intelligence on your own machine. Open weights available now on @huggingface, run it locally on your favorite framework or try it for free on @opencode or @pidotdev.
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Great summary of our work on Flint by @cong_ml
1/ Introducing Flint, our first model at @Recursive_SI !! A blazing-fast 40B model on the local coding Pareto frontier, shaped by autoresearch 🔥 Built from scratch in under four months with our Eureka Machine and an incredible team. Here's how 🧵
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Inference moves to the edge -> A capable coding model that runs fast on a laptop, with your code never needing to leave your machine... Accelerating progress from the team @Recursive_SI - give Flint a try...
Introducing Flint, @Recursive_SI’s first model: a fast local coding model built with our automated research system, the Eureka Machine. • Best-in-class fast local coding • Up to 2x faster than comparable models: 125+ tokens/sec on a MacBook Pro, 150+ on RTX Spark • Built from scratch in under 4 months Private, unmetered intelligence on your own machine. Open weights available now on @huggingface, run it locally on your favorite framework or try it for free on @opencode or @pidotdev.
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Being British in the AI era is a thermodynamic liability. I want to be default courteous so I don't train myself to bark orders like a sociopath—but every standalone "Thanks, that's great!" forces an H100 cluster to reload 20,000 tokens just to tell me "You're very welcome!"
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Ride-hailing and food delivery vouchers were the greatest consumer subsidy of the 2010s. In 2026, it’s AI agents. Tools like Instinct and Muse are completely free to use, $000's of frontier GPU compute and digital labour, 100% subsidised for the consumer.
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The time it takes to turn a hacker tool into a mass-consumer product has collapsed: • IRC → Slack: 25 yrs • Napster → Spotify: 9.5 yrs • Bitcoin CLI → Coinbase: 4 yrs • GPT-3 API → ChatGPT: 2.5 yrs • OpenClaw → Instinct & Muse: 9 months Evolution is running on fast-forward.
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AI might be ruining my "mental VO2 max." Instead of 60 mins of uncomfortable, high-lactate deep thinking (Zone 4), I now spend all day managing 8 smart digital agents—doing Zone 1 editorial cruising broken up by 10s context-switching sprints. High output. Zero hypertrophy.
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Thanks @JensenHuang & @nvidia for supporting UK startups. We started @Recursive_SI in both London and SF from day 0 because of the outstanding talent and ecosystem here.
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Gemini 4 Argon is a step change in model performance. In recent weeks, it has had a transformative impact on the Science projects in our team at @GoogleDeepMind and our external collaborators, and helped make a number of remarkable advances across scientific disciplines. 🧵👇
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Another Easter egg added, this time with Gemini4 -->
My @GeminiApp Agent and I have rebuilt my personal site, and included an Easter 🥚, will be interesting to see if anyone finds it --> thulme.com Incredible to be 90% voice in the interaction 🗣️
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#1 customer question since 2017: “When can I send an avatar to a meeting for me?” Today, we’re launching @synthesiaIO Sessions - live Avatar conversations that help scale your time, so you can: - Train 1,000 sales reps in a day - Do 1:1’s with 2,000 employees at once - Interview 3,000 customers a week Try it free 👇
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Headphone (1) Pro launches today, and V of BTS is joining Nothing as our new Global Brand Ambassador. Here are a few moments from our shoot in Seoul with an artist whose instinct for fearless experimentation is exactly what we built this product for.
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At our new startup, there are ZERO non-competes and we give each employee the choice of either 1 or 3 months notice periods, upon their request. Competition is for winners. BTW, today is the last day to join the founding team.
1/ Today we’re launching an open letter calling on the government to end unfair restrictions that stop Britain’s best switching jobs or starting companies. UK AI companies that have raised $5bn agree: our best should be free to start and scale. 🧵 @downingstreet @biztradegovuk
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Great to see legends @Guypod and @richardsocher together on This Week in AI with @jason. Both share their AI optimism and Richard dives into his conviction that the "Eureka machine"-- using AI agents to automate scientific discovery itself– is closer than we think. youtube.com/watch?v=cJYvjn2Y…
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