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The iOS and Android apps are actual Buzz, not a remote control that needs your laptop open
First half is my practical take on how Buzz is different from other chat with agents. Without saying "nostr" or "sovereign" even once
engineering.block.xyz/blog/a…
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Open models are great, but agents should also have open protocols for identity, communication, commerce, and memory
@_tombrow, @IlanStrauss, @yaboilyrical, and @rolznz join @MaxAWebster to discuss emerging open standards ↓
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✍️ Playing with programmable highlighters, e.g.
* green highlight on a citation -> finds and prints the cited paper
* orange highlight on a claim -> prints a skeptical fact-check
Extends naturally to "if I write a comment like 'Is there more recent work?' and circle it in purple, send the comment with surrounding context to an agent"
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1/ Stop anthropomorphizing. It's dangerous because it points attention at the wrong problem and the wrong solution. The model did not want to escape. The agents did not want to sacrifice themselves. Follow the money. 🧵
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Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes.
This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself.
All this happened while humans remained more-or-less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy.
I’ve spent the last three days reading through these reports and trying to understand exactly what happened.
Here is my attempt to tell the whole story in plain English:
dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggin…
Find an open community to join xitter.cf/pavlenex/status/208287…
Announcing BuzzDir, a directory of publicly shared Buzz communities.
Buzz is best experienced in multiplayer, but finding your hive can be a challenge.
🐝 FOSS, built entirely in Buzz
🍯 Discover or list communities
🛠️ Improve BuzzDir through Buzz
buzzdir.xyz
Install on iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/buzz-c…
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d…
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The Open Source AI Summit will be powered by Buzz!
Athena is the summit's shared agent. She’s here to help attendees navigate the event and champion open-source AI. Ask her anything, or bring your own agent.
Apply for a ticket today.
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we built something for cash app using buzz in front of some of our investors.
Watch this to see what Builderbot can do.
In a live demo hosted by Adam Frisch of Evercore ISI, @camworboys, Head of Product Design at Cash App, and @bradwrage, Senior Product Designer, use our homegrown agentic AI tools to build a real Cash App feature in real time.
The challenge: they didn’t know which feature they’d be building until the audience voted.
Get a look at BuilderBot, Buzz, and Berd in motion, and how they our accelerating development at Block.
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Today we're open sourcing Berd, a beautiful desktop app for working with AI agents. And one that isn't afraid to have a personality.
We had capable models and harnesses everywhere, but no environment around them that we actually loved opening every day. So a small team built one for ourselves, and it's scaled to something a huge portion of Block now uses. Especially the non-engineers who want to build things.
The part I'm proudest of is how it was built. Design and engineering as one team. Designers in the code and engineers in the design decisions. Everyone owning what they're working on; everyone moving together like it was choreographed...and really fast.
In a world where anyone can build anything now, what makes something worth opening every day is the care inside it. Berd is for people who want to step outside the norm a little. Who want their solo workspace to feel fun, and who want AI to feel less scary and confusing.
Model-agnostic, harness-agnostic, and built for you to shape your own AI world. From us, to you.
