AI Investor & Product Guy. Managing Partner @VitalStage AI Fund. co-founder @Joinableai, former AI lead 4 $8.5bn software co. Investor in 100+ startups
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Very cool - but key thought exercise: How much of this event do you think was designed to help justify a @SpaceX @Tesla merger? Gives @solarcity @tesla vibes. But not saying that a merger wouldn’t make at least some sense. Optimus demos of robots servicing galactic data centers next? #teslaroadster #spacex #tesla #spacextesla
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Roadster event livestream xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1yKAPwNgg…
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Reinforcement learning rewards convergence, and convergence is the opposite of discovery.
We built the world’s first judgment model from the decisions papers erase: what to pursue, challenge, abandon, and revisit. Columbus-1 autonomously found a zero-click Bluetooth RCE and designed a 10-foot, self-landing rocket.
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Superintelligence will be built on Self Improvement.
Today @hexoai, we’re excited to release ‘SIA’ - an open-source Self-Improving AI, to achieve any goal through recursive self improvement.
While trying to solve a problem, SIA doesn't just improve it's abilities by updating it's harness, it updates it's own weights as well.
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Today we’re launching @joinwhip
AI has made it easier than ever to build software, but there isn’t a good social home for the playful, weird, useful things people make
Whip is a social feed of interactive AI apps and games where each post is something you can tap and play
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🚀 Introducing JoinClaw — your own private OpenClaw, powered by your private data.
Run Agentic AI without exposing your personal machine or sacrificing control.
Built for builders, teams, and organizations that want more control, privacy, and ownership over their AI systems.
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Anthropic would have built this in a day and a dev would have tweeted the news. At OpenAI, an exec is telling you about a plan.
That gap tells you everything.
In the last 7 days, Anthropic shipped Dispatch, channels, voice mode, /loop, 1M context GA, MCP elicitation, persistent Cowork on mobile, Excel and PowerPoint cross-app context, inline charts, and 64k default output tokens. Felix Rieseberg tweeted "we're shipping Dispatch" and you could control your desktop Claude from your phone that afternoon. Every launch came from an engineering account or a GitHub release.
In the same 7 days, OpenAI shipped GPT-5.4 mini and nano. Redesigned the model picker. Sunset the "Nerdy" personality preset. Announced three acquisitions.
To find a comparable volume of shipped product from OpenAI, you have to rewind to December.
This is the most underrated difference in AI right now. Anthropic PMs don't write PRDs. Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, ships 10 to 30 PRs a day and hasn't written code by hand since November. 60 to 100 internal releases daily. Cowork was built with Claude Code in 10 days. The tools build the next version of the tools. Every cycle compresses the last one. Engineers are empowered to ship and announce. The entire org runs like a product team, not a corporation.
OpenAI has the opposite problem. Fidji Simo is CEO of Applications, a title that exists because engineers aren't empowered to ship without executive approval chains. She joined from Instacart. Before that, a decade at Meta running the Facebook app. Since she arrived, OpenAI has acquired 12 companies for $11 billion in 10 months and announced a "superapp" consolidation through the Wall Street Journal. The exec responsible for shipping it is tweeting about "phases of exploration and refocus" on the product she hasn't shipped yet. That's what happens when you layer a Meta-style product org on top of an AI lab. Decisions go up. Shipping slows down. Announcements replace releases.
Anthropic's product announcements come from the people who wrote the code. OpenAI's come from the C-suite and the press. One of those loops compounds. The other one meetings.
By now, many of you have heard the news that Nvidia and Groq are forging a $20 bn partnership. Lots of people have been asking me about it so I wanted to share some thoughts.
TLDR: Groq is the largest investment we made in @VitalStage Fund I, and we are very excited for them to partner deeply with Nvidia. In fact, in our original investment memo, we predicted that one of the large chip design firms like Nvidia would seek to acquire Groq within 2-3 years. Why? I explain more here:
medium.com/@brianshin/why-i-…
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📖 We just published a new piece on Medium.
2025 was full of experimentation.
2026 will be about what actually works.
If you’re building, contributing, or paying attention to where Web3 AI is really headed — this one’s worth a read.
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medium.com/joinable/predicti…
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AI is growing fast and there’s one project that really caught my attention.
@joinableai is building something different: a decentralized AI workforce where humans stay in control, not corporations.
Here’s the thing 85% of AI projects fail because they lack real human feedback.
Joinable changes that by letting anyone become a verified AI contributor, helping train models faster while earning rewards along the way.
They just launched the AI Vote Campaign: Model Clash, and it’s genuinely a fun, meaningful way to shape how AI learns.
You simply compare two AI answers, vote for the better one, and leave quick feedback.
Why join?
Earn points & future token rewards
Help shape real-world AI systems (support, e-commerce, etc.)
Use my referral code REF-3XVNHZ4I
Register using my community code and get:
• 200 bonus points on sign-up
• +15% points on all voting tasks
🎁 I’m giving away community codes!
To enter:
1️⃣ Follow @joinableai & @0xyigido_
2️⃣ RT + Like this post
3️⃣ Tag 2 friends into AI or Web3!
⏰ Ends in 48h start voting & earning today!
👉 vote.joinable.ai/
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AI is moving fast — but the real story is who’s building it.
At Token2049 Singapore, Joinable AI connected with founders, innovators, and visionaries shaping the next wave of intelligent systems.
Catch the highlights from an unforgettable week 🎥👇
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Walk with @robertnishihara & I in NYC with 10% charge 🪫 as we talk through 5 key differences between 𝗟𝗟𝗠 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗩𝗦 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
Let’s see how much we can get through before our mic dies! 🤣
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That’s a wrap for Token2049 Singapore 🎉
The Joinable team joined 3 major events — @epicweb3's Agents Day, @SpectrumXYZZ's The Spectrum Summit, & @AgoraGBC's VC Connect, where our Co-founder Brian Shin shared the vision for The Future of Building AI Apps.
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🚀 At Joinable AI, we believe the future of AI should be built by everyone.
That’s why we created the AI Voting App — a way for you to test, vote, and help improve AI agents in real-world domains.
Prompt. Vote. Improve Domain AI.
👉 Try it here: vote.joinable.ai/
Over 150 AI projects are being built on @joinableai now. Check out how much faster it is to build with our RAG in a BOX #AI #rag #retrievalaugmentedgeneration #Startups
We now have over 350 AI projects being built on @joinableai! You can try it out today. People are building some crazy stuff on our AI APIs including mobile apps, productivity apps, AI support apps and more. Build your first AI app for free in minutes, and your data is secure too
The backstory for why we started @joinableai - to Fight for the AI Builder medium.com/@brianshin/why-we…
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📢 Joinable Labs Launches to Accelerate the Time-to-Intelligence of Private AI Development
We’ve raised $2M seed funding to help AI builders move from raw data to private intelligence — up to 50x faster than traditional pipelines with our first product: RAG-in-a-Box.
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You can learn more about Time-to-Intelligence and check out the TTI eBook here at tti.dev I would appreciate any feedback, thoughts, or ideas for how we can work together to help all AI Buildersincrease the success rate for AI that accelerates positive impact.