Freedom Accelerating Decentralist || Created "DApps" Framework in 2013 || “Smart Agents” Architecture in 2023 || AI Chief at BasedAI & MorpheusAI OSS Maintainer

NS & Austin Now, Mars Soon
Joined April 2009
Back in Austin post Singapore. TLDR: ZCASH, NEAR & all things quantum are hot. @balajis landed the first Nation State (Kazakhstan) to go all in on being a “digital state” complete with competition for providing traditional government services by private companies.
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🤖 One-click AI Agent setup. No complicated installation. Access your AI agent directly through your browser — with privacy at the core. 🔐 Built on @ManifestNetwork × @MorpheusAIs Get started: InstallOpenclaw.xyz #OpenClaw #AIAgents
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I'm 100% here for the timeline where @jack rebuilds the worlds communications one block at the time with Noster, Buzz, Bitchat, and now Dessa. Keep going brother. xitter.cf/jack/status/2113697902…
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence. block.xyz/dessa
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I'm 100% here for the timeline where @jack rebuilds the worlds communications one block at the time with Noster, Buzz, Bitchat, and now Dessa. Keep going brother. xitter.cf/jack/status/2113697902…
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence. block.xyz/dessa
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What Agent To Agent Connection Actually Looks Like - Weekly Town Hall 10.22.26 xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1DGleVyZk…
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Jensen closed his GTC Berlin 2026 keynote with this Hermes Agent demo as the finale. He introduced it by saying the way to build an agent is to ask an agent to build it for you, so he installed and set up a customized Hermes in one prompt. Then he used Hermes, running on @nvidia RTX Spark, to create a simulated training environment for the @huggingface Microduck. Hermes planned an obstacle course with Nemotron and had GPT-6 Astra build it using FreeCAD, Omniverse libraries, Blender, Newton, and Isaac Lab. Hermes trained thousands of simulated ducks on that course until the validated policy was ready to run on the real robot in the physical world. At Nous, we believe open source is a practical tool as much as a philosophical ideal. It gives users the ability to build powerful, complex workflows chaining numerous local+cloud models, devices, and tools themselves instead of waiting for a company to enable them.
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Regulatory capture in action...
DHS just told every civilian federal agency to rip out DeepSeek.... Not just the app... "Any third-party services developed using DeepSeek implementations" too They think data on servers in China. Prompts sent to China. Malware. Open weights on my spark don't phone anyone, No server in China. No server anywhere. Just my little gold box A hosted app and open weights you run yourself are not the same risk. Please don't lump them together and you push builders off open models..
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Early Days of Agent Recursive Self Improvement - Weekly Town Hall 10.15.26 xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1PKqrNBwp…
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Yes, AI is rapidly advancing mathematics (and theoretical physics problems that are essentially mathematical). Like Ramanujan’s notebooks, human mathematicians will spend months (years?) poring over the stream of papers that AI effortlessly generates, hoping to verify and understand them, probably until math itself (via Lean) becomes a branch of computer science like almost everything else. However, after math and physics, there is still a next scientific frontier: chemistry, and especially biology and medicine. I mean, it was already the frontier, but it’s the next one too. AI can crush deterministic math problems on the computer, but biomedicine is a highly empirical, noisy, multivariate, and yet often predictable domain. Thus, AI radically increases our ambitions in biomedicine. All the omics data, all the messy literature, it can all be synthesized and analyzed in a flash. This is what the labs mean when they talk about curing all diseases. The tooling is available to take cracks at biomedical problems previously thought impossible. Midjourney is doing this, Chan Zuckerberg is doing this, Anthropic is doing this, but there will be so much more.
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When Deputy Prime Ministers show up to the event, you know the Network State movement is growing fast. @Zhaslan_Madiyev
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We are just at the beginning friends. Keep building.
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