Meet AutoRouter, the most intelligent way to pick models
You’re wasting tokens selecting frontier models for every prompt, and sometimes for worse performance
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Introducing: The Claw
While you were setting up your OpenClaw we set up a physical claw machine in our office and hooked it up to the Tempo blockchain
Play it yourself, or train your own robotics model to play it and climb the leaderboard
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On most blockchains, balances and payment activity are public by default. Businesses and their customers shouldn’t need to give up privacy to use stablecoins.
Tempo Zones keep balances and payments private, with compliance controls and access to global liquidity across Tempo.
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Payroll has to be private. That’s been non-negotiable for us since day one of building the @deel stablecoin wallet.
Tempo Zones gives us that privacy, so we can bring the benefits of stablecoins to our users.
Really enjoyed working on zones with @liamihorne and the @tempo team!
Privacy is live on Tempo.
Tempo Zones let enterprises keep customer stablecoin balances and payments private, with built-in compliance controls and access to global liquidity.
@deel is the first customer with Zones live in production.
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I extracted thousands of images from over a century's worth of archived fashion catalogs, magazines, and photos
Then compiled it into a website that lets you see how American fashion (and photography) evolved over the last 120+ years
Tempo was at @Sibos this week, meeting with institutions to bring real-world payments and settlement onchain.
Here are the key takeaways from the team:
- @sytaylor: This was the year of tokenization. From the opening keynote, to the show floor to even the standards talk.
- @ninadnirgudkar: The cash leg is the most important unit of any financial transaction. Moving it well across types of cash, like stablecoins or deposits, and for use cases, from payments to margin, is the key to unlocking onchain markets at scale!
- @borjaneira_ : Stablecoins and Tokenized Deposits will coexist: tokenized deposits will streamline existing institutional corridors, while stablecoins will extend liquidity to every corner of the global economy.
- @malleshpai: Tokenization, stablecoins and tokenized deposits went from side-stage to center-stage this year, and the conversation has shifted from PoCs to production. Institutions are now asking which rails are easy to integrate and can actually handle real workloads.
- @jevgenijs: The key for institutions is using existing standards to move money, because they already solve some of the hardest problems in finance. Leveraging standards like ISO20022 with new forms of money, like stablecoins, will be the catalyst to get banks onchain.
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Karpathy's examples assume people will manage API keys, but no one wants to sign up for 100+ of services!
I asked Mercator to "make a 3b1b explainer video"
It found a voice, research, and video API and paid them each a few cents - way easier to think about
We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks:
Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better:
Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better:
Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better:
Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work!
In summary:
- As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding.
- Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.
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After nearly six incredible years building spacecraft, I’m beginning a new chapter as an entrepreneur in residence (EIR) at @paradigm.
Varda was a grand adventure and a one of one experience I’ll cherish forever. I had the rare privilege of joining the founding team and helping take a wild idea from zero to one, from a blank sheet of paper to hypersonic vehicles coming home from orbit. I’m incredibly proud of what we built together. Thank you to Will, Delian, and the whole team.
Paradigm is giving me something incredibly cool. I’ll have the freedom to search for the next important thing worth building. This might look like a radical departure, but I see it as a chance to step back, look broadly, and follow my curiosity. An EIR sits somewhere between researcher, inventor, and founder in waiting. Paradigm feels like a natural home for that kind of exploration, full of earnest nerds who pair deep technical curiosity with research.
My role is to explore important problem spaces, develop conviction, run experiments, and eventually turn the most promising direction into something real. In many ways, it feels like a natural extension of my hobbies and passion projects.
I’ll be in SF during the week and LA on weekends. I want to use that time to meet as many interesting people as I can. Let’s get coffee and talk about energy, compute, artificial intelligence, and manufacturing. I want to hear about your most ambitious ideas and deepest technical rabbit holes.
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Introducing Dreamwork, the last tool you'll ever need to find your dream job.
With just a resume we match you to millions of jobs, tailor each resume and submit them for you - all with just a click.
But it's more nuanced than that ⤵
OUSD by @openstandard gives businesses a new stablecoin option on Tempo, combined with enterprise features for real-world payments:
• Private balances and payments via Tempo Zones
• 1:1 conversion to USD and competitive FX
• Build earn products that tap into deep liquidity
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we are considering opening up paid access to our internal tool for securing tempo, cyclops
basically codex security but for serious immutable fast crypto infrastructure that can hold billions of dollars & is 24/7 attacked by strangers on the internet
would you pay for it?
if interested dm me / email me georgios at tempo xyz?
Open USD (OUSD) is live on Tempo, with $400M+ in liquidity at launch.
Issued natively on Tempo, OUSD by @openstandard gives businesses a new stablecoin for payments, settlement, and treasury, with liquidity deployed across decentralized exchanges, stablecoin swaps, and bridges.
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What are tasks, or data to query, do you want for Muse, Grok Bot, Instinct, etc, where you’d be excited to _passively_ pay a penny, 10c, $1, for the task/data to be high quality and low latency?
For me, I’d pay to have perfect places data. I still get recommended closed places.
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Can Jev drive a car despite not being able to see?
I gave Jev access to an unreleased world model used to train self-driving cars and a local segmentation model to see if it could drive autonomously.
TLDR: Kinda? It's a little Crazy Taxi - but kinda amazing this works at all.
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It was great getting to share our vision, and the progress we’re making towards it, with Kelly Cloonan at The Wall Street Journal: wsj.com/business/retail/excl…





















