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San Francisco
Joined June 2011
if you read this thought it was was innovative, you should really be talking to @i_zerbib
Today we’re announcing OpenClaw Enterprise In collaboration with @RedHat , @nvidia and @OpenAI the OpenClaw Foundation is open sourcing a powerful enterprise control plane for persistent agents OpenClaw Enterprise is built to run on your own infrastructure and will always be free for an organization to use openclaw.ai/blog/openclaw-en…
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a "whirling vortex of reasonably small agent to agent payments" 🏄
an interview on how agents are challenging (and improving!) engineering and financial systems from @bcherny and @patrickc. if you strongly believe much of the internet will be soon be agent-driven (in some form), then @stripe is a very fun place to work. youtube.com/watch?v=S_lzYIvt…
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Great team and an important problem. Congratulations!
90% of humans will be taken advantage of by agents. Give your agents a credit card? You’re asking for it. We raised a $35M Series A to build Baselayer. Keep your agents submissive.
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Been very impressed by Sciforium's dedication. Their work on this has created huge upgrade for our agent performance. They continue to deliver.
We made MiniMax-M3 up to 3.5x faster on 4x AMD MI355X. The stock AMD build of June 30 did 82.0 output tok/s per user. Our custom drafter now does up to 289.5, with up to 253% more output tokens per dollar. Two serving releases, a rebuilt speculative decoding stack and our own drafter got us there. What we changed, in order. 🧵
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8,000+ autonomous businesses have been born out of @polsia. Less than a year into @sapiom, we're already powering the 100,000+ agent runs per day that make that possible. For web search, @sapiom integrates with @Linkup_platform the web search API built for AI. Together, we’re rebuilding the infrastructure of the internet for agents.
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Thrilled to be part of this team. Before Sapiom, I was building fleets of agents to scale businesses. Cost, complexity, and reliability took all my building time. Sapiom was built to solve these issues. This is going to be huge for agent builders everywhere! 🚀
Replying to @sapiom
@sapiom just raised a $35 million Series A from @dragonflyvc , @Accel , @AnthropicAI and others to help unlock the next trillion agents. The first thing we’re tackling is cost. To make that happen, we are launching three new products today at Sapiom.ai
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Eleven months ago, we started building something because the infrastructure we needed did not exist. It's time for that to change. 🎱🖐️
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For every cost reduction, we'll find a new way to use AI
Companies are realizing they are overspending on AI. I got to sit down with @LauraBratton5 from @theinformation this week to talk about how this could be solved, how @sapiom is building for it, and how we expect to save 25% on our own bill. TLDR; Swapping models barely moves the bill; what moves it is the tools you hand the agent and how many loops it takes to finish. Take a read here: theinformation.com/newslette…
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Karp’s right that enterprises are “paying for tokens that create no value.” IMO, he’s partially wrong about the fix. His answer is discipline. Data sovereignty, more careful spend, tighter governance. But that puts the burden on the enterprise to manage something they can’t actually see. You can’t ask a team to exercise judgement over a system they have no visibility into. It's like sending your 4 year old off for the day with no guidance, no boundaries, no idea where they even went, and expecting them back with no scrapes, no bruises, and definitely no new pet snake in their pocket (swap to a cheaper babysitter and the kid may still come home with a snake). And watching from the front porch doesn’t fix it either. A camera pointed at the front door tells you the kid left. It doesn’t tell you where they went or why they came back with a snake. Watching a black box fail more slowly is still watching it fail. What actually changes the outcome is infrastructure that gives you real access at the task level: what ran, what it cost, whether it succeeded, how the routing decision got made. Not a dashboard. Control. That infra? It’s been built. And I’m damn proud of the @sapiom team for building it.
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I left Shopify in August 2024 after 4+ years. $100B in GMV through Shop Pay. I left knowing exactly what world-class infrastructure looks like when it works. Before that, I built Earny, an automated agent doing price refunds for 4.5M users. It was acquired in '21. Two different companies. Same ceiling. At Earny, nothing like this existed, so we built it ourselves. At Shopify, the infrastructure was world-class, but it assumed a human was always the one pulling the trigger. Either way, the moment something needs to act on its own, the floor gives out.
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Don't let your agent startup accidentally become an infrastructure startup. You build the agent. Then production shows up, and suddenly you own access, spend limits, approval flows, retries, routing, and a receipt for everything it did. Works as a demo, breaks at production scale. Builders shouldn't have to rebuild the operating platform for agents just to ship. That's the problem we're building Sapiom to solve.
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When an agent fails in production, what's actually breaking? A recent VentureBeat survey asked enterprise teams running agents where only 17% said the model. What truly breaks is everything around it: state that doesn't survive a restart, steps that fail silently, no real record of what the agent actually did. That's the layer my team and I have built.
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86k is peanuts, really -- everyone is spawning agents ad hoc for all kinds of tasks. At scale this is a nightmare to manage without Sapiom
Anyone can get an agent working in a demo. The hard part is the 10,000th run at 2am, when a provider's down and something fails three steps deep and nobody's watching. We helped over 86K agents run in production.
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Replying to @AnthropicAI
@AnthropicAI had an outage yesterday and it's a good reminder that provider incidents are an inevitability of building on third-party infrastructure at scale. when one provider degrades, routing shifts automatically to another without any manual intervention required. for @sapiom yesterday looked like 1.37M gateway calls processed at a 99.12% success rate. one provider's bad day doesn't have to be yours.
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there's a big difference between using AI to optimize your internal ops and building a product where agents are what you're actually selling to customers. there are many options for the first thing. Sapiom was built for the second.
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Proud to announce @sapiom is a launch partner on Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines. When I started Sapiom last summer, "agents paying for APIs" was a weird thing to build a company on. Today it's a Mastercard product line. Machine economy is becoming real infrastructure: continuous transactions, fractions of a cent, settled across cards, bank accounts and stablecoins, no human anywhere. As an initial launch partner, Sapiom anchors the buyer side of this loop. Mastercard provides the network for how machines pay. Sapiom is the control plane for how agents spend. Wallet, budgets, limits, and turning payments into completed outcome rather than just moving money. The smartest model in the world can't do anything if it can't transact. True autonomy requires economic agency and we are enabling it.
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Everyone can build an "agent" Almost nobody trusts one in real world apps Sapiom is the platform that closes that gap 🫰
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everyone is celebrating how fast agents are scaling but the elephant in the room is that the infrastructure supporting them was never built to handle this kind of growth those that figure out governed, reliable execution infrastructure before that wall hits are the ones that will still be standing when the dust settles
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right now building an agent that does something looks like: → sign up for 4 services → generate API keys → write authentication logic → guess what it cost you → pray nothing breaks it should look like: → describe what you want we're abstracting away everything in between.
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