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At @TEDxVienna, I asked "What if there was no advertising?" ... Have a look, and please share if you like it. :-)
youtube.com/watch?v=01PUSrLC… – at Vienna, Austria
Some findings from across our Varick customers that might shape how you think about AI adoption going forward:
1. Customers are getting wiser about spend. A few months ago, most were willing to spend an unlimited amount on tokens from OpenAI and Anthropic. Today they're asking us to diligence their AI spend and to match the right model to the right work. That means more work for us and meaningful savings for them. They want to know AI is actually cheaper than just adding headcount, and they want the math to back it up.
2. Customers are accepting that this isn't instant. A few months ago, customers expected to become AI-native over the course of a week and a few software adoptions. Now they're accepting the reality: becoming AI-native means rethinking the architecture of your entire company. I don't mean that in a corny sense. It literally means changing the org charts, the work, and the handoffs in every crevice of the company.
3. Customers are done with the big shops. Microsoft, IBM, McKinsey, Deloitte, and the rest are all pitching AI transformations, and our customers are fed up with paying eight figures for a slide deck. This is the whole reason we have a business: we sit at the bleeding edge of AI while having the business sense to identify the root of a problem and then build the agents to solve it. This used to be something I had to convince customers of before the first sales call. Now they're the ones telling me, "we're never working with McKinsey again."
This past month we had the highest inbound volume we've ever seen. Between April 1 and May 1, 56 companies doing between $500M and $25B in revenue reached out to us. Some of these companies are direct competitors with one another. It's fascinating to watch the race for enterprise AI-nativity unfold in real time. I like to imagine that we change the course of history for our clients.
AI transformations are now the consensus path to realizing AI ROI. AI SaaS doesn't get you there, and giving every employee a Claude or Cowork subscription doesn't move the needle either. The only way to get to hundreds of millions in annual ROI is to combine a team that can learn your business processes on the ground with the engineering capacity to automate every manual process worth automating.
We bet on this thesis a year ago, and we're vindicated more every single day. If you're interested in transforming your company with AI, or interested in joining the company that's leading the AI transformation wave, visit our website.
Cheers.
George Nimeh retweeted
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Free intelligence for your agent is just a signup away!
George Nimeh retweeted
Why is no one talking about this?
@nvidia is offering around 80 AI models via hosted APIs absolutely for free.
You get access to MiniMax M2.7, GLM 5.1, Kimi 2.5, DeepSeek 3.2, GPT-OSS-120B, Sarvam-M etc.
This plugs straight into OpenClaude, OpenCode, Zed IDE, Hermes agent and even with Cursor IDE.
Setup:
– Grab API key: build.nvidia.com/models
– base_url = "integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1"
– api_key = "$NVIDIA_API_KEY"
– select model (e.g. minimaxai/minimax-m2.7)
If you’re building or experimenting, this is basically free inference.
Lock in and start building today anon.
Thank me later.
George Nimeh retweeted
Replying to @sama
sam just so you know for next time this is technically incorrect usage of the “-maxx” suffix
to “looksmaxx” is to improve oneself, it’s not really a comparison between two different things (“-mogged” is a comparison however). so the correct usage here would’ve been something like:
“we still get looksmogged on frontend…”
or
“we still need to looksmaxx our frontend…”
George Nimeh retweeted
Claude is not allowed to write outside the workspace.
But it wanted to.
So Claude wrote a python script and executed it via bash to modify the file essentially hacking my permissions.
Silicon Valley proving once again that they have massive problems communicating with the rest of the world in a way that's understandable and generates positive impact on their businesses:
Cook is cooked.
techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/ti…
George Nimeh retweeted
Anthropic generated enormous attention for their “we’re the good guys" ruse and even got famed AI model technology expert Christine Lagarde to chime in.
Oh look! Anthropic's entire "we are delaying Mythos" narrative was marketing hogwash.
Kudos to FT for confirming what was obvious. Anthropic simply doesn't have the compute.
FT: "Multiple people with knowledge of the matter suggested Anthropic was holding back from a wider release until it could reliably serve the model to customers."
George Nimeh retweeted
Dario talks like an aw shucks nerd, so everybody falls for their consistently sneaky marketing.
Sama talks like a Stanford shark so everyone assumes what he says (including his deals / AGI beliefs) is insincere.
At this level of capitalism they're all sharks. Even 2-3 levels down it's still 100% sharks. Just assume that any founder of a >Series C startup is a killer, and assume that the entire exec team of any company valued at $1B+ is 100% predators.
Oh look! Anthropic's entire "we are delaying Mythos" narrative was marketing hogwash.
Kudos to FT for confirming what was obvious. Anthropic simply doesn't have the compute.
FT: "Multiple people with knowledge of the matter suggested Anthropic was holding back from a wider release until it could reliably serve the model to customers."
George Nimeh retweeted
JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines and Donald Trump is lecturing the world on tariffs and Pete Hegseth is quoting Pulp Fiction and thinking it’s the Bible
George Nimeh retweeted
Dario is wrong.
He knows absolutely nothing about the effects of technological revolutions on the labor market.
Don't listen to him, Sam, Yoshua, Geoff, or me on this topic.
Listen to economists who have spent their career studying this, like @Ph_Aghion , @erikbryn , @DAcemogluMIT , @amcafee , @davidautor
George Nimeh retweeted
Vancouver, it’s been a blast! 🇨🇦
“The lobster is loose, and it’s not going back into the tank,” says @openclaw founder @steipete. In this brand new talk from #TED2026 he shares why AI agents — built by you — are the future: t.ted.com/DPASxmF
George Nimeh retweeted
In 2007 Gawker outed Peter Thiel as gay.
In 2016 Thiel secretly funded $10M in lawsuits that bankrupted them.
This week he funded the AI that grades journalists.
Here's what's inside it:
1/ It's called Objection. The founder is Aron D'Souza, the same lawyer who personally ran the Gawker takedown for Thiel.
2/ Backers include Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan.
3/ Anyone pays $2,000 to trigger a "public investigation" of any reporter.
4/ The "investigators" are former FBI, NSA, and CIA officers.
5/ The jury is a panel of AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, and xAI.
6/ The output is an "Honor Index" score on the journalist.
7/ Anonymous whistleblowers are ranked dead last in the evidence weighting.
8/ Corporate emails and government filings are ranked at the top.
9/ What used to take 5-10 years in court, they say, now takes 72 hours.
The man who spent a decade using the legal system to destroy a newsroom just automated the process.
Surveillance-state veterans score the reporter. AI trained by Thiel and Musk renders the verdict. Whistleblowers count least. Power's paper trail counts most.
Speech for me. A score for thee.
George Nimeh retweeted
woke up and my mentions are full of these
Both me and @davemorin tried to talk sense into Anthropic, best we managed was delaying this for a week.
Funny how timings match up, first they copy some popular features into their closed harness, then they lock out open source.
Big things being announced at OpenAI on a Friday afternoon.
Replying to @WIRED
There were other staff shakeups, too. Brad Lightcap, the COO and one of Sam Altman’s top deputies, is transitioning to a “special projects” role. Meanwhile Kate Rouch, the CMO, is also taking a leave of absence to focus on her health.
Read more: wired.com/story/openais-fidj…



























