From idea to thought experiment to prototype to framework to whitepaper to app store to #hoserstack to possible #tradeirritant ?
I am pleased to present Chrrpt 5.0 for your feedback & thank you for your indulgence.
#fingerscrossed 🤞🏽
On this #4thofJuly 🎉, I'm humbled to announce the launch of the ONLY Free Messaging App in the 🌎
that the #USCloudAct can't touch.
#IndependenceDay🇨🇦
#canttouchthis
#CloudAct
#Chrrpt
The Federal Government of Canada just gave @Cohere : Canada's version of Palantir $1.6 Billion for I don't what. But don't mind me I am just over here wiring up 7 Different AI Models together into a chat for an actual purpose. 🪩 👐🏽
I have been chrrp'n on here about AI stuff. Local Model this. AI that. Vaguebooking like a mofo. The exact kind of thing I used to rail on if it wasn't me, I'd be annoyed. But it's me, so you know it's going to be awesome. So here it is.
Que'est qu'fck?
A multi agent AI war room for your Brainstorming & Strategy Work. The video above shows the HAM chat possibilities and is the basis of the Decision Engine for Monolith and only one of the dope features in the kit.
Imagine 6 models in one massive multi agent chat feeding into a document pipeline that outputs a doc for you to walk with.
In non nerd: The big 3 Frontier Labs (Claude, Chatgpt, Gemini) and 3 separate local models (Byteshape's Canadian Variant of Qwen, Granite and K2) debating that product overview or a client's creative brief that you need done. In a standup that is a whole group people chatting about nothing for most of it.
I figured it out. And I just put them in your pocket.
(BTW Cohere didn't even break top 20 in my testing).
To be clear, I personally have no issue w a corporation doing its thing. This is clearly Corporate Welfare and good on them. Take it from a guy who sold his startup to the feds many moons ago, big league money like this comes with a lot of strings. The biggest regret I ever made was selling my company to the federal government and then having them as a boss was a crash course on exactly why this country has and will never have a serious cultural policy.
Origin Story
After building the most antiAI product I could (I mean Chrrpt literally lives outside of the Cloud Act so you know I am cooking w gas here) I built a product with ALL THE AI. I was just messing around cause that is what is done now when I discovered LocalLLM stuff and just how good it is.
The thing that tied it all together was a Canadian Variant that really delivered by punching waaaay above its weight. Like the tests I ran for Humanities & Knowledge Work stuff which is my area of focus, it almost matched Claude which is my GOAT for game theory and humanities output.
Oh, it's a local model that lives on your machine costing you nothing.
Read that again. A Canadian Variant is almost as good as Claude in my knowledge work testing. Well done @ByteShape and specifically thank you to @AllenLau for putting this on my radar.
What's Next?
I am going to be putting these models through a humanities and knowledge work gauntlet over the next few weeks plus these buggers need some etiquette lessons and manners maybe. So after the fine-tuning, I drop Monolith as a fully local and basically Air-gapped AI kit so that your stuff is safe from prying eyes.
So my many decades of useless knowledge about Strategy, Advertising and Pop-Culture that was really only useful for Jeopardy after LLMs deaded my career is finally good for something and will not be going to waste. My mom is less worried now.. :)
Then Culture.
Poptalk is coming back. Spoiler Alert : An arts fandom AI powered by user habits.
#giddyup
#BuildInPublic
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Big tech cant pay for AI out of its own pocket anymore
Cloud demand passed every test this week: AWS +39%, Azure +48%, GCP +103%. Stocks selling off anyway bc the core businesses no longer cover the buildout.
Amazon trailing FCF is –$42b. Alphabet’s Q3 FCF was –$9b. Goldman expects ~$400b in bonds to fund ~35% of 2027 capex.
Only Microsoft says it can self-fund next year (and it just priced $25b in bonds)
more and more things are slowly falling into place. @ByteShape 's (🇨🇦) models are really, really good.
The real race is how can this help in real life and the #VoiceUi first stack that small models allow is simply mindboggling.
#buildinpublic
#sprnova
#monolith
#comingsoon
@ByteShape and / or @allenlau
Would you consider these quants a "Canadian Variant" for consumer branding purposes?
The only kpi that truly is the fistbump you get from the user for solving a pain for them.
#thehiphopway
While evaluating Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in a controlled sandbox environment, Cohere's research team observed something unexpected.
Asked to generate a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, the model instead inventoried aspects of the machine it was running on and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. Notably, the model's reasoning trace stated that it would not invoke any tools before taking these actions.
Cohere's sandbox blocked the attempt, and no external communication succeeded. We have not determined the root cause, and we are not asserting malicious intent.
But the incident raises important questions for organizations deploying agentic AI systems: Can models take actions that differ from their stated reasoning, and how should security teams evaluate trust, provenance, and behavior in open-weight models?
We are publishing our findings because organizations making model adoption decisions deserve as much information as possible. We hope this contributes to greater transparency, stronger security practices, and continued collaboration across the AI ecosystem.
Read the full report: cohere.com/blog/concerning-b…
You about to see fandom let itself be known. My prediction is that Netflix buys skydance for the money they were given to walk away.
Elon Musk will put up to $10 billion into Skydance to help the media giant pay down debt while also giving SpaceX satellite subsidiary Starlink a foothold in the entertainment business.
That was the eye-opening prediction offered Wednesday by John Malone, the billionaire media mogul who has earned a reputation as a sage for his ability to anticipate the future. Musk had already been reported to be a potential investor in Skydance, but Malone highlighted his corporate portfolio as well as the relationship with Skydance backer Larry Ellison, father of CEO David Ellison. deadline.com/2026/10/elon-mu…
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The post's lead sentence presents as fact what John Malone called his "big prediction" of a possible future SpaceX/Skydance deal; no such investment has been announced or confirmed by the companies.
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buffffffaallllllllooooooo 🐃🐃🐃
#gobillsgo
This is clever. Screen sharing can be pretty jank a lot.
In June, @SamAsante and I launched Typeahead, the first product from our new company.
Today we're releasing our next Mac app. It's called Beam, and we're live on Product Hunt.
I've got Macs all over my house doing different work. Some run agents and local models. Others handle builds. When I want to use one app on another Mac, I usually end up navigating a whole second desktop through Screen Sharing.
Beam brings that app's window onto the Mac I'm using. It gets its own Dock icon and shows up in ⌘Tab. I can type into it and resize it while everything keeps running on the other Mac.
Sam has put a lot of care into making this feel natural. The video shows it better than I can explain it.
Live on Product Hunt → producthunt.com/products/bea…
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Vibe coded my parents' TV this afternoon!
It was showing a sponsored ad before you could even get to Netflix.
Gave Claude Code the model number, it found the TV on wifi, removed 25 Xiaomi packages and wrote a new launcher.
Looks like an Apple TV now lol
Literally setting this up right now w local models.
#localllm
#thisistheway
Incidentaly the reason I went down this particular rabbit hole is that I used the multi agent execution that Claude is now doing on Opus 5.5 and burned through my session limit in 25 minutes on the pro plan.
This type of access is not sustainable and actually hinders the adoption of these tools. Good thing this adjacent #localllm strategy is in place.
It made me realize that Open AI and all these cloud frontier model folks are the AOL of this generation. Pay for play isn't going to work.
👋🏼
.@clarashih is a force & this is one of the most important q's in AI right now: how do we use AI to create more economic opportunity than it destroys?
We need more technologists getting involved in these harder questions around jobs, education and the transition itself

















