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CEO @instasize 200M downloads. $150M revenue. Zero funding.

Joined March 2009
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Worst single trading for $INTC since 1974.
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Seedance 2.5 is cheaper on made.app
Replying to @sunra_ai
The price you pay is the price each model's maker charges: - Seedance 2.5: $0.231/sec (720p, audio on) - Kling 4.0: $0.157/sec (720p, audio on) - GPT Image 2.5: $0.0527/image (1024×1024, high) Building at scale? Enterprise deals go up to 40% off leading models' own API prices.
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Does OpenAI rebrand to OpenSI?
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump says the US will officially be "BANNING" the term "AI/Artificial Intelligence" in all documents.
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Rotation from $NCLD to $SPCX?
Replying to @chamath
Pretty much. As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn’t have substantial revenue independent of AI data centers. SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we’re investment grade and have Starlink & launch revenue. That means the 200+ neoclouds are going to see guppy-level death and consolidation. Some will make it through, but not many.
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I've seen enough. Republicans midterm sweep incoming.
TRUMP: "I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before: Nicki Minaj. That's hard to miss."
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Why do people hate Higgsfield?
What Higgsfield is doing should be illegal, you should not be allowed to scam normal unaware users like this. "Genjutsu Lite" is Wan 3.0. "Genjutsu" is Seedance 2.5. They rename other companies' models and sell them as their own. Here is every proof, from their own API docs -> Genjutsu Lite = Wan 3.0 • Pricing: 480p $0.05 / 720p $0.10 / 1080p $0.20 per sec • Out of 40+ models on their API, only ONE other has this exact pricing: Wan 3.0 • Resolutions: 480p / 720p / 1080p, same as Wan 3.0 • References: Lite takes 1 video + 8 images. Wan 3.0 takes 5 videos + 10 images. Lite is Wan 3.0 with a fixed prompt and settings locked -> Genjutsu = Seedance 2.5 • Reference images: Genjutsu takes up to 30. Seedance 2.5 takes exactly 30. Wan caps at 10 • Video length: Genjutsu takes 4–30s. Seedance 2.5 is exactly 4–30s • Price: $0.318 / $0.681 / $1.632 per sec, which is Seedance 2.5 video-edit pricing + ~20–30% markup -> It's not just Genjutsu • Cinema Studio 4.0: $0.2057 / $0.4623 per sec • Seedance 2.5: $0.2056 / $0.4622 per sec • That's Seedance 2.5 again • "3.5x cheaper" isn't a breakthrough. They swapped Seedance 2.5 for Wan 3.0, a cheaper model, and called it "Lite" • Real Wan is listed as alibaba/wan-3.0. The same model is sold as higgsfield/genjutsu-light • They never tell you what's underneath I have never seen such a big company being untruthful to their users outright like this.
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These guys are still charging premium on models.
As a builder in the AI video space, I was terrified about how much markup API providers charge for simply routing the models. Higgsfield API adds a 40% markup even with its maximum advertised discount. Fal adds 100%. Runway adds 414% (Seedance 2 480p) I might be hated by the industry, but : 
 Today, we’re launching Sume API, the first image & video model provider with 0% markup. For example with Seedance 2.5 1080p • 50% cheaper than fal • 50% cheaper than higgsfield api (29% even with biggest discount) • 28.02% cheaper than kie ai The routing infrastructure layer is never the moat. We believe that APIs should be commoditized, and the moats will be built at the application layer. Check the pricing comparisons below, and see how the broken industry is saved.
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How fast will someone build a startup around this?
BREAKING: President Trump announced a anti-fraud program that would pay people who expose fraud 1% of the money recovered. “If you find $1 billion, we are giving a commission to that person of 1%,” he said.
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Did you just call BSV bitcoin? @pete_rizzo_
JUST IN: SOMEONE JUST SENT #BITCOIN FROM A HANDHELD RADIO WITH NO INTERNET AND NO PHONE SIGNAL FREEDOM TECH IS SPREADING LOVE TO SEE IT 🔥
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The evolution of coding is crazy. Copy from Stackoverflow. Copy from GPT. Edit files with Cursor. Fix an issue with IDE. Run 20 agents across 5 projects from phone.
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There’s a coin literally named Bitcoin Satoshi Vision. It does everything you wish ZCash would do.
A lot of people think the ZCash trade is about privacy but really it is about the creation of peer 2 peer cash For that you need privacy, but more importantly you need scale Tachyon upgrade will deliver this, starting soon at 1000TPS, theoretically scaling to over 50,000 TPS in the future All from the baselayer, without centralized solutions like lightning network or other off chain requirements that introduce counter party risk, control and data extraction Literally Satoshi’s vision
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$META offering Vegas. $SPHR experience at home
This is one of the most important parts of Meta connect. Meta got the rights to immersive sports. This is HUGE. They got the rights to showcase new broadcasting for football, etc., but most importantly they got UFC. You can now watch ringside immersive UFC. Apple couldn't pull it off. Meta (for now) has eaten their lunch.
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The $META VR glasses are kinda crazy
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$META has integrated Muse with $WMT On the heels of Amazon closing agents from platform.
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lol @alexandr_wang pulled up in a buck camoflauge shirt.
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Zuckerberg expects to keep Muse free and take % from commerce transactions. $META
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Zuckerberg said “super intelligence”
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Bending Spoons is the prime target for $SPCX
SPACEX PLANS TO ACQUIRE DATA FOR AI MODELS FROM FAILED STARTUPS.
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Higgsfield's new API is billing devs in dollars. Creators still have to buy credits that expire. Do creators want to pay in dollars too? Built Made as an experiment to find out. Get every model at cost. Let's see if creators care. made.app
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AI native private schools are coming. Who is building this?
JUST IN: Los Angeles bans using AI in public schools
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