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I'm investing up to 250k first checks in teams building:
- robotics, drones, space
- crypto
- applied ai/ml
- ar/vr
- manufacturing, logistics
DMs always open. Tell me what you're building!
This is the best robotic dev kit you can buy to start learning/experimenting.
Introducing Laika, by Lucen Robotics.
An open, modular robotics kit for anyone building physical AI. Biped, 7-DoF arm, dual arms, wheeled robot, quadruped — reusable, repairable, open.
For under $6k, one kit converts into 4 embodiments instead of buying 4 robots, 3 times cheaper than Unitree EDU. Arm-only kits start at $1,999.
We're fortunate to have early support from @fdotinc.
Pre-orders are open, limited to 100 units, shipping in December. lucenrobotics.com
Founder life:
Monday: we're dead
Tuesday: we're so back
Wednesday: dead again
Thursday: one customer said yes
Friday: we are going to be a trillion dollar company
It’s time for incredible American actuators
Introducing Silica.
We make actuators 50x more sensitive at an affordable price, so that robots can feel the world around them.
When I was at Apple, I developed technology that helped humans live more creative and connected lives.
Now I make hardware for the training age, so that robots can begin to share that world with us.
We just opened pre-orders. Check out silicamachines.com to learn more.
This is going to be the biggest physical AI hackathon of the year in SF
We're hosting a huge Physical AI hackathon.
We’ve run robotics hackathons before but this one is different:
Bimanual Metal Arm and Maker Arm Stations
Fine Tune Dream-1, this is not another ACT competition
New Hill Climb leaderboard format
Two tracks: push your robot up the live eval leaderboard. Or build the creative, most useful robot application you can think of.
Partnering with @dreamlabs_ai @livekit @huggingface @nvidia @_lightcompany @mirdainsystems
November 7–8. San Francisco.
Co-hosted with Founders Inc @fdotinc
Come build with us: luma.com/pah
Hubert Thieblot retweeted
Hiring: Founding Creative / Videographer
Competitive starting comp + equity — SF + Detroit (travel both). Report directly to the CEO at @aureliuslasers
You're a fit if you have:
- Shipped real YouTube (channel, series, or long-form product/factory films you owned end-to-end).
- A portfolio that proves it — reel + links only. No resumes.
- Gone viral or broken through on X / YouTube with hardware, industrial, auto, aerospace, or defense-adjacent work.
- Set the look for something, then gotten behind the camera and cut it yourself.
- Talked shop with at least one founder shipping real product (not just decks).
- Native English speaker.
Aurelius Systems builds autonomous directed energy — lasers that stop drones at the speed of light, for the cost of electricity. Archimedes is autonomous, edge-deployed, and field-repairable. We're a small team in San Francisco and Detroit reindustrializing what defense forgot how to build.
The US and our allies are unable to effectively destroy drones at scale, we believe that every day we're delayed more people die, or infrastructure is destroyed to these drones.
The job is one seat: creative ideator and videographer. You'll set the visual and narrative system, then shoot, edit, and ship it. Shop floors, field tests, founder cuts for X, longer YouTube / launch films
We are a very small and tight knit team, traveling the country shooting down drones with lasers. It's demanding and if you love making hard things look as cool as they are, it's a dream.
DM me a reel + YouTube + 2 links if you are a fit
(or [email protected] — portfolio only, not interested in a resume, just what you've made).
Hubert Thieblot retweeted
The year's best hackathon is here.
We took everything wrong with hackathons and fixed it.
No slides. No pitch decks. No weeks of prep.
5 hours to build something real.
Winners get a guest pass to our campus, home to 200+ founders building the future. plus cash to stay in SF :)
Apply: luma.com/nighthack
Claude Code is so good the guy who built it doesn't need to work anymore
He’s back to World of Warcraft
I’ve left Anthropic after more than a year of working on Claude Code and seeing it scale larger than I ever imagined.
I have really loved working at Ant and believe deeply in the mission, and most of all, the idea of a race to the top.
The idea that if we work hard and responsibly, we can raise the bar and inspire others to great outcomes. And if we all push each other to be better, things can be radically good. I will carry the spirit of this with me forever.
My colleagues at Anthropic are the most talented, thoughtful, competent, and earnest people I have ever met. I am glad they are at the wheel and trust them deeply.
To the community on X, thank you for everything. You’ve made this the most fun (and sometimes stressful) job I’ve ever had.
For me, it is time for a bit of a break before diving into something new.
If you want more excellent Claude Code content, you should follow @addyosmani , @lydiahallie, @_catwu, @ClaudeDevs and of course @bcherny who started it all.
Hubert Thieblot retweeted
🚨 NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO RELAX 🚨
hacks are at an all time high, and its going to get worse, way worse
which is why i'm excited to announce our first cyber defense model @inference_net
deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017-defense
apply for access here inference.net/privileged-acc…
Founder: The round is closed. The hard part is over
Me: The hard part hasn't started lol
Wait until you're 5 years in
Your competitor just raised 10x more than you
And you're two payrolls from death
Smiling at the all-hands like everything's fine
That's the job bro
Everyone said I was full of shit back then. This is only 6 months ago.
this is wild
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.