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co-founder & ceo @tryterac | @zfellows

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Joined March 2018
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Yesterday we hosted Convergence: RL Summit bringing together researchers, industry leaders, and operators to talk about the frontier of model development and where things are going.
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Throughout the week we hosted: - SPL Dinner with @contralabs - Convergence Summit with @SignalFire - Running event - Dinner for founders of leading data & RL Companies
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We'll be sharing more event content in the coming weeks including full session recordings. In the meantime, please reach out to myself, @JackBlair87, or @RyanMWexler to chat about all things human data. Planning for Convergence 2 next year is already underway and we're excited to come back bigger and better!
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Zac Baker retweeted
Fantastic day at @tryterac’s inaugural RL Summit - great mix of eng, research, and applied folks all in one room. Thanks to @zacbakerr and @RyanMWexler for putting together such a sharp group, and for letting me share what we’re seeing at @chakra_ai. Excited to return next year!
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Zac Baker retweeted
.@alexfung very demure, very mindful on stage thanks for hosting the team @zacbakerr!!
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Puentes starts this Sunday. We're flying 15 of the best young engineers from Latin America to SF. They’re among the most talented in their countries, and they want to be here to compete with the best. Our goal at @antigravitysf is to help them stay. Meet the engineers 👇
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Zac Baker retweeted
I asked people: "who have you met in the AI data and post-training space that you find most insightful?" 5 votes: Daniel Chang (@dnnssl2) 3 votes each: - Abhijay Rana (@abhijaymrana) - Ryan Wexler (@RyanMWexler) - Sean Cai (@SeanZCai) - Will Brown (@willcb) 2 votes each: - Amy Tam (@amytam01) - Jesse Hu (@huyouare) - Nikhil Namburi (@nikhilvnamburi) - Thomas Liao (@distributionat) 91 people were picked. The other 82 got 1 vote each and are in the next two posts. People couldn't pick themselves. I didn't vote.
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Zac Baker retweeted
Convergence RL is in 26 days. We're bringing the industry's absolute best to speak about building the future of RL. Starting off with Anastasios Angelopoulos, CEO @arena Spots are running out quickly. Register today: luma.com/gbcompna
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Terac was started with the idea that agents would be running businesses and humans would be needed on-demand to inject context and judgement at key decision points I'm excited to see this come to life in a few weeks in NY and can't wait to share what @whop and @tryterac have been working on together
In 3 weeks, we’re hosting the Zero Human Company Hackathon at the @whop HQ in NYC with @ExaAILabs and others. In August, we teamed up with @stripe, @Lovable, @whop, and others to host the World’s First Zero Human Company Hackathon in SF where we gave out $12,000. In 12 hours, over 200 competitors launched 49 fully autonomous companies. Everything from fractional CFOs, landing page agencies, to data collection for robotics, fully automated by AI. This time it’ll be even better. We’re filling the room with the best founders, engineers, and operators. If you want a spot, we’re still accepting applications: luma.com/naxtga5l
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Zac Baker retweeted
Today we're excited to announce @HalluminateAI's $30M Series A led by @oakhcft with participation from @YCombinator, @orangecollectv, @FTPartners, @heavybit, and more.
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We’re hosting Convergence: RL Summit with @SignalFire on Oct 29 in SF — bringing together researchers, founders & operators from @GoogleDeepMind, @databricks, @mercor, @arena, @joinHandshake, @turingcom, @deeptuneai, @contra, @Stanford, @Princeton, @UCBerkeley, and more. Research, industry insight, live Q&A, and open panels about where RL goes next. Register in the comments below
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I’m looking for a dev who can build an open-source repo with examples of Terac’s human-in-the-loop API and MCP This role will also involve building specific demos for clients showcasing how they can use Terac in their product Role is remote, part-time, and mostly async DM me if interested or if you know someone who might be
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Our team is thrilled to be supporting Caltech’s Mathathon alongside @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, and more. It's clear AI will enable, and already is enabling unprecedented progress in pure math and I'm excited to see what comes out of this
We partnered with @AnthropicAI @OpenAI to host the world's first math hackathon. 40 hours, $2M compute - solve, understand, and present an open problem. Applications are live: mathathonchallenge.com
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had an amazing time sponsoring the YC Startup School hackathon @byhackathonco with @tryterac this weekend! hackers go from idea to demo in ~6 hours! $7K+ in prizes, insane talent, and great partners across every track: @thelinqapp @dynamic_xyz @cursor_ai @runware @Soma_Capital
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Zac Baker retweeted
We're hosting the WORLD'S FIRST ZERO HUMAN COMPANY HACKATHON Made possible by @lovable @render @svangel @SignalFire @solofounders and others We're challenging you to build an agent that can run a company completely by itself Come for cash prizes, swag, and good eats Apply in the comments:
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A month ago, at @tryterac's first-birthday dinner, we asked: how long to match everything we did in year one? Another year? Six months? Turns out, one month. Just wrapped our first-ever offsite in Rio 🇧🇷 my first ever, too
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Terac team is hard at work en route to rio 🇧🇷 We’re doing our first offsite in company history, now with 15 people. Blessed to have an awesome team to do this with
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