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• PReposted Prime Intellect@startupmanX · Oct 3, 2026
  RepostedPrime Intellect@PrimeIntellectIntroducing Prime Inference: We've served trillions of tokens for RL and dedicated customer deployments To own your intelligence, you need to own your inference Unpacking our inference stack https://t.co/bKYOkEk3Py
• PReposted Alex Kendall@startupmanX · Sep 22, 2026
  RepostedAlex Kendall@alexgkendallToday @wayve_ai and @MercedesBenz are announcing a global strategic partnership! Through this definitive production agreement, we’ll bring our AI Driver to future Mercedes-Benz vehicles starting in the next two years. This is the world's first integration of the Wayve AI Driver in the premium segment and is the third production deal we’ve announced for consumer cars in the last 9 months. It builds on Mercedes’ strategic investment in our Series D and years of technical collaboration between our teams. Mercedes is an iconic company with a strong reputation for automotive innovation and engineering excellence - they built the world's first car in 1886! I couldn’t be prouder to build the future of autonomous driving together. Thank you to the entire Mercedes team. Read more here: https://t.co/LqaMyv0OUs
• PReposted Cristóbal Valenzuela@startupmanX · Sep 19, 2026
  RepostedCristóbal Valenzuela@c_valenzuelabTo understand where Runway is going, you need to understand two things: 1. Soon everything you see on a screen, and eventually everything a robot sees, will likely be generated on the fly by a model. The frontier is already moving from generating code, language, and content to generating worlds. This is an expansive frontier. 2. If you believe this, you play an infinite game, and that requires a different strategy than a finite one. An underappreciated part of building a company is that the game horizon you choose attracts a distinct kind of person to work on a distinct type of problem.
• PReposted Matthew Osman@startupmanX · Sep 19, 2026
  RepostedMatthew Osman@thematthewosmanToday we’re announcing we’ve raised $20M in seed financing led by @QuietCapital , with participation from @GradientVC , @haystackvc and @CompoundVC and other amazing folks to build the verification layer for AI-driven biology. We are also delighted to be welcoming @vqctran who is joining us from @GoogleDeepMind as a co-founder. AI is not going to cure all diseases without a verification substrate - a scalable environment where models can test predictions and learn against living human biology. AI is becoming increasingly capable of generating biological hypotheses, therapeutic candidates and experimental designs. But generating ideas is advancing much faster than our ability to test what those ideas will actually do in human biology. Existing systems force a tradeoff: the most biologically relevant approaches are slow and expensive, while faster in vitro and computational systems often lack the fidelity needed to capture human response. Polyphron’s bet is that tissue is the fastest, cheapest, most parallelizable verification substrate that still contains the biology that matters and we believe the path to biological superintelligence runs through closed-loop interaction with these living and simulated human systems. Thank you to @axios for covering the announcement. Link to our new website in the thread.
• PReposted Michael Dempsey@startupmanX · Sep 19, 2026
  RepostedMichael Dempsey@mhdempseyWe @compoundvc have been fortunate to partner with Matt, Fabio, and the rest of the Polyphron team as their first investors as they continue to bridge the gap between AI and biological progress with human tissue.
• PReposted Michael Dempsey@startupmanX · Sep 4, 2026
  RepostedMichael Dempsey@mhdempseyWe're hosting a research day in SF. You should come if you're building a data factory of some kind.
• PReposted Cristóbal Valenzuela@startupmanX · Sep 3, 2026
  RepostedCristóbal Valenzuela@c_valenzuelabWe are sharing a major update to our General World Models efforts. GWM Worlds 2 can generate full, interactive, real-time video simulations in one continuous 720p stream at 24 fps and audio at 48000 Hz, responding to your inputs as you explore. It is the first world model that generalizes to arbitrary actions rather than a fixed set of actions or just navigation. Dynamic actions are what actually matter for building gaming and interactive experiences, and for training agents in these simulations. We also introduced WorldPrompt, a way to tell GWM-2 that a world can be split into two kinds of state: what persists and what changes over time. For example: persistent gravity, physics, and light, alongside actions that describe movement, gestures, object interactions, speech, and sound.
• PReposted Michael Dempsey@startupmanX · Sep 1, 2026
  RepostedMichael Dempsey@mhdempseyExcited for the world to get to experience Atlas. A truly one of a kind device, experience, and level of understanding.

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