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Steadily growing every day! More and more people keep finding particle-1 great to use due to token efficiency.
Particle has so many similarities to Mixpanel (scaling events vs tokens). Sometimes itβs like de ja vu. Iβll often feel like I had already gone through a problem before. Since Iβve had a lot of space away from the first co, things feel fresh again.
Woke 2.0 has begun.
The Jensen Huang commemorative plaque above the booth at the San Jose Denny's where Jensen and his co-founders decided to start Nvidia has been removed.
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See? If you just waited 2 weeks before taking action as a board, everything can be different.
Bombshell story. The spy narrative is collapsing already. Is there clear & convincing evidence that Alice Huang was a Chinese spy? - AG says no. (βno conclusions reachedβ). - CIA says no. (βnot yet convincedβ). - DNI says no (βnot entirely accurate and over-torquedβ). - Ranking
View quoted postOnce again this is why there should be rule about no action on the CEO for 2 weeks (unless criminal) by the board during a PR crisis.
At the end, Jensen Huang looked broken and shattered, his legendary energy depleted. After weeks spent denying the allegations of infidelity and fighting to remain in his job as Nvidia CEO, his surrender late Wednesday night was unconditional. Huangβs usual take-charge demeanor
RTβalon Introducing Current, an opinionated way to work with your agents. Current lets you run hundreds of agents while staying in control. I've built everything with it over the past couple of months, including Current itself.
Jonathan Ross who led Groq / TPUs. Heβs is a π
There should be a rule on boards that you do not make any moves on CEO for 2 weeks after a PR crisis (excluding criminal acts). Boards are often compelled to make decisions under public pressure but once that subsides there's a great clarity about what to do.
Nobody should be surprised by this. This is why I started Particleβthere must be an answer to taxing humanity on intelligence. We will drive the cost per task to zero.
Is this real? Is Anthropic really trying to compete with every company in existence?
View quoted postGTABench: what % of GTA can the model re-create? Start with GTA 1 and hill climb to GTA 6. 100% accuracy fully re-creates the game that would be indistinguishable from the original version for players.
Our model particle-1: "A review costs us 2 to 3 cents." We're going drive cost per task down to zero!
We'd like to partner with a Agentic Cowork-style tool (docs, slides, pdfs) with low-cost AI inference. If you're a startup, please reach out. We will only consider people with @ min 10K WAU. DM.
I think the folly of Anthropic is believing you can control AI at all.
The capitalist in me gets it but this wonβt go unanswered by society. Anthropic will continue to gatekeep until your products canβt use their models or you canβt make certain things that theyβll compete with you on.
Thank you @bchesky City of the future!
New: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is committing $100 million to SF parks in what Mayor Lurie's administration says will be the largest contribution the city has ever received from 1 donor. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/airbnb-ceo-donation-parks-lurie-22516918.php
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@bernhardsson Jevons doesn't typically involve price alone. But an efficiency that's introduced which drops price and creates the rebound. So, another way to compare is the integral of margin (aggregate margin dollars) before and after.
View quoted postThere arenβt really any data advantages in frontier AI imo. Thereβs really just capital advantages. But once the data budget exceeds $10B/year, itβs back to taste and people.
Iβve always wanted to do this test but never can get around to it. Glad someone did it!
Nice DeepSWE score! Does it survive a lowercase filename? Introducing MaxxBench: 89 DeepSWE tasks with small changes to the instructions or starting code. Same engineering problem, slightly different requirement. Models clustered around 74% on DeepSWE end up 23 pp apart. Good
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The race to build the best AI is irrelevant at this point. It's now all about who scales affordable access to the most people.
View quoted postRTβsina Just tried particle-1. @Suhail is cooking with gas.
1/ Excited to announce our new company Particle This is our first step in a series of models focused on developers. With particle-1, we focused on token efficiency and managed to keep parity in performance while using ~45% fewer tokens. Live now: https://particle.ai
I wonder if we will find it interesting as humans to watch AIs compete with one another in various ways.
πππ Next model is baking in the oven.
I just tried an experiment of running our AI code review bot on Particle-1 through @CloudflareDev .... and it's 8-10x faster than Deepseek v4 Flash on our previous provider! (deep infra, no shade intended) Absolutely stellar model for this use case - hats off @Suhail !
We'd like to partner with a Agentic AI coding tool with low-cost AI inference. If you're a startup, please reach out. We will only consider people with @ 10K DAU. DM.
If you are working on tools and agents to do security agents, I would love to talk to you. We have something very cool cooking. Pls dm.
It is now table stakes to be running a 24/7 process of scanning for vulnerabilities and attempting to self-pwn your software/infra. This will be a compliance requirement for any business doing business with others.
π¨ Node.js warns of HIGH-severity security vulnerabilities. Security fixes are coming November 11 for Node.js 26.x, 24.x, and 22.x. All three release lines are affected. Production users should take note. Details: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/november-2026-security-releases
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anyone who says YC has fallen off or doesnβt attract and produce strong founders is completely out of touch, bitter, and/or threatened
View quoted postRTβGarry Tan Was a true honor to sit down with @WalterIsaacson for The Builders podcast out this morning We are at an unusual inflection point in history and there are so many reasons to be excited for the future with superintelligence almost here
Now in OpenClaw - it was collaborating with them on this! We have a lot more updates to the model coming...
Particle-1 is available in OpenClaw. @particle_api reports ~45% fewer output tokens than DeepSeek V4.1 Flash with comparable benchmark accuracy. Zero data retention for standard inference. To give it a try, update to OpenClaw v2026.10.10. https://particle.ai/blog/introducing-particle-1
RTβSpenser Skates Meeting with my archnemesis @Suhail We spent 10 years battling it out in analytics between Amplitude and Mixpanel. Surprisingly, we have much more in common than expected. Iβm learning marketing from him and heβs learning sales from me.
Pareto frontier on data analytics. Honestly feels like a full circle moment. π«‘
Holy moly, @particle_api 's model landed on our pareto frontier for data analytics tasks, beating out Terra-6.1 and Haiku 5.5. First time a new player has landed on our frontier in years. Congrats @Suhail and team! Full results here: https://plotly.com/blog/particle-1-plotly-data-analytics-bench/
Interviews for this begin this week. I think this is a really fun role for that blurs the lines between applied ai research and product engineering. Great for someone who likes focusing on building for developers.
I am looking for an AI agent engineer. Someone who will build open multi-agent systems. Have to have a prior art in building similar things. Think: Swarms, DeepSeekβs Super Agent, Security Agents, etc. You will work directly with me - 0 to 1. SF only. No remote. DM.
View quoted postRTβGarry Tan Particle-1 is as good as much larger models for agentic retrieval but 1/23 the price https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain-evals/blob/b392700f2f647c201a8bedca71d43fd6a7fbb31c/docs/findings/2026-11-01-particle-1-longmemeval-w10b.md
Congrats to GSV! β
βOnce man has created an intelligence greater than his own, that intelligence should be able to create an intelligence greater than itself, as man whose intelligence is less than its was able to create its intelligence.β
One reason I am sanguine about the technological singularity is that I have seen it coming for over 50 years. In 1975, when I was 17, I wrote: "Before man can most effectively aid his problem solving machinery, he must first understand it. At present, his understanding is very
View quoted postDo you have access to a cyber AI model (to defend yourself) by one of the closed frontier labs?
Easily the coolest job for a hardware person.
We're doubling down on hardware and are looking for someone to manage our hardware shop https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/y-combinator/jobs/g3PioVO-hardware-lab-manager
Excited to be partnering with Cloudflare and on their AI gateway - try our new token efficient model. π
Particle-1 from @particle_api is available on AI Gateway β a model designed to be token-efficient, fast, and accurate. The hottest models from the hottest new labs, all on @Cloudflare AI Gateway. https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai/models/particle/particle-1/
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the solution to economic doomerism is to be even more AGI-pilled I believe in a well-aligned ASI that can explain its work and bring us along, one that makes each individual maximally effective
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we benchmarked particle-1 on https://realswe.com turns out you can achieve the same performance with 43% fewer tokens congrats @Suhail
RTβMoin Nadeem Introducing Phonic-1, the most advanced speech-to-speech model for agentic tasks β from @phonic_co, the speech-to-speech model company. Weβve had a breakout year and raised a $27.5M Series A led by @firstround with participation from @Lux_Capital, @felicis, and Definition.
We are going to drive cost per task to zero. We will not allow a duopoly to tax humanity on intelligence. We trained on humanityβs data, the least we could do is give back and let everyone prosper.
I am very excited to see someone independently validate our claims on something we couldnβt train on and is real-world. Same performance capability, with way less tokens.
Particle-1 is #2 for efficiency on the Parallel Search Capability Leaderboard. It matches its base model, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, on web research with Parallel Search (69.2 vs. 68.9) while using 42% fewer output tokens.
RTβTal Hoffman We ran particle-1 through our Hacking Race today. While it was trained for coding and data work, not security, it still got working exploits on 2 of our 4 targets, with zero false positives on the patched versions. Strong first model from @Suhail and the http://particle.ai team
Particle's first model, particle-1, verified 4 of 11 vulnerable runs in our AI Hacking Race, and its four verified exploits cost about $1 combined. It solved the Grafana plugin import and Jenkins command line parser tasks. The median verified run took about 4.7 minutes of active
View quoted postRTβAiden Bai pretty impressive results on ReactBench!
1/ Excited to announce our new company Particle This is our first step in a series of models focused on developers. With particle-1, we focused on token efficiency and managed to keep parity in performance while using ~45% fewer tokens. Live now: https://particle.ai
Very excited to announce partnering with @OpenRouter and launching our Inference service. particle-1 is live! Please send us feedback. Will respond to all DMs if you find any issues. Happy to fix things.
Fewer tokens, same work. Particle-1 from @particle_api uses 28β52% fewer output tokens than DeepSeek V4.1 Flash across four coding benchmarks, per Particle. Now on OpenRouter.
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Particle-1 is now available on AI Gateway. ππππππππ/ππππππππ-π· Post-trained on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, it completes engineering tasks with fewer tokens. Use it to debug, plan code changes, and break down multi-step problems. https://vercel.com/changelog/particle-1-is-now-available-on-ai-gateway
View quoted postRTβSidharth Raja one thing i can absolutely say for certain after signing up to try, is that this was the fastest "time to api key" experience i've had for anything i've ever used
1/ Excited to announce our new company Particle This is our first step in a series of models focused on developers. With particle-1, we focused on token efficiency and managed to keep parity in performance while using ~45% fewer tokens. Live now: https://particle.ai
"Now all I get is hate mail all day sayin' Dre fell off What, 'cause I been in the lab with a pen and a pad Tryna get this damn label off? I ain't havin' that This is the millennium of..."
Moravec's paradox afflicts much of general robotics but I am quite optimistic overallβit may take more time than it seems.
I see how some people can watch flashy robot demos on the timeline and think with a shiver that the robot apocalypse is around the corner, but reality check: There is no robot in the world that can change the batteries in a jack-o-lantern. If you have a robot friendly door
View quoted postπ― Inference is not the same shape as a neocloud. You have many more levers to adapt to a variable market around compute prices.
Revenue per GPU can increase as token prices decline if per GPU token throughput increases enough. So both Anthropic revenue *and* margins can go up as token prices go down *if* GPU prices go up less than the product of (token price decline * per GPU throughput increase). But I
View quoted postWe are nowhere near market optimum for flop efficiency. That NVIDIA GPUs can appreciate in price is a leading indicator that real competition hasn't showed up yet. To the degree you are racing to purchase and hoard compute at long timelines puts you at tremendous risk.
I have never been busier over the past 4 years since GPT-4. Thereβs still seemingly zero risk of this for engineers, at least. This past month, I recently have found projects that take the normal 2-3 weeks again. Of course, these projects wouldβve taken months. Thereβs a wide frontier out there.
I get the worry about AI taking all the jobs but it sure seems like engineers are harder to get and more expensive than ever π€
View quoted postI have never been busier over the past 4 years since GPT-4. Thereβs still seemingly zero risk of this for engineers, at least.
I get the worry about AI taking all the jobs but it sure seems like engineers are harder to get and more expensive than ever π€
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The next quest after ASI is human life extension and thus immortality. Easily we should begin spending 10x a year on this as AI improves.
Very concerning situation
@Suhail Iβve heard several OAI people say there are unfixable bugs in hardware that are exploitable by AI models directly speaking machine code so even if we could solve software thatβs not enough. We need defense to move faster than offense if thatβs even possible we may just have a new
View quoted postIt does not seem like pacing or pausing can work. The only practical path is significantly accelerating. We must be so far ahead as a nation on both capabilities and alignment that by the time others catch up, our version of super intelligence can defend us.
Unfortunately, with access to an abliterated DeepSeek V4.1 model, there is little value to KYC holding back the frontier models now for cyber. In fact, making it hard to secure systems w extra friction in American Enterprise is hurtful to national security.
Tip. Of. Iceberg.
Ahh fuck me. High severity CVE in Bind 9. https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2026-94300
View quoted postThis is just the tip of the iceberg. New world.
Quest Diagnostics has been hacked. Patient data was exposed. They serve roughly half of U.S. hospitals and physicians. Investigation ongoing.
If you're selling RL kernel optimisation tasks for models, pls dm me.
The greater the abstraction of what a company does for the longer the time without launching, the more likely it results in total failure.
I clicked on one post about a security incident and now my whole TL is filled with tweets about 5 new ones. Sheesh.
RTβaidan We are proud to announce our series A(irplane). I wish I could share the full extent of my excitement for the incredible progress we've made, but there are not enough characters in the world. More details on our models and algorithms to come!
Weβve spent the past year developing new primitives for GPUs. We believe this enables new algorithms to change how machines learn, open new markets, and dramatically reshape AIβs cost structure. We have raised a $1 billion Series A, co-led by Index and Lux.
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RTβimmad Excited to announce @Mercury crossing $1bn/yr in revenue and 450k customers. Just getting started! https://x.com/i/article/2112209203666530304
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The SF homelessness trap, simply: Advocates convince liberals they're helping locals priced out of housing. The city spends billions on housing and services. But many recipients are drug users from outside SF. Users attract dealers. Drugs stay cheap, services stay generous, and
View quoted postare there any good aesthetic scorers out there for design?
If you can use models to reverse engineer anything and use models to swarm and find vulnerabilities, we are not ready for what's going to happen over the next 12 months. We've now have the autonomous black hat hacker. Tremendous crisis right in front of us.
One thing to consider is that the best hacks on American companies will go down very quietly. A great hacker is unseen. So you should presume that attacks on American companies that are noticed, are a small portion of whatβs happening out there. Most hacks are just silent and
View quoted postOne thing to consider is that the best hacks on American companies will go down very quietly. A great hacker is unseen. So you should presume that attacks on American companies that are noticed, are a small portion of whatβs happening out there. Most hacks are just silent and steadily waiting to accumulate more valuable information on an on going basis.
Every organization in the world needs access to a strong frontier cyber modelβASAP. You should be sweeping your whole system as much as possible. This is the new world.
RTβdax they've been non stop trying to attack our systems for the past 48 hours a side effect is everything is getting hardened but damn we basically need agents going 24/7 because that's what they have
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@elonmusk @tbpn Demon mode isnβt always pretty. But demon mode is what gets shit done.
View quoted postNathan Fielder is a mad genius. Incredible movie.
The agents swarms are coming. A tremendous amount of problems will be formulated into a compute problem.
I still think we vastly underestimate AI progress in the next 6-9 months despite the last 2 years. When I talk to people, I sense that itβs a function of possibly not wanting it to be true now. And so if your belief on this is to bet hard on the future, well, you sound delusional
> Simons Foundation Launches $15M Effort To Help Mathematicians Navigate AI Era. > "As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes the research landscape, we want to help the mathematical community come together and forge the best path forward" Absolutely wild times.
What if we are in a RL env sandbox right now?
RTβDaanish Khazi We are releasing Ultramarine 1 Flash, a frontier-class model built for knowledge work. It is open-source and achieves similar performance to Fable 5, while being 60x cheaper. It was post-trained by a team of 5 for ~$300k all-in. Available on API now, with weights releasing in 2 weeks.
Looking for a US based designer who is up for moonlighting a bit. Remote is ok. Need to have a few years of experience under their belt. DM.
I guess "the data guy" was good at being a "model guy." To say @alexandr_wang was every uni-modal at something was always quite sillyβa great founder has to be polymath.
It is time to prepare for a world where there are tasks so complex and difficult to solve, humans will no longer know how they are solved.
I would love a Stripe Press of all the essays. @patrickc
I recently met someone who'd printed out all my essays. I'd never seen this before and I was surprised how big they were, like two encyclopedia volumes (for anyone who even knows what an encyclopedia volume is).
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I am very uncomfortable about people trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models, and think it is a real safety issue.
View quoted postCongrats @natolambert - excited for you. In the same way that I believe intelligence should be flattened and diffused broadly, the knowledge to build this technology should be as well. I can't think of anyone better!
Today we're unveiling Trillium Labs @trillium_labs, a new non-profit to foster the open science of frontier AI. We're building open post-training recipes and will expand into open infra to study RSI, reward-hacking, multi-agent systems, and whatever comes next. We're built
Dang, this dot thing really built Mighty into Codex. Iβve come full circle. The great cloud computer revolution has finally begun.
Get your .si domain people! Appreciate @rob at @snagged for helping us lock it down :)