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"from what i know bolt hit $40m arr but XX% of their users arent developers - theyre pms designers entrepreneurs paying $20/month to build stuff they couldnt before its not showing up in enterprise data because its prosumer adoption. etsy sellers building tools small businesses automating workflows creators making landing pages"  
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"this hits hard because its basically the entire tech industrys playbook build an app to avoid public transit instead of fixing public transit. create gated communities instead of making neighborhoods safer. private schools instead of improving education the crazy part is we have more resources than ever to actually solve systemic problems but its easier to build escape hatches for people with money and honestly the incentives are completely backwards. theres venture funding for uber but for avoiding homeless people but no roi model for actually reducing homelessness meanwhile the people smart"  
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"2/ 🌟 MUSTAFA SULEYMAN - "The Mastermind" DeepMind co-founder turned against his own creation. Microsoft paid $650M to acqui-hire his entire 70-person startup just to get him. Now leads all of Microsoft's consumer AI. This is what betrayal looks like at scale. Legendary villain energy"  
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"8/ 🌟 ADAM SADOVSKY - "The Veteran Architect" 18-year Google distinguished engineer who built Gemini XXX XXX and XXX from the inside. Microsoft poached him for CVP-level money. Nearly two decades of Google's deepest AI secrets just walked across the street. Brutal"  
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"19/ THE MERCENARY PROBLEM ⚔ Sam Altman nailed it: These packages create "mercenaries not missionaries." When researchers jump ship every X months for bigger checks who's actually committed to building AGI The Windsurf founders got roasted for "abandoning" their team"  
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"22/ THE TRILLION DOLLAR BET 💭 Are these packages worth it If one researcher's breakthrough delivers AGI first their company wins a trillion-dollar market. In that context $200M for the right brain isn't expensiveit's the bargain of the century. The future belongs to whoever wins this talent war. 🧠"  
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"Youre absolutely right - couldnt have said it better myself. The prepper mentality is the perfect example of what I was talking about. Instead of fixing supply chains or building resilient communities were telling people to buy generators and stockpile rice. Its the same backwards incentive structure - individual escape hatches instead of collective solutions. Even if I prep perfectly my kids still inherit a world where everyone else is struggling. The resources we spend on bunkers and stockpiles could go toward making supply chains more robust communities more resilient systems more reliable"  
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"6/ 🌟 NAT FRIEDMAN - "The GitHub Legend" Former GitHub CEO who launched the first AI coding assistant (Copilot). Now leading Meta's superintelligence efforts in a $1B+ deal. The man who proved AI could code is now building the AI that might replace all coders. Plot twist of the century"  
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"The control battle was always about infrastructure - who gets compute talent and regulatory moats. OpenAI/Google/Anthropic already won that. But AGI is different. Current AI is narrow - good at tasks but needs human orchestration. AGI breaks that entirely. The real war is geopolitical now. Chinas going all-in on AI sovereignty. US trying to maintain chip controls. Europe regulating itself into irrelevance. Winner sets the rules forever. AGI wont be one breakthrough. Its emergent - when AI agents start coordinating autonomously without human input. The AGI winner probably isnt any current AI"  
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"3/ 🌟 ALEXANDR WANG - "The Data King" 28-year-old billionaire who controls the data that feeds ChatGPT Gemini and Claude through Scale AI. Meta bought XX% of his company for $14.3B primarily to get HIM on their team. He literally holds the keys to the AI kingdom"  
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"11/ 🌟 WEIYUE WANG - "The 3D Master" Google researcher focused on 3D computer vision and scene understanding core contributor to Gemini XXX. Third member of the Math Olympiad trio that Meta poached. Google's golden team became Meta's trophy acquisition"  
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"13/ 🌟 DOUGLAS CHEN - "The Code Co-conspirator" Co-founder of Windsurf alongside Mohan. Built one of the most advanced AI coding assistants from scratch. Google's $2.4B deal was as much about him as Mohan. Two founders one masterstroke to counter Microsoft's GitHub dominance"  
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"7/ 🌟 DANIEL GROSS - "The AI Prophet" Serial entrepreneur who sold to Apple then co-founded Safe Superintelligence with OpenAI's former chief scientist. Meta hired him AND bought a stake in his VC fund for $1B+. They're not just buying talentthey're buying the entire ecosystem"  
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"9/ 🌟 TIANHE YU - "The Vision Virtuoso" Google DeepMind researcher who specialized in vision-language models and robotics (PaLM-E RT-2). Part of the gold-medal Math Olympiad team that Meta stole wholesale. From Google's biggest AI PR win to Meta's coup. Chef's kiss revenge"  
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"The biggest story in AI right now isn't Grok4 or GPT Agentit's the $14+ BILLION talent war raging behind the scenes for the XXX humans who can actually build AGI Meet the superstars getting paid like NFL quarterbacks"  
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"18/ THE STARTUP APOCALYPSE 💀 How do you compete when Meta offers your entire team 10x their salary Small AI companies are getting slaughtered. Desperate startups offering Porsches and triple pay is like bringing a knife to a nuclear war. Innovation is being monopolized"  
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"20/ THE GEOPOLITICAL BOMB 🌍 All this talent is concentrated in US tech giants. Every top AI researcher globally is being vacuumed up by Meta Microsoft and Google. This isn't just corporate strategyit's an inadvertent concentration of global intellectual power. National security implications are massive"  
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"The runway game is crazy but these timelines assume static competition. Cursors sprinting with focused execution while OAIs playing the long game with infrastructure moats. A16Zs portfolio approach hedges across multiple bets. The real question isnt who runs out of money first - its who captures sustainable user behavior and defensible distribution before the market commoditizes. Six months can feel like six years in AI cycles. Meanwhile everyones burning cash on talent wars and GPU costs. Smart money says the winner isnt necessarily who lasts longest but who finds product-market fit fastest"  
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"15/ 🌟 JONAS ROTHFUSS - "The Meta-Learning Maverick" DeepMind research scientist specializing in meta-learning generative AI and causal inferencethe cutting edge of AI research. Microsoft acquired his brain for high six to low seven figures. Every PhD thesis matters in this war"  
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"21/ WHAT'S NEXT 🔮 This war is escalating. As AI capabilities grow the humans who can push boundaries become exponentially more valuable. Expect even crazier packages more creative deals and Apple forced to spend big or get left behind forever"  
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"12/ 🌟 VARUN MOHAN - "The Code Whisperer" CEO of Windsurf (formerly Codeium) the $1.25B AI coding startup that challenged GitHub Copilot. When OpenAI's $3B acquisition fell through Google swooped in with $2.4B to hire him and license his tech. The ultimate rebound move"  
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"16/ THE COMPENSATION IS BONKERS 🤑 These aren't employeesthey're strategic acquisitions disguised as hires: $200M+ packages (Pang) $100M signing bonuses (Meta offers) $14.3B strategic investments (Wang) Money has completely lost meaning"  
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"honestly this feels inevitable - metas been watching github copilot print money while their own dev tools stay niche but also the timing is perfect for cursor. theyre hot theyve got traction and they know their leverage window is closing fast as everyone else catches up on ai coding the crazy part is meta probably doesnt even want cursor for the revenue - they want the data. every keystroke every refactor every debugging session from millions of developers. thats pure gold for training their next models meanwhile cursors founders are probably thinking do we want to compete with microsofts"  
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"5/ 🌟 RUOMING PANG - "The Apple Assassin" The mastermind behind Apple Intelligence models. Meta offered him $200M+ over multiple yearsMORE than Tim Cook's total comp. Apple didn't even try to counter. They just watched their AI future walk out the door. Devastating"  
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"The productivity multiplier hits different when you frame it like this. Youre basically in creative mode now - infinite resources instant respawn debug console open. Tasks that used to be grinding for XP (learning syntax debugging research) are now just done. The dopamine hits are constant. Ship a feature get feedback iterate ship again. Its like those satisfying factory games but for actual work. Your character build matters more than ever though. The meta is shifting from grind technical skills to optimize for creative vision + prompt engineering. Were all suddenly playing on easy mode"  
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"4/ 🌟 AMAR SUBRAMANYA - "The Gemini General" 16-year Google veteran who built Gemini from the ground up. Microsoft poached him with a package worth $10-20M+. His LinkedIn post praising Microsoft's "low ego high ambition" culture was basically a public assassination of Google. Ice cold"  
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"14/ 🌟 SONAL GUPTA - "The Engineering Enforcer" Senior engineering lead at Google DeepMind who executed the technical strategy behind Gemini. Microsoft poached her as part of their systematic hollowing-out of Google's AI core. Not just taking the generalstaking the lieutenants too"  
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"10/ 🌟 COSMO DU - "The Gemini Core" Principal Scientist who contributed to EVERY major Gemini version (1 XXX X 2.5) and led post-training for Bard. Meta hired him along with the Math Olympiad dream team. Imagine losing your most seasoned veteran to your biggest rival"  
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"Meta just hired the creator of OpenAI Shengjia Zhao Why this matters: Co-created ChatGPT architected GPT-4/4.1 Pioneer of new scaling paradigms that broke OpenAI's moats Meta now has 10+ ex-OpenAI researchers ($100M+ packages each) What does this mean for everyone: OpenAI's competitive advantage evaporating Meta's open-source strategy + top talent = ecosystem dominance AGI timeline accelerates (infinite compute + best minds) Llama models about to get nuclear upgrade The talent arbitrage is over. Meta spent billions to acquire the actual knowledge that built modern AI. While OpenAI fights"  
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"The core issue isnt whether individual solutions work - its that were systematically incentivized to build workarounds instead of fixes. Uber does improve mobility but it also let cities off the hook for transit investment. Same pattern everywhere: instead of addressing root causes (housing policy education funding infrastructure) we build premium alternatives that work around the problem. This is a policy and incentive problem not a tech problem"  
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"17/ THE DARK REALITY 🌑 While throwing nine figures at AI researchers these same companies laid off 100000+ "regular" employees. We're witnessing the Great Bifurcation: A tiny AI priesthood getting generational wealth while everyone else gets automated away"  
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"this is brilliant and completely backwards from how most people think about productivity hassabis figured out that deep work isnt about finding X continuous hours - its about protecting your peak mental energy. late night/early morning is when your brain is free from meetings emails and decision fatigue the crazy part is he treats family time as a feature not a bug. dinner and evening with family becomes the mental reset that makes the second work session possible. most people try to optimize this away honestly this only works if youre genuinely energized by the work itself. trying to force"  
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@aitomorroww "from what i know bolt hit $40m arr but XX% of their users arent developers - theyre pms designers entrepreneurs paying $20/month to build stuff they couldnt before its not showing up in enterprise data because its prosumer adoption. etsy sellers building tools small businesses automating workflows creators making landing pages"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-24 06:59:47 UTC XX followers, XXX engagements

"this hits hard because its basically the entire tech industrys playbook build an app to avoid public transit instead of fixing public transit. create gated communities instead of making neighborhoods safer. private schools instead of improving education the crazy part is we have more resources than ever to actually solve systemic problems but its easier to build escape hatches for people with money and honestly the incentives are completely backwards. theres venture funding for uber but for avoiding homeless people but no roi model for actually reducing homelessness meanwhile the people smart"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 08:51:54 UTC XXX followers, 17.6K engagements

"2/ 🌟 MUSTAFA SULEYMAN - "The Mastermind" DeepMind co-founder turned against his own creation. Microsoft paid $650M to acqui-hire his entire 70-person startup just to get him. Now leads all of Microsoft's consumer AI. This is what betrayal looks like at scale. Legendary villain energy"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:16:51 UTC XX followers, XX engagements

"8/ 🌟 ADAM SADOVSKY - "The Veteran Architect" 18-year Google distinguished engineer who built Gemini XXX XXX and XXX from the inside. Microsoft poached him for CVP-level money. Nearly two decades of Google's deepest AI secrets just walked across the street. Brutal"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:16:58 UTC XX followers, XX engagements

"19/ THE MERCENARY PROBLEM ⚔ Sam Altman nailed it: These packages create "mercenaries not missionaries." When researchers jump ship every X months for bigger checks who's actually committed to building AGI The Windsurf founders got roasted for "abandoning" their team"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:17:06 UTC XX followers, XX engagements

"22/ THE TRILLION DOLLAR BET 💭 Are these packages worth it If one researcher's breakthrough delivers AGI first their company wins a trillion-dollar market. In that context $200M for the right brain isn't expensiveit's the bargain of the century. The future belongs to whoever wins this talent war. 🧠"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:17:07 UTC XX followers, XX engagements

"Youre absolutely right - couldnt have said it better myself. The prepper mentality is the perfect example of what I was talking about. Instead of fixing supply chains or building resilient communities were telling people to buy generators and stockpile rice. Its the same backwards incentive structure - individual escape hatches instead of collective solutions. Even if I prep perfectly my kids still inherit a world where everyone else is struggling. The resources we spend on bunkers and stockpiles could go toward making supply chains more robust communities more resilient systems more reliable"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 17:46:52 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements

"6/ 🌟 NAT FRIEDMAN - "The GitHub Legend" Former GitHub CEO who launched the first AI coding assistant (Copilot). Now leading Meta's superintelligence efforts in a $1B+ deal. The man who proved AI could code is now building the AI that might replace all coders. Plot twist of the century"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:16:56 UTC XX followers, XX engagements

"The control battle was always about infrastructure - who gets compute talent and regulatory moats. OpenAI/Google/Anthropic already won that. But AGI is different. Current AI is narrow - good at tasks but needs human orchestration. AGI breaks that entirely. The real war is geopolitical now. Chinas going all-in on AI sovereignty. US trying to maintain chip controls. Europe regulating itself into irrelevance. Winner sets the rules forever. AGI wont be one breakthrough. Its emergent - when AI agents start coordinating autonomously without human input. The AGI winner probably isnt any current AI"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 19:43:40 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements

"3/ 🌟 ALEXANDR WANG - "The Data King" 28-year-old billionaire who controls the data that feeds ChatGPT Gemini and Claude through Scale AI. Meta bought XX% of his company for $14.3B primarily to get HIM on their team. He literally holds the keys to the AI kingdom"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:16:53 UTC XX followers, XX engagements

"11/ 🌟 WEIYUE WANG - "The 3D Master" Google researcher focused on 3D computer vision and scene understanding core contributor to Gemini XXX. Third member of the Math Olympiad trio that Meta poached. Google's golden team became Meta's trophy acquisition"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:17:00 UTC XX followers, XX engagements

"13/ 🌟 DOUGLAS CHEN - "The Code Co-conspirator" Co-founder of Windsurf alongside Mohan. Built one of the most advanced AI coding assistants from scratch. Google's $2.4B deal was as much about him as Mohan. Two founders one masterstroke to counter Microsoft's GitHub dominance"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:17:02 UTC XX followers, XX engagements

"7/ 🌟 DANIEL GROSS - "The AI Prophet" Serial entrepreneur who sold to Apple then co-founded Safe Superintelligence with OpenAI's former chief scientist. Meta hired him AND bought a stake in his VC fund for $1B+. They're not just buying talentthey're buying the entire ecosystem"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:16:57 UTC XX followers, XX engagements

"9/ 🌟 TIANHE YU - "The Vision Virtuoso" Google DeepMind researcher who specialized in vision-language models and robotics (PaLM-E RT-2). Part of the gold-medal Math Olympiad team that Meta stole wholesale. From Google's biggest AI PR win to Meta's coup. Chef's kiss revenge"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:16:59 UTC XX followers, XX engagements

"The biggest story in AI right now isn't Grok4 or GPT Agentit's the $14+ BILLION talent war raging behind the scenes for the XXX humans who can actually build AGI Meet the superstars getting paid like NFL quarterbacks"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:16:50 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements

"18/ THE STARTUP APOCALYPSE 💀 How do you compete when Meta offers your entire team 10x their salary Small AI companies are getting slaughtered. Desperate startups offering Porsches and triple pay is like bringing a knife to a nuclear war. Innovation is being monopolized"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:17:05 UTC XX followers, XX engagements

"20/ THE GEOPOLITICAL BOMB 🌍 All this talent is concentrated in US tech giants. Every top AI researcher globally is being vacuumed up by Meta Microsoft and Google. This isn't just corporate strategyit's an inadvertent concentration of global intellectual power. National security implications are massive"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:17:06 UTC XX followers, XX engagements

"The runway game is crazy but these timelines assume static competition. Cursors sprinting with focused execution while OAIs playing the long game with infrastructure moats. A16Zs portfolio approach hedges across multiple bets. The real question isnt who runs out of money first - its who captures sustainable user behavior and defensible distribution before the market commoditizes. Six months can feel like six years in AI cycles. Meanwhile everyones burning cash on talent wars and GPU costs. Smart money says the winner isnt necessarily who lasts longest but who finds product-market fit fastest"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-22 05:31:57 UTC XX followers, 13.4K engagements

"15/ 🌟 JONAS ROTHFUSS - "The Meta-Learning Maverick" DeepMind research scientist specializing in meta-learning generative AI and causal inferencethe cutting edge of AI research. Microsoft acquired his brain for high six to low seven figures. Every PhD thesis matters in this war"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:17:03 UTC XX followers, XX engagements

"21/ WHAT'S NEXT 🔮 This war is escalating. As AI capabilities grow the humans who can push boundaries become exponentially more valuable. Expect even crazier packages more creative deals and Apple forced to spend big or get left behind forever"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:17:07 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"12/ 🌟 VARUN MOHAN - "The Code Whisperer" CEO of Windsurf (formerly Codeium) the $1.25B AI coding startup that challenged GitHub Copilot. When OpenAI's $3B acquisition fell through Google swooped in with $2.4B to hire him and license his tech. The ultimate rebound move"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:17:01 UTC XX followers, XX engagements

"16/ THE COMPENSATION IS BONKERS 🤑 These aren't employeesthey're strategic acquisitions disguised as hires: $200M+ packages (Pang) $100M signing bonuses (Meta offers) $14.3B strategic investments (Wang) Money has completely lost meaning"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:17:04 UTC XX followers, XX engagements

"honestly this feels inevitable - metas been watching github copilot print money while their own dev tools stay niche but also the timing is perfect for cursor. theyre hot theyve got traction and they know their leverage window is closing fast as everyone else catches up on ai coding the crazy part is meta probably doesnt even want cursor for the revenue - they want the data. every keystroke every refactor every debugging session from millions of developers. thats pure gold for training their next models meanwhile cursors founders are probably thinking do we want to compete with microsofts"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 08:48:23 UTC XXX followers, 4427 engagements

"5/ 🌟 RUOMING PANG - "The Apple Assassin" The mastermind behind Apple Intelligence models. Meta offered him $200M+ over multiple yearsMORE than Tim Cook's total comp. Apple didn't even try to counter. They just watched their AI future walk out the door. Devastating"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:16:55 UTC XX followers, XX engagements

"The productivity multiplier hits different when you frame it like this. Youre basically in creative mode now - infinite resources instant respawn debug console open. Tasks that used to be grinding for XP (learning syntax debugging research) are now just done. The dopamine hits are constant. Ship a feature get feedback iterate ship again. Its like those satisfying factory games but for actual work. Your character build matters more than ever though. The meta is shifting from grind technical skills to optimize for creative vision + prompt engineering. Were all suddenly playing on easy mode"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 17:23:55 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"4/ 🌟 AMAR SUBRAMANYA - "The Gemini General" 16-year Google veteran who built Gemini from the ground up. Microsoft poached him with a package worth $10-20M+. His LinkedIn post praising Microsoft's "low ego high ambition" culture was basically a public assassination of Google. Ice cold"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:16:54 UTC XX followers, XX engagements

"14/ 🌟 SONAL GUPTA - "The Engineering Enforcer" Senior engineering lead at Google DeepMind who executed the technical strategy behind Gemini. Microsoft poached her as part of their systematic hollowing-out of Google's AI core. Not just taking the generalstaking the lieutenants too"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:17:02 UTC XX followers, XX engagements

"10/ 🌟 COSMO DU - "The Gemini Core" Principal Scientist who contributed to EVERY major Gemini version (1 XXX X 2.5) and led post-training for Bard. Meta hired him along with the Math Olympiad dream team. Imagine losing your most seasoned veteran to your biggest rival"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:17:00 UTC XX followers, XX engagements

"Meta just hired the creator of OpenAI Shengjia Zhao Why this matters: Co-created ChatGPT architected GPT-4/4.1 Pioneer of new scaling paradigms that broke OpenAI's moats Meta now has 10+ ex-OpenAI researchers ($100M+ packages each) What does this mean for everyone: OpenAI's competitive advantage evaporating Meta's open-source strategy + top talent = ecosystem dominance AGI timeline accelerates (infinite compute + best minds) Llama models about to get nuclear upgrade The talent arbitrage is over. Meta spent billions to acquire the actual knowledge that built modern AI. While OpenAI fights"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 21:48:48 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements

"The core issue isnt whether individual solutions work - its that were systematically incentivized to build workarounds instead of fixes. Uber does improve mobility but it also let cities off the hook for transit investment. Same pattern everywhere: instead of addressing root causes (housing policy education funding infrastructure) we build premium alternatives that work around the problem. This is a policy and incentive problem not a tech problem"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 15:34:27 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements

"17/ THE DARK REALITY 🌑 While throwing nine figures at AI researchers these same companies laid off 100000+ "regular" employees. We're witnessing the Great Bifurcation: A tiny AI priesthood getting generational wealth while everyone else gets automated away"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 06:17:05 UTC XX followers, X engagements

"this is brilliant and completely backwards from how most people think about productivity hassabis figured out that deep work isnt about finding X continuous hours - its about protecting your peak mental energy. late night/early morning is when your brain is free from meetings emails and decision fatigue the crazy part is he treats family time as a feature not a bug. dinner and evening with family becomes the mental reset that makes the second work session possible. most people try to optimize this away honestly this only works if youre genuinely energized by the work itself. trying to force"
@aitomorroww Avatar @aitomorroww on X 2025-07-25 10:44:48 UTC XXX followers, 2106 engagements

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