Mingyang

Drop Out of a Top University at 19

[Mingyang @0xMingyang]

@elonmusk @grok When will the api be opened？

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

For the love of the game.

[Deedy @deedydas]

Most important tech blog this year: OpenAI engineer and ex-founder of $3.5B Segment wrote a tell all post about how OpenAI works internally.

From obsession with X, devout use of Slack to engineering culture and tech stack.

A peek under the hood of a generational company.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Very impressed with Veo 3 and all the things people are finding on r/aivideo etc. Makes a big difference qualitatively when you add audio.

There are a few macro aspects to video generation that may not be fully appreciated:

1. Video is the highest bandwidth input to brain. Not just for entertainment but also for work/learning - think diagrams, charts, animations, etc.
2. Video is the most easy/fun. The average person doesn't like reading/writing, it's very effortful. Anyone can (and wants to) engage with video.
3. The barrier to creating videos is -> 0.
4. For the first time, video is directly optimizable.

I have to emphasize/explain the gravity of (4) a bit more. Until now, video has been all about indexing, ranking and serving a finite set of candidates that are (expensively) created by humans. If you are TikTok and you want to keep the attention of a person, the name of the game is to get creators to make videos, and then figure out which video to serve to which person. Collectively, the system of "human creators learning what people like and then ranking algorithms learning how to best show a video to a person" is a very, very poor optimizer. Ok, people are already addicted to TikTok so clearly it's pretty decent, but it's imo nowhere near what is possible in principle.

The videos coming from Veo 3 and friends are the output of a neural network. This is a differentiable process. So you can now take arbitrary objectives, and crush them with gradient descent. I expect that this optimizer will turn out to be significantly, significantly more powerful than what we've seen so far. Even just the iterative, discrete process of optimizing prompts alone via both humans or AIs (and leaving parameters unchanged) may be a strong enough optimizer. So now we can take e.g. engagement (or pupil dilations or etc.) and optimize generated videos directly against that. Or we take ad click conversion and directly optimize against that.

Why index a finite set of videos when you can generate them infinitely and optimize them directly.

I think video has the potential to be an incredible surface for AI -> human communication, future AI GUIs etc. Think about how much easier it is to grok something from a really great diagram or an animation instead of a wall of text. And an incredible medium for human creativity. But this native, high bandwidth medium is also becoming directly optimizable. Imo, TikTok is nothing compared to what is possible. And I'm not so sure that we will like what "optimal" looks like.

[Tipsy Chat @tipsy_chat]

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[Du Jun @DujunX]

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[Alex Patrascu @maxescu]

Holy smokes!

AI video just had its DeepSeek moment.

LTX Video just got a massive update in both quality & speed. 13B parameters!

It is a game-changing moment for AI video and...

...it’s open-source!

See for yourself:

1. Fading Glory, a short I made in @LTXStudio

[Mingyang @0xMingyang]

Innovation is indeed a venture with a high probability of failure, but it's extremely fascinating.

[Mingyang @0xMingyang]

See you at Stanford University #SBC

[Mingyang @0xMingyang]

Will China produce the next Elon Musk? The answer is negative, as the level of development in China's venture capital does not allow it.

[Mingyang @0xMingyang]

@gluk64 @pumatheuma Vitalik said maybe we can totally live without atomic cross-rollup execution

[Mingyang @0xMingyang]

@nickwh8te @pumatheuma Vitalik said maybe we can totally live without atomic cross-rollup execution

[Mingyang @0xMingyang]

One of the coolest parts of crypto is that we’ve literally created trillions of dollars’ worth of value out of thin air.

[Mingyang @0xMingyang]

This Apple XR product is really powerful. In the next 5-10 years, it will get smaller and lighter, until it's nearly the same as regular glasses nowadays.

[Mingyang @0xMingyang]

Guess where I am

[Mingyang @0xMingyang]

Many projects established during a bull market benefit from the bubble. The projects that can be built during a bear market have, on average, higher quality and more precise product demand.

[Mingyang @0xMingyang]

Have a great talk with Starkware Founder @EliBenSasson about DA Danksharding and OP Stack superchain.

[Mingyang @0xMingyang]

@cyodyssey 去哪了Bro

[Mingyang @0xMingyang]

张一鸣说“人与人最大的区别是认知”。
其实这句话还不够接近本质，更本质的描述是 区别是“掌握真理的多少” https://t.co/AzUKb3onfa

[Mingyang @0xMingyang]

Move fast and break things

避免竞争的最好的办法就是创新