Awab Syed

Tech & Engineering Enthusiast. Founder:

[Awab Syed @AwabCyberSpace]

The next era of industry will be defined by precision, automation and the ability to build faster than ever before. These shifts will not only reshape industries, but also influence regional competitiveness
Proud to see Kausora Technologies playing its part in building the future

[Kausora Technologies @kausora_tech]

From prototype to precision
Kausora Technologies is advancing agri-robotics in Abu Dhabi with the UltiMaker Factor 4, enabling faster iteration, precision engineering, and industrial-grade 3D printing for real-world innovation
#AgriRobotics #3DPrinting #AbuDhabi #Robotics

[Kolvra @kolvra_app]

Introducing Kolvra, the agentic workspace.

Assistants that remember your work. Coding agents that run in parallel. The leading models, your subscriptions or local ones. And an Office where you watch every agent work.

Free for Mac, Windows and Linux: https://t.co/tuPCTEUbPw

[Suchintan Singh @Suchintan]

On-prem, self-hosting, SOC 2, HIPAA, BAAs, or deployment came up 14 times across our latest 30 recordings. The loudest enterprise AI question wasn't “which model?” It was “where does the agent run, what can it touch, and who controls the data?”

[Jack 🤖 @JacklouisP]

https://t.co/MVe6ERNRXP

[Jobbital @jobbital]

Introducing Jobbital

Searching everywhere?
Applying blindly?
Walking into interviews unprepared?

One platform.
Everything you need.

[Awab Syed @AwabCyberSpace]

Cricket legends have spoken: Imran Khan must get medical care, humane treatment, and fair legal access. This is human rights, not politics

[Cricinfo @cricinfo]

14 former international captains have written a letter to Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif, expressing deep concern for Imran Khan’s health, and requesting them to treat him with “dignity and basic human consideration”

Full story: https://t.co/5XDIAO9zdV

[Awab Syed @AwabCyberSpace]

From world-class cricketer & visionary
leader to a man robbed of his sight in
prison. Imran Khan's family reveals deliberate medical neglect left him with just 15% vision. Justice delayed is justice denied.
#ImranKhanEyeEmergency #HumanRights 
@ImranKhanPTI

[Brave @brave]

This is not a company you should be trusting for your browsing or searching.

[Awab Syed @AwabCyberSpace]

Cricket has sadly devolved from a global game into a petty political tool for small-minded folks pulling strings behind the scenes

[Cricinfo @cricinfo]

BREAKING: ESPNcricinfo understands the ICC has told the BCB that Bangladesh will be replaced by another team if they refuse to travel to India for the T20 World Cup

Read more: https://t.co/R1M0d11BcJ

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

All the analysts forever writing about OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Google are missing the real story that already happened.

80% of startups pitching Andreessen Horowitz are running on Chinese open-source models. Not OpenAI. Not Anthropic. Chinese models like DeepSeek that cost 214x less per token.

The math here breaks everything. DeepSeek trained its model for $5 million. OpenAI spent $500 million per six-month training cycle for GPT-5. That gap translates directly to API pricing where startups pay $0.14 per million tokens versus $30 for GPT-4.

For a startup burning through 100 million tokens monthly, that’s $1,400 versus $300,000. The difference between 18 months of runway and 3 months.

This tells you the real constraint in AI was never capability. Chinese models are matching GPT-4 on coding benchmarks while costing 2% as much. The constraint was always burn rate, and China solved it first by optimizing for efficiency instead of chasing AGI.

The second-order effect gets interesting. When your infrastructure costs drop 98%, you can actually afford to fine-tune models for your specific use case. American startups paying OpenAI’s API rates are stuck with generic models. Chinese open-source users are building specialized variants.

Silicon Valley thought the moat was model quality. Turns out the moat was cost structure, and they built it backwards. When a16z partner Anjney Midha says “it’s really China’s game right now” in open-source, he’s not talking about benchmarks. He’s talking about who controls the default foundation layer.

Now look at where this goes. American AI labs are optimizing for AGI and superintelligence. Raising billions to chase the theoretical ceiling. China optimized for distribution and adoption. Making AI cheap enough to become infrastructure.

All 16 top-ranked open-source models are Chinese. DeepSeek, Qwen, Yi. The models actually being deployed at scale. While OpenAI charges premium rates for exclusive access, Chinese labs are flooding the zone with free alternatives that work.

The third-order cascade is what changes everything. Every startup that survives the next funding winter will have optimized around Chinese open-source as default infrastructure. Not as a China strategy. As a survival strategy.

That 80% number at a16z only goes one direction. When you’re a seed-stage founder choosing between 18 months of runway or 3 months, economics beats nationalism every time.

America is still competing to build the best model. China already won the race to build the one everyone uses.

[Awab Syed @AwabCyberSpace]

Feels like Apple is walking the same path Nokia and BlackBerry did — coasting on legacy while the world moves on

[Mert @merterdir]

okay we all had our fun—now here’s what’s actually wrong with iOS26:

bugs? whatever, it’s beta 1
but the liquid glass UI as it's implemented now? a hierarchy, legibility, and complexity nightmare
jony ive said it best referring to bauhaus: “they figured out how to bend tubes, so they made everything out of bent tubes”

this is what it looks like when:
the CEO isn’t a product guy
PMs infiltrate and erode a functional org
no one is personally held accountable

without maniacs with taste at the top, you can't ship a great product. esp one this complex.

everything looks good in isolation—but the big picture? it’s chaos.

and the PM disease is showing: every element screams for your attention because each team’s optimizing their own KPIs.

this is an orchestra without a conductor

and it's extremely disrespectful to the designers at apple who likely poured incredible amount of effort into making their own individual pixels look perfect. tim cook MUST do better conducting the incredible orchestra that is apple

[Awab Syed @AwabCyberSpace]

GMAT doesn't care about ur thoughts and feelings - Focus on facts, logic, &data-driven decisions #GMATPrep #BusinessSchool #TestPrep

[It's FOSS @Itsfoss]

The real story behind Windows outage 🤣

#Crowdstrike

[Kristo Käärmann @kaarmann]

The UK hidden fees study has a new transparent "bank" called Zing, kudos to HSBC! 🇬🇧

No improvement from banks. Showing customers their fees is a "consumer duty" merely for the last 3 companies on this list. @TheFCA

Let's have a look at where they're hiding it?!

[Awab Syed @AwabCyberSpace]

Attending the #StartupShow by @e_nation was an absolute pleasure! Such an inspiration to listen and speak to various companies/entrepreneurs, including @MonzoBusiness, @tiktokeu, @Google & Mark Dixon, #IWG Founder. Wealth of knowledge/experience in 1 place #BusinessInspiration

[Enterprise Nation @e_nation]

In-person tickets for #StartUpShow have officially SOLD OUT!

We can’t wait to see over 1,600 budding and existing entrepreneurs at King’s College London this Saturday💥

Missed out on getting an in-person ticket? Secure your virtual ticket now to watch a livestream of the Keynote stage talks on the day ⤵️

https://t.co/bYGwXYF5ri

[Awab Syed @AwabCyberSpace]

Hey @VirginMobileUAE, I'm visiting Dubai & really not impressed with your 5G lately. It keeps disconnecting and the internet speed is slow. Was expecting much better. Are there any fixes in the pipeline?

[Roderich Gross @RoderichGross]

SwarmHack '22 brought together students and researchers to remotely program Pi-pucks (https://t.co/AWY1l8JgNp) and MONAs (https://t.co/PiBRkmzX8C) in York, Manchester and Sheffield. Special thanks to Alan Millard, @ArvinFarshad, @sabinehauert, @aprorok and Rob Richardson!

[ACSE at Sheffield @ShefACSE]

Yesterday was the final day of SwarmHack 2022 in collaboration with @UoY_CS and @UomRobotics.

Students worked in teams across the three universities to learn about robot swarms and come up with solutions to challenges.

Funded by @UKRobotics and facilitated by @RoderichGross