Barkley Dai

Model PM@LumaAI, the visual agi company.

[Barkley Dai @BarkleyDai]

Fable 5 one shot: Urban Growth Visualization

I put in this prompt before I went to bed:

"Create a scrubbable world map from 3000 BC to today"

and Fable found the source data from FigShare and Wiki, scale/balance it accordingly, and visualized it.

https://t.co/b4tsvlQg44

[Barkley Dai @BarkleyDai]

@RKineim75670 @arena @LumaLabsAI Noted! Working on it

[Barkley Dai @BarkleyDai]

@kehres_sabrina @LumaLabsAI It will understand your intention and reason through it while generating!

[Barkley Dai @BarkleyDai]

Luma is now #3 on Image Arena!

GPT-Image2 level intelligence, with Midjourney level of aesthetic taste, at a fraction of the price of Nano Banana!

Try it out -> https://t.co/GvZ2KLq4Zx

[Arena.ai @arena]

Exciting news: UNI-1.1-Max and UNI-1.1 debuts making @LumaLabsAI the #3 lab in the Image Arena across both Text-to-Image and Image Edit! These are versions released without agentic search.

Text-to-Image Arena
- UNI-1.1-Max #6 overall (1193), +12 points over MAI-Image-2
- UNI-1.1 #7 overall (1190), +13 points over Reve-v1.5

Multi-Image Edit Arena
- UNI-1.1-Max #7 overall (1315), +21 points over Seedream 4.5
- UNI-1.1 #8 overall, (1298)

Single-Image Edit Arena
- UNI-1.1-Max #7 overall (1337)
- UNI-1.1 #11 overall, (1310) on par with Grok-Imagine-Image (20260207)

Congratulations to @LumaLabsAI on this solid performance!

[Barkley Dai @BarkleyDai]

@kevinxu Why not buy $GOOGL

[Barkley Dai @BarkleyDai]

https://t.co/vd7GIZ8426

[Barkley Dai @BarkleyDai]

With Claude Code repo leaked today and Codex being open source, I mapped both repo into interactive knowledge graphs so you can explore their architectures side by side:
https://t.co/FwNG1Ud4CU

Any interesting diff you could spot?

[Barkley Dai @BarkleyDai]

This is being quickly built using ClawGraph - an interactive codebase graph visualizer, @charleswangsy and I vibe coded it during the Anthropic Claude Code Hackathon in Feb

Try the visualization with any repo link!

[Barkley Dai @BarkleyDai]

@venturetwins @LumaLabsAI @omooretweets Wow this is such a well-crafted story and character design! Thanks for trying and featuring Uni-1 :) looking forward for more

[Barkley Dai @BarkleyDai]

Vibe coded part of the visualization graph to prove that my data science degree didn’t go wasted 🙃

Go try it out! https://t.co/SqCqYhZHQZ

[William Shen @shenbokui]

Most image models are good at one thing.
Uni-1 has been good at everything we've thrown at it.

Our team generated thousands of images leading up to Uni-1 launch. We embedded them all into a single map where visual similarity determines proximity. The result speaks for itself.

[Ring Hyacinth @ring_hyacinth]

终于有可以和 Nanobanana Pro 打一打的图像模型了。

@LumaLabsAI 凌晨发布的 Uni-1 图像模型可以画条漫了，指定的中文文字基本不出错。

Prompt in Alt!

▶ 模型详细说明：https://t.co/pGyUTnckqn

[Junyang Lin @JustinLin610]

nice work! better if oss...

[Barkley Dai @BarkleyDai]

@Haofan_Wang Thanks for the feedback!

Definitely rooms to improve but I also feel it's kind of a dilemma here: we train our model towards less AI-look and sometimes that leads to lower saturation. But some may prefer one or the other?

[Barkley Dai @BarkleyDai]

In a world moving this fast, it’s not about catching up — it’s about leapfrogging.

Super excited to be building Uni-1 with the amazing team, as our first unified image model showing on par eval results with Nano Banana Pro, and exceeding in certain axes!

Time to try something new - like this little tree frog generated with Uni-1

[Luma @LumaLabsAI]

Uni-1 is here! A new kind of model that thinks and generates pixels simultaneously. Less artificial. More intelligent.

[signüll @signulll]

the most underrated hire right now is a great product person.

when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone with an intuitive grasp of the product as it exists, where it's soft, where it sings, & how to iterate it toward something even sharper. in some sense, this person has to cohesively hold in their head where this product should be 2 years from now & work backwards from that.

i say this cuz when building was hard, engineering was the bottleneck & the status hierarchy often reflected that. building is no longer hard. which means the variance in outcomes has shifted almost entirely to judgment on what to build, how to sequence it, & how to talk about it.

& the story matters as much as the thing. internally, it organizes the team around a shared model of why. externally, it shapes the interpretive frame users bring to their first experience. you can't retrofit narrative onto a product & expect it to land, it has to be load bearing from the start.

the rarest version of this person sits at the intersection of culture & deep technology. someone genuinely bilingual. they know what's technically possible & they know which cultural currents are real vs. ephemeral. that combo is what separates products that feel inevitable from products that feel assembled.

before ppl clap back with this person has always been valuable, i know.. i am just saying now they might be the most *important* person in the room. their value compounds like never before.

[Barkley Dai @BarkleyDai]

Proud to be with the awesome Luma team to announce Uni-1!

Here’s the model core capabilities, generated with Uni-1 in a single shot:

[Luma @LumaLabsAI]

Introducing Uni-1, Luma’s first unified understanding and generation model, our next step on the path towards unified general intelligence.
https://t.co/QjdrnYoWe5

[Barkley Dai @BarkleyDai]

#Claude is indeed killing so many SaaS companies... and what's next?

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 US used Anthropic's Claude AI for intelligence, target selection, and battle simulations in Iran strikes.

[Luma @LumaLabsAI]

To scale research and deployment of multimodal AGI, today we are pleased to announce that Luma has raised a 900M Series-C and we are partnering with Humain to build a colossal 2GW compute supercluster – Project Halo.

[Barkley Dai @BarkleyDai]

@mgrczyk lol nice

[Barkley Dai @BarkleyDai]

So far I’ve mostly seen OpenAI employees + VCs + PMs on Sora2… but what’s the “TikTok lipsync/dancing girl” equivalent for AI videos?