Ian

Compute @MonarchCompute, Lab @RenasnceStudios, Podcast @CreatorCocoa

[Ian @IanWambai]

Building the next Gigawatt of compute in Africa.

[Monarch @MonarchCompute]

The Africa Compute Fund has initiated the deployment of a 100 MW AI compute facility, beginning in 2026.

This will form the foundation of a distributed, GPU-optimized network built to accommodate more than 100,000 NVIDIA H100-class systems.

https://t.co/P1gsx12XAp

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: China opens its first school for robots, where humanoids will be trained before entering the workforce.

[Oklo @oklo]

WE HAVE CRITICALITY!

Oklo has completed first criticality at its Groves Isotope Test Reactor.

Built in less than a year under the @ENERGY’s Reactor Pilot Program, Groves offers a concrete blueprint for future advanced nuclear deployment as the fastest fully privately financed and built reactor project of its kind.

Today, Oklo proves that advanced reactors can be built, started, and operated faster than anyone thought possible and shows the world that America can build nuclear again.

https://t.co/7pPFBtljLJ

[the tiny corp @__tinygrad__]

Someone want to come work at tiny corp on the exabox? There's a container in our backyard. HVAC, mech-e, datacenter experience. E-mail me (George) a reasonable e-mail about why I should hire you and we'll chat on the phone. Full time, San Diego. In before Dunning-Kruger.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

Happy Hardcore History Day everyone.

As usual, thanks for your patience! “Mania for Subjugation IV”

https://t.co/PeG53rcqWP

[Mira Murati @miramurati]

Inkling-Small is comparable to Inkling at a quarter the size. Weights are open, fine-tunable on Tinker today. Look forward to seeing what people make with it.

[Dan Carlin @HardcoreHistory]

Soon.

[Ilya Sutskever @ilyasut]

Time to scale that SSI:

[SSI Inc. @ssi]

We are announcing a long-term strategic partnership with NVIDIA. NVIDIA is making a substantial investment in SSI that will let us 10x our compute in the next 12 months. We reached the point where our research is worth scaling and with this partnership we will be able to. We are honored by NVIDIA’s conviction.

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb

[Thinking Machines @thinkymachines]

Today, we are introducing Inkling.

Inkling reasons efficiently across text, image, and audio modalities. We are making the full weights available.

https://t.co/Ghebq5mG30

Available today for fine-tuning on Tinker. Play with it in the Inkling Playground. 🧵

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

As long as people don’t understand this there will be opportunities around

[Tejal Patwardhan @tejalpatwardhan]

GPT-5.6 sol post-trained luna!

[Mira Murati @miramurati]

Today we share the worldview behind our mission.

Human values don't average out. Local knowledge can't be centralized. The good future has many AIs, raised in different places, shaped by the people they serve, disagreeing with each other the way we do.

https://t.co/A14SurOM2K

[Ian @IanWambai]

A practical deployment path for AI inside African businesses and institutions.

[Monarch @MonarchCompute]

We're introducing Monarch Enterprise, a practical deployment path for AI inside African businesses and institutions.

Monarch Enterprise is now live:

https://t.co/YspaZWYy70

[Ian @IanWambai]

An intelligent WhatsApp storefront for everyday businesses.

[Monarch @MonarchCompute]

We’re launching Monarch Storefront, an intelligent WhatsApp storefront for everyday businesses.

With Monarch Storefront, a business can add its services, products, prices, opening hours, and customer next steps into one simple setup.

https://t.co/XHYdHGULcE

[Ian @IanWambai]

@thsottiaux Reset? 🥹

[Ian @IanWambai]

A family of task-ready models for African enterprises and institutions.

[Monarch @MonarchCompute]

Today, we’re introducing Monarch Task Models, a new model layer inside Monarch designed around real operational workflows in African contexts.

Learn more and begin your integration here:

https://t.co/2DvenJ7jGz

[Ian @IanWambai]

Bringing reliable connectivity and cloud AI access across Africa.

[Monarch @MonarchCompute]

We're launching Monarch Connect, a program designed to bring reliable connectivity and cloud-scale AI access to more sites across Africa.

https://t.co/sX2rjuJrXZ

[the tiny corp @__tinygrad__]

exabox preorder is live. we considered raising a round to buy a datacenter, but with exaboxes we don't have to and can build out at our own pace. exaboxes just require a concrete slab and a big plug. https://t.co/01nzuEavjK

[Ian @IanWambai]

A voice API for African AI systems that can speak and listen.

[Monarch @MonarchCompute]

Today we’re releasing the Monarch Voice API. The API supports a growing set of global and African language workflows.

You can start using it now to integrate speech generation, transcription, and voice workflows into your product.

https://t.co/eMQoKURt4R