Kunal Kundaje

⏳ | ex-founder, prev @netflix @thoughtworks | tech | design | travel | food | misc

[Kunal Kundaje @kunal]

Really, a sad day for Jensen and NVIDIA. 33 years, and then this. 😕

[Kunal Kundaje @kunal]

Turns out, donuts are a better hedge than gold.

$DNUT

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And so, the pendulum swings, again.

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@maticrobots @Tesla Yes! And I love opening the release notes everytime I see the notifications. :)

[Kunal Kundaje @kunal]

Love it when companies make big improvements to existing hardware through software updates. @maticrobots is like a little home-cleaning @Tesla that keeps getting better. ❤️

[Matic Robots @maticrobots]

Introducing Cues: Voice & Gesture control for Matic

We raised $115M and spent 9 years to make the world’s first intuitive home robot

Say you spilled coffee: Point to the spill and say, "Hey Matic, clean this" and it will hear, see, locate in 3D, and go clean on its own.

Matic comes with a lot of features:

1. Say "Hey Matic" - it locates your voice, turns, and looks at you
2. Say "Hey Matic, follow me" and start walking. Matic will follow behind
3. Say "Hey Matic, go clean the living room". Since it knows your house map, it navigates and just does it

It's so easy, a 5 year old and an 80 year old can use it and it understands 75 different languages.

Matic has 8x the airflow, specialised cleaning algorithms for rugs, corners, toekicks, mopping, etc and cleans better than any other robot vacuum.
Also keeps improving with software updates.

13,000 families use and love Matic.
WIRED magazine gave it a 10/10 (the only hardware to receive this rating in a decade)

Buy yours at https://t.co/nLfY5pchxB and if you don't love it after 6 months, we'll give you a full refund.

To celebrate our launch, we're cleaning 300 homes with Matic in San Francisco and New York City.

Comment "Matic" below, we'll send you the link to sign up and come to your doorstep to clean your home with Matic.

[Kunal Kundaje @kunal]

September 9th, 2020

[Deva Hazarika @devahaz]

San Franciscans remember this day

[Kunal Kundaje @kunal]

@flyosity Interesting. This is what I see after the Codex update (and no more "Codex" app).

[Kunal Kundaje @kunal]

@anshulkundaje This match is crazy! Wow.

[Kunal Kundaje @kunal]

Rest in peace, @om. 🙏

I never got a chance to interact with or meet Om, although he seemed like the kind of person one would love to chat with over a cup of coffee. I wish I had.

I started following him back in high school and university, when everyone was blogging and subscribing to RSS feeds. :) As someone who was also interested and dabbled in tech journalism at the time, I admired his thoughtful writing and photography.

Loved by many, I'm sure he will be missed.

https://t.co/e9VVb5J2OM

[Kunal Kundaje @kunal]

I can’t get into the audio versions of podcasts either – the whole listening while driving, or doing something else thing. My attention just wanders off.

I’m able to get through the video versions of the same podcasts better, where I can see their facial expressions, body language, etc.

But also, most podcast episodes feel longer than they really need to be… :)

[Aaron Levie @levie]

CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI.

So when they play with AI, they see the happy path results, often not considering the next 10 or 20 things that have to happen to get sustainable results from agents.

“Look I made this awesome product prototype”. Yes but you didn’t have to review the code before it went into production and fix a bunch of issues.

“Look I generated a contract”. Yes but you didn’t verify all the terms before it goes out to the counterparty and didn’t have to wire up all the past contracts to work with.

The best thing you can do as a CEO is to use AI a *ton* to figure out the real implications of agents in the enterprise, and come out the other side with an appreciation for both the upside and the real work that goes into them.

[Kunal Kundaje @kunal]

Loved this about pre-2022 Netflix engineering. End of a (glorious) era when they introduced levels/titles.

[Kunal Kundaje @kunal]

AI labs: We are very far but at the same time we are very close to reaching AGI

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

Iranian Foreign Ministry: We are very far but at the same time we are very close to reaching an agreement with Washington

[Kunal Kundaje @kunal]

2026 is the year of unprecedented supply shocks – GPUs, HBM, NAND, and…San Francisco housing.

[Kunal Kundaje @kunal]

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[Mike Carbone 🇺🇸 @mikecarbone]

Madison square park scoring insane aura points with the new flatiron renovation

[Kunal Kundaje @kunal]

@jxnlco SF 996 vs LA 996

[Kunal Kundaje @kunal]

Poor Claude’s got a case of the Mondays too.

[Sterling Crispin 🕊️ @sterlingcrispin]

Weekend Claude is easily 20 iq points above Monday Claude this is so brutal

[Kunal Kundaje @kunal]

The Bay Lights are back! ✨

[Kunal Kundaje @kunal]

Good stuff! Looking forward to trying it out.

[Google @Google]

Today @GoogleMaps is getting its biggest upgrade in over a decade. By combining our Gemini models with a deep understanding of the world, Maps now unlocks entirely new possibilities for how you navigate and explore. Here’s what you need to know 🧵