Max

building world models for business | (F/AI - F26)

[Max @MaxSebti]

image + prompt → simulated world

[Max @MaxSebti]

this

[Ken Wattana @KenWattana]

If you Moneyball your startup idea, you end up selling data

If you follow your emotional startup idea, you end up building a personal assistant

If you build something that people want, you end up forward deploying AI into car dealerships in middle America

[Max @MaxSebti]

believe in something

[Max @MaxSebti]

every single time you thought we were slowing down

we were actually going twice as fast

what does it say about you?

[Max @MaxSebti]

the new version of studio is going to be lethal

[Gyro @Gyrolens]

One of the things I’ve been testing at @webuildscore. Can’t say much yet, but you can see the difference.

On top, the boxes jump around and miss half of what happens between frames. Below, they just stay locked on.

It’s a small thing until you’ve watched the choppy version for a few weeks. More soon.

[Max @MaxSebti]

@BeyondFinanceCo @webuildscore i’m not the only one apparently: https://t.co/Qdo6gCh6El

[Chris Dixon @cdixon]

https://t.co/pQssLkjGX8

[Max @MaxSebti]

silence is the new currency

[Max @MaxSebti]

normal cv engineers are building another toyota

my delusional team is building a new tesla

beyond the car analogy, the real challenge is not to build another bounding box machine

it is to automate physical businesses

[Max @MaxSebti]

and then they’ll realize 90% of information only exists in people’s moves

[gabriel @gabriel1]

"company brain" startups that construct information from internal messages and documents when they realize 90% of information only exist in peoples heads: 😭😭😵‍💫😵‍💫

[Max @MaxSebti]

french rioters be like

[Min Choi @minchoi]

China's Unitree just dropped H2-X Kung Fu Legend Guardian.

Dents car doors. 4 meter drops. Spinning kicks + flips. Even lifts front of a car.

We are cooked 💀

[Max @MaxSebti]

grok knows

[Gyro @Gyrolens]

hey @grok remove the best vision AI platform

[Max @MaxSebti]

computer vision companies are dying from long use-case → model → deploy feedback loops.

they run out of runway before they can even find the right use case.

meanwhile CV is being commoditised in real time on sn44.

every niche will be covered.

if you run a computer vision company, the miners are coming for you or are here to help depending on how you want to approach this.

[Max @MaxSebti]

@kariasamaroo state of the art vision ai

[Max @MaxSebti]

“just use a foundation model” they said.

so we benchmarked 10 of them against Manako on a real forecourt damage clip.

same full 1280x720 frames, same class prompts (person, car, fuel dispenser, fuel nozzle), no crops, no zoom.

the hard class is the nozzle/hose. small, thin, occluded, and the thing that actually gets damaged.

- Grounding DINO labelled a bin as a fuel nozzle.
- Florence-2 labelled the canopy pole as one.
- OWL-ViT, YOLOE and YOLO-World got the dispenser at best, never the nozzle.
- RF-DETR doesn’t have the class.
- Gemma 4 E2B described the scene, boxed the pump, and returned no incident time.

the only open model that localised the nozzle was full SAM3. 3.45 GB, 0.2-1 FPS on a Jetson Orin Nano.

Manako (3 specialists - 29.5 MB), 3-6 FPS on the same Jetson, tracked the nozzle at 5 FPS and fired a live equipment_damage event on the hose drop at 10.3s.

117x smaller than the only model that could keep up.

open-vocab models are great at the classes the internet photographs a lot.

operations live in the long tail:

nozzles, hoses, cabinets, the small parts that break.

that’s where specialised detectors win, and it’s why we built Manako the way we did.

[Max @MaxSebti]

@RvCrypto was great spending time with you mate

[Max @MaxSebti]

@haitzu @MarsSmuff means a lot

[Max @MaxSebti]

@CryptoZPunisher @webuildscore can add something on the console

[Max @MaxSebti]

@SubnetSummerT always on

[Max @MaxSebti]

@MarsSmuff @CaiusScottus @webuildscore 🫶