Michael Galkov

[Rafael Quintanilla @RafaelFQL]

Arrakis Technologies (@arrakistech) comes out of stealth with $38M in funding from leading investors including @blossomcap and @Accel.

Sovereign AI deployment in the physical economy is one of the most important missions anyone could work on. Western reshoring and economic prosperity rest in the balance.

That's why we're building Arrakis.

We are an AI deployment company that partners with ambitious enterprises to transform their operations into software. We encode operational know-how into agents that execute complex processes semi-autonomously and learn under human supervision.

Six months in, here's where we are:

1. Partnered with the most mission-driven team I could have asked for. My co-founders Haroun Beltaifa, @Romain_Fd and @MichaelGalkov, and a founding team from Palantir, Revolut, ElevenLabs, Datadog, DeliveryHero, ASML, KKR and Blackstone. We are now forward deployed at the edge across the US, Europe and APAC, encoding and redesigning industrial processes from first principles.

2.⁠ Signed NYSE-listed customers after our agents delivered significant P&L improvements through 60-90% cycle time compression at 99%+ accuracy on complex workflows. These companies now experience the future of self-driving industrial operations, where work no longer waits for constant input but moves forward proactively with humans overseeing every critical decision. In weeks, their most skeptical operators became our most vocal champions, and direct CEO referrals are now our main source of growth.

3. Raised $38M from @blossomcap, @Accel, @Global_Founders, @mainobjectvc, and leading angels including @oliviergodement, Head of Business Products @OpenAI, Junaid Hussain, founder @Cambridge_Aero, @oliveur, founder @datadoghq and more.

The future of industrial AI is Arrakis Technologies.

[finbarr @finbarrtimbers]

Working in ML starts out as a math problem and very rapidly becomes a distributed systems problem

[1dontknows @1dontknows]

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𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖽𝖾𝗍𝖺𝗂𝗅 𝗏𝗌 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖿𝗎𝗅𝗅 𝗉𝗂𝖾𝖼𝖾

[Sarah Haider 👾 @SarahTheHaider]

I wrote about why I find most of the fertility discourse irritating: Daycare blows, tax credits do not make up for lifelong career harm, and "status" can't be separated from economic reality.

We need to make motherhood RATIONAL, not merely bearable. Some highlights 🔽

[Mike Rundle @flyosity]

--dangerously-skip-permissions

[Michael Galkov @MichaelGalkov]

Especially in the age of LLMs

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

Code isn’t a moat, data is.

[Daniel Lockyer @DanielLockyer]

TIL that macOS has a security feature called XProtect, which scans any new binaries you execute

But it also means it slows down edit-compile-run workflows with excessive checking

And the daemon is single threaded, so concurrent binary executions are blocked

good lord

[Michael Galkov @MichaelGalkov]

I see now why this kanji means "woman"

[Steve the Beaver @beaversteever]

cool but programming is already solved so you can just vibe code this stuff right?

[Michael Galkov @MichaelGalkov]

@snwy_me Elaborate please

[Michael Galkov @MichaelGalkov]

This is so funny

[Michael Galkov @MichaelGalkov]

Radiohead didn’t perform the one song everyone expected them to yesterday. But we got a secondhand “Creep” from the street artist. I’ll take it.

[Min Choi @minchoi]

2.5 years of AI progress

"Salmon in the river"

[Michael Galkov @MichaelGalkov]

@meilisearch Code is available on Github: https://t.co/rxQcNO7Ol5

[Michael Galkov @MichaelGalkov]

Built a small Kubernetes controller in Rust with that provisions Kafka topics + @meilisearch index from a single CRD.

Write-up covers the reconcile loop, idempotency, and cleanup with finalizers. Link in the reply.

[Michael Galkov @MichaelGalkov]

@meilisearch https://t.co/JzN1SIqFT9

[Michael Galkov @MichaelGalkov]

@benlandautaylor Could you share the sources you read? I recently had a similar conversation on this.

[Michael Galkov @MichaelGalkov]

Code on Github: https://t.co/JEFSPZlEid

[Michael Galkov @MichaelGalkov]

Finally got to sit down and write a post about E2E testing on Kubernetes with kind and Rust. Link in the reply.

[Michael Galkov @MichaelGalkov]

https://t.co/arX4ZKgzHA