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[Neo @neo]

🏆 Neo Scholar applications are open!

Are you a college student who excels at CS?

Follow in the footsteps of Neo Scholars who founded Cursor, Chai Discovery, Applied Compute, Flint, Cognition, & more.

Apply to join one of tech’s strongest communities. https://t.co/gzG3lS8Bbw

[Walden @walden_yan]

If you use conductor, codex, claude, devin, etc you can now use them all from one place AND get builtin devin review + IDE

Windsurf has evolved into Devin Desktop

[Eric Glyman @eglyman]

Introducing Stack.

The AI operating system that lets accounting firms take on more clients without hiring. Learns your firm's process, runs the close, posts the journals. Fully auditable.

We’re living through the biggest shift in accounting since the spreadsheet.

[Shreshth Rajan @shreshthrajan]

Search agents have no explicit belief state or value function.

I think that’s why long-horizon agents degrade and test-time search saturates.

A few small experiments and thoughts:

https://t.co/OKy70XfEF7

[Neo @neo]

Cognition’s $492M run-rate, your personal property manager, & more | Neo & Noteworthy

Check out our May recap of learnings and announcements by Neo portfolio companies and community members 💙

https://t.co/07WdZfZ4tF

[Alex Bouaziz @Bouazizalex]

This is the original 1953 Disneyland prospectus.

Walt created it to pitch bankers to lend him $17M for ‘a new experience in entertainment’.

He had no land and no design. So he called Herb Ryman on a Friday to sketch the entire park from scratch through the weekend without sleeping.

On Monday morning, his brother Roy carried these eight pages and the hand-drawn map to New York.

All three banks turned him down. (ABC funded it eventually).

This is the a purest version of Walt’s original design philosophy of Disneyland and all its attractions, before they even broke ground.

Disney Parks do >$30B in yearly revenue today. This is a first draft of one of the most extraordinary things ever built.
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Growing up in Paris, I used to go to Disneyland every weekend.

I remember the first time we went on Thunder Mountain and I stopped at the bridge because the wood at my feet looked off.

It didn’t feel fresh. It looked like a hundred years of miners' boots had worn down the wood. And I realised someone aged the wooden flooring on purpose to feel that way.

Someone 30 years ago built it that way, everyone maintained it that way, and nobody walking past it would likely ever notice.

I remember thinking to myself, ‘Have they done the whole park like that?’ Every inch of the entire 140 acre park was like this.

[Natalie Brunell ⚡️ @natbrunell]

Kalshi just launched the first perpetual futures product in the U.S.

Hear @Kalshi cofounder @luanalopeslara explain:

[ethan ding 📊 @TheEthanDing]

The world’s largest alternative asset manager, @blackstone, leverages TextQL to enhance its data and analytics capabilities.

John Stecher oversees technology at Blackstone and across its portfolio. After evaluating a wide variety of analytics tools, he chose TextQL.

In John's words, "When I walked out of the first meeting with TextQL, I thought, wow, this is a product that many of our portfolio companies could benefit from."

[Josh @joshavata]

Today @MeckaAI is announcing $60M in funding to become the data and deployment layer for physical AI

This raise will allow us to scale our data infrastructure, invest into new verticals, and deploy robots into the real world

[Nick Schrock @schrockn]

This is a cool feature, but it also represents a completely new extensibility strategy for Claude Code: typescript. You can invoke typescript from within the Claude Code process and program against an API, just like you can in Pi. Workflows just first use case. A Big Deal™.

[Anika Somaia @AnikaSomaia]

for anyone worried about “losing your mind” or becoming obsolete, this pattern matters.

socrates worried that writing, when it was invented, would hollow out the mind. our fear of AI is no different.

we didn’t develop civilization by becoming biologically smarter. we did it by building better external scaffolding - writing, the printing press, calculators, now ML models.

what we call intelligence has always been a collaboration between a brain and its tools.

wrote about this recently: https://t.co/amwEePvdR7

[Tarek Mansour @mansourtarek_]

The American Power Index (KPOW) is live.

One number, oscillating between Republicans and Democrats throughout the endless contest for power.

[Parisa Tabriz @laparisa]

In a totally delightful surprise, I just learned I was featured in a question on @Jeopardy today! 😲😆☺️

Achievement unlocked. ✅

[Walden @walden_yan]

If you're building your own cloud agent like Devin or Ramp Inspect, there's lots of great details here on setting up VMs, computer use, memory, and more. Fun deep dive with the creator of OpenInspect on what setting up a cloud agent entails

https://t.co/6VH6wVh4GJ

[Ali Partovi @apartovi]

I'm beyond proud of the Cognition team, which now employs more @Neo people than I can count.

Congratulations all!!! 🚀🚀🚀

[Erica Lockheimer @EricaLockheimer]

And that's a wrap on 2 days of recording 6 incredible women! 🎬

The lineup was incredible:

🦸‍♀️ Laura Burkhauser, CEO of Descript – An AI-powered video and podcast editing platform that makes editing audio and video as simple as editing a text document

🌟 Libby Leffler, CEO of First® – A consumer legal tech platform that modernizes, simplifies, and digitizes the prenuptial agreement process for modern couples

🦸‍♀️ Shelley Huff, Co-Founder of The Interval – A peer-driven community designed to support senior leaders navigating career transitions, intentional pauses, and their next chapters

🌟 Hema Raghavan, CTO of https://t.co/DJF0IhQa55 – A predictive AI platform that allows businesses to easily build and deploy powerful graph neural networks for enterprise data

🦸‍♀️ Torrey Van Winden, Professional USA Volleyball Beach Player – An elite athlete sharing insights on peak performance, resilience, and navigating the world of professional sports

🌟 Gina Bianchini, CEO of Mighty Networks – A software platform that empowers creators and brands to build digital communities, courses, and memberships all in one place

We can't wait for you to enjoy these episodes. Subscribe and follow so you don't miss out. 🎙️

Thank you to our amazing team! Truly, anything is possible when we're together. Elizabeth Wendorf-Bloesser, Becky Davis, Jazmine Orozco Lugo, Ash Blodgett, Nathalie Rodriguez, Alina Tyulyu 🫶🏼

[Russell Kaplan @russelljkaplan]

Big milestone today. But still very early for self-driving software.

When I was working on Autopilot at Tesla, we had an internal infra project called "Operation Vacation" - the goal being that the entire Autopilot engineering team could take a vacation and come back to a better self-driving stack as long as the data kept flowing and the models kept training.

We'll soon see the same idea come to life for entire software products, managed and improved by fleets of Devins.

Last year, our usage graph had a big dip during the holidays. A goal on our engineering team is that the same time this year has no dip, because the Devins are proactive and working by default. Automations are live in the product already - give it a try!

[Cognition @cognition]

1/ We’ve raised over $1B at a $26B valuation, led by @Lux_Capital, @generalcatalyst, and @8vc.

Our enterprise usage has grown >10x since the start of this year, and our run-rate revenue grew to $492 M.

We launched Devin two years ago as the first AI software engineer. Since then, cloud agents have gone from niche to mainstream, and today they are the fastest growing way to create software.

[Kian Sadeghi @KianSadeghi5]

We are excited to announce @SCRCivf has joined the Nucleus IVF+ Network.

SCRC has helped thousands of families grow over the years and built one of the most trusted fertility networks in the country. Now they are bringing Nucleus’ advanced genetic and embryo analysis to their patients across Beverly Hills, Santa Barbara, Pasadena, and Ventura.

Exciting to see @DrMarkSurrey, @DrCAlexanderFer, and the entire SCRC team helping their patients build generational health.

More on the partnership below.

[Alex Bouaziz @Bouazizalex]

I love it when I hop on an @akai_by_deel demo.

Everyone starts skeptical. "We are building this in house."

100% of the time, 15 minutes later, they're beliebers.

[Sara Hooker @sarahookr]

snazzy new autoscientist page on the @adaption_ai website

Beta is now open :)