Shikoli Makatiani

AI, Automous Agents, Machine Learning, Security, Mobility. Director at @serianultd @dejin

[Shikoli Makatiani @smakatiani]

@BojanRadojici10 Please send

[Shikoli Makatiani @smakatiani]

Loom demo for the curious:
https://t.co/9oGlLUAirj

[Shikoli Makatiani @smakatiani]

Test-driving OpenAI’s new Shopping Research by trying to buy… a cow in Lubao 🐄😄

It’s not there yet, but in a few months I wouldn’t be shocked if it can handle village livestock and bride price options.

AI is about to meet the informal economy.

[sarah guo @saranormous]

Running an AI startup today using a SaaS-era playbook or even previously “best-in-class” speed is like gaming on dial-up.

By the time your GTM feels comfortably dialed-in or your strategic bets seem sure, the match is over. Markets are moving (and being won) at meme speed. hesitation equals irrelevance. Seeing strong traditional execs caught off guard, challenged to adapt.

[IIA Kenya @IIAKenya]

Prepare for an unforgettable week of insightful sessions, networking, and professional growth as we explore how internal auditors can lead transformation, build public trust, and drive impactful change across organisations. For bookings, please visit https://t.co/J4a2Kcs4Xy

[Shikoli Makatiani @smakatiani]

WSJ: 23% of Harvard MBAs Have No Job After Graduating. A Record. https://t.co/dZWsv1XIDr

[Shikoli Makatiani @smakatiani]

Watching #KCvsPIT On #NFLonNetflix for the first time in Kenya. For someone who loves the game this great. Looking forward to more of this. Of course Mahomes and Wilson are playing great. Well done @netflix

[Shikoli Makatiani @smakatiani]

Congratulations to the Insurance Regulatory Authority on the 2025 Insurance Innovation Awards! A great step for fostering innovation and trust. Excited for the transformative ideas ahead. #InsuranceInnovation #Uganda

[Shikoli Makatiani @smakatiani]

USSD is Dead! Embrace AI or Get Left Behind!
AI is transforming user interactions, making USSD obsolete. With AI, simple SMS phrases like "Send money to John" handle transactions seamlessly, bypassing USSD's limitations.

Read more on my LinkedIn: [https://t.co/RvVJo8Cnnu]

[Shikoli Makatiani @smakatiani]

@karpathy This an excellent idea in some countries the teacher to student ratio is 1 to 100. Now AI makes it possible for each student to a tutor per subject. The future is truly bright

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

⚡️ Excited to share that I am starting an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs.
The announcement:

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We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native.

How can we approach an ideal experience for learning something new? For example, in the case of physics one could imagine working through very high quality course materials together with Feynman, who is there to guide you every step of the way. Unfortunately, subject matter experts who are deeply passionate, great at teaching, infinitely patient and fluent in all of the world's languages are also very scarce and cannot personally tutor all 8 billion of us on demand.

However, with recent progress in generative AI, this learning experience feels tractable. The teacher still designs the course materials, but they are supported, leveraged and scaled with an AI Teaching Assistant who is optimized to help guide the students through them. This Teacher + AI symbiosis could run an entire curriculum of courses on a common platform. If we are successful, it will be easy for anyone to learn anything, expanding education in both reach (a large number of people learning something) and extent (any one person learning a large amount of subjects, beyond what may be possible today unassisted).

Our first product will be the world's obviously best AI course, LLM101n. This is an undergraduate-level class that guides the student through training their own AI, very similar to a smaller version of the AI Teaching Assistant itself. The course materials will be available online, but we also plan to run both digital and physical cohorts of people going through it together.

Today, we are heads down building LLM101n, but we look forward to a future where AI is a key technology for increasing human potential. What would you like to learn?
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@EurekaLabsAI is the culmination of my passion in both AI and education over ~2 decades. My interest in education took me from YouTube tutorials on Rubik's cubes to starting CS231n at Stanford, to my more recent Zero-to-Hero AI series. While my work in AI took me from academic research at Stanford to real-world products at Tesla and AGI research at OpenAI. All of my work combining the two so far has only been part-time, as side quests to my "real job", so I am quite excited to dive in and build something great, professionally and full-time.

It's still early days but I wanted to announce the company so that I can build publicly instead of keeping a secret that isn't. Outbound links with a bit more info in the reply!

[Jerry Liu @jerryjliu0]

The real-time audio/video in, audio out in gpt-4o is sick

HUGE step change in UXs. more and more people are going to be talking to their AI

[Shikoli Makatiani @smakatiani]

Great... AI for everyone...

[Liam Fedus @LiamFedus]

GPT-4o is our new state-of-the-art frontier model. We’ve been testing a version on the LMSys arena as im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot 🙂. Here’s how it’s been doing.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We’ll be streaming live on https://t.co/OcO6MLUYGH at 10AM PT Monday, May 13 to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.

[Shikoli Makatiani @smakatiani]

🚨 At #RSAC2024, Cisco highlighted a critical issue: While attackers speed up, patching lags behind. We must close this growing gap to safeguard our systems. What strategies are you using to accelerate patch deployment? 🛡️⏱️ #CyberSecurity #PatchManagement @CiscoSecurity

[Shikoli Makatiani @smakatiani]

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[João Moura @joaomdmoura]

🔥🔥 CrewAI 0.22.5 is live! 💖Appreciate retweets 💖

📈 1.4M+ crews were run last week
⚒️ new CLI `crewai create project_name`
🤖 YAML for agents & tasks
🐛 Bug fixes

✨Introducing: crewAI+ our business-tier platform + our design partnership program https://t.co/SMlIGg8IG3

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

The new CEO of Starbucks insisted on starting as a barista for 6 months

He called together his inherited management team for an offsite

None knew how to make an espresso

[Dan Robinson @danlovesproofs]

Introducing qqbot, a variant of ChatGPT that lives in your IDE.

The cool thing about qqbot is that it knows your codebase.

You can ask it questions like:
- Where is xyz implemented?
- Where are the tests for this function?
- If I want to implement xyz, where do I start?

[Devon Pace @elitedevon]

Chinese spy balloon shot down. #ChineseSpyBalloon

[Shikoli Makatiani @smakatiani]

Your new co-worker. https://t.co/kyyg6rnvTA

[Shikoli Makatiani @smakatiani]

Augmentation vs Automation https://t.co/7Bl9CyRSXp