Trevis Wallace

AI + Quantum Enthusiast / Investor @ IonQ / AI User Models @ Sonar, ChatGPT, Copilot & SuperGrok / Student @ AS Applied Artificial Intelligence Technologies

[Trevis Wallace @WallaceTrevis]

I am really excited this year about starting my new goal over the next few years. I know once this is achieved, it will become much easier for me to achieve my other goals.

#theNSLS
Name: Trevis Wallace
Current University: Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ)
Goal/Reflection: Achieve $1 million in my stock investment portfolio

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Remember this the next time people gaslight you with anti data center crap. Speaking of gaslighting: Canada flares off 7 GW of natural gas as a waste product of mining each year- more power than all the LLM training clusters use combined. Let’s build data centers in Alberta.

[Emmett Shear @eshear]

@philiprosedale @Liv_Boeree The fungus and plant that make a lichen don’t act similarly, yet their symbiosis makes it obvious they are deeply aligned. So it’s something more subtle than just “fitting in”.

[IonQ @IonQ_Inc]

IonQ is bringing quantum to Davos. Watch as our CEO @NiccoloDeMasi heads to WEF 2026 and see what’s next.#WEF2026 #Davos #QuantumComputing #IonQ

[a16z @a16z]

The AI era of apps is here.

In this discussion with a16z Apps Fund GPs Alex Rampell, David Haber, and Anish Acharya, they break down:
- How AI is driving explosive product growth
- The new product categories that couldn't exist before AI
- Why AI-native startups should look for “greenfield” opportunities with unserved customers instead of competing with large incumbents
- Why moats still matter
- How software is eating labor

00:00 Introduction
02:17 AI's role in enterprise and consumer applications
05:03 Emerging AI trends and investment strategies
08:43 Traditional software going AI-native
14:40 Software eating labor
17:04 Case study: Eve
21:33 Building defensible moats
24:45 Case study: Salient
31:53 The walled garden
40:23 Incumbents vs startups
53:32 Consumer AI applications
56:03 Model aggregation strategy
57:06 Investment process & team
1:06:46 Customer retention & enterprise sales

@arampell @dhaber @illscience

[Alkan Avcıoğlu @EvergreenDazed]

2025 RECAP 🧵

Looking back, this year has felt like a dream. So many things came together, and my work found its way into places I once only imagined.

• My work Liquid Modernity was exhibited and auctioned at Christie’s, as part of their inaugural AI art auction.

• I won Claire Silver’s AI Contest with my work Dromological.

• I collaborated with world-renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky, one of the most influential artists of our time. We presented a solo exhibition of our Hypertopographics series at Heft Gallery, New York, later shown at Contemporary Istanbul and lastly at Paris Photo.

• My work is featured in Dopamine at Le Cube Garges, Paris. A major institutional exhibition running until July 18, 2026, presented as part of Némo Biennale 2025, the International Biennale of Digital Arts.

• Work from my previous collections continued to be exhibited internationally, from Shanghai to New York’s Times Square, my work was featured in many exhibitions across galleries and public spaces.

• A defining chapter of the year was my AI generated feature documentary film Post Truth:

- It became the first AI feature film in cinema history to secure a theatrical release. The theatrical deal was reported by Deadline Hollywood.

- The film had its international premiere at Warsaw Film Festival, one of the only 14 A-list festivals in the world accredited by FIAPF. Variety announced the international debut.

- The film subsequently screened at long-established festivals, including the 66th Festival dei Popoli, the oldest documentary festival in Europe, and the 62nd International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, the longest-running festival in Turkey.

- It received overwhelmingly positive reviews from professional critics in Turkey, Poland, and Italy.

- The film lastly won the Audience Award at FrontDoc International Film Festival.

• This year marked key milestones for our AI production company, Spongeworthy Studio: With Post Truth becoming a theatrically released, critically acclaimed film, while @VikkiBardot's short film Dreamt by Another, screened at over 20 festivals before being acquired by MUBI.

• The soundtrack album of Post Truth was released in December via Tamar Records on vinyl, CD, and digital platforms.

• Much of the year was focused on moving conversations around AI and art beyond online spaces, into wider public and cultural contexts.

• From Paris Photo to international film festivals, I spent much of the year on panels and public discussions, contributing to the conversation around AI and art beyond Web3.

• I was featured in major outlets, from The Observer to CNN Türk, and gave over 25 interviews across print, online, and television.

• A curated image gallery of my work circulated widely across mainstream platforms, including Bored Panda, MSN, and AOL.

• The year included several auctions, highlights including:
– Hypertopographics #1 sold for $18,000 via Heft Gallery, New York.
– Earth Misread sold for $8,100 via Asprey Studio Gallery, London.
– Liquid Modernity sold for $5,040 via Christie’s, New York.

I don’t take any of this lightly. This year raised the bar for what the work demands next.

A key part of this year was seeing my AI-generated work move beyond online spaces and enter real-world galleries, institutions, cinemas, and publications.

My interviews followed a wild path: I started the year talking about AI and photography around the Christie’s exhibition, moved into AI and filmmaking with Post Truth, and ended up discussing AI and music through the soundtrack.

I’m genuinely grateful for every step along the way, and for the seriousness with which all my work has been received.

New exhibitions are confirmed for the coming year, with several new projects set to be released. Major announcements are on the way.

2026 is shaping up to be an exciting one.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

ELON MUSK: We are seeing Grok very helpful in things like customer service

The AI is infinitely patient and friendly; you can yell at it, and it’s still going to be very nice

I think in terms of improving the quality of customer service and issue resolution

Grok is already doing quite a good job at SpaceX and Tesla. We look forward to offering that to other companies

[Trevis Wallace @WallaceTrevis]

This really correlates to how I feel when I speak to AI now. 😆

[Alkan Avcıoğlu @EvergreenDazed]

@Sendrock

[Trevis Wallace @WallaceTrevis]

Interesting correlation here. I see that even with AI and Space exploration that math is deeply involved in the backbone of every architectural decision on these technologies.

[Emmett Shear @eshear]

Number lines imply the possibility of number loops, number curves, number trees, and number solenoids. All of which seem to in fact exist.

[Trevis Wallace @WallaceTrevis]

From my recent experience, this type of AI work has been extremely popular on the street lately.

[Luma @LumaLabsAI]

Scuttle around the wild with Ray3 Modify in Dream Machine.

[Trevis Wallace @WallaceTrevis]

The benefit in the medicine field has been very impressive to hear about lately.

[Sam Altman @sama]

Yesterday we did a livestream. TL;DR:

We have set internal goals of having an automated AI research intern by September of 2026 running on hundreds of thousands of GPUs, and a true automated AI researcher by March of 2028. We may totally fail at this goal, but given the extraordinary potential impacts we think it is in the public interest to be transparent about this.

We have a safety strategy that relies on 5 layers: Value alignment, Goal alignment, Reliability, Adversarial robustness, and System safety. Chain-of-thought faithfulness is a tool we are particularly excited about, but it somewhat fragile and requires drawing a boundary and a clear abstraction.

On the product side, we are trying to move towards a true platform, where people and companies building on top of our offerings will capture most of the value. Today people can build on our API and apps in ChatGPT; eventually, we want to offer an AI cloud that enables huge businesses.

We have currently committed to about 30 gigawatts of compute, with a total cost of ownership over the years of about $1.4 trillion. We are comfortable with this given what we see on the horizon for model capability growth and revenue growth. We would like to do more—we would like to build an AI factory that can make 1 gigawatt per week of new capacity, at a greatly reduced cost relative to today—but that will require more confidence in future models, revenue, and technological/financial innovation.

Our new structure is much simpler than our old one. We have a non-profit called OpenAI Foundation that governs a Public Benefit Corporation called OpenAI Group. The foundation initially owns 26% of the PBC, but it can increase with warrants over time if the PBC does super well. The PBC can attract the resources needed to achieve the mission.

Our mission, for both our non-profit and PBC, remains the same: to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

The nonprofit is initially committing $25 billion to health and curing disease, and AI resilience (all of the things that could help society have a successful transition to a post-AGI world, including technical safety but also things like economic impact, cyber security, and much more). The nonprofit now has the ability to actually deploy capital relatively quickly, unlike before.

In 2026 we expect that our AI systems may be able to make small new discoveries; in 2028 we could be looking at big ones. This is a really big deal; we think that science, and the institutions that let us widely distribute the fruits of science, are the most important ways that quality of life improves over time.

[Trevis Wallace @WallaceTrevis]

The fact that, '...All emails drafted and labeled are never stored in our logs. All scheduling gets auto-deleted in two weeks....' is one of the many reasons why I value Perplexity's AI Models over other AI companies!

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

Perplexity Email Assistant - an AI secretary basically is now available to all Pro users on a 14 day trial.

All emails drafted and labeled are never stored in our logs. All scheduling gets auto-deleted in two weeks.

https://t.co/otKhwM7NgP

[IonQ @IonQ_Inc]

IonQ is excited to collaborate with @NVIDIA as one of the quantum-process builders contributing to NVQLink. We are helping drive the integration of quantum and classical computing, enabling next-generation breakthroughs in chemistry, materials science, and beyond. https://t.co/6CmnGRLFk8

[Emmett Shear @eshear]

It turns out the easy way to solve the memory problem in machine learning is just to use the identity function: never delete or change anything, your memory is just every observation you’ve ever made.
Such a good hack.

[Trevis Wallace @WallaceTrevis]

Nice!

[Alkan Avcıoğlu @EvergreenDazed]

Super pleased to announce that Post Truth has been selected to FrontDoc International Documentary Festival.

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

We are launching Perplexity Patents as a beta product, available worldwide starting today.

While in beta, Perplexity Patents will be free for all users. Pro and Max subscribers will receive additional usage quotas and model configuration options.

[Trevis Wallace @WallaceTrevis]

This will certainty cut through the noise in AI patents, especially for AI inventors among academia students.

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Perplexity Patents extends our citation-first approach to patent search, allowing users to search for patents without complicated keyword searches.

Ask Perplexity, "Are there any patents on AI for language learning?"

[Trevis Wallace @WallaceTrevis]

Fascinating!

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

Perplexity Patents: now supporting search and research across patents.

Next to come: Perplexity Scholar (for academic research).

[Trevis Wallace @WallaceTrevis]

I envision star trek realms when I see this! :)

[jesus.eth @jesusdoteth]

GM

[Trevis Wallace @WallaceTrevis]

It is exciting to see and hear about how IonQ is at many different international events this year!

[IonQ @IonQ_Inc]

IonQ will be at the 2025 UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase on Nov 7 in London, demonstrating our latest advancements in quantum computing innovation. Stop by booth #52 to learn more. https://t.co/lbVZLTuWaf