Wilson Kyi

investing in ai mafias 🧠 partner @basisset

[Wilson Kyi @WilsonKyi]

@bchesky "mafia recruiting" works for hiring the best people. It's the same method I use for investing in the best founders.

By the time you open a role, you're already too late.

The best people are always tracked. It's just a matter of who's been tracking them.

Most founders run reactive searches. Role opens. Hire a search firm. 50 profiles, 10 calls, 3 finalists. Pick the least bad. A year later you realize they're mediocre.

Brian does the opposite. He tracks talent mafias.

In the past, many have been proven to be high talent density, and each of them have something their known for e.g. technical, ops, design, FDE from @Square @Uber @Dropbox @stripe @tryramp @scale_AI @PalantirTech @Airbnb

Two ways to build a shadow list of the best people you're tracking (similar to @cursor_ai's hiring method)
1) Start with results, work backward to people. Don't say "Nike has good marketing, let me poach from Nike." Find a specific ad you love. Track down who actually made it.
2) Pipeline before you need it. "Who are the 2-3 best people you know?"

The best VC's do the same thing. We don't wait until a founder is raising, because by that time the round is effectively done.

Here are some of the AI mafias I'm tracking, and DM me if you want to know the rest of the list and how I prioritize based on specific teams, vintages, and function. @OpenAI @AnthropicAI @harvey @mercor_ai @cursor_ai @xai @SpaceX @SierraPlatform

If you're a founder and you can't name the next 5 hires you'd make, or the next 5 founders you'd invest, someone else is already hunting them down.

h/t recent AI founder mode episode on @InvestLikeBest @patrick_oshag

[Melisa @MelisaSeah]

say hello to reve 2.0!

we built the best 4k image model in the world. with precise layouts, experience images you can touch

could not be prouder of this incredible team 💥

[Christian Cantrell @cantrell]

This is what it looks like to generate images from code. And this is how a small team beat Nano Banana. Try @reve yourself at https://t.co/l1UinIJxcB.

[Taesung Park @Taesung]

Competing with model giants with 10x more resources, how did we do it? Introducing Unified Layout Models.
We designed a new structured data format for images, based on hierarchical region conditioning. We call this "layouts". Think of it as SVG for pixels.

[Wilson Kyi @WilsonKyi]

the best 4K image model in the world

[Reve @reve]

Today, we’re launching Reve 2.0, the best 4K image model in the world.

We invented a new way to generate and edit any image using precise layouts. For the first time, it’s possible to create images you can touch.

[Wilson Kyi @WilsonKyi]

@MBGilroy @jalenbrunson1 @warriors jb is the definition of a leader, this gen of nba players are sage e.g. wemby

[Wilson Kyi @WilsonKyi]

this is the most tasteful ai anime 🐐 @wemby

https://t.co/AXb64GskHx

[Wilson Kyi @WilsonKyi]

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[Wilson Kyi @WilsonKyi]

@amytam01 @SpaceX @xai Traded! @tbpn 🚀

[Wilson Kyi @WilsonKyi]

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[Wilson Kyi @WilsonKyi]

If you’ve been following closely, Curry’s been visiting China past decade and Curry Camp and Curry Con in Chongqing set the stage… night night

[Stephen Curry @StephenCurry30]

The partnership of a lifetime.

[Wilson Kyi @WilsonKyi]

Wemby 🥹

[Reve @reve]

The Reve idea booth in NYC.

Where should we go next?

[Wilson Kyi @WilsonKyi]

game 7...best words

[Wilson Kyi @WilsonKyi]

clever memory trick

[hardmaru @hardmaru]

For over a decade, we’ve accepted that end-to-end backprop is the only way to train deep networks. But holding the entire network in memory all at once is why AI training is hitting a resource wall.

We found a new way to break the network into blocks and train them independently. The trick? Treating the network’s forward pass like a diffusion model denoising a signal.

This reinterpretation slashes the memory needed to train deep models. In our #ICLR2026 paper (https://t.co/PK5h0mqQSo), we matched end-to-end performance across ViTs, DiTs, and LLMs. We did this while training just one isolated block at a time.

[Wilson Kyi @WilsonKyi]

@hardmaru Cool trick

[Basis Set @BasisSet]

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[Wilson Kyi @WilsonKyi]

finally

[ChatGPT @ChatGPTapp]

Paperwork is better when you can just talk through it.

With Images in ChatGPT and voice mode, you can upload a form, say what to fill in, and get back a completed version.

[Wilson Kyi @WilsonKyi]

@Bencera @davidyin44 Well done 👏

[Wilson Kyi @WilsonKyi]

This tweet is worth more than the millions of paid ads 👏

[Wendy’s @Wendys]

might change my name to Wemby’s and only serve french fries after last night’s game

[Wilson Kyi @WilsonKyi]

More of this pls

[Leeor Mushin @lmushin]

In honor of the Cerebras IPO and inspired by The Ringer, I vibe-coded a site to celebrate my favorite venture investments in the last 15 years - link below

[Wilson Kyi @WilsonKyi]

I'm just rooting for 3x OT