Ankur Soni

Building stuff out of curiosity in AI & language learning/stories | Nomad of 25+ countries | NYC 🗽 Miami ☀️ | Claude Code fanatic. Anthropic, hire me! 😄

[Sriram Krishnan @sriramk]

It is clear open source models and harnesses are having a moment. There's a few factors at work

1/ It is now obvious that you can catch up to near-SOTA performance and do so with a clear training lineage. See:@thinkymachines Inkling launch today.

2/ There are several well-funded, talented teams building open weight models now in the US and abroad. Along with the explosing of other near SOTA models (Grok/Cursor, Muse Spark), it is clear we are going to have a diverse ecosystem of models atleast on coding and agentic use.

3/ Organizations are increasingly looking for control over how their data is used and are willing to trade off some access to frontier level tokens for this control. Organizations and countries are increasingly nervous about the frontier labs potentially competing with them down the road and don't want their data to enable a future competitor.

4/ Open source is a slider: you could bring your own open harness, your evals, your business context and are free to pick and choose your model of choice.

5/ Companies have now actively shifted from "how do we get our people to use tokens" to being uncomfortable with their token cost ballooning without a clear line to revenue.

6/ Geo-politically, countries will be weighing open weight models as a way to get frontier-level tokens inside controlled environments that may not be otherwise possible.

All of this leads to more choice for all of us !

[Ankur Soni @aksoni21]

@sriramk @thinkymachines For sure.. I think this will lead to more adoption than OpenAI and Anthropic combined

[Ankur Soni @aksoni21]

@TansuYegen The background music is almost as good as Messi's skills. What song is this?

[Ankur Soni @aksoni21]

@thinkymachines Thinking machines released an open-weights model. I believe this is a first.

This will help deploying more open-source models instead of sending all our data and company secrets to OpenAI/Anthropic.

[JM US @JMUSPatriot]

This is the newly constructed TAJ MAHAL metro station in Agra, India. Just look at how beautiful the architecture is, resembling Indian culture and the Taj Mahal.

India spent $210 million for the 6 station - 6 km metro train project which is already operational, with the whole project of 27 stations - 29.4 km expected to cost $840 million.

New York subway spends a whopping $20 billion annually just for the "maintenance" and operations of the subway systems (no new infrastructure built). Still NY subway train stations look like apocalyptic nightmares full of piss, feces, rotting architecture, garbage, and crime everywhere.

Where is the US tax payers funds going? Why can't we have beautiful and modern subway stations like India does?

[Ankur Soni @aksoni21]

Privacy laws are getting stricter. Enforcement is ramping up.

But DSAR workflows are still too expensive because they’re too manual.

I open-sourced an AI-native DSAR platform: multi-model, agentic, approval-gated, with MCP/connectors.

Free to use: https://t.co/X7ByKC3kSd

[Ankur Soni @aksoni21]

@lmrankhan What's their use case where they're using and growing?

[Ankur Soni @aksoni21]

@lmrankhan Really liked this article. Thanks for sharing

[Ankur Soni @aksoni21]

I haven't used @OpenAI and chatgpt since early 2024. I've been using @claudeai, @grok and @GeminiApp a lot more. I was an early user of Claude code. But I have to admit that Codex is now actually better than Claude Code.

[Ankur Soni @aksoni21]

I'm seeing a lot more of "AI experts" now on LinkedIn, especially since @claudeai became so hot in the last few months. I think we should ask everyone of them for their @github links and see how much they actually know.

[Ankur Soni @aksoni21]

@RichardHanania Yeah, and I'm seeing a change now. A lot of good technical people are going back to India and starting companies there

[Ankur Soni @aksoni21]

@dhaber Exactly why I moved to NYC in January. I think it's better to be here than SF now.

[Olivia Moore @omooretweets]

AI is creating a new class of "super-ICs"

The era of 10x engineers, PMs, designers, AEs is over... we are now in the age of the 50x employee 👇

It's essentially a reset - anyone can unlock massive career benefits by leaning into using AI

[Ankur Soni @aksoni21]

@elonmusk Sent

[Ankur Soni @aksoni21]

@andrewchen Totally agree with this. Only caveat is that a PM role in most companies is not really a PM role . They're just glorified project managers. But if they learn how to become a good PM, they're gonna be in high demand

[Ankur Soni @aksoni21]

Totally agree with this. Only caveat is that a PM role in most companies is not really a PM role . They're just glorified project managers. But if they learn how to become a good PM, they're gonna be in high demand

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

bullish on the PM role quietly becoming the most important role in tech again

when anyone can build, the person who decides WHAT to build becomes the bottleneck

[Ankur Soni @aksoni21]

@zanehengsperger Ex-Ford, Nissan. I'm going to MMA in Lansing to talk about this. I'm working on this now, not the full stack maintenance company, the knowledge layer underneath it. Applying to i4.0. Always looking to talk to ppl who live this. How is the Detroit Startup Scene? Any advice welcome

[Ankur Soni @aksoni21]

And its down again..

[Ankur Soni @aksoni21]

Love @claudeai, but these "Internal Server Error" pop-ups are putting a serious dent in my dev time. 😅 It’s making me lean way more towards @cursor_ai again and the idea of a single UI for all my models, redundancy is everything when you're in the zone! 📷🚀

[Ankur Soni @aksoni21]

@henrythe9ths @claudeai I used claude code to review the tax prep my accountant gave me and it identified that I could deposit more money in my HSA account. It saved me $975 on taxes!!

[Ankur Soni @aksoni21]

Love @claudeai, but these "Internal Server Error" pop-ups are putting a serious dent in my dev time. 😅 It’s making me lean way more towards @cursor_ai again and the idea of a single UI for all my models, redundancy is everything when you're in the zone! 📷🚀