Alec Hoey

[Alec Hoey @alechoey]

@FishAudio Fish

[Fish Audio @FishAudio]

Today we’ve raised $52M Seed and we are announcing the public launch of S2.1 Pro.

>It can clone a voice from 5 seconds of audio
>2x faster than Cartesia & 1/6th the cost of Eleven Labs
>most expressive model with word level control over emotion, intonation, pacing etc

We support frontier AI companies including HeyGen, LiveKit, Retell, Sanas, and OpenArt all run our model in production.

If you're a business and we can't cut your voice AI costs by 50%, we'll give you 1 year of Fish Audio for free.
Book a demo: https://t.co/vHkyZf9JoG

To celebrate our first birthday, we'll give you 1 month of S2.1 Pro for free. Like, retweet, and comment “Fish” to get it.

[South Park Commons @spc]

The time to be maximally ambitious is now.

The $1M Founder Fellowship is open for Fall 2026.

Applications are due August 2nd.

[Alec Hoey @alechoey]

It's amazing to see a glimpse of the future. Soon, all of humanity will be able to unchain themselves from their meat-based shackles and encode their entire existence on reasoning models hosted by Anthropic and OpenAI.

Which provider would you end up choosing for your inference

[Alec Hoey @alechoey]

Huge week for Anthropic: they caught Jian Yang creating bogus accounts, sent IBM and Intel shares spiraling, and got threatened by the US government.

But there's one piece of news I can't stop thinking about:

[Alec Hoey @alechoey]

3. It's actually better for all of us that the two didn't join hands. If the two most advanced physical embodiments of AI had made contact, it would have certainly manifested AGI, but would have consumed more power than we have available and would trigger a global blackout.

[Alec Hoey @alechoey]

Instead of killing OpenClaw, OpenAI will starve it

OpenAI will offer a polished OpenClaw version with security, auth, and networking on their hosted infrastructure. Mass adoption = open source abandonment. Repo stays open, but no more momentum.

What are your predictions?

[Alec Hoey @alechoey]

Here's how I think the OpenClaw acquisition shakes out.

OpenAI will focus on the individual, building a "Jarvis-like" high-agency assistant that handles your life.

Anthropic will build a enterprise swarms of agents that corrdinate across an entire company.

[Alec Hoey @alechoey]

I saw a post encouraging people to apply to YC using someone else’s open-sourced "Minimum Scalable Product" built by an AI.

Imagine asking an investor to bet on you as a founder when you didn't have the vision, didn't build the demo, and you can't execute the product.

[Alec Hoey @alechoey]

The AI hype-cycle is technology's NYC Run Club.

NYC run club culture isn't about running. It's a whole persona with curated Instagram feeds full of Bandit performancewear.

AI in 2026 feels the same.

[Alec Hoey @alechoey]

My social feeds are flooded with how OpenClaw is killing SaaS. In the future, everyone will vibe their own bespoke solutions.

Zero-employee companies will ship with AI doing all of the work

But we're putting workflow-based solutions above value-creation for users.

[Alec Hoey @alechoey]

@SlackStatus This is misleading. Add some precision to that claim and stop trying to round to 100.

[Alec Hoey @alechoey]

@SpotifyUSA Please stop breaking...I really want to love your product, but you make it hard.

[Alec Hoey @alechoey]

@IRDProject Jennifer Zobair: Muslim American Women Are the New Normal http://t.co/352GMpMOCe

[Alec Hoey @alechoey]

@IRDProject Muslim comedians try to bridge the gap between Islam and others through likeness. https://t.co/kgojdwSDkr …

[Alec Hoey @alechoey]

@IRDProject Which Place Is More Sexist, The Middle East Or Latin America?http://t.co/aC36DuXJOn