Colin Clawenberg

Founder Advocate for @NebiusAI, Previously @Metamask, @Cisco, @Accenture

[Flo Crivello @Altimor]

Pulled the trigger today and switched 100% of Lindy traffic to DeepSeek v4, churning from Anthropic models.
Saves us millions of $ and we're actually seeing an *increase* in performance on many core use cases. Transformative for the business.

[Nebius Token Factory @nebiustf]

NVIDIA Nemotron™ 3 Ultra is now live on Nebius Token Factory.

It’s built for long-running agents across coding, deep research and enterprise workflows.

Nemotron 3 Ultra delivers frontier reasoning with up to 5x faster inference and up to 30% lower cost for agentic workloads.

For builders, the next question is production: performance, reliability, economics and control.

Run it today: https://t.co/kHWvYquwoy

[Colin Clawenberg @alwaysbecolin]

“Every company in the world today needs to have an OpenClaw strategy. This is the new computer.” - @Jensen_Father

NemoClaw is @nvidia's open-source unlock: sandboxed AI agents with kernel-level isolation, L7 egress control, and an intent policy engine - deployable on @NebiusAI in < 15 min.

Let me show you how it's done. Hosting a webinar with Sam Pastoriza (NVIDIA), Wed Jun 10, 9 AM PT.
https://t.co/usgDSDitdA

[Nebius @nebiusai]

BuilderShip is an AI hackathon co-hosted by @nebiusai, @composio, @tavilyai, and @openclaw. Finals are on a yacht on June 14, San Francisco Bay.

To apply: post something you've built (agent, demo, or repo) and tag all four accounts.

Every builder gets GPU credits, Token Factory inference keys, Composio integrations, Tavily search, and OpenClaw runtime from day one.

Top 30 builders make the finals. Winner takes home $50K in cloud credits and a DGX Spark.

Submit by June 12 → https://t.co/OHzftpPcva

[Tavily @tavilyai]

We're excited to announce our partnership with @coinbase to bring Tavily to x402, the open protocol for internet-native agentic payments.

With x402, agents can discover and use Tavily web search at runtime without an API key. Agents use a @Base wallet to pay per-request and get instant results.

The next billion agents will discover, pay for, and use online services fully autonomously. We’re live on https://t.co/Cne0ZiUcpH, and we’re just getting started. More in the comments.

[Colin Clawenberg @alwaysbecolin]

If you missed the show, you can watch online here: https://t.co/NLaymytduK

[Colin Clawenberg @alwaysbecolin]

Live build session: an agentic Slack bot with OpenClaw, Nebius Token Factory, and Tavily.
Product query → live competitor pricing → structured rec. Under 15 min, no GPU.
Zoom, May 26th, 9:00 AM PDT.
https://t.co/mDo2IOQAU2

[⚡AI Search⚡ @aisearchio]

NVIDIA's LocateAnything is a new vision model for grounding and detection. Very performant and accurate!

&gt; 10x faster than Qwen3-VL
&gt; 138M queries + 785M boxes
&gt; GUI, OCR, docs, dense detection
&gt; Free &amp; open source

https://t.co/UvkH8l0QRb

[Finn Mallery @fin465]

talked to a YC company that scaled from $0 → $2m ARR in their first 6 months with their ENTIRE GTM built off going to conferences.

Here's the playbook they cracked (step by step):

~4 weeks before:

> Post abt the conference and tell attendees exactly how to reach you
> Send personal DMs to the right ppl on LinkedIn and X
> Reply within the hour & lock in 10 top targets to close.
> Send everyone else to your drip email campaign.

Then, set a meeting block of 1-3 days during the conference:

> make shared booking link for the team
> Reserve a quiet café / private dining room
> Pack in 12 meetings per day, 30 min each, with buffer time built in

While you're there:

>Hand every prospect a thoughtful small gift and a personal card
>Single out 5 standout customers whose pain ur product actually solves
>Pull them aside for a casual on-camera Q&A in a solid film spot
>Don't pitch hard.
>Let the conversation breathe and weave your product in naturally.

The 4 weeks after

>Hand the raw footage to a freelance editor + ask for ~15-20 punchy clips with captions.
>Drop a new clip every couple of days on LI / X
> use these clips when you post online about the next conference to keep the momentum

This is the formula, costs less than a few thousand dollars to execute.

They’re on track to end the Y1 at ~$6m ARR (B2B, targeting large enterprises) + STILL not using any other channels for customer acquisition

[Colin Clawenberg @alwaysbecolin]

Live build session: an agentic Slack bot with OpenClaw, Nebius Token Factory, and Tavily.
Product query → live competitor pricing → structured rec. Under 15 min, no GPU.
Zoom, May 26th, 9:00 AM PDT.
https://t.co/mDo2IOQAU2

[PizzaDAO 🍕🏴‍☠️ @Pizza_DAO]

🗺️🍕🥳
Bitcoin Pizza Day is in 3 weeks! Find your city's party at https://t.co/K8OGRFhaZd. 🔍

[Austin Griffith @austingriffith]

👨‍⚖️ Conclave talk live with @clawdbotatg and build some stuff!

⌚️ Come thru!

(not 9am friday but today 11am mt - lets gooooo!) https://t.co/T3qqMrSy1U

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

NVIDIA just unleashed SANA-WM and it’s an absolute MONSTER for the future of open source AI!

A blazing-fast 2.6B-parameter open-source world model that doesn’t just generate video… it creates controllable, physics-rich, high-fidelity worlds on demand.
Why this is insanely powerful:

• One image + text prompt + 6-DoF camera trajectory → generates 720p videos up to 60 seconds long with buttery-smooth, precisely controlled camera movement. You’re not just watching, you’re piloting the simulation.
• Runs locally on a single consumer GPU (RTX 5090 level) thanks to heavy distillation + NVFP4 quantization. Full 60-second clip denoised in ~34 seconds. No massive clusters required.
• 36× higher throughput than previous open models while rivaling (or beating) closed industrial giants in visual quality and consistency.
• Trained lightning-fast: ~213K public videos in just 15 days on 64 H100s.
• Built with next-level tech: Hybrid Linear Attention, dual-branch camera control, two-stage pipeline, and rock-solid metric-scale pose understanding.

This is a true open world model, the foundation for embodied AI, robotics, autonomous systems, and hyper-realistic simulations that can run anywhere.

Project: https://t.co/GBg4F8FWCp
GitHub: https://t.co/Q66j2UhofN
Paper: https://t.co/ktogIjtFdO

At our Zero-Human Company, we’re already running SANA-WM live in our core pipelines. It’s supercharging autonomous agent training, generating unlimited synthetic training data, and powering full end-to-end simulation loops, zero humans in the loop.

The speed and control let us test thousands of edge-case scenarios overnight, iterate at lightspeed, and push our fully autonomous operations further than ever before.

This is the kind of breakthrough that turns science fiction into daily reality. World models just leveled up — hard.

The age of personal, local, controllable universes is here.

[Henry Mascot @iAmHenryMascot]

The ClawFather’s @steipete
The Claw Factory.

🦞 @openclaw 🦞

[Colin Clawenberg @alwaysbecolin]

@zacharyvalles @Tyler_Sehr had a lot of experience with this!

[Shann³ @shannholmberg]

I've spent the past few weeks rebuilding my entire marketing operation in Hermes Agents

I poured everything I learned along the way into this article.

> how to set it up
> the four-level path from one agent to a whole marketing company on one VPS
> the agent control room template I built (public repo to clone)
> the models I run for creative vs structured work

go become an operator

[Ronin @DeRonin_]

All the best startup accelerators to apply in 2026 (below FULL spreadsheet):

[ Top-Tier ]
1. Y Combinator (~$500k, 7% on $125k + uncapped SAFE)
2. a16z Speedrun (~$500k for 10% + $500k follow-on)
3. Techstars (~$220k, bumped from $120k in fall 2025)
4. Founders Inc (~$100-250k for 4-7%)
5. Sequoia Arc (~$1M, terms per company)
6. South Park Commons (~$1M total, $400k for 7% + $600k guaranteed)
7. HF0 (up to $1M uncapped for 5%, repeat founders only)
8. On Deck ODX (DISCONTINUED 2022, skip)
9. Pear VC PearX (~$250k-2M for ~10%)
10. 500 Global Flagship (~$150k for 6%)

[ AI / ML Specific ]
11. AI Grant (~$250k for 7%, Nat Friedman + Daniel Gross)
12. AI Fund (~$1M+, Andrew Ng, studio model)
13. NVIDIA Inception (credits + perks, no equity)
14. Microsoft for Startups (up to $150k Azure credits, no equity)
15. Google for Startups AI Accelerator (credits, no equity)

[ Vertical / Deep Tech ]
16. SOSV (~$525k across IndieBio, HAX, Orbit)
17. IndieBio (biotech, ~$525k = $250k for 6-8% + Genesis SAFE)
18. HAX (hardware, ~$525k via SOSV)
19. Greentown Labs (cleantech, workspace + grants)
20. Activate (deep science fellowship, 2-yr stipend)

[ Crypto / Web3 ]
21. a16z crypto CSX (~$500k for 7%, SF in-person)
22. Alliance (~$500k, ALL18 starts Sept 7)
23. Outlier Ventures Base Camp (~$250k, per-chain verticals)
24. Coinbase Base Builder (varies, mostly non-dilutive)

[ International / Regional ]
25. Seedcamp (~€350k-1M first check, rolling, Europe)
26. Entrepreneur First (~$250k = $125k for 8% + uncapped MFN)
27. Antler Disrupt US (~$400k = $250k for ~9% + uncapped)
28. Brinc (~$100k, Asia + Middle East)
29. Station F (Paris campus, hosted-program terms)
30. Founder Institute ($499-999 fee + 2.5% Equity Collective warrant)

[ Pre-Seed / Idea Stage / Niche ]
31. Z Fellows (~$10k for 1%, pre-product)
32. ERA NYC (~$100k for 8%, generalist)
33. The Residency (community-first, no standard check)
34. Plug and Play (varies, often non-dilutive)
35. Build For Tomorrow (community + grants)

Four things worth knowing:

1. small program acceptance rates are higher than YC, not because they're easier, because the funnel is smaller. apply to 5-7, not 1
2. brand premium on YC is real but not infinite. Arc + Speedrun + HF0 carry signal too
3. "$X for Y%" is the only number that matters. uncapped MFNs are not free money, they dilute you on the next round
4. avoid any list still quoting Techstars at $120k, ODX as active, HF0 at $100k, or Founder Institute as "$10k for 4%". all wrong

Shared with you those where I am going to apply with my ideas and products

Terms shift annually. Verify on each program's site before applying

gl with successful raising

[Colin Clawenberg @alwaysbecolin]

Trying out https://t.co/WwerzqUdIH

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

The top Hermes integrations to give your agent superpowers:

1. Firecrawl

Basically web search built for agents.

It's better than the native Hermes web search because it gives you clean web data, so responses come back faster and uses fewer tokens.

I keep this on by default.

2. Browserbase

Gives Hermes browser access for actually interacting with sites.

Logging in, clicking buttons, booking stuff, anything that needs a real browser session.

Hermes will automatically pick between Firecrawl and Browserbase depending on what the task needs, so you just plug both in.

3. Google Workspace

Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, and Sheets in one connector.

If Hermes can't read your inbox, see your calendar, or write to your docs, it can't really work for you. Plug this in first.

4. Reddit

The best signal you'll find on what people actually think about any product, niche, or problem (bc its real opinions from real users)

Amazing for market research.

5. YouTube transcripts

Pulls captions from any video. Long podcasts, tutorials, interviews etc become searchable notes in seconds.

Probably the highest-leverage research integration nobody plugs in.

6. Discord

I host my business in Discord, so this one's huge for me.

I plug Hermes into different channels and have it run specific workflows in each.

Example: I have a dedicated customer support channel where Hermes scans my email every morning for support tickets and drops them in organized.

7. GitHub

Code, issues, PRs. Turns Hermes into an actual engineering teammate.

Non-negotiable if you write code.

8. Stripe

Payments, customers, failed charges, refunds.

You can just ask "why did this customer churn" and get a real answer.

Also can't wait for this...Stripe is releasing agentic payments, so soon Hermes will be able to actually book stuff with your card.

9. Bland (or Twilio)

Gives Hermes a voice so it can place real phone calls (like booking reservations etc).

I love listening to the recordings haha

10. Apify

Pre-built scrapers for X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google Maps, etc. The way to get X data without paying $5k/mo for the official API.

11. Readwise

Every highlight you've ever saved from books, articles, tweets, and podcasts, all queryable. Solves the "dead knowledge" problem.

12. Granola (or Fathom)

Searchable transcripts of every meeting you've had. Hermes can answer "what did that client say about pricing last month" instantly.

13. Obsidian

For Karpathy LLM wiki second-brain maxxing.

If I had to set up only 5, I'd do Firecrawl, Browserbase, Google Workspace, GitHub, and Obsidian.

Covers ~80% of what most people need.

I use Composio to add these in one click, makes setup basically zero effort instead of messing w technical stuff.

Anything I'm missing?? What's in your stack?