Arjun Naskar ☕️

Currently demand gen @basetenco | Alum @MIT @Homejoy @Hireready @RemindHQ @ycombinator @clickup|

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

@ad0rnai don’t gatekeep. Drop the phrase

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

used elephant-1 to classify hacker news comments

> 1500 comments
> bucketed into sentiment around AI from enthusiast to doomer

spot-checked a bunch.

some learnings.

> picking the categories and defining the criteria for each category is at least half the work when using a decision model
> need to look at the distribution of the spread between the first- and second-ranked categories to make sure the model is truly confident
> classic hn sarcasm makes this extra hard but also more fun

[Baseten @baseten]

Today we’re releasing two decision models, elephant-1 (9B) and mammoth-1 (27B), trained by the @baselabs team, available for free for one week on our Model APIs.

mammoth-1 is #1 on the Jev Decision Index and elephant-1 is tied for #1 on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index.

It’s a new model, but more importantly, this is an open-source model you can access, deploy, and post-train on Baseten (or wherever you do your best work).

The free week ends 10/27/26 at 11:59 PM PT. Try it and let us know what you think.

Try mammoth-1 here: https://t.co/x8oDALMuyZ

Try elephant-1 here:
https://t.co/fmCGb3eGth

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

this is me when i give advice to my agents

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In Italy, one of the hobbies for older men is “Umarell”.

Retired men who enjoy watching construction sites while giving unsolicited advice

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

@dens one of my proudest moments of my tech career was holding 10 simultaneous mayorships in 2011 on 4sq. not easy locations either.

kudos on making such a memorable/formative social product.

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

@AcquiredFM @netflix omg. must binge.

this plus @colossusmag piece on LD is making my week.

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

@asharoraa me: did you see the new nathan fielder movie yet?
them: who?
me: the new elizabeth holmes documentary?
them: bad blood?

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

I need this man’s impression of Elizabeth Holmes

[HBO Max @hbomax]

elizabeth holmes' only impression of nathan fielder before the doc #NathanForYou

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

@AidanZuI same. Only my wife and I knew the reference. Makes me wonder how much the rest of the movie was appreciated beyond face value

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

@AgrawalArian @spc @SilkyArora2188 @viamrobotics Need this at the holiday party for custom posters

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

@ThatEricAlper Gen Z won’t, but Gen Alpha, the children of millennials, will

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

@CoinDesk this looks absolutely terrible and i'm gonna watch every second.

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

@anvisha very impressive

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

@Kazanjy @xwanyex This is on my kid’s top 5 reading list still after a whole year. Made the cut into his airplane backpack, which is a huge honor in their world

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

@ShaneMac At least the CFO knew to post in the exec channel instead of the general channel?

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

rooting for mistral solely on the basis of this video.

(also open model choice = good)

[Mistral AI @MistralAI]

Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk.

• 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active.
It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks.
• State-of-the-art on critical workloads, including cyber defense, manufacturing and finance and it surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding.
• Forged in Europe end-to-end and is deployable from Europe via our own Mistral Cloud infrastructure.
• Available to all via API today. Working with cybersecurity partners privately.

Open weights release end of October.

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

what it feels like to come home to my kids

[Stanford University @Stanford]

Walking into work as a new Nobel laureate.

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

@found_it_funny he meant social-ish

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

@yzycrave @grok what is the device kanye is using on stage?

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

@European_HQ Anyone criticizing this is not a parent. Also those aren’t kindergarteners

[Arjun Naskar ☕️ @anaskar]

@thdxr seems like a vicious cycle. user attempts to access figma, gets blocked, goes elsewhere, figma grips even harder whatever users are left