Adi Rathnam

Product @WhatsApp, @MIT and @YCombinator alum, wannabe runner

[Adi Rathnam @arathnam]

@markchen90 6. Back to believing I’ve made some progress on this question but progress I’ve made feels too simplistic for Problem 6
7. First time I’ve attempted to spend a few hours on an IMO problem since 2001 and it feels great!! Who said AI would ruin math?!

[Adi Rathnam @arathnam]

Having a lot of fun trying to solve IMO 2025 Problem 6:

1. Got intrigued by @deedydas original post yesterday that no AI could make progress on it
2. I doubt I have the optimal solution but ChatGPT told me my answer was optimal at dinner today (it’s no longer saying this)
[1/N]

[Adi Rathnam @arathnam]

3. Started bragging to my family, which was totally worth it
4. Then read that “GPT-5” got a gold medal level result - mind-blowing - congrats to @markchen90 and team
5. Then read that even “GPT-5” gold medal performance couldn’t produce an answer to Problem 6
[2/N]

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[Adi Rathnam @arathnam]

Is DOGE hiring??

[Adi Rathnam @arathnam]

@markchen90 @OpenAI @merettm Congrats Mark!!! Can’t wait for even bigger things from you and your teams!

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Huge congrats to @AIatMeta on the Llama 3.1 release!
Few notes:

Today, with the 405B model release, is the first time that a frontier-capability LLM is available to everyone to work with and build on. The model appears to be GPT-4 / Claude 3.5 Sonnet grade and the weights are open and permissively licensed, including commercial use, synthetic data generation, distillation and finetuning. This is an actual, open, frontier-capability LLM release from Meta. The release includes a lot more, e.g. including a 92-page PDF with a lot of detail about the model:
https://t.co/48e3YJ8Sg9

The philosophy underlying this release is in this longread from Zuck, well worth reading as it nicely covers all the major points and arguments in favor of the open AI ecosystem worldview:
"Open Source AI is the Path Forward"
https://t.co/AdmpadCRM0
I like to say that it is still very early days, that we are back in the ~1980s of computing all over again, that LLMs are a next major computing paradigm, and Meta is clearly positioning itself to be the open ecosystem leader of it.

- People will prompt and RAG the models.
- People will finetune the models.
- People will distill them into smaller expert models for narrow tasks and applications.
- People will study, benchmark, optimize.

Open ecosystems also self-organize in modular ways into products apps and services, where each party can contribute their own unique expertise. One example from this morning is @GroqInc , who built a new chip that inferences LLMs *really fast*. They've already integrated Llama 3.1 models and appear to be able to inference the 8B model ~instantly:
https://t.co/b2kdSsz0fH
And (I can't seem to try it due to server pressure) the 405B running on Groq is probably the highest capability, fastest LLM today (?).

Early model evaluations look good:
https://t.co/RLR5YBpmks https://t.co/ipT4x4wCvy
Pending still is the "vibe check", look out for that on X / r/LocalLlama over the next few days (hours?).

I expect the closed model players (which imo have a role in the ecosystem too) to give chase soon, and I'm looking forward to that.

There's a lot to like on the technical side too, w.r.t. multilingual, context lengths, function calling, multimodal, etc. I'll post about some of the technical notes a bit later, once I make it through all the 92 pages of the paper :)

[Gagan Biyani 🏛 @gaganbiyani]

⚡️Maven is hiring! ⚡️

We've got two roles for experienced operators who want to dig their teeth into a big challenge:

Growth Product Manager
Product Marketing (Retention)

Would love intros to anyone who would be a good fit. More detail here: https://t.co/AucBt4F3tQ

[Adi Rathnam @arathnam]

Phenomenal idea! And capturing the moment! We were lucky to work with @cutiecaryn at Kamcord in 2016. CarynAI has taken a decade+ of hustle I bet.

[Caryn Marjorie @cutiecaryn]

CarynAI usage is up 2000%

[Adi Rathnam @arathnam]

Amazing set of AI courses @ Maven

[Gagan Biyani 🏛 @gaganbiyani]

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[Jessica Lessin @Jessicalessin]

For @wsj to say flat out that SVB could have failed because they added non-white men to their board shows how far behind the times (and certifiably stupid) this publication really is. It makes me so angry and very sad. WSJ readers and staff deserve better.

[Adi Rathnam @arathnam]

@Pscripturient How poignant! Our kids pretend to cough because they love the taste of honey and haldi. They lick that spoon clean!

[Adi Rathnam @arathnam]

You can now donate much needed groceries to local food banks in literally a few seconds with no fees on Instacart.

https://t.co/cSN0ENV2mT

[Adi Rathnam @arathnam]

What a 🐐🐐🐐performance this was!

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

SERENA WILLIAMS.

INCREDIBLE.

(via @usopen)

[Adi Rathnam @arathnam]

What Sydney McLaughlin is doing in the 400m hurdles is the most insane thing I’ve seen in track and field since Usain Bolt in ‘08-09 and even Bolt didn’t break his WR 3 times!! @GoSydGo is such a legend and so fun to watch!

https://t.co/QH76qfhlR7

[Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak]

web3 VCs showing LPs all the use cases for their new Q2 investments

[Adi Rathnam @arathnam]

@Pscripturient Where’s the kickstarter link? I’ll advance pay for a weekly subscription.

[Adi Rathnam @arathnam]

My 23 month old: “Daddy, no kissie. Daddy beard rough.”
Me: 💀💀

[Adi Rathnam @arathnam]

Big 3 matches in men’s tennis almost never disappoint! Over 15 years of classics! Vamos Rafa!!

[Jazmin Cazares @jazlikescheese]

i hope you didn’t feel any pain. i hope you know how loved you are. i’m so sorry i forgot to say good morning today. I love you always and forever baby sister.