Samir Menon

inference, systems, security, etc @sailresearchco

[Samir Menon @blintzbase]

If you can’t get on the list just use GLM 5.2 on @sailresearchco!!

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The Trump Administration has struck a deal with Anthropic which grants the company permission to release its Mythos 5 model to a group of ~100 companies and federal agencies, per CNBC.

Details include:

1. Senior Anthropic staffers flew to Washington DC to meet with members of the Trump Administration

2. Anthropic said earlier this month that it disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to comply with an export control directive from the government

3. The Trump Administration and Anthropic have been in a two-week-long standoff over its latest models

This deal will have industry-wide implications.

[Sail Research @sailresearchco]

Last group stage matches this weekend ⚽️ Who's winning the World Cup? We spun up an agent on @sailresearchco (inference + Sailbox) to answer w/ web research via Parallel @p0. 26 GLM 5.2 subagents, 1M tokens, and less than $1 later, here's its take:

[Samir Menon @blintzbase]

I am very lucky to work with Allison :)

[Allison Kiang @allisonkiang]

I’ve known @neilmovva for 20 years. Turns out learning to build from first principles at FIRST Robotics takes you pretty far. He got me through AP Physics C back then, and he pushes our team everyday to break those same laws for inference. Couldn’t be prouder to be building the future with you at @sailresearchco. If you want to learn from the best in kernels, reach out!! We’re hiring

[Samir Menon @blintzbase]

@neilmovva @sailresearchco 🚋 join us!! 🚋

[Samir Menon @blintzbase]

this looks like a render but is not

[Sail Research @sailresearchco]

Agent, in the background.

[Samir Menon @blintzbase]

@ItzSuds from the archives

[Samir Menon @blintzbase]

@neilmovva @sailresearchco It’s going to be great :——)

[Neil Movva @neilmovva]

Samir Menon @blintzbase and I are thrilled to announce Sail @sailresearchco ! We build infrastructure for long-horizon agents: inference served at unbeatable prices-per-token for open models, plus sandboxes designed to run for days, weeks, or longer.

We've raised $80M, w/ our seed led by @Sequoia
and series A led by @KleinerPerkins. We're using this capital to build the most efficient infrastructure for long-horizon agents.

What makes agents so different? Unlike a human waiting at a keyboard (top priority: speed), agents need scale, reliability, and sustainable cost. Sail finds this efficiency everywhere in the stack: we carefully choose our chips, write custom inference engines, and run a global controller that fully utilizes every computer in our fleet. Tight integration from silicon to API lets Sail open up the cost / latency frontier to our customers - the most patient agents can now access 10x more intelligence per dollar.

We're excited to be working with great companies like
@parallelweb, @detaildotdev,@Jackandjillai, and @quadrillion_ai to deploy long-horizon agents with trillions of tokens.

Our team is thoughtful in our engineering craft and relentlessly ambitious in our pursuit of peak performance. We previously trained at companies like NVIDIA, OpenAI, Google, and so many trading firms. Now we're ready to do the work that will define our careers, in the most compute intensive market of all time.

Welcome to the era of abundant intelligence. We can't wait to build with you!

[Samir Menon @blintzbase]

I liked this app so much I bound my action button to it

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

What’s messing up your tummy? Napkin Math (https://t.co/Y4moEMPw89) knows.

Napkin Math is the hyper-personalized AI food journal that helps people achieve their health goals.

Congrats on the launch, @jynniit, @clairen19 & @manny4c!

https://t.co/ToyIGHGljP

[Neil Movva @neilmovva]

Throughput vs. latency is a foundational tradeoff in almost any system. @sailresearchco is building inference for long-horizon agents, so we’re all about the former - exactly as Ben predicts! Software is our first lever here, and in time we’ll rebuild the whole computing stack.

[Samir Menon @blintzbase]

So happy to see this! A bunch of great people at Apple and Google worked really hard on this!! https://t.co/lBYFqMI3jq

[Samir Menon @blintzbase]

@isosteph always consider beer

[Samir Menon @blintzbase]

@AerLingus I'm trying to change my seat, but your website and agents won't let me! It's 2024! This part of your website is also objectively ambiguous - is it 72 hours or *less, or 72 hours or *more*??

[Samir Menon @blintzbase]

@SFHeritage @Scott_Wiener @RobBonta @TenantsUnionSF @RafaelMandelman @AaronPeskin The supervisors were quite pro-housing, even in front of a fairly openly anti-upzoning audience. A good night for YIMBYs I think!

@AaronPeskin left, but @RafaelMandelman stayed the whole time.

[Samir Menon @blintzbase]

🧵 District 8 Town Hall on Upzoning and Affordable Housing @SFyimby

@RafaelMandelman and @AaronPeskin in attendance

[Samir Menon @blintzbase]

@SFHeritage @Scott_Wiener @RobBonta @TenantsUnionSF @RafaelMandelman @AaronPeskin The supervisors, and about half the audience, is gone. The questions are now just for the presenters.