Brhanu F Znabu

Co-Founder @TraversaLab
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[Brhanu F Znabu @BZnabu]

Excited to share NativeReady: A screening tool I developed to predict protein suitability for native ionization before you hit the bench. 🧬
​Native MS is powerful but time-consuming. This is a first-pass sanity check to save days of failed sample prep.
​🔗 https://t.co/skL4uVy3WA
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@YiMaTweets @treeinnauvis Interesting

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@Katie_Roof @JeffDean @thebenbergman I think the real AGI was the $10 billion valuations we made along the way 😆

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Hey @UseCorgi , my timeline has been filled with corgis and cafe tweets. I'm really curious now, what are you doing for startups?

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@unl_engrgrad https://t.co/swIVHIiyjm

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Personal update: Super excited to receive a $25K Fast Grant from the Biswas Family Foundation, one of 20 projects funded this cycle for our work on generative foundation models for viral outbreaks! 🧬🤖

​Grateful to @unl_engrgrad for the write-up.

​Full story linked below 👇

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@4ndyXu 😆

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@j_g_allen Exactly 💯

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Bullish on this mission.

[River AI @river_ai_inc]

Today, we're sharing that River AI has raised $1.1 billion, led by @generalcatalyst and @amppublic with strategic investment from @nvidia and @AMD. Additional investors include @ycombinator and @Temasek.

We imagine a future where your AI works entirely for you and deeply aligns with your values. Compared to the corporate chatbots of today, it will feel completely different: responsible, curious, and truly yours. Most importantly, you'll own everything: the hardware it runs on, the data it learns from, and the intelligence itself.

Our training API is already live and powering incredible work today. This new funding accelerates our push to bring the full personal AI stack to life.

Read River AI CEO Igor Babuschkin’s (@ibab) conversation with the New York Times to learn more: https://t.co/DK66aKkF31

[Yao Zhang @YaoZhangX]

Today, we’re coming out of stealth with TensorScale (@TensorScaleAI ), and we're already running the fastest video inference in the world.
MiniMax (@MiniMax_AI ) H3 — one of the leading open video models — now runs 10x faster and at half the cost on our inference stack.
I’m building the company with long-time colleagues Teng Teng (@tt_tsio), Ye Wang (@yewang_ts), and Yun Tang (@_tangyun_). The AI stack was built for language models. We're rebuilding it for video and world models.

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@youyouAllen @river_ai_inc @generalcatalyst @amppublic @nvidia @AMD @ycombinator @Temasek Do you think is it crazy time we are in?

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@craigweiss @craigweiss do you think it looks like replacing the google for the race? Even the recent letter to pause AI development sent to three ai labs.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Builders respect builders. The loudest, most toxic haters are almost always the ones who have never built a thing -- the Nobody McPoasters.

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This is only x twitter. Never deleting this app

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@rackSpreader1 Glad that you are doing better 💪

[Michelle Lee @michellearning]

My recruiting kryptonite is when candidate tells me they want to start a company. Even if the idea is dumb, even if the motivation is wrong, I genuinely think starting a company is overall expected value net positive for the world.

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Today's news feed

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@madsf88 Seoul, South Korea

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@Yonas_Desalegnn I enjoyed her "ye chewata engida". What impressed me the most about her show is that she has always painstakingly do background search about her guests. Probably, I see a similar trend with Dejaf by dawit too.

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@Zen_with_AI At least her arXiv papers are public.

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@WesRoth I think @gabriberton hot take advice implemented in real time here.