Yerzat Dulat

co-founder, CTO at @higgsfield. Building the biggest media company ever 🇰🇿

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@omooretweets @a16z @higgsfield is going top 10 very soon

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@Muhtasham9 thanks man, means a lot

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@jasonlk @higgsfield_ai @saastrfund Huge honor, Jason. Thank you for being an early user and backing us!

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higgsfield just hit $1.3B.
aesthetic discipline is real.

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@HeroDividend Blackrock is much bigger than BH

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@reve @higgsfield_ai @openart_ai @floraai @fal @replicate ❤️

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This photo is from 2017. I had just built my first open-source project and Soumith starred it almost instantly. That moment changed everything for me and gave me the confidence to push further into Deep Learning.

Soumith is one of the most influential people in GenAI and every insider in the industry knows exactly how much impact he has.

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If you feel like giving up, you must read this never-before-shared story of the creator of PyTorch and ex-VP at Meta, Soumith Chintala.

> from hyderabad public school, but bad at math
> goes to a "tier 2" college in India, VIT in Vellore
> rejected from all 12 universities for US masters despite 1420 on the GRE
> fuckit.jpg
> goes to the US anyway on a J-1 visa to CMU with no plan
> applies for masters (again) to 15 universities
> rejected from all except USC and with late admissions, NYU in 2010
> finds this guy called Yann LeCun (before he was famous)
> starts getting into open source
> rejected from all jobs including DeepMind
> only job is Amazon as test engineer
> his PhD mentor helps him get a job at a small startup (MuseAmi)
> rejected from DeepMind
> couldn't get H-1B because of J-1 home return issue; gets waiver through months of approval with USCIS and US State Dept
> very low on confidence
> In 2011/12 builds one of the fastest AI inference engines on phones
> rejected from DeepMind
> emailed Yann again and joins FAIR because of Torch7 open-source work
> scrapes through bootcamp at Facebook, struggling on an HBase task
> L8/L9 engineers at Facebook struggle to get ImageNet working
> figures out numerics / hyperparam issue as an L4
> first big win!
> FAIR goes well, runs 3 person torch7 team and co-creates PyTorch
> because of politics, management wants to shut down PyTorch
> cries-at-bar.jpg, literally
> eventually some people save PyTorch and it launches in 2017
> gets a EB-1 green card!
> the rest is history...

Think about that. He went to a tier 2 college. Was rejected from all Masters programs 2x. Rejected from every single job except Amazon test engineering. Rejected from DeepMind 3x. Nearly had his baby project shut down. Struggled with visa issues. After 12 years of failures (2005-17), he eventually rose to became a VP at Meta one of the most influential people in AI!

Soumith's story is one of resilience and he's living proof that no matter how down in the dumps you are, there's always hope.

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@nickfloats 💯

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@jscastro76 @higgsfield_ai @freepik Higgsfield is better 💯

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@aribk24 @higgsfield_ai #nanobanana make it red

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@rbccawang @getdelve @kocalars piece of cake

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@alexandr_wang Brainrot 🥱

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@0xROAS @Gerem_ecom love to hear that!

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@arian_ghashghai Revenue without gross margin is empty flex

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@higgsfield_ai

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@HarryStebbings Higgsfield scaled ARR to several times that in 4 months. No SF needed.

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@RichardSocher @youdotcom @CoxEnterprises Congrats! You are a real role model!

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@georgesttock Cool!