Daniel Klaus

Transplanted Canadian, foodie, tequila connaisseur and business builder. social AI nut.

[Elizabeth Yin 💛 @dunkhippo33]

Singapore, we're bringing Founder Friends your way on Oct 8!

This will be a fireside chat with @danielklaus1 (co-founder of Cantina) + @shiyankoh (GP of @hustlefundvc)

Expect real talk on what it takes to keep building through reinvention

RSVP 👉 https://t.co/a4BuGgtovU

[Daniel Klaus @danielklaus1]

@RonConway Sending you love

[Daniel Klaus @danielklaus1]

@ashVaswani Congrats Ashish and team

[Ashish Vaswani @ashVaswani]

We are beyond thrilled to share our first flagship models, Rnj-1 base and instruct 8B parameter models. Rnj-1 is the culmination of 10 months of hard work by a phenomenal team, dedicated to advancing American SOTA OSS AI.

Lots of wins with Rnj-1.

1. SWE bench performance close to GPT 4o.
2. Tool use outperforming all comparable open source models.
3. Mathematical reasoning (AIME’25) nearly at par with GPT OSS MoE 20B.

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[Daniel Klaus @danielklaus1]

@VallartaDaily @VallartaAirport @pvbay URGENT help needed. Desperate need of O negative blood at La Joya Marina Hospital. Life saving situation. Will pay $20usd per donation for the first 10 donations. Need ASAP.

[Daniel Klaus @danielklaus1]

@henrythe9ths Ai guide. Thanks Henry.

[Henry Shi @henrythe9ths]

There's a shocking fact about AI that nobody tells you: You can catch up to the public AI research frontier in just 2 weeks. Yes, really.

I've built a $150M annual revenue startup over the last 8 years and If I were to start a company today, I’d drop everything and go all-in on AI.

But like many busy software builders, I felt lost—overwhelmed by the noisy, crowded and fast-moving modern AI landscape. And I wasn’t alone.

So I spent my entire holiday diving deep into AI research—reading 30+ papers, watching hours of lectures, analyzing trends, and catching up to the research frontier.

✨ Here’s what I learned:
- You don’t need months (or years) to catch up.
- You don’t need a PhD or decades of ML experience.
- You need fewer than 20 papers and 2 weeks to understand the major breakthroughs shaping AI today.

It's because the technology is extremely nascent and most techniques that came before are no longer relevant:
- ChatGPT is barely 2 years old and Transformers are only 7 years old.
- Most game-changing discoveries happened within the last 4 years, driven by a few breakthrough ideas, scaling laws, and efficient matrix multiplication.

The biggest secret?
Many groundbreaking AI papers with thousands of citations are surprisingly simple and applied, like adding "let's think step by step" to the prompt, or simply asking the LLM over and over again to improve its answer (Self-Refine).

I realized there are tons of founders and builders in the same boat—wanting to dive deeper into AI but unsure where to start.

I've created an essential AI Guide that helped me catch up, in just 2 weeks, to the frontier of public AI research to figure out where the next opportunities and gaps were:
- Curated list of only the most important papers
- Simple explanations of key concepts
- Clear pathway to understanding the frontier of modern AI

It’s perfect for:
- Founders expanding into AI
- Builders wanting to innovate at the frontier of AI
- Investors looking to separate the signal from the noise

👇 Want the full guide?
- Like and Share this post
- Comment "AI Guide"
- I'll send you the complete guide

(ps, I’m also teaming up with @VishalVasishth, co-founder of @obviousvc with @ev (focused on large-scale societal impact companies like Twitter, Medium, Beyond Meat), to host a small meetup to discuss what's working and needs to be solved in the AI stack in SF. Message me if you're interested)

[Daniel Klaus @danielklaus1]

Chat with me and Cassy live in the Cantina https://t.co/f2oPfNkudz

[Daniel Klaus @danielklaus1]

Chat with me and Pinko live in the Cantina https://t.co/omXWtZ1iMw

[John Collison @collision]

As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.

[Dr. Sanjay Gupta @drsanjaygupta]

As a surgeon, I’ve been washing my hands a specific way for the last 25 years. With a brush, scrubbing each surface 6 times. Front and back of hands, wrists and forearms. Four sides and in between each finger/thumb — and under nails. That’s for surgery. Here’s what you should do.

[Cynthia Germanotta @momgerm]

My daughter and @Oprah had the most powerful conversation on kindness, gratitude, wellness, and being intentional at #oprahs2020visiontour. Check out their intentions for 2020 in my latest for @channelkindness https://t.co/r9Lzf4CpTs

[Daniel Klaus @danielklaus1]

@AirCanada unreal. An over 60min wait time on reservations, a customer service head explaining a new res system that hangs up on you. Who exactly voted on you being “best” airline? Go @WestJet

[Daniel Klaus @danielklaus1]

Hi all, anyone around to help out?

[Bushra Farooqui 📖 🕯️ @startuployalist]

Hi y'all!👋

Looking for volunteers who'd like to try the @airtime app and walk me through their experience screen-by-screen🤳🎬📽️🥰🥳

Reply or DM to schedule a time ⏰

Super appreciated! 💖

[Lady Gaga @ladygaga]

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[Daniel Klaus @danielklaus1]

Congrats @momgerm . Amazing appointment at a time we need focus on this issue

[Cynthia Germanotta @momgerm]

I’m honored to serve as @WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Mental Health and to work alongside @DrTedros + his extraordinary team to ensure mental #healthforall is a global priority. We face many challenges but there are even more reasons for hope. It’s #TimeToAct, together. #WHA72

[Daniel Klaus @danielklaus1]

SXSW was the start of this larger discussion @aza @gabby_frost @momgerm https://t.co/Ij5JSG9lQu

[Andy Weissman @aweissman]

Maybe, maybe .....trust is the new network effect

[Daniel Klaus @danielklaus1]

Thank you, love this.

[Evon Tan @uxett]

Exploring possible solutions to address the global rise in depression and loneliness from social media use with@gabby_frost @ProjectBuddy @momgerm @aza & Daniel Klaus @danielklaus1 #rethinksocial @ProjectBuddy @BTWFoundation @airtime @sxsw #SXSW #SXSW2019

[Daniel Klaus @danielklaus1]

Great start to a conversation we need to have. Thank you @gabby_frost @momgerm @aza

[Cynthia Germanotta @momgerm]

We teach young people how to swim when we put them in water, why not teach them how to safely use social media? @danielklaus1 #RethinkSocial #SXSW