After a formative time at OpenAI, I’m launching Maison AGI (@maisonagi), a fashion house creating cultural artifacts for the AI era.
Our first collection, Relic of Thought, is a collaboration with Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut), featuring his original artworks alongside a signature hat modeled after his iconic head. It is a study in conviction and the clarity of vision that gives thought its form.
I believe we're living through something extraordinary that deserves to be remembered. Not in research papers or technical model cards, but in tangible objects we can hold, wear, and pass down.
Working alongside some of the world's brilliant researchers building Claude and ChatGPT, I've come to realize they are among the most creative minds alive. Research, at its best, is an act of imagination: the ability to glimpse what doesn't yet exist and then build toward it. Many of them remain unseen, even as their work quietly reshapes our future.
Though AGI progress can feel incomprehensible from the outside, its story is deeply human - full of curiosity, conviction, and creation. We're bridging that world with the creatives who give form to ideas.
This may be humanity's last time to create a hand-crafted project before what we build surpasses us. Each collection is also a message to superintelligence itself: that we cared, and that we tried to make beauty out of understanding.
Building voice agents? Meet Ink-Whisper: the fastest, most affordable streaming speech-to-text model.
🌎 Optimized for accuracy in real-world conditions
👯 Pair with our Sonic text-to-speech → fastest duo in voice AI
🔌 Plugs into @Vapi_AI,@pipecat_ai, @livekit
Read more: https://t.co/p13PQyhMmJ
We've raised a $64M Series A led by @kleinerperkins to build the platform for real-time voice AI.
We'll use this funding to expand our team, and to build the next generation of models, infrastructure, and products for voice, starting with Sonic 2.0, available today.
Link below to try it free 👇
We won 2nd place overall at @hackwithtrees with Supernova: an AI Ad-maker for TikTok. Check out an ad we made of @AravSrinivas talking about @Perplexity_AI’s Deep Research below:
You go from a product link → Tiktok Ad with a real influencer avatar talking, realistic b-roll, music, captions, the whole nine yards.
Here’s how it works:
Product → Market Research:
1. Drop a product link from etsy, amazon, or any shopping page.
2. Supernova will deterministically extract a product profile with @firecrawl and @GroqInc's R1-distilled model)
3. Our agents crawl the web to gather and synthesize market research from articles, competitors, profiles, and reports (powered by Perplexity Sonar API, Groq, and @OpenAI).
Influencer Avatars:
4. Choose from hundreds of top influencers with detailed social and psychographic profiles (audience, engagement, quotes, beliefs) sourced from TikTok, @FamousBirthdays, and public articles.
5. Supernova reasons, plans, and generates a detailed creative script for 30-second ads with A-roll and B-roll, informed by hundreds of pages of product and market research.
6. Using @heygen/@synclabs, we create a hyper-realistic influencer avatar and 30 seconds of that influencer speaking with lip, hand, and face movements matching dialogue. For influencers/celebs, we also clone and optimize voice using @cartesia voice to voice!
B-Roll, Music, Captions:
7. Supernova’s @runwayml pipeline uses the Gen3Alpha image-to-video model to create b-roll clips, with and without the product, optimized through our deep market research. Our b-roll always delivers—see for yourself!
8. And finally, we use @ZapCapAI for captions and music.
Supernova delivers data-driven AI ads, making influencer marketing easy for teams of any size.
No more AI slop—just precise, impactful marketing.
Wouldn't have been possible without the most cracked team: @pranavramesh25@InakiArango@nikitamounier
this was one for the books @stanford🌲