Divi Vijayakumar

founder | builder | learner
Product leader building intersection of AI, ambient intelligence, and human-computer interaction

[Divi Vijayakumar @dividecodes]

Best quote of the day

"I had terrible stage fright. I went and took improv classes in New York, then took a storytelling class. I'm a big fan of exposure therapy. Anything you're afraid of, just go do more of it until you're desensitized." ~ @amasad

Its okay to be scared.. you just got to do something about it!

[Divi Vijayakumar @dividecodes]

Is Kimi K3 the new Birkin?

Subscriptions sold out. Compute is scarce. I’m about to start looking on the secondary market.

New AI business model:
#Release frontier model
#Run out of compute
#Create artificial scarcity
#Let subscriptions trade on the secondary market

#ModelDrop #kimik3 #aimodel

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Claude Code and Codex need a Burnout Parent Mode:

“You selected maximum intelligence for a task your sleep-deprived self could finish in 12 seconds.”

Proceed anyway?

@thsottiaux @_catwu

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Of course…

… opens 5 tabs

YC application
LinkedIn draft
“Top VCs in enterprise AI”
TechCrunch pitch
“How to get featured in Forbes”

😅

The trick isn’t pretending those things don’t matter.

It’s remembering they’re all side quests.

P0 is still talking to customers and building with them. Everything else compounds after that

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As a founder, meeting prep.

I never want to spend another hour researching before an investor, customer, or hiring meeting. Pull together the latest company context, our previous interactions, relevant emails/docs, recent news, and suggested talking points into a 5-minute briefing.

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Voice benchmarks

[Voice Arena @voicearena_ai]

Announcing the Voice Arena STT Leaderboard, our human-verified benchmark testing how accurately speech-to-text models transcribe real, spontaneous conversation across 7 languages

The leaderboard covers 🇺🇸 US English, 🇮🇳 Hindi, 🇧🇩 Bangla, 🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese, 🇻🇳 Vietnamese, 🇷🇴 Romanian and 🇸�� Arabic. Every model is evaluated on the same held-out corpus per language: real, unscripted phone calls between native speakers, recorded in-country on their own phones, with the noise, fillers and interruptions of natural conversation.

Unlike public STT benchmarks, results are measured on fully proprietary audio - no model has seen a second of it in training. @Reson8Offical's resonant-1 leads the US English board at 4.34% WER, ahead of models from @Microsoft , @Google , @OpenAI and @Meta . @SarvamAI leads in Hindi and Bangla, while Microsoft takes #1 in Romanian and Brazilian Portuguese.

Key elements of the Voice Arena STT Leaderboard:
➤ Real speech, real conditions: audio is drawn from unscripted phone calls between native speakers, recorded in-country on the speakers' own devices, preserving the background noise, fillers and interruptions of production traffic.
➤ 100% proprietary, held-out audio: the corpus is collected and owned by Voice Arena. No model has seen a second of it in training, so results cannot be inflated by dataset contamination.
➤ Human-verified ground truth: transcripts are produced by native transcribers through a six-stage pipeline, and only segments verified 3-of-3 survive into the final test set.
➤ Corpus-level WER with symmetric, language-aware normalization: the same normalization is applied to both references and hypotheses, so models are penalized for recognition errors, never for spelling choices.

Key results for the Voice Arena STT Leaderboard:
➤ The most accurate US English model is not from a big lab: Reson8's resonant-1 leads at 4.34% WER, ahead of Microsoft, Google, OpenAI and Meta.
➤ Model choice alone is worth ~44%: on the US English board, #1 sits at 4.34% WER and #20 at 7.74%. Same audio, same test set. Picking the right model cuts nearly half of your transcription errors before you touch anything else in the pipeline.
➤ There is no global winner: the #1 model changes with the language, with Reson8 leading US English, Sarvam leading Hindi and Bangla, and Microsoft leading Romanian and Brazilian Portuguese. Teams building for more than one market will not be covered by a single vendor at the top of every board.

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@ycombinator @garrytan The hardest part about YC isn’t getting in.
It’s convincing yourself you’re ready to apply.

…,, I just need to rewrite the deck, website, demo, product, positioning, and maybe my life.

#sendhelp

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When a founder takes on the impossible and makes it real,
It inspires everyone in their path!

Having followed @SkyrootA Aerospace journey for a while now, this milestone feels strangely personal. It is proof that audacious ideas can be built.

Rooting for you, @PawanKChandana , and the entire Skyroot team.
India’s first private space launch. What a moment. 🚀

July 18. 11:30 AM IST.
Vikram-1. Test Flight-1. Mission Aagaman.

#Launchingsoon #Openingspaceforall

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Why isn’t there a Hugging Face for product design?

A place where people publish PRDs, prototypes, user flows, research, critiques, and iterations, not just polished launches.

Challenge:1
How would you design a personalized learning assistant? #claudelearn #chatgptteach #aitutor #education

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@miramurati @thinkymachines just launched Inkling and I think its the most interesting model, yet! Not the best model on the leaderboard. The most interesting bet on where models go next.

It's built to be a base you own and reshape (Tinker), and it's built to be the reasoning engine inside a live, real-time loop (their interaction models).
https://t.co/x8XmacZj7B

#interactivemodels #thinkingmachines #miramurati

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@vaaselene Coding agents

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how has @claudeai Fable really changed your dev?

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@rezoundous I thought is been delayed

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@trikcode wonder if you tried @antigravity 's free tier.

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@coryalthoff be happy if they can get me the distrubution! #distributionisthemoat

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@kelvinbuildss A solo founder with good unit economics can. #aiuniteconomics

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Founders who bootstrapped to cash flow: what did you learn that venture-backed founders usually learn too late?

Share your wisdom.

#Startups #Bootstrapping #SaaS #IndieHackers #BuildInPublic #Founders #Entrepreneurship #StartupLessons #CashFlow #BuildToLast

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@neerajjj6785 get out of a poisoned context loop #contextstockholm

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@aryanlabde X, instagram, reddit!

P0: organic content that establishes trust with your audience.
P1: borrowed trust through collaboration
P2: Positioning and messaging to strike the pain point alignment with cold audience

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@jestonlu @NotionHQ would love to join