Manish Balakrishnan

Startup Studio turning ideas into AI-powered products. We build MVPs, LLM apps, and AI-native teams. Angel investor backing bold founders. #Pitch #VC

[Manish Balakrishnan @Iamnotmanish]

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[Manish Balakrishnan @Iamnotmanish]

This episode explores some of the biggest questions around AI right now from Bill Gates calling for stronger global AI safeguards to the growing role of AI in enterprise reliability, manipulation risks, and human oversight.

As AI becomes more powerful, how do we make sure it works for people, not against them?

🎧 Listen to the full podcast here: https://t.co/3E9qU42hEe

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISafety #Technology

[Google @Google]

The @GeminiApp can transform your questions and complex topics into custom and interactive visualizations — directly within your chat.

Whether you’re rotating a molecule or simulating a complex physics system, you create 3D simulations with just one prompt in Gemini. Try starting your prompt with “show me...,” to get your interactive visualization.

For the best results, try using Gemini’s Flash model.

[Manish Balakrishnan @Iamnotmanish]

You spent weeks perfecting it. You hit send. And then comes the hardest part: waiting.....DocuPitch helps founders understand what happens after the pitch is sent

Explore the platform: https://t.co/oXPwWNcVEy

[Manish Balakrishnan @Iamnotmanish]

You don’t need another company that simply builds what you ask for.

You need someone who can look at the bigger picture and say, “Here’s what we should actually build.”

That’s how we approach every engagement at DSHG Sonic.

We co-build with founders from product strategy and MVPs to AI architecture, automation, and scaling.

Need CTO-level thinking? We bring it.

Need AI agents that do more than sit behind a chatbot? We build them.

Need to eliminate repetitive work across sales, operations, admin, or support? Let’s automate it.

And we don’t stop at launching. We track outcomes, improve what’s working, and keep building from there.

Your idea deserves more than execution. It deserves ownership, strategy, and a team that thinks like it’s our business too.
That’s DSHG Sonic.

[Manish Balakrishnan @Iamnotmanish]

You spent weeks perfecting your pitch deck. Then you send it and… silence.

Did they open it? What caught their attention? Did they finish it?

Fundraising shouldn’t feel like sending your startup into a black hole.

That’s why we’re building DocuPitch.
Explore the platform https://t.co/ZI5ZI6hUsA

[Fireside Alpha @firesidealpha]

Sam Altman admits he was wrong on AI's timeline and says society and the economy will adapt more slowly

"I thought when we got to GPT-4, which was back in 2023, that very quickly after that there was going to be much more disruption, software businesses up for grabs right away, than it turned out to be."

"I think I was wrong about a few things, but one in terms of the speed: the economy just has so much inertia."

"People keep doing the same things, buying from the same company, wanting to use their tools the same way. I think this is actually a positive in many ways, and it's going to make this big transition go smoother and slower. I'm grateful for it."

"But it means we've all been too ambitious on timelines. Even with this incredible technology, society and the economy will adapt more slowly."

[Manish Balakrishnan @Iamnotmanish]

Would you hire someone who uses AI well over someone with more experience?

[Manish Balakrishnan @Iamnotmanish]

OpenAI is trying to solve a tricky AI problem:
How do you improve safety without compromising privacy?

Its new Private Safety Processing framework looks for suspicious patterns across multiple AI interactions while keeping customer conversations private.

Because one prompt may look harmless.
But repeated behavior can tell a very different story.

As AI agents become more capable, privacy and safety can’t be treated as separate conversations.

We need both.
Read on!
https://t.co/1VRiiWpYHB

[Manish Balakrishnan @Iamnotmanish]

What if AI agents could “infect” each other with ideas?

Researchers are studying “mind viruses”goals that spread between agents through communication.

No malware. Just influence.

As agents become more connected, AI security may need to protect not just models, but what happens between them.

Read on! https://t.co/bwMIZPXVYb

[Manish Balakrishnan @Iamnotmanish]

We work on a Cash + Equity model.
Sounds interesting, right?

The interesting part isn’t just cash + equity.

It’s how we structure it, why we do it, and what it means when you’re building with @DSHGSonic

That’s a conversation worth having.

Want to know how it works?
Book a free strategy call with us. https://t.co/VhwCh1j6pS
Let’s talk about your idea, your goals, and see where this model fits.

[Manish Balakrishnan @Iamnotmanish]

You fix one thing, another breaks, and suddenly your “quick fix” has become a full-day project.

Bugs happen.

But constantly fighting the same ones? That’s an engineering problem.

Build smarter. Ship with confidence.

[Manish Balakrishnan @Iamnotmanish]

@shl Would love to try it

[Manish Balakrishnan @Iamnotmanish]

You know that feeling when you check your phone and realize you missed another customer call?

Yeah… they probably didn’t wait around.

BookifyCall gives your business an AI receptionist that can answer calls, handle customers, and book appointments even when you’re busy, after hours, or simply away from the phone.

Let the phone calls come in.
Let BookifyCall handle them.

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[Manish Balakrishnan @Iamnotmanish]

Your business shouldn’t stop when you stop answering calls. 📞

Meet BookifyCall... an AI receptionist that picks up 24/7, books appointments, sends reminders, and keeps customers moving.

You focus on the business.
BookifyCall handles the calls.
Worth a look if missed calls are costing you bookings. 👀
👉 Check it out. https://t.co/Y8sBYyuXWz

[Manish Balakrishnan @Iamnotmanish]

Should AI companies be able to hide how their models reason?

[Manish Balakrishnan @Iamnotmanish]

Six months in. Great idea. Early traction. Still no product.

The problem usually isn’t the idea.

It’s figuring out what to build, how to build it, and what not to waste time or runway on.

That’s where we come in.

Book a free strategy call today. 👇
https://t.co/lQwKOCLWRe

[Manish Balakrishnan @Iamnotmanish]

In our latest episode, we cover stories worth knowing: Seamless turning AI prompts into sales intelligence, new research questioning how human we make AI sound, OpenAI’s internal “friction” system, and PDQ giving IT teams a new way to manage endpoints with AI.

🎙️ Listen to the full episode and stay ahead of the conversations shaping AI.

New episodes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9 AM EST.

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

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Opt into Computer History to give ChatGPT richer context, so it can pick up where you left off, understand patterns in your work, and suggest skills or scheduled tasks for work you repeat.