Irina Tagintseva

AI engineer, bizdev, angel investor. platform lead @GapInc. past: BD @zazzle, @Apture. @BerkeleyHaas alum. tweets are my own.

[Irina Tagintseva @irinatag]

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[Roan @RohOnChain]

This 2 hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT & Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.

Bookmark this & give 2 hours today, no matter what. It'll be the most productive thing you do this week.

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

Guys, any factories theoretically moved back to the US are going to be filled by robots anyway.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

This demo from @OpenAI is great also - you can see around the 19 minute mark, it gets hung up on the payment screen.

https://t.co/8wBIxIc412

Every AI agent should have a wallet (running on USDC and Base), and every e-commerce checkout should be AI Agent enabled.

[Philipp Schmid @_philschmid]

Don’t Miss @Alibaba_Qwen 2.5 VL! Despite all the Deepseek Hype, Qwen just dropped the best open Multimodal! Qwen 2.5 VL is a Vision Language Model that can control your computer, similar to the @OpenAI operator, extract structured information from charts, and more!!

TL;DR;
3️⃣ Available in 3 sizes: 3B, 7B, and 72B parameters
🧬 Uses Qwen 2.5 as text backbone
🎯 Agent capabilities for direct computer and phone use
🧠 Improved visual understanding of texts, charts, icons, graphics, and layouts
🎥 Extended video support of 1+ hour
📊 Structured output for financial/commercial documents
💡 Sota on multiple benchmarks, DocVQA, TextVQA, ScreenSpot, Android Control
📦 Apache 2.0 licensed (except 72B) and available on @huggingface

Models: https://t.co/s49k5zlIo7
Blog: https://t.co/hHY42oZJV3

[Bilal Mahmood 馬百樂 @bilalmahmood]

Initial results are in: we’re in the lead at 41%!

As results develop over the coming days, I am immensely grateful to our supporters and volunteers who helped propel our campaign this far.

Regardless of outcome, I am profoundly proud of the campaign we’ve run and the movement we’ve built.

Thank you.

[Irina Tagintseva @irinatag]

Why can't we just bring'em back to the White House... 🥲

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Happy anniversary, @MichelleObama! 32 years together, and I couldn’t have asked for a better partner and friend to go through life with.

[Irina Tagintseva @irinatag]

It’s been a long term journey for me (10+ years) to discover ways to unlearn the pattern of repressing my emotions. But the importance of learning the skill cannot be overstated ⬇️

[Brian Maierhofer @brianmaierhofer]

Repressed emotions are the root cause of modern diseases.

Scientifically, it has been shown that bottled-up emotions directly lead to disease by:

• Altering hormone levels
• Weakening the immune system
• Disrupting normal cell regulation
• Creating an internal environment conducive to cancer growth

Study ↓

[Irina Tagintseva @irinatag]

“A weakness when understood can become a strength, but the overextension of a strength can become a weakness.”

[Irina Tagintseva @irinatag]

“Enthusiastic vibes” valuations 🍾

[Deedy @deedydas]

I know I'm not supposed to say this, but these AI cos:

Character — $5B
SSI (Ilya) — $5B
Poolside — $3B
Devin (Cognition) — $2B
Magic — $1.5B
Codeium — $1.25B
Adept — $1B
Sierra — $1B
World Labs (Fei Fei) — $1B
Augment — $1B

Combined valuation $21.75B
Combined revenue <$100M

[Irina Tagintseva @irinatag]

It actually matters because he’s the future of the GOP.. and I agree which is scary

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

not that this debate matters much but vance is doing very well

[Irina Tagintseva @irinatag]

Will any images on the internet be real in 1-3 years time?

I really don’t think so. Build your offline networks and authentic connections while you can, folks

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

Meta AI, the consumer chatbot, is also now multimodal, meaning it can 'see' images

But Meta AI is also now allowing users to edit photos using AI, for, e.g. removing an object, adding a hat, changing backgrounds, etc.

Hilarious use case:
https://t.co/O9mQe7Kb55

[Irina Tagintseva @irinatag]

My parents (who live in Central Asia) have been getting these calls ~6 months ago.. scammers are very fast to adopt new tech, but apparently even more so outside the US

[Jay Shooster @JayShooster]

Today, my dad got a phone call no parent ever wants to get. He heard me tell him I was in a serious car accident, injured, and under arrest for a DUI and I needed $30,000 to be bailed out of jail.

But it wasn't me. There was no accident. It was an AI scam.

[Irina Tagintseva @irinatag]

Randomly stumbled on “Championing computer art” panel in Tribeca.. even though I feel jaded by tech having lived in the Bay Area so long, you can’t deny it’s outsized impact on the world

[Irina Tagintseva @irinatag]

The state of AI privacy in 2024 🤯

[Alex Bilzerian @alexbilz]

A VC firm I had a Zoom meeting with used Otter AI to record the call, and after the meeting, it automatically emailed me the transcript, including hours of their private conversations afterward, where they discussed intimate, confidential details about their business.

[Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok]

Future generations will be astonished that during the Trump-Harris debate, as they argued over rumors of cat-eating immigrants, a god was being born—and neither of them mentioned it.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

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[Ruben Hassid @rubenhassid]

Anthropic just released new interactive prompt engineering courses.

9-course links & academic papers.

Here's the link + a summary of each:

#1 → basic prompt structure

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

Cursor + Claude 3.5 Sonnet has made it 10x more fun to be a CEO who codes

[jack @jack]

this is the way https://t.co/oGQHbwvV71

[jack @jack]

this is the way