Karina Bao

sf, @a16z
join bat signals
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[Han Nguyen @hanbnguyen_]

The question top of mind for the top AI-pilled operators right now... how do we scale operational rigor sustainably?

e.g. What does the tooling stack look like? Is it a single context layer that bespoke agents can work off of? Or is it one per vertical?

This group is truly defining what's next. Leading the charge in building the tooling stack, and designing the systems to optimize how their orgs operate with agents.

Stoked for this one! See the full list of fellows in the comments below! 🔥

[Ideogram @ideogram_ai]

Today, we’re introducing Ideogram's first vector model.

Generate clean, editable SVGs with smooth gradients and sharp typography from a text prompt, or turn any image into a detailed, scalable vector.

Live in Ideogram and the API: https://t.co/Cou2mo5p37

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

Most impressive thing I’ve ever seen.

I would like to invest my entire net worth in Cognition now

[donald @donaldjewkes]

I’m hiring a full time creative operator

I made this video in 48 hours, I will teach you how

Must enjoy talking to AI researchers and hollywood cinematographers. In-person 6 days a week in SF. Get equity in top companies. 5k referral bonus. Duties may include:

[donald @donaldjewkes]

my neighbors in SF are building fusion reactors

they've turned mercury into gold, built the world's most powerful plasma centrifuge, and are on track to set the power density record in 2027

I spent a week with them working on a rave, brand, web, pics, vids, and witnessing many successful fusion pulses

[illiquid @lefttailguy]

SV kids continue to rediscover Palantir's founding insight from first principles. Everyone thought they were doing boring ole "data integration" when what they were actually doing is economic version control.

[Karina Bao @karinabao]

@katiekschwartz So stoked for you

[Karina Bao @karinabao]

@katiekschwartz Love this so much

[Christina Wang @_christinawang_]

born to yearn, forced to build data centers

[Karina Bao @karinabao]

jobs jobs jobs jobs jobs

[@jason @Jason]

$8,000 a week building data centers 👀

Let’s keep this boom going America!

[Brent Liang @liangsays]

small gesture from the team as we celebrate 6 months

we are nothing without our friends of the show

brought to you by @netcapgirl + new link in bio

https://t.co/C7m0Y4FKbH

[Lauren Boles @LaurenBoles_]

Happy half-birthday to @MTSlive!

MTS has gone from 0 to 500k+ followers in 6 months.

Extremely proud to see @liangsays build an incredibly talent-dense team in such a short period of time.

Excited to continue working together!

[MTS @MTSlive]

Eka Robotics CEO @pulkitology predicts almost nothing will change for consumers in robotics over the next year:

"For the general audience, nothing is going to change. We’re going to see a lot and lot of video demos, but demos are a whole different thing than robots working in production."

"Maybe if you are in the Bay Area, there are pilots happening where you can get a humanoid to come in your home and try out things."

"I expect a lot of adoption happening in industries, where machine learning-based robotics is actually proving that it can work for actual automation in real-world scenarios."

"My prediction is a boring one, that automation will happen in factories, not in homes."
@EkaRobotics

[Zain Asgar @zainasgar]

https://t.co/aTkDk6Cyot

[Erik Torenberg @eriktorenberg]

Excited to announce the Cosign Awards: celebrating exceptional people, companies, and products that had a massive impact in 2026.

https://t.co/fULXo55gkr

Anyone can nominate and vote. Award winners will be chosen by the public in conjunction with a panel of judges, including industry leaders like @lennysan, @packyM, @amasad, and many more. We’ll host an event in December honoring the winners (10 per category).

For people categories, we’re mostly focused on everyone except the CEO–everyone else building the company behind the scenes.

Companies with the most amount of people nominations will be listed on our “Top Companies to Work For” page.

True to form, at Product Hunt I helped launch the Golden Kitty awards a decade ago to recognize great products. Soon after I launched the Rise Awards, honoring executives and ICs building companies that make them. The Cosign Awards is the next iteration.

We have 41 categories across people, companies, and products.

People categories:
- Future Founders
- Rising Stars
- Engineering
- FDE
- Product
- Design
- AI Researchers
- Marketing
- Comms
- Growth
- Chief of Staff
- Operations
- Talent
- Finance
- Public Intellectuals
- Podcaster of the Year
- Newsletter Author of the Year
- Poster of the Year

Company categories:
- Rising Stars
- Best Place to Work
- Founder Mafia
- Talent Density
- Highest Aura

Product categories:
- Product of the Year
- Launch of the Year
- AI Assistant
- AI Language Model
- AI Coding
- Dev Tools
- Open Source
- Consumer
- Productivity
- Creative & Media Tools
- Product Design & UX
- Enterprise B2B
- Hardware
- Robotics
- Self-Driving
- Healthcare
- Vertical Fintech
- Legal

[a16z @a16z]

We believe solving dexterous manipulation is one of the largest opportunities in robotics. That’s why we're thrilled to lead Eka Robotics’ Series A.

Much of the world's physical economy still depends on people using their hands, and that work has been hard to automate because the real world is variable.

@EkaRobotics has built a Vision-Force-Action model that combines visual perception with force feedback from its robotic hands. The model, sensing, and hardware are designed together, so the robot can use physical contact itself as information.

If Eka’s approach works at scale, the implication is profound: robot experience can increasingly scale with compute rather than human labor.

Pulkit Agrawal is one of the leading researchers in robot learning and a pioneer in computational sensorimotor learning through work at his Improbable AI Lab at MIT CSAIL. Tuomas Haarnoja co-created a foundational algorithms in modern reinforcement learning at Berkeley and later worked at Google DeepMind training complex humanoid behaviors.

Congrats, @pulkitology, @haarnoja, and the Eka Robotics team!

By @stuffyokodraws and @RaghuRaghuram

[Karina Bao @karinabao]

@katiekschwartz omg!!

[Karina Bao @karinabao]

huge

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We’ve acquired Orchestra Bio, a platform that helps biopharma teams coordinate the complex process of drug development.

Together, we’ll build on Rosalind, our AI models and tools for life sciences research, to streamline those operations and help new treatments reach patients sooner.

Welcome @ashokaraj_ and team!

https://t.co/vi51OhznQn

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We’ve acquired Orchestra Bio, a platform that helps biopharma teams coordinate the complex process of drug development.

Together, we’ll build on Rosalind, our AI models and tools for life sciences research, to streamline those operations and help new treatments reach patients sooner.

Welcome @ashokaraj_ and team!

https://t.co/vi51OhznQn

[Karina Bao @karinabao]

@JayRughani congrats!!