Michael Kirchner

Applied mathematician. Harnessing intelligence: ancient, rare, smol and super. Finding haystacks that matter, and comparing needles.

[Michael Kirchner @kirchnerus]

Delta Force of domain teams 😳 Haven’t seen enough credit for these mythic domain pulls. Need to see more of these flexes

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

https://t.co/1iJ6XnWSUo

[Michael Kirchner @kirchnerus]

@mxstbr @OpenAIDevs I was so pleasantly surprised when I went to do this and the option was just *there* 😂 very satisfying

[Thinking Machines @thinkymachines]

Today, we are introducing Inkling.

Inkling reasons efficiently across text, image, and audio modalities. We are making the full weights available.

https://t.co/Ghebq5mG30

Available today for fine-tuning on Tinker. Play with it in the Inkling Playground. 🧵

[Michael Kirchner @kirchnerus]

Linkage is cool. Representing interconnected relationships is cool. Organizing knowledge is cool.

Transmitting knowledge is time travel.

[Lionel Mora @lionel_mora]

Following the amazing reaction to the Marble Curriculum yesterday, we've decided to make it open source 🛰️👇

Everything a child learns in primary school. 1,590 concepts. 3,221 connections across 8 subjects, from Math and Science to Computing and Life Skills. Anchored in the US and UK curriculums, standard by standard (NGSS, Common Core, DfE).

What you will find in the repo: every concept as structured JSON with its age band and the evidence a child must show to master it. Every prerequisite link marked hard or soft, with a written rationale. It's a true DAG you can compute learning paths on. Open license, you can build whatever you want with it.

Now is a unique time in history to be building in education. Getting AI and kids education right is likely one of the hardest and most important problems to crack over the next decade and we need as many smart and creative minds behind it.

We think a common solid basis, accessible to all and that can be built upon, is critical to move fast. That's why we're making this curriculum open source.

It's not perfect but we know it's a robust basis, and we believe that sharing it openly is the fastest way to progress in this field. If you're building in education, share this around you and tell us in comments if you find this useful and if you want to contribute.

We'll keep working and investing on it @withmarbleapp. Credit goes to @guillaume_boni for building this. I just made it look pretty.

Links below 👇

[Michael Kirchner @kirchnerus]

making tech accessible to everyone is a huge task, but small steps can be life-changing for someone else

this week, show your grandpa how to ask about a repair, your neighbor how to understand a bill, or your least-online friend how to talk instead of tapping through menus

[Michael Kirchner @kirchnerus]

this is what humanity-scale benefit looks like

grandmas loving effortless natural voice access

anyone “not good with computers”, people with disabilities, and billions long excluded by tech now have the barriers dissolving

honing the beneficial side of this double-edged sword

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Introducing GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction.

Rolling out in ChatGPT starting today.

You’ll want to turn the sound on for this one.

[Michael Kirchner @kirchnerus]

underrated part: this removes the small humiliation of needing someone else to translate the machine for you

[Michael Kirchner @kirchnerus]

interfaces used to ask us to use nested boxes of buttons

now, the interface can just be language itself

boxes and buttons change with updates and upgrades at a rate not feasible for keeping up with

language changes at rates civilization emits as a byproduct, and can handle

[Michael Kirchner @kirchnerus]

computers used to ask humans to become more machine-like

voice AI asks machines to become more human-compatible

[Michael Kirchner @kirchnerus]

@sama Let’s crack the Voynich Manuscript together @sama

[Michael Kirchner @kirchnerus]

@tbpn https://t.co/sGGiNns2Ip

[Michael Kirchner @kirchnerus]

@tbpn Underrated huge world’s fair: the 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska from Jun to Nov. 180 acres, 4,000 exhibits, grand classical-style buildings surrounding a massive lagoon and 2.6+ million visitors incl. President William McKinley

[Michael Kirchner @kirchnerus]

@tbpn The most recent was last year called Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan was wild! My best friend went, but i was too busy w startup grind 😂

[Michael Kirchner @kirchnerus]

Curiosity is becoming the rarest edge in AI. Raw compute, clever prompts, access to frontier models, and benchmark scores don't matter as much as the genuine drive to explore something unknown long enough to actually understand it

[Michael Kirchner @kirchnerus]

AI is like alchemy- everyone wants to turn lead into gold, but it isn’t what you think

The real path is grind through evals, find the one context where your approach actually holds up, then slowly layer capability on top of that foundation

Applied creativity is the harness