Nilkanth Patel

coffee, design, software, rinse & repeat. eng @trypallet. past: @askherald (YC W19) @quantcast @nytgraphics, @newyorker, @columbia. forever: @BAPS love.

[Nilkanth Patel @nilkanth]

seeing a 🔥 design like this is so gratifying. no sparse layouts loaded up with rounded pills and all-caps, mono font labels. just some killer charts, a pixelated but striking video at the top, and great use of glitch effects and scanlines

https://t.co/jMUwpfBU9j

[Nilkanth Patel @nilkanth]

As someone who has seen and worked with basically every iteration of browser-native rendering libraries, this feels like a step improvement over current SOTA

[David Haz @davidhdev]

Introducing Canvas UI, the first ever html-in-canvas component library.

Your DOM is the render target now. Real-time shaders over real, interactive UI.

24 components. React, Vue, Svelte, vanilla TS.

Free. Open source. 🧵
https://t.co/Y5ZZDNxPUX

[Nilkanth Patel @nilkanth]

@vidhur2k 💪💪💪

[Nilkanth Patel @nilkanth]

You might be wondering why Silicon Valley needs another AI lab.

When I started working with our first customer, I learned pretty quickly that there wasn't a playbook for building AI for supply chains. The challenge is building systems that work across a network of organizations, while meeting a much higher bar for cost, scale, and accuracy than most AI applications.

We had to make ambitious bets and see where they led. Some of our best ideas, including Custom Models, came from experiments we never expected to pan out.

I'm excited to formalize our work through Pallet Labs and share more of what we're learning along the way.

[Pallet @TryPallet]

Today, we're introducing Pallet Labs, the home for applied AI research at @trypallet.

Supply chain is a network of business contracts, technical know-how, economics, and physical operations. Working with some of the world's largest enterprises gives us a unique opportunity to study problems and proprietary datasets that don't exist in the public domain.

We've always believed that the biggest breakthroughs come from making ambitious bets years before they're obvious. One of our earliest bets was training our own models. Today, those models are live with multiple customers.

We've brought together AI researchers and economists from Ramp, Scale AI, Stanford University, Columbia University, and Duke University to tackle frontier problems and ultimately build systems that expand the world's productive capacity.

We're hiring. DM us if you'd like to join our team.

[Nilkanth Patel @nilkanth]

@vral @tryramp Does this programmatically pick the right model to route to? Or does user specify a la Openrouter?

[Nilkanth Patel @nilkanth]

One question I get all the time: why bother with post training? You'll never beat the frontier. But the OSS developments over the month materially change that conversation. For the first time, when you own the data, you can beat the frontier. And do so for a fraction of the price.

Our engineering team has spent months redesigning @TryPallet agent harness to support RL environments and SFT pipelines out of the box, for any customer, at scale. These training pipelines come with built in understanding of nearly every imaginable supply chain use case, from shippers and distributors to brokerages, carriers, freight forwarders and more. We couldn't have done it without the support of our partners at @baseten.

We're excited to offer this unique capability to our customers starting today. Now, any supply chain organization can get started using @TryPallet agents for their workflows and have a custom model with complete sovereignty over their data and infrastructure stack in a couple months.

[Sushanth Raman @SushanthRaman]

https://t.co/EjyMoIEABH

[Vidhur Kumar @vidhur2k]

Massive unlock for @TryPallet with customers across the world who care about making su e their data remains their own!

We're scaling our teams across research, engineering, and deployments. If you're interested in building with the best team in the supply chain space, join us!

[Pallet @TryPallet]

Today, we're introducing @trypallet Custom Models, giving every supply chain company enterprise sovereignty over its AI.

Frontier models are powerful, but production workflows require repeated model calls, driving up costs as context and volume grow while exposing your proprietary knowledge. You pay for every token processed, not outcomes achieved.

Custom Models are trained exclusively on your operation, deployed on infrastructure you control, and never shared externally. The result is AI that's more accurate, private, and cost-efficient.

[Nilkanth Patel @nilkanth]

Here at @TryPallet, our models are trained by models. Congrats Ishan! May your RL environments be as noteworthy as your wedding ones.

[Nilkanth Patel @nilkanth]

@alexframegreen have you considered allowing companies to use Littlebird to gather context about operations and workflows of their customers more quickly? To build better agents?

[Nilkanth Patel @nilkanth]

Aside from being one of my best friends and an all around tremendous human, Dino’s ability to write and report on important stories with wit and imagination is among the best I’ve ever seen. Find a way to hire him to write for you!

[Dino Grandoni @dino_grandoni]

I was told today my Washington Post job is being eliminated

It's just a job, but it's one that I was proud to do for 8+ yrs alongside the best in the business

I'm here for opportunities to tell stories about the natural world and how we impact it

[email protected]

[Nilkanth Patel @nilkanth]

@sama @dylanscandinaro Whoa I know this guy

[Nilkanth Patel @nilkanth]

@twilio Can someone on your auth team help me login? This experience is terrible. I have tried 5 browsers. Your chatbot is telling me it can't help me unless I login...but that's the issue I need help with.

[Nilkanth Patel @nilkanth]

@claudeai is there a way with Claude Code to authenticate MCP servers locally but support using them in the cloud when I launch sessions from my phone? Perhaps I’m dense and just can’t figure out how to do it?

[Nilkanth Patel @nilkanth]

🚀🌓

[Sushanth Raman @SushanthRaman]

Since our Series B in May, we’ve been busy:

- CoPallet is smarter than ever with Deep Reasoning 🧠 It’s the only AI that learns rules, checks its own work, and improves over time.
- We’re going mainstream: Our first commercial is hitting TVs across the country.
- Featured on great shows including @FWwhatthetruck WHAT THE TRUCK?!?, @freightcaviar, @FreightWaves, and @tbpn
- Signed 3 new customers in a single day, the first of many hat tricks 🎩

[Namanyay @NamanyayG]

just interviewed a former Scale AI engineer about the AI coding workflow he uses at his current company @TryPallet

he told me about this simple cursor technique that completely transformed their code quality

A LOT of teams are doing cursor wrong. here's what actually works →

[Nilkanth Patel @nilkanth]

Huge milestone, but we're just getting started 🚀. One step closer to being the world's leading logistics AI company.

[Sushanth Raman @SushanthRaman]

We raised our $27M Series B led by @generalcatalyst.
Grateful to our customers and team members who made a bet on us before it was obvious.

[Trendulkar @Trendulkar]

bhai, main goregaon mein rehta hoon

[BAPS Public Affairs @BAPS_PubAffairs]

Less than 10 days after the desecration of the @BAPS Mandir in New York, our Mandir in the Sacramento, CA area was desecrated last night with anti-Hindu hate: “Hindus go back!” We stand united against hate with prayers for peace.

[sophie @netcapgirl]

“tell toranaga-sama that cursor is incredible. a game changer. in its current form it’s basically the equivalent of having a technical cofounder or a team of senior engineers. tell him i’m excited to see what i can build with cursor + claude”

“the anjin doesn’t know how to code”