Omkar Savant

Building @Convergent_Dev. Previously @ DeepMind on Gemini Post-training

[Omkar Savant @OmkarSavant_]

@exceptionalvc Appreciate it! 🤝

[Omkar Savant @OmkarSavant_]

Thank you @ryanjdaniels @EricNewcomer @felicis for recognizing Convergent here! Honored to be among some awesome companies. More to come about us soon..

[Eric Newcomer @EricNewcomer]

Introducing Emergent: The Founder-Generated Startup List (w/ @felicis)

[Chris Barber @chrisbarber]

I made a list of great startups to join. It's called the Breakout List.

The list has 92 companies. These are the 20 with 25 or fewer employees:
- Hone (@moritz_stephan, @CarloWillem, @oqbrady)
- Normal (@ansonyuu, @hudzah)
- Standard Intelligence (@G413N, @devanshpandey)
- Tacit Labs (@ninklefitz, @AmDroste)
- American Terawatt (@atroyn, @rslparker, @aranibatta)
- Conduit (@clemvonstengel, @riopopper)
- Convergent (Omkar Savant, Vivek Katara, @debnilsur)
- Core Automation (@MillionInt, @_arohan_)
- Engram (@dan_biderman, @EyubogluSabri, @realJessyLin)
- Instinct (@noahrshinn)
- Keenable (@styskin, Matthias Petri)
- Lumaril (Mark Elliot, Ben Duffield)
- Neion Bio (@Dimkell, Sam Levin)
- Pangram Labs (@max_spero_, @bradley_emi)
- Quadrillion (@echinaceous)
- Re (@karnsaroya, @AnandDhillon, @thecliffwhite, @benaneesh)
- Ricursive (@annadgoldie, @Azaliamirh)
- Sail Research (@neilmovva, @blintzbase)
- Trajectory (@rronak_, @michaelelabd, @QuantumArjun)
- Watney Robotics (Sean Cheong, Ryan Gannon)

Picks from Elad Gil, Charlie Songhurst, Keith Rabois, Mike Vernal, Alana Goyal, Sonya Huang, Ramtin Naimi, Marc Bhargava, Cory Levy, Aashay Sanghvi, Konstantine Buhler, John Luttig, Varun Gupta, Ray Tonsing and Avichal Garg.

Disclosure: I'm a small investor in American Terawatt, Convergent, Standard Intelligence and Trajectory (in this post), and in Factory, Physical Intelligence and SF Compute (elsewhere on the list). I didn't vote.

The full list is on Breakout List.

[Ron Conway @RonConway]

After such a consequential week for AI, with the leading labs demonstrating real progress, today's news feels especially timely: @SVAngel is launching Project Blueprint, a comprehensive effort to forge consensus among industry leaders and lawmakers around durable solutions to the hardest AI policy challenges so that all Americans can benefit from AI's opportunities. And we've brought on @JayCarney to run it. https://t.co/0qb7MIGknd

We are encouraged by the reaction of Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis to the launch of Project Blueprint:

Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI: "We have before us a technology of immense and still-unfolding wonder. I believe AI has the power to heal people, to discover cures and to deliver abundance on a scale the world has never known before. But we need a way for the world to build trust in the technology so that we can all get to share these benefits. National safety requirements for the most capable systems are a great first step, ideally building towards a global framework for advanced AI models. I’m glad Ron is bringing the people building AI and policymakers together to help move that work forward.”

Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder, Anthropic: "AI is advancing faster than our institutions can adapt, and the most important decisions about how it is developed and deployed will be made in the next few years. If those decisions are to serve the public, they can't rest with AI companies alone. Industry and policymakers need to work through them together, with an honest, shared understanding of what these systems can do. We're glad to support Project Blueprint's effort to make that possible." 

Demis Hassabis, chairman and co-founder of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist of Alphabet: "We have long said that AI development needs to be both bold and responsible. We support bringing industry and lawmakers together around public policies that promote both innovation and safety."

[Omkar Savant @OmkarSavant_]

@loubohan fantastic as always, Bohan

[Omkar Savant @OmkarSavant_]

@FeryalMP Feryal is a legend, highly recommend working with her!

[Omkar Savant @OmkarSavant_]

@adarsh_exe @cognition congrats! Seems great

[Omkar Savant @OmkarSavant_]

@guohao_li @OpenAI Sounds good- will DM you an API key

[Omkar Savant @OmkarSavant_]

@elmd_ Hi- beyond Gemini CLI, which harnesses have you noticed issues on?

[Brendan (can/do) @BrendanFoody]

Gemini 3.1 Pro is now at the top of the APEX-Agents leaderboard. Gemini jumped from 18.4% to 33.5% on Pass@1 in just 90 days.

It also completes 5 tasks that no model has ever been able to do before.

@GeminiApp shows how quickly agents are improving at real knowledge work. It can turn hundreds of documents, spreadsheets, and emails in Google Workspace into a client-ready deliverable.

This rapid progress is evidence that we will be able to saturate any benchmark. The bottleneck is measuring all economic value.

[Omkar Savant @OmkarSavant_]

@Angaisb_ It’s something we’re very much focused on 🫡Are there specific tools you see it struggle with most?

[Omkar Savant @OmkarSavant_]

One consequence of this vibe coding moment: “computer use” may be cemented as the only real universal interface. Each new bespoke tool a team builds takes us further from a world where legacy CRM or ERP APIs are a reliable standard for tool-calling agents to navigate

[Omkar Savant @OmkarSavant_]

@GeorgeKurdin @usemonk @zhou_squared legend @zhou_squared

[Omkar Savant @OmkarSavant_]

@pranavcmadhukar @theo What sort of tool calling issues do you usually run into with it? And have you noticed a difference between Flash and Pro for that?

[Omkar Savant @OmkarSavant_]

@BenjaminDEKR What sort of tasks are you trying here? Can keep a close eye on this for the next version of Flash

[Omkar Savant @OmkarSavant_]

@maylee0714 Awesome! Please DM if you have any feedback related to improving function calling/agentic behavior

[Omkar Savant @OmkarSavant_]

@Teknium was this in the Gemini App?

[Kyle Jeong @kylejeong]

We were early beta testers Gemini 3 Flash and it's insane,

In our Web Agent benchmarks, it's a top performing model in both speed and accuracy.

Google has been killing it.

[Omkar Savant @OmkarSavant_]

@pk_iv Gemini 🤝 Browserbase