Xabier Irizar

building humans @ Canopy Labs

[Xabier Irizar @projectxabi]

RT @speridlabs: Today we introduce Speridlabs.

The world is not flat. That is why we are building Spatial AI — foundation models that und…

[Xabier Irizar @projectxabi]

@claudiadalmaug drive a convertible through big sur

[Leonie Freisinger @lcfreisi]

My cofounder @AnnaJuliaStorch and I grew up in manufacturing towns while spending our days chasing speed - on the mountains and the racetrack. With @DryftHQ , we bring our love for both worlds to life.

That’s why we couldn’t be more excited to finally come out of stealth and announce our $5M round led by @GeneralCatalyst, with participation from @Neo, @SherylSandberg ’s Fund, @JeffAWilke, @CHughesJohnson, Dr. Markus Flik, @Qasar and many other incredible Angels. (see below)

[Xabier Irizar @projectxabi]

@gabriel1 Go to Zarautz, in Spain

[Xabier Irizar @projectxabi]

@Karmedge algorithm is cooked

[Thiel Fellowship @thielfellowship]

Welcome 2025 Thiel Fellows!

WHO ARE THEY?

Ferdinand Dabitz, Berlin, Germany - @FerdiDabitz
Ivy is building the world trade bank — a global instant payments platform.

Jackson Denka, Los Angeles, CA - @jacksondenka
Azura is a trading platform that utilizes on-chain rails to enable price discovery for everything from crypto and equities to beliefs and memes.

Juan Ebrath, Bogota, Colombia - @RealJPGE
Phase is a research lab on a mission to unlock whole-body regeneration and make living matter programmable — from healing hearts to regrowing limbs.

Colton El-Habr, Philadelphia, PA
Orbit builds non-invasive neurostimulators that utilize the brain’s existing infrastructure to modulate the body’s autonomic nervous system — an API to the human mind.

Elias Fizesan, Luxembourg - @Eliasfiz
Canopy Labs is building the foundation models to power digital humans that are indistinguishable from real ones.

Fabian Gruber, Erlangen, Germany
Manex AI is developing an AI-powered solution to automate manufacturing processes for dark factories.

Carlo Kobe, Hamburg, Germany - @CarloWKobe
Fizz is developing an AI financial advisor for the pocket of every young adult.

Jennifer Lin, Miami, FL - @Jlindig0
Jennifer’s startup is giving patients with rare diseases accelerated access to new cures with clear indications of efficacy.

Koki Mashita, Tokyo, Japan - @koki_mashita
Aeolus is building the planetary defense system for extreme weather.

Soren Monroe-Anderson, Anchorage, AK - @soren_ma
Neros is a defense technology company building drones critical to a modern arsenal at massive scale.

Steven Pang, Hong Kong - @thewildstevenp
Orbit builds non-invasive neurostimulators that utilize the brain’s existing infrastructure to modulate the body’s autonomic nervous system — an API to the human mind.

Hooman Reza Nezhad, Waterloo, Canada - @hoomanrenezhad
Solcoa Industries is producing the first zero-carbon, American-made rare earth metals at scale.

Aidan Smith, Mountain View, CA - @aidanmantine
Innerphases is developing human-native communication devices that change the way we work and think.

Teddy Warner, Charlotte, NC - @WarnerTeddy
Intempus is equipping robots with emotional intelligence, making them more predictable and easier to understand.

Sigil Wen, Toronto, Canada - @0xSigil
Extraordinary brings the world’s top talent to America’s technology companies.

[Amu @akv_13]

Voice most important modality after text.

Speech-LLMs are the future.

Here is a chronological list of the important Open Source milestones in the Speech-LLM space 📖.

A thread 🧵 ...

[Elias @Eliasfiz]

OrpheusTTS is now at 200k downloads on Hugging Face with 4.7k stars and 400 forks on Github!

The OS community has been crushing it

[Xabier Irizar @projectxabi]

@tom_doerr You missed Orpheus TTS🤔🤔

[Elias @Eliasfiz]

OrpheusTTS is at 4.2k stars and growing quickly!

The OS community can't be stopped

[Elias @Eliasfiz]

Today, we're launching Orpheus
Multilingual, a family of open-source models that makes state-of-the-art TTS accessible to billions of new people! 🌎🌎 (1/5)

[Elias @Eliasfiz]

Orpheus has shown that it's the best open-source TTS model—but this is just the beginning! What improvements or features do you want to see added to the model? 👇

[Xabier Irizar @projectxabi]

RT @Eliasfiz: We're releasing Orpheus' most requested feature soon: 🌎multi-language capabilities🌎! Drop your language requests below and we…

[Elias @Eliasfiz]

Orpheus TTS is the 7th trending model on Hugging Face – above Mistral, Gemma, BFL, and just below Deepseek! We’re really excited by some of the awesome work the OS community has put into making Orpheus better and more useable – excited to drop some updates soon!

[Xabier Irizar @projectxabi]

Super excited to be working on this!

[Elias @Eliasfiz]

Today, we’re launching Orpheus, an open-source TTS model that exceeds the capabilities of both open and closed-source models such as ElevenLabs and OpenAI! (1/6)

[Elias @Eliasfiz]

Today, we’re launching Orpheus, an open-source TTS model that exceeds the capabilities of both open and closed-source models such as ElevenLabs and OpenAI! (1/6)

[Xabier Irizar @projectxabi]

@javilop Era cuestión de tiempo🥲

[Xabier Irizar @projectxabi]

@andrewmercado After 2m of thinking with the same beginning. Seems like @xai has some loop whose timeout i may have reached?

[Xabier Irizar @projectxabi]

We came and we delivered. Our team finished 3rd in the european defense tech hackathon, among +450 participants.
We managed to get a working demo in less than 48h, showcasing it in the final pitch in front of top EU defense companies. Check it out below!

https://t.co/6pDllPSEyt

[Xabier Irizar @projectxabi]

@signulll That’s exactly what we’re building at finscout!