Salahuddin Choudhary

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[Salahuddin Choudhary @salahuddin]

It’s sad to see such a just cause turn into political theater from some of our most talented youth. My bet is most don’t even understand what they’re protesting.

As someone who has personally volunteered a summer to teach programming to Palestinian youth in Jerusalem & gone viral on X in support of the Palestinian cause I understand the sentiment but this isn’t it.

Walking out on an alumnus who can share so much from his experience & who has no involvement/influence on US foreign policy doesn’t help anyone in Gaza.

[Matt Brown @maattttbrown]

Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly

[Salahuddin Choudhary @salahuddin]

Great story, a veteran mechanic at my local Tesla Service Center told me he experienced something similar.

What makes Tesla/SpaceX unique isn't just the mission but also how they’re broadening the skillset that gets rewarded from the American AI/Tech boom.

It’s a good template for the future of our workforce that our government can learn from.

[shirish @shiri_shh]

bro immigrated from Mexico and took a $28/hr contract welding job in 2015.

didn't even know what SpaceX was.

they gave him $10,000 in stock and let him buy more through payroll deductions.

that stake is now worth $880,000.

and he's one of 4,400 employees who became millionaires on Friday. welders. technicians. cafeteria staff.

[Salahuddin Choudhary @salahuddin]

Wow, dangerous precedent to treat AI Models like a state secret or military weapon.

Restricting access by nationality will have huge impact on our research community & American competitiveness for talent.

Hope this gets resolved quickly & we find a more appropriate measure for future safety incidents.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Salahuddin Choudhary @salahuddin]

Narrator: "Cursor was in fact not worthless & was acquired for $60B by SpaceXAI"

My bet is SpaceXAI will also buy @__tinygrad__ to strengthen their infra team for ultra fast inference on the Tesla AI5 chip.

Would be a killer team.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

"You can break AI down into 5 tiers." - George Hotz

"Data centers - tier 1, fabs - tier 2, Nvidia/AMD - tier 3, OpenAI/Anthropic - tier 4, and completely worthless things like Cursor and Windsurf, which are tier 5."

"OpenAI and Anthropic will eat all the value from the Cursors and Windsurfs of the world. I argue that the tier 4s (OpenAI/Anthropic) aren't even going to have value."

From his June 2025 appearance, @realGeorgeHotz
really raised eyebrows with this clip when it hit the timeline.

[Salahuddin Choudhary @salahuddin]

Feel like the line from Jurassic Park applies here.

Whenever there is a business or tech problem/opportunity - "Elon finds a way"

[signüll @signulll]

you're telling me anthropic & google are paying spacex ~$26b a year for compute?!!

this is more than half the run rate of openai & anthropic just from compute deals & that doesn't even factor in the rocket launches at all.

elon accidentally ended up owning a significant portion of three of the scarcest assets in ai.. power, chips, & physical deployment capability. the best lesson here is that if you’re selling picks & shovels during a gold rush, you don’t necessarily need to find the gold. you just need everyone else to keep digging. & also non software elon is pretty much unstoppable, like prime michael jordan type thing.

[Salahuddin Choudhary @salahuddin]

$100k for unlimited tokens for the average developer would be a steal.

Will be interesting to see if model developers start racing to optimize for this setup & what type of performance they can get in the real world.

[NVIDIA Newsroom @nvidianewsroom]

Introducing NVIDIA DGX Station for Windows, the world's most powerful deskside AI supercomputer with Windows powered by NVIDIA GB300.

✅ Run frontier AI models with up to 1 trillion parameters locally
✅ Build and run secure AI agents on Windows with NVIDIA OpenShell
✅ Built by @ASUS, @Dell, @GIGABYTE, @HP, @msigaming, and @Supermicro

#NVIDIAGTC https://t.co/82tqvvNzJU

[Salahuddin Choudhary @salahuddin]

Eid Mubarak from Silicon Valley! With help from @NanoBanana :)

[Salahuddin Choudhary @salahuddin]

The @Tesla also drives itself...

14 year since its release and ultimate retirement there is still no manufacturer that can build a car better than the Model S at any cost.

Not even Ferrari.

@SpaceX probably has the same level lead with rockets.

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

$109,990 Tesla Model S Plaid vs $640,000 Ferrari Luce EV

[Salahuddin Choudhary @salahuddin]

Thinking about the 2011 seminal essay from @pmarca essay about "Software eating the world."

AI is just a continuation of the same trend in 2026. It's now rapidly accelerating because the software is writing itself & unconstrained by human labor.

[Salahuddin Choudhary @salahuddin]

Moat: We build a 400ft reusable rocket

@SpaceX is such an incredible company - they’re going to have a monopoly on all space transport for the next decade.

Anyone who wants to get something to space at low cost will go through SpaceX.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship V3 takes flight for the first time → https://t.co/2gZQUxS6mm

[Google @Google]

Today, we introduced Gemini Intelligence, which brings the best of Gemini to our most advanced devices.

Gemini Intelligence integrates premium hardware and innovative software to help you stay a step ahead and work proactively to get things done throughout your day. #TheAndroidShow

[Salahuddin Choudhary @salahuddin]

He's right. Many use cases like hotels, shopping, & flights are not ones where efficiency is the #1 priority. There is often no one right answer.

People want to explore & browse - they don't want AI to just give them a best guess at the answer.

The next-gen UI will look more like a hybrid than a straight chat interface.

Excited to see how this plays out.

[Brian Chesky @bchesky]

@benhylak The ChatGPT interface doesn’t work for this. We’ve already tried it.

[Salahuddin Choudhary @salahuddin]

Great to see Jensen give the commencement at my alma mater @CarnegieMellon.

His optimistic outlook on AI & encouragement for young folks to embrace change is exactly what new grads need to hear. Especially given all the doomer noise.

[Carnegie Mellon University @CarnegieMellon]

Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of @NVIDIA, delivered the keynote at Carnegie Mellon’s 2026 Commencement and received an honorary Doctor of Science and Technology degree. His work has helped shape modern computing and the era of #AI. More from Commencement: https://t.co/12Loke7GUC

[Salahuddin Choudhary @salahuddin]

I wish X would let premium paid users control content type in their feed.

I know short form tiktok style videos drive engagement/time spent, but it takes away from what makes X so much better than traditional social media.

I've been using OpenClaw as an alternative interface for X to avoid it.

@nikitabier Offer this as a feature for your power users.

[Salahuddin Choudhary @salahuddin]

This actually makes Cursor more valuable to SpaceXAI.

Guarantees Cursor will maintain model neutrality under SpaceX (i.e. Anthropic is a partner) while still being able to develop their own models with control on which one to promote.

[xAI @xai]

SpaceXAI will provide @AnthropicAI with access to Colossus 1, one of the world’s largest and fastest-deployed AI supercomputers, to provide additional capacity for Claude → https://t.co/nfDR9S822L

[Salahuddin Choudhary @salahuddin]

Great insight from @michaelfertik on CNBC on the @SpaceX + @cursor_ai deal.

Only in America could two NYC MIT grads team up with their Pakistani & Swedish classmates to found a company that gets bought by an immigrant entrepreneur from South Africa for $60B.

Important lesson there for immigration policy & proud moment for all Pakistanis in tech! 🇺🇸

[Salahuddin Choudhary @salahuddin]

Unexpected side effect of the AI desktop era (Gemini, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor): A massive tailwind for the Mac in Enterprise.

Unix compatible tool use, polished UX with better hardware gives Apple a huge advantage.

If I was Apple I'd start working closely with model makers now to unlock local inference with the next-gen of Apple Silicon🍎🤖.