Shiv Shankar

Founder & CEO @boundlessHQ. Transforming the economics of intelligence. Prev: @AvaLabs @Coinbase @amazon. Views are my own.

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

Hiring aggressively for 4 roles in SF across BD, Eng, Prod

If you're interested in applying, meet me on Oct 20th at @BoundlessHQ's upcoming coworking lounge

Would love to build a connection with potential candidates over the next few days

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

@Yuchenj_UW aligned! https://t.co/nJisnBOHyK

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

I can’t wait for the Duo.
Since going agentic.. I can pretty much do everything on my phone. Now I need more screen space, a stylus and external charging. 🫡

Apple, maybe, knew.

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

Probably the cheapest access to abliterated models for security teams! Over the weekend, we optimized onboarding so we can give everyone who needs it access asap. 🙏

Be @BoundlessHQ

[Boundless @BoundlessHQ]

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Abliterated is now available on Boundless.

→ $0.24 input
→ $0.006 cached input
→ $0.96 output

Arm your defenses. Apply below ↓

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

I can’t wait for the Duo.
Since going agentic.. I can pretty much do everything on my phone. Now I need more screen space, a stylus and external charging. 🫡

Apple, maybe, knew.

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

@jacobeverly I think it goes there and becomes even more profitable.

I also think in q1 - there is gonna be some interesting opportunities. I’ll DM you on slack.. it’s not for everyone’s eyes 🤣🤣

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

execution > ideas.
truth.

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

People ask: “Are you dunking on neolabs?”

Most neolabs will fail. That’s normal. But I believe more AI breakthroughs are coming.

I’m skeptical of those following the same playbook as OpenAI and Anthropic. Raising $1B and spending 50% on GPUs doesn’t make you a $10B company.

I’m rooting for the contrarians. Challenge scaling laws. Challenge transformers. Challenge how models learn. Challenge the next-token prediction paradigm.

My bigger concern is that brilliant researchers don’t necessarily make great founders. In my experience, researchers often struggle to turn their research into great products / sustainable businesses.

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

Smart financial engineering is as important as actual engineering. 📈

[mai @omaikasei]

No capex for as long as you can pls

We’ve been advising the same to our customers/partners tho majority prefers to follow headlines and like to be a neocloud because it’s supposedly “make so much money”

It’s just fomo

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

I was on the first on call for SQL Azure.. building the cloud from below the ground up.
This absolutely feels like that moment.. @BoundlessHQ aims to be everything AWS/Azure is and more.

The clouds of the (near) future will be more than IaaS and PaaS. There will be a dozen more Trillion AI infra companies over the next 2-4 years.📈

[sarah guo @saranormous]

It is very important for the entire ai startup ecosystem for key inference vendors to be 1) capable of getting capacity that they can freely allocate, 2) secure, 3) reliable, 4) always driving cost and perf

let’s not forget how much of an enabler cpu-era cloud was for innovation! no capex! outsource much of your infra ops (and more every year)!

every small-mid customer “owning, building and running their own landed power, cooling qnd chips” completely ignores the lessons of economic history. we had colo 20y ago…public cloud won

in an age where closed frontier labs weigh every (limited) GPU served by api vs. internal training and 1st party product use, inference abundance beyond them is a prerequisite for a rich startup ecosystem

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

True. @BoundlessHQ in Seattle

[Han Xiao @hxiao]

SGLang and vLLM are racing 😭. There’s no weekend for inference guys.

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

@matt_teeixeira Good opportunity for them to rebrand to an easier to spell/say name and also double down on an ICP.
It’s not used by folks on frontier for sure.. a lot of ppl have free plans that they are consuming for now (afaik).

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

@binji_x My taste buds are similar to older Korean Uncles.. I love their breakfasts.
Rice with stews.

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

To be honest: this is the alpha.

No one is consuming enough tokens yet.

Having a great work setup (like @AmpCode h/t @karlclement and @jacobeverly for being an internal advocate) and a cheap/reliable/blazing fast token factory like @BoundlessHQ changes what/how you build.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@aaronburnett Agentic demand is growing faster than I’ve ever seen anything grow

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

@yifandotqiao We (and our customers @BoundlessHQ) benefit massively from your work in production.
Definitely appreciate the community calls in particular.. I think you would benefit massively by getting the word out/comarketing with your users/partners.
We would be interested ofc.

[Georgios Konstantopoulos @gakonst]

i've written this before but the era of open models is not gonna be bc of open frontier intelligence being super good vs the actual frontier, but because of open unrefused intelligence

i dont care if it's frontier if it won't do what i'm asking it to do

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

Wholesome.. I love @anirudhofficial’s work but @arrahman’s impact on ani’s work can be heard clear as day.
More importantly they are part of an amazing chain of musicians - matching their generation’s aura without fail.

[Anirudh Ravichander @anirudhofficial]

Frame eh paarunga ji 🫶
Always the best vibes with my goat @arrahman sir ❤️

[Emiliano Bonassi @emilianobonassi]

@cheatyyyy thanks for using @BoundlessHQ

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

@Melt_Dem 99.9999% lawyers have no idea what open weights, open source models mean. I went to a couple of legal tech meetups as part of sf tech week.
My head nearly exploded.. 😣

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

@AndrewCurran_ @BoundlessHQ has been helping legit teams onboard to abliterated models safely and to think through their defenses in detail.

[Boundless @BoundlessHQ]

Introducing Boundless Defensive Access.

The security industry is facing an unprecedented volume of attacks. It’s time to arm defenders.

Access abliterated models for authorized security testing, starting with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017.

Apply: https://t.co/neXZCtPIFN

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

@hosseeb Defend the deep with @BoundlessHQ

https://t.co/K1yeNkkptI

[Boundless @BoundlessHQ]

Introducing Boundless Defensive Access.

The security industry is facing an unprecedented volume of attacks. It’s time to arm defenders.

Access abliterated models for authorized security testing, starting with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017.

Apply: https://t.co/neXZCtPIFN

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

@lennysan Small and competent printer. I still love my TangoX.

[Shiv Shankar @sshankar]

@AaronBuchwald 💯