Tobi Knaup

Co-founder of @mesosphere/@D2iQ (acq. @nutanix) · Early @airbnb engineer · Angel investor in cloud & AI startups · Sharing what I learned building at scale.

[Tobi Knaup @superguenter]

@PeterL4e Awesome! Let's goooo!!

[Tobi Knaup @superguenter]

Superhuman intelligence is already here, it's just not evenly distributed.

[Sebastien Bubeck @SebastienBubeck]

https://t.co/eHlpgdNDmw

[Tobi Knaup @superguenter]

I'm still not sold on the idea that these single uber models that are experts at everything will be the winning architecture long-term. They are very expensive to run and it seems that everyone is hitting capacity limits right now with no end in sight.

[Tobi Knaup @superguenter]

Now that frontier models are great at writing tasks (including writing code), next we will see them rapidly improve on a number of highly specialized tasks that require deep domain expertise. We went from 0% to 52%+ on Frontier Math in < 2 years and we'll accelerate from here.

[lusso @luusssso]

These are 100% real concepts that were coming out of Detroit during the Space Age days

We were so close to (now) seemingly unreachable levels of American excellence

[Tobi Knaup @superguenter]

@tetrisgm @opencode I’m just experimenting 😀 But one advantage is you can chose your own harness or customize an open source one

[Tobi Knaup @superguenter]

2026 will be remembered as the year when open weight models reached parity

[Hasan Toor @hasantoxr]

China just open-sourced a trillion-parameter model that burns fewer tokens than your favorite "efficient" US model.

Ling-2.6-1T is now public, inspectable, and benchmarkable.

The closed-model moat just got smaller.

[Tobi Knaup @superguenter]

@tetrisgm I’m actually using the @opencode hosted version but a friend is self-hosting it on AMD with this recipe: https://t.co/KYFlcBMxJ6

[Tobi Knaup @superguenter]

@tetrisgm Kimi K2.6 is right behind GPT/Claude/Gemini in this chart. I'm using it for coding and for most tasks it's as good as them. I'm still using GPT or Opus for the most complex tasks though.

[Tobi Knaup @superguenter]

@tetrisgm Can't tell you without knowing your interpretation

[Tobi Knaup @superguenter]

@tetrisgm They're not there yet, but very close. At the rate at which they're improving, I predict parity will happen this year. Lots of numbers here: https://t.co/LsonUDma5r

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

When future historians write about Silicon Valley, they’ll have an entire chapter dedicated to the Ron Conway way: how he turned generosity, warmth, and showing up for founders into a winning strategy.

[lusso @luusssso]

There was a brief period in the ‘70s & ‘80s where concept car interiors absolutely peaked

[lusso @luusssso]

The Kyoto International Conference Center is proof we should design more buildings that feel like they’re straight out of a sci-fi movie

[Tobi Knaup @superguenter]

@dhruvtwt_ @nvidia it's slow as molasses

[Tobi Knaup @superguenter]

The rollout process that @AnthropicAI is using for Mythos will become the industry standard for frontier models. It's similar to the responsible disclosure process that's been a standard for a long time.

[Tobi Knaup @superguenter]

@RonConway @garrytan You’re one of a kind Ron. Go crush that cancer

[Tobi Knaup @superguenter]

current UX pet peeve: forcing me to enter a code from an email instead of allowing me to use my password. Looking at you @OpenTable

[Tobi Knaup @superguenter]

What could possibly go wrong

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

China is testing EVs that eject their batteries in emergencies in order to promote driver safety.

[Tobi Knaup @superguenter]

I'm glad you did and that your family is ok. Always good to connect on a human level, especially during times of high tension.

[Sam Altman @sama]

I wrote this early this morning and I wasn't sure if I would actually publish it, but here it is:

https://t.co/7Dw9UFpeep