Rishi Taparia

Co-founder at @GarudaVC and host of the @brickxbrickpod. Fully leaned in to suburban dad life.

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I’m excited to announce the @brickxbrickpod! @arpanpunyani and I will be sitting down with early employees, founders and investors to talk about the (often untold) crazy stories that help lay the foundation for future startup success 🧱

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We’re excited to introduce the Brick by Brick podcast, where we learn how startups were built directly from the people who built them!

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@howardlindzon 😆

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@kevinakwok

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@Beezer232 @sarahcat21

[Dima Shvets @dmitrshvets]

Mirai Tech is now Mirai Labs (@trymirai)
A full-stack frontier lab for on-device AI.
Models, inference engine, quantization, and application layer, all co-designed from the hardware constraint up.

Interactive AI is a continuous loop: parsing, validating, tool calls, rendering. That only works when latency disappears.

Cloud models can't get you there as they're built for large batches, abundant memory, throughput as the metric. On-device inverts every assumption, requiring the architecture that was built from the hardware constraint up.

The silicon is shipped. The software stack to match the chip doesn't exist yet. That's ours to build.

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@ilyaf @Rivian @Mind_Robotics Boom! Excited to partner with you my friend 💪🏽

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@nikunj What about IC meetings? 😅

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@nabeel @ItzSuds East Bay FTW! 💪🏽

[Arena Physica @arenaphysica]

“@arenaphysica’s bet is that the same idea works as a foundation model rather than a one-off demo: faster inference, trained on roughly 10 million geometries plus decades of simulation data, with lab measurements added as a third data leg to help close the sim-to-reality gap.”

Thanks to the @hardwarefyi team for highlighting @m__frei’s CDFAM talk in this week’s newsletter. Read the full piece here: https://t.co/9RPCEdpV2A.

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@david_perell Amazing! Can't wait to listen

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@JayKapoorNYC Orrrrrr they will work great? 🤔

[Arena Physica @arenaphysica]

Welcome to Episode 1 of The New Feynman Lectures. No one better to kick off this series than Shaun Donovan, Head of Electrical and Mechnical Engineering at @anduriltech.

Ever wonder about Triplex Redundancies in Autonomous Aircraft? Watch the full episode here: https://t.co/SsrGhk9MTA

Next up: @JLopas with @basepowerco!

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Man, the @Lakers 😮‍💨

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@banglani That judgement happens behind closed doors and outside of the public eye 😅

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@Katie_Roof Need to get that RSM grade book to really scout early talent 😅

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@danielcberk @Spotify That and a “Kids Around” mode so it auto plays the non explicit version of the songs I want to listen to in the car!

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@peterthekid @davemorin @gregisenberg Path was the best. And an amazing team @mvanhorn @dtrinh @mattmatt @cynthiafwrtgerg and so many more. An amazingly fun era of tech

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@Trace_Cohen There will be a day that OpenAI and Claude both go down at the same time and the global economy will come to a screeching halt...

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@braveben Californios

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@RonConway @garrytan Wishing you a speedy recovery Ron!