Tashfeen Suleman

Director AI @ Nvidia. Ex Microsoft & YC founder (CloudMedx AI). Builder, explorer & AI Investor. Love travel and extreme adventures.

[Tashfeen Suleman @tashfees]

Hey @amasad, you’ve helped a 9 year old software engineer - building 3D worlds and interactive games.

My son went to an escape room. When he came back he wanted to buy the game. I said let’s build it. And we went cranking. We built this using AI + Replit. It was so much fun.

Thank you for the tools @OpenAI and @Replit . So easy getting kids excited about STEM and AI.

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@AndrewYNg That would be so cool

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@adriannalakatos Loved reading this. Wish I knew this 10 years ago when we came to Bay Area for YC.

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@PimDeWitte @vkhosla @htaneja @EloiAlonso1 @AdamJelley2 @micheli_vincent This is really cool. Congrats. Would love to try it out.

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@hnshah That is so spot on. Many founders need the right help from mentors, advisors, and coaches to grow and evolve into the next version of themselves that helps them in turn grow the company. I don’t think this is discussed enough, but should be discussed more.

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@amasad We're building in public so we thought we'd add an update for fun. Image to 3D exploring worlds. So many possibilities.

https://t.co/ZaPPLeKTjg

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Watched the @netflix @blackmirror episode - Eulogy where Paul Giamatti steps inside a photo to relive a memory — and I thought:

What if I recreated a similar experience using a AI?

So I created a workflow, uploaded a recent pic from Costa Rica and relived a memory

Here’s what I built:

[Tashfeen Suleman @tashfees]

Hey @amasad, you’ve helped a 9 year old software engineer - building 3D worlds and interactive games.

My son went to an escape room. When he came back he wanted to buy the game. I said let’s build it. And we went cranking. We built this using AI + Replit. It was so much fun.

Thank you for the tools @OpenAI and @Replit . So easy getting kids excited about STEM and AI.

[Tashfeen Suleman @tashfees]

I’m building with my kids. Turning sci-fi concepts into reality. This one’s an extension to my son’s 3D game I posted earlier.

I’m sure @Google new Genie 2 and @Blender could do similar things. If you’re experimenting with similar tools, would love to learn from your setups too.

[Tashfeen Suleman @tashfees]

Watched the @netflix @blackmirror episode - Eulogy where Paul Giamatti steps inside a photo to relive a memory — and I thought:

What if I recreated a similar experience using a AI?

So I created a workflow, uploaded a recent pic from Costa Rica and relived a memory

Here’s what I built:

[Tashfeen Suleman @tashfees]

@netflix @blackmirror Used a single image and turned it into an explorable 3D world with roam around.

Tried depth maps, mesh gen, lighting tweaks, upscaling and ended up using a combo workflow for preprocessing and zero-shot 3D Gaussian model (Splatt3r). Results aren’t perfect, but it was fun.

[Tashfeen Suleman @tashfees]

@DavidSHolz Lets meet :).

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Would love to hear from folks building similar things:

• What’s working for you?
• Where do you still get stuck?
• Am I just doing it wrong?

Let’s trade notes!

[Tashfeen Suleman @tashfees]

I’ve been exploring text-to-code IDEs like @Replit, @Cursor, and others. It’s a lot of fun and constant learnings/discoveries — so I wanted to share some learnings and mistakes. Would love your feedback so we can learn together:

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4. Figma to UI is still a hit or miss.
The layout might come through, but fidelity? Not quite there. Still a lot of trial and error.

Curious — has anyone cracked this reliably? Or using another tool for better results?

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@tristanbob A fun experiment I did with my son, I just opened the Replit app and put it in front of him. And he just started talking to it and building. The feedback loop of building and seeing the results kept him going. I tweeted about this on my feed and it blew up.

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@yabatrades @amasad Hopefully, I introduce him to enough experiences, exploring and wander that by the time he gets to college, or even before, he can contribute to the next breakthrough for humanity. It’s amazing how kids connect the dots through intrigue and imagination.

[Tashfeen Suleman @tashfees]

@ualogic @amasad Baby steps. First you show them a glimpse of what’s possible and let their curiosity drive them forward and propel towards self learning

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@meleitech @amasad @Minecraft Love it. You must be so proud :).

[Tashfeen Suleman @tashfees]

You’re absolutely right. He does spend a lot of time on Roblox with all his friends. I actually just wanted to introduce him to a general purpose AI coding tool and not overwhelm him. And let his curiosity take over. Not in my wildest imagination did I think he would create a 3-D game and enjoy the process. Now I know that this has him curious, I can introduce him to more concepts of coding and AI and gradually move him towards actual programming and system design. But baby steps.

As a parent, we want to give our kids as many experiences as possible without helicoptering and let them excel and follow their curiosity. He did try to build a world in Roblox, but he enjoys this more for some reason. Maybe there’s a case study there. I’ll ask him his opinions and publish the findings :).