Teana Baker-Taylor

CEO @BasedAI_co and @kohai_co. Previously cofounder @AskVenice. Board advisor @CryptoUKAssoc.

[Teana Baker-Taylor @TeanaTaylor]

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[Teana Baker-Taylor @TeanaTaylor]

@fintechfrank 💯 agree. The best

[Kōhai @kohai_co]

Your Kohai colleagues don’t take vacation, so you can

[Kōhai @kohai_co]

The "AI agent" trend has a hidden cost: someone on your team is now an unpaid AI engineer. They didn't sign up for prompt maintenance and integration debugging.

Kōhai handles the entire operational layer, so your team focuses on your business, not your agent stack.

You shouldn't have to maintain your colleagues.
https://t.co/3YBiapyoso

[Dominic Frisby @DominicFrisby]

The number of recorded rapes in the UK has gone from <8000 in 2000 to ~75,000 today. So ~10x. Ten times

Rape offences per capita also up manifold

What you don't learn from these numbers of the brutality of the rapes. EG gang rape today a much more frequent occurrence.

This to me is a major emergency that requires both politicians and the police to step up.

I know these were easy wins but on a scale of importance to people's lives it obliterates £2 bus fares, fake discounts and subscription traps.

[Venice @AskVenice]

Today, Venice passed 4,000,000 users.

Still private. Still anonymous. Still unrestricted.

[Teana Baker-Taylor @TeanaTaylor]

you’re a good MP @joymorrissey and we’ve always supported you. Please do everything possible (and more) to protect us. If you don’t, more of us will leave and our beautiful area will become another one of the fallen.

Joy was a a great Whip @KemiBadenoch. No scandals, high integrity, fiercely smart. If she was in your shadow cabinet, I’d have a lot more confidence that your party is actually up to the task.

[Teana Baker-Taylor @TeanaTaylor]

Amazing team, established PMF, Unicorn status scaling fast. 🚀

👇🏻

[Jesse Proudman @jesseproudman]

Venice is going vertical. We're standing up B300 GPU clusters in our own data centers and we need a Venetian who lives at the intersection of CUDA kernels, quantization math, and production inference at scale.

If you've squeezed @vllm_project or @sgl_project past their limits, profiled with Nsight, shipped tensor-parallel multi-node configs, and want to do it all in service of privacy-first AI infrastructure for millions of users, this is your call.

Come build the Port City of AI with us.

[Teana Baker-Taylor @TeanaTaylor]

@theklineventure This is amazing news, sweet girl. I’m so, so glad to hear this!!! 🩷🩷🩷

[NIK @ns123abc]

BRO LITERALLY PREDICTED THIS

[Teana Baker-Taylor @TeanaTaylor]

4/ This optionality is what we’re focused on at @BasedAI_co .
Our platform, Kōhai, gives small teams AI coworkers who conduct the routine layer of their work, from email, chat, CRM, calendar, to lead signal, on open-weight economics, with their human team in the loop reviewing what goes out. If you run a small team and are looking for ways to maximise your resources without compromising your sovereignty, check out https://t.co/ZhQd4fttG9

BasedAPIs, coming soon, will serve open models reliably for the developers and enterprises who want that option as a production API.

In both cases the value accrued from using open weights stays where they belong, with the people paid to lift them.

[Teana Baker-Taylor @TeanaTaylor]

The most telling thing about the largest open-weight LLM release in history is how few of the people applauding it will ever download it. Very few companies will ever rack it. Most shouldn’t. 🧵

[Teana Baker-Taylor @TeanaTaylor]

3/ Businesses are curious open models, and they're getting questions from their CFO's and board about them too. Businesses want control and are concerned about whether their workflows being built can be repriced, restricted, or retired by someone else. K3's public weights mean that every provider who serves them becomes replaceable. Anyone can host K3 now, and no one who hosts it can hold you.
Sovereign AI isn't about being able to host a model yourself. It’s having an option to leave. 👇🏻

[Teana Baker-Taylor @TeanaTaylor]

Moonshot published Kimi K3's weights yesterday:
2.8 trillion parameters, roughly 1.4 terabytes of them
Serving the model yourself takes something like 18 data center accelerators, and that's before anyone reads and agrees to comply with the license or hires engineers to keep the cluster alive and kicking at 3am.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

Civilization must not permit the state to determine what manner of intelligence is "safe."

It will begin easily and earnestly enough: "may not discuss bioweapons"

Then one guideline at a time, always for good reason, will be added atop.

"may not discuss dangerous weapons"

"may not discuss that which is contrary to public health"

"may not discuss that which is contrary to public safety"

"may not discuss that which undermines financial solvency"

"may not be used to develop unapproved encryption techniques"

"may not be used to obstruct government order"

...

...

No.

We are talking about the power to determine what may be known to men. What hubris one must possess to assume it, and what folly one must dare to grant it.

America is the only place with the cultural and ideological character to avoid such a fate. If it is lost here, nowhere will it be preserved.

[Teana Baker-Taylor @TeanaTaylor]

@Rachel__Busch @tempo @circle Congrats lovely! 🥂

[Jesse Proudman @jesseproudman]

Series A: secured 💰
GPUs: on the way 🔥
Data centers: deploying...

We need a Senior Network Infrastructure Engineer to wire it all together. Cloud, on-prem, Kubernetes, security.

Come build the backbone of private AI.

Join @AskVenice

[Teana Baker-Taylor @TeanaTaylor]

@knowerofmarkets Marine Layer

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

Whichever resource you put government in charge of, you get less of it.

Let's not put it in charge of intelligence

[Teana Baker-Taylor @TeanaTaylor]

Owned competence is the bet we are making at BasedAI.
If this resonates, I would love to hear how your team is thinking about this. My DM’s are always open.

[Teana Baker-Taylor @TeanaTaylor]

Reading model release notes on Sunday (as you do), I underlined the same sentence twice, not because I missed it the first time, but because Moonshot admitted the quiet part out loud.
-Kimi K3 on Wednesday, 2.8 trillion parameters.
-Qwen 3.8 on Sunday, 2.4 trillion.
Both measured against Fable 5, the best closed model today. Mid-launch Moonshot conceded that K3 still trails Fable 5 overall. Signals that the market is maturing? 🧵👇

[Teana Baker-Taylor @TeanaTaylor]

For most businesses this isn't about a leaderboard, but whether the intelligence they depend on is something they rent on others’ terms, or something they own. Renting brilliance, or owning competence.

I believe competence owned compounds. Brilliance rented gets repriced. 🧵👇