Tejas Tholpadi

co-founder @aeos_labs ; prev cto @graphycommunity (acq. by Unacademy)

[Varun Mayya @waitin4agi_]

First announcement of many this week on UTA: The voice of Ichigo Kurosaki from Bleach, Dante from the Devil May Cry anime and Lelouch from Code Geass is joining the cast of UTA

[Varun Mayya @waitin4agi_]

Aeos can now shoot + edit + add the AI parts for a video like this within 24h. How much would just the set for something like this cost in the past?

[Tejas Tholpadi @tejazt]

We’re looking to add a few folks who love building and shipping in AI. Apply if that sounds like you!

[Aeos Labs @Aeos_Labs]

we’re building some amazing stuff at aeos labs.
if you’re passionate about learning + building with a super cool team - come join us!

open roles:
- product manager
- flutter dev
📍onsite in bangalore

apply now: https://t.co/lg2ZbUscGo

[Tejas Tholpadi @tejazt]

We’re all doing more with video, but the tools around video workflows haven’t caught up.

As video production scaled at Aeos, things got harder to manage - so we built something more streamlined.

Making this available for others soon. Reach out if you’re in the same boat.

[Aeos Labs @Aeos_Labs]

🚨 Product Announcement: VideoVault

The Aeos ecosystem produces 100s of videos each month. One shoot involves 100GB+ of cinema grade footage. As the world moves to 4K, file sizes are increasing. Yet most teams are still using SSDs/Cloud for storage & organisation (we were too!)

[Varun Mayya @waitin4agi_]

Before I talk about Project 11 A (in a couple of days), we first need to talk about Aeos. Aeos is now 300+ full time employees, profitable, and bootstrapped. We’ve had a period of insane rapid growth lately.

Read what we did in 2024: https://t.co/1DvRgfP1OS

[Varun Mayya @waitin4agi_]

I think you’ll like this!

https://t.co/ib94lneip1

[Tejas Tholpadi @tejazt]

Looking to collaborate on an ML project. If you have solid experience working with vision models architectures and GANs, let's get in touch

[Tejas Tholpadi @tejazt]

LLM app with RAG (in just 4 lines of code!) is the new hello world

[Tejas Tholpadi @tejazt]

The best young engineers I’ve worked with or met are curious builders (love getting into the details), grounded in fundamentals and are often experimenting with side projects that interest them.

[Arnav Gupta @championswimmer]

What sort of side projects can I make that will look great on my resume as a SDE1 / SDE ?
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I keep coming across this question a lot, and I thought I will make a post about some of the side projects I made over the years.
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Don't make projects for your Resume
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I mean, yeah having great side projects helps a lot of on your profile. I have been asked to join companies, and offered a few jobs solely on the basis of some of my side projects (without any interviews or anything else), simply because the projects are proof of work in themselves. But you can't calculate back from that outcome and try to make projects considering what projects you can most easily and quickly build on your resume that will help you in interviews - what really happens is everyone ends up making the same Twitter clones and Ecommerce websites, making your resume quite the opposite of "stand out"
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What should motivate making a side project?
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Frankly, 'just make what interests you the most' is good advice, but it is a bit too unqualified and unspecific to take seriously. When you are getting started, making a couple of generic twitter clone / ecom websites are fine too, to get your wheels rolling. Beyond that I'll say that you should focus on personal itches and try to use side projects as a vehicle to learn new things (can be new languages, new tech stacks or frameworks, trying to work with new types of databases, or new ways to host your infra etc).

[Tejas Tholpadi @tejazt]

Banger

[tweet davidson @andyreed]

Y Combinator:

[Varun Mayya @waitin4agi_]

Progress on our AI x Hardware project! We have near real-time conversation with both a 2D and 3D animated bot running. These will eventually be full blown paintings you can hang on your wall. Demo videos are unedited. Thoughts below👇

[Tejas Tholpadi @tejazt]

Big step. This will significantly reduce the costs associated with fine-tuning large 70B+ models (and maybe even pre-training in the future).

[Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward]

Today, with @Tim_Dettmers, @huggingface, & @mobius_labs, we're releasing FSDP/QLoRA, a new project that lets you efficiently train very large (70b) models on a home computer with consumer gaming GPUs. 1/🧵
https://t.co/UAsWOLtn7a

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

The rise of AI technology and deepfakes pose a large risk to the financial services industry.

The tipping point for Indian financial services businesses was when onboarding became completely digital, thanks to Aadhaar, etc. For businesses onboarding a new customer, an important aspect is ensuring that the documents and the person opening the account are real.

The normal process that's followed today is to fetch the ID or address proof data from the source using Digilocker and or Aadhaar. Also, match the face from this ID proof with the person opening the account through a webcam. Today, we have a bunch of checks in place to check for liveliness and if the other person is real or not.

But as the deepfakes improve, I think it will only become harder over time to validate if the person on the other side is real or AI-generated. This problem will be bigger for banks that have more stringent regulatory requirements during onboarding.

It will be interesting to see how the regulations around this evolve. Going back to the physical way of opening accounts will bring the growth of the entire sector to an abrupt stop.

And the video isn’t me; it is a deep fake. 😬

[Siqi Chen @blader]

pretty wild that the first job openai took was sam's

[Tejas Tholpadi @tejazt]

AI enthusiasts on their RTX playing with LoRA weights like

[iuliia shnai @shnai0]

What am I doing last 5 months?

[Suhail @Suhail]

The more I observe the results of my hiring practices, the more I realize it comes down to just a handful of extraordinarily talented people to change the trajectory of something. At least in the course of building great things, it's blessing to restrain yourself and stay small.

[Varun Mayya @waitin4agi_]

Announcing our third experiment: AutocodePro, a new AI based way to build apps (for non-engineers) and a convenient way to scaffold code for engineers.

[Tejas Tholpadi @tejazt]

@garrytan @akshay5995

[Tejas Tholpadi @tejazt]

Good ol’ Heroku days! The ease of creating disposable environments with Review apps was a game changer.

[Ajey Gore @AjeyGore]

Directly exposing database to internet, even if with insane level of security, is a security and data breach time bomb...

but new age devs love it.

[Varun Mayya @waitin4agi_]

Announcing God In a Box, a direct implementation of GPT-3.5 into Whatsapp. Unlike other implementations, ours uses the brand new model and API, and doesn't require credentials. We're launching tonight, but you'll need a beta key. For a free key, just RT this and I'll DM you one.