Thomas Luo

Building a AI developer community to diversify pathways to AGI

[GenAI Assembling @genaiassembling]

https://t.co/QeevQXn1jw

[Thomas Luo @thomasluo1981]

Let's be real—whether you want to admit it or not, the battle for video generation models is happening among Chinese players

[Thomas Luo @thomasluo1981]

@OpenAI has shut down Sora as the company shifts its focus to coding and the enterprise market, meaning @AnthropicAI has ultimately become its white whale.

[Sora @soraofficialapp]

We’re saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing.

We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work. – The Sora Team

[Thomas Luo @thomasluo1981]

@Yuchenj_UW I felt that letting OpenClaw take over my computer was physically unsafe, whereas letting Claude Cowork take over my computer was mentally unsafe. In the end, I chose the latter.

[Thomas Luo @thomasluo1981]

@JustinLin610 The only kind of distillation Anthropic can't sue you for.

[Thomas Luo @thomasluo1981]

The only kind of distillation Anthropic can't sue you for.

[Junyang Lin @JustinLin610]

working on distillation

[Thomas Luo @thomasluo1981]

LMAO.. https://t.co/9KFQuGjEUG has been divided!

[jietang @jietang]

really?

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

Guys, SF is a magical city.

Today, a beautiful Wednesday, I had a 4:30pm meeting with a friend at a café… it was closed.

We walked 10 blocks, every café was closed. Finally found Blue Bottle, it closed at 5:30.

Can some YC company please build what SF people actually want?

[Thomas Luo @thomasluo1981]

@Kimi_Moonshot is raising to break $18B. At this point, Cursor should just wire over part of its $29B valuation — the model underneath is Kimi's anyway.

[Lee Robinson @leerob]

I'm a big believer in open source, especially as AI improves.

It was a miss to not mention the Kimi base in our blog from the start. We'll fix that for the next model 🙏

Their team clarified our usage was licensed in the tweet below.

https://t.co/h8uwGKAQeN

[Thomas Luo @thomasluo1981]

Finally met @jesselyu in person in the Bay. We sat down for a 2-hour video podcast — ended up going deep on what devices should actually look like for AI-native users, and why CLI might be a better UX for agents than any GUI. Full conversation dropping soon.

[Thomas Luo @thomasluo1981]

@0xTykoo @willwangtf Make something that Agents Really Want.

[GenAI Assembling @genaiassembling]

Heading to GDC? Don't miss the most exciting GenAI x 3D meetup in SF! 🌉

Join us to discuss the new production pipeline with: Simon Song (@tripoai), Jani Penttinen (@bitmagic_games), and Kuangye Guo (Glass Bead Games). Moderated by @thomasluo1981
Register here: https://t.co/KmCitux60R

✅ Industry Panel & Live demos
✅ Real studio workflows
✅ Networking, food & drinks
📅 Thurs, March 12 | PM

Space is limited—Reserve now!
#GDC2026 #GameDev #AI #TripoAI

[Thomas Luo @thomasluo1981]

@yymhxie @yangyi @dotey 一开始的时候当真是没资源吧。

[Thomas Luo @thomasluo1981]

Oh anybody would love to ask Jingren whether he dares to say himself as the "soul-figure" of Qwen?

[Ivy Yang @ivylala]

Not Alibaba PR trying to rewrite the story. “Junyang Lin is not of core importance, he’s just been active on overseas social media channels…The soul of Qwen is still Alibaba partner and Alicloud CTO.”

[Thomas Luo @thomasluo1981]

In two fields of AI, competition has shifted from Chinese teams versus American teams to Chinese teams competing against each other for global dominance: open-source LLM (DeepSeek v.s Qwen, sorry Llama) and text-to-video models (Kling, Vidu, Pixverse, and now Magi).

[Thomas Luo @thomasluo1981]

The notion of "Product Market Fit" is irrelevant—it's the "Research & Engineering Fit" that solves problems. This is the bitter lesson from the DeepSeek phenomenon.

[Omar Sanseviero @osanseviero]

The community keeps ignoring the Chinese ML ecosystem work. They are doing amazing stuff with interesting LLMs, VLMs, audio, and diffusion models 👀

Qwen, Yi, DeepSeek, Yuan, WizardLM, ChatGLM, CogVLM, Baichuan, InternLM, OpenBMB, Skywork, ChatTTS, Ernie, HunyuanDiT, etc.

[Omar Sanseviero @osanseviero]

2023: "Don't make ML open source, China will steal it"
2024: Stanford "steals" model from Chinese group with no recognition

[Yiying Lu 🐳 🥟🧋 @YiyingLu]

"The #Science & #Technology unify and transcend borders: "Algorithm" is rooted from the latinization the last name of 9th century Persian & Muslim mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, father of algebra." @thomasluo1981 at @PingWest #SYNC2018 Decode #Innovation Conference

[Thomas Luo @thomasluo1981]

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