Thomas Vits

Techie, likes to build stuff (and make it work), curious about everything except ignorant people #AI #Cloud #Networks #XR

[Thomas Vits @ThomasVits]

@businessbarista AI-native

[Thomas Vits @ThomasVits]

I'll be there. Hope to see some of you in Munich.

Building on open-source models? Let's talk inference, sovereignty, what's actually shipping.

[Infercom @InfercomAI]

Munich AI builders — this one's for you 🇩��

We're co-hosting SambaHouse AI Demo Night with @SambaNovaAI May 7th, 5:30pm

→ Live demos on open-source AI models
→ Lightning talks from builders
→ Sovereign inference at 700+ tok/s

Seats limited. RSVP: https://t.co/DvCBAsPre6

[Thomas Vits @ThomasVits]

This will be the new normal soon.

[Zach Lloyd @zachlloydtweets]

We've stopped buying SaaS and and are moving everything to agents, skills and just-in-time apps.

In some cases, we've canceled subscriptions altogether and saved $10k+/year in the process.

Here's our early success stories 🧵

[Thomas Vits @ThomasVits]

Been working with the @InfercomAI and @SambaNovaAI teams to bring MiniMax M2.5 to our EU infrastructure. I've been using it myself via OpenCode the past few days - the speed and quality is impressive. Happy this is now live for anyone who needs frontier AI inference in the EU.

[Infercom @InfercomAI]

European AI teams have a new option today.

MiniMax M2.5 — 80.2% SWE-Bench, 400+ tok/s — live on @InfercomAI. Full EU sovereignty. GDPR compliant. Open source.

Build production AI without the legal headache.

https://t.co/TM7SruJlVY

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

AI is makes software cheaper to build, but not easier to distribute

This is the core conflict for years to come

[Miguel Carranza @elwatto]

Europe’s problem has never been talent. It’s always been culture.

[Klaas @forgebitz]

vibe coding will be dead in 1-2 years

people are not going to vibe code anymore; they will ask ai a question and get the answer

that answer can require a little app, a search, a shopping list, anything you can think of

these mini apps will be generated in real time

[Infercom @InfercomAI]

Europe doesn't need another AI strategy document. It needs sovereign AI that's as easy as the non-compliant alternatives. Last night we demoed what that looks like with @SambaNova and partners. Full recap: https://t.co/QbXTwnGSmj

[Sumit Kumar @TweetsOfSumit]

In Germany, if you want to change the address of your business, you need to physically go to someone who reads that to you and charges you for that:

🇩🇪 Notaries 🇩🇪

It's ancient.
It's unnecessary.
It needs to go.

They don't want that.

So, for the love of entrepreneurship, go here and give feedback that you want notaries optional.
It takes 4 mins.

https://t.co/tXStym2b9c

Thank you!

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

Two weeks ago, I said EU-Inc might need your help.

That moment is now. 🥁

We need you to submit feedback to the European Commission on what startups need.

To get you up to speed what happened since last time:
The EU Parliament published their own suggestion how a pan-european legal entity standard should look like.

How you ask? By introducing 27 different entities, instead of one. By improving as little as possible, keeping as much legacy and differences as possible, and hot-patching on top of them in different ways.

Why did they publish that? No idea. It's unusual at this moment. Likely Brussels-internal power-plays.

But the timing is perfect, because the European Commission (the guys actually in charge of this) asked for feedback publicly now.

How should a pan-European legal-entity look like?

Our answer is simple:
1) ONE EUROPEAN STANDARD
So that investors know how it works and you can easily raise globally, so that ecosystems can form around a centralized registry, so that stock-options can be done europe-wide, etc etc

2) FOR EVERYONE
Because nobody knows, how startups look like in future and we don't want to have governments niche down access to the entity in oblivion. A downside-compromise of this is btw that we do push not standardization of employment and taxes.

I explain the details in the blog post

Here your task:

1) Go here to the feedback website
2) Login (they support Google Auth btw which is funny imho)
3) Write a few lines what you expect a true standard for startups should support
4) Share this with friends, coworkers, etc and ask them to also fill it out.

The form needs like 1-2 minutes. If we hit a few hundred feedback submissions we already have the most feedbacked consultation in this field ever. If we hit 1000 we break the bank and they can't avoid talking to the startup ecosystem about this. 🏴‍☠️

Feel free to name drop us. Us asking for your support isn't even cheating the system. That's how this process is meant to be done. Politics is weird. 🙈

Feedback Website link – 2 Minutes of your time max. https://t.co/EPkJIL1y8L

Please like & share! 🙏

[Thomas Vits @ThomasVits]

@gregisenberg Vibe coder manifesto

[Thomas Vits @ThomasVits]

@schussler Awesome, need to get it! I hope it comes with a Magenta Metaverse Portal.

[Thomas Vits @ThomasVits]

This is pathetic.

[Nathan Benaich @nathanbenaich]

The EU enters the large model training arena with...

...$56M

"This morning Brussels announced plans to develop an open source AI model of its own, with $56 million in funding to do it.

The investment will fund top researchers from a handful of companies and universities across EU countries as they develop a large language model that can work with the trading bloc’s 30 languages. The project will also tap into supercomputers from companies like Spain’s Mare Nostrum and Italy’s Leonardo, both of which have received funding from the EU."

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

Europe – we need your help.

Please sign this petition to create a pan-european legal entity and promote it as much as you can: https://t.co/4tUsJd3ay2

We got RIGHT NOW a once in a generation chance to improve Europe for startups. 🔥

We got 6 weeks until the new comission sets their work agenda for the years to come. Uniting the European startup ecosystems needs to be part of this agenda!

The solution is known, it's just one out of hundreds for politicians. It's our job as industry to show how important it is.

First co-signatories are people like @patrickc, @nzennstrom, @martinmignot, @MattClifford, @Taavet, Eléonore Crespo, @jobvo, @roxannevarza and many many more coming in the next weeks. Hopefully including you! ✌️

How you can help:
- Sign this
- Get your friends, your team, your investors, your portfolio to sign
- Share this in your whatsapp, slack and discord groups
- Get this in front of press, newsletters, and influencers

https://t.co/UlL8qA0DZ7

For Europe, for the next generations to come: Let's make Europe the best place for innovators.

Uniting as one ecosystem is the first step - a pan-european ecosystem is the key here. Let's go!

[Thomas Vits @ThomasVits]

@iBrews Cryptic Cabinet

[Alessandro Palombo @thealepalombo]

What a week for Eu/Acc:

New website: https://t.co/COq0PTql6w 🇪🇺📷🔥

Join 350+ people on discord:

https://t.co/4rnuI1cnWY

@andreasklinger

[Thomas Vits @ThomasVits]

@ballmatthew Besides the EU's obsession with the web4 (if you don't know they setup an initiative to 'lead web4' already last year https://t.co/J0N3QwAzIC) i'm looking at the LSE report website https://t.co/F3essns8gd which is "commissioned by Meta" 🤔🤔

[@levelsio @levelsio]

It's time to start the European version of e/acc:

🇪🇺 eu/acc
"Innovate, don't regulate"

As a counter to the now rampant degrowth anti-tech anti-capitalist mind virus that's taken over most Europeans in 2024

[Thomas Vits @ThomasVits]

@ai_for_success All this "AI wearables" are trying to solve the problem that the smartphone sensors (mic, cam, ...) can't get data while you have it in your pocket. The hard part for all this devices is to add enough value *while* we are all still using phones.

[Thomas Vits @ThomasVits]

@tina__nigro @TechHighest @heySekaye What’s your data source for „so many confused users“?