Tim Khoury

Partner @FactionVC. Advisor @LightspeedVP. Previously @DCGco. Fascinated by all things Crypto ∪ AI. Views are my own and posts never investment advice.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Each time we release a model, we run the same test: give it code that trains a small AI model, ask the new model to speed it up. It takes a skilled human 4-8 hours to reach 4x faster.

In May 2024, Claude Opus 4 averaged a ~3x speedup. This April, Mythos Preview achieved ~52x.

[Tim Khoury @tkhoury]

@tszzl Respectfully, I’m not sure I fully agree

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

The next evolution of Hermes Agent is here!

Introducing Hermes Desktop: everything you love about Hermes, now native on your machine.

First demoed in Jensen's GTC keynote, it's now in public preview.

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

We have been working closely with @nvidia to ensure Hermes Agent works smoothly on their new @NVIDIARTXSpark superchip and integrates with the new OpenShell runtime, which connects Hermes to @Microsoft's security primitives.

Watch our feature in the big announcement at Computex:

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

It's a big week for Hermes Agent.

[Tim Khoury @tkhoury]

@paraficapital Congrats!

[Tim Khoury @tkhoury]

@thiagorudiger @TheHUB Congrats!

[DTCC @The_DTCC]

DTCC and the Stellar Development Foundation announced today plans to enable the tokenization of DTC‑custodied assets on the @StellarOrg network. This collaboration advances DTCC’s multi chain strategy and expands how traditional assets move across digital ecosystems.

DTC‑tokenized assets are expected to be made available on the Stellar network in the first half of 2027, supporting the evolution of a more open, interoperable, and efficient financial ecosystem.

Get the full story: https://t.co/YCWHZDiLl5

[will depue @willdepue]

proposing the flag of artificial superintelligence

[Tim Khoury @tkhoury]

@thiagorudiger @blinktrade @TheHUB Congratulations Thiago!

[Timothy Gowers @wtgowers @wtgowers]

AI has now solved a major open problem -- one of the best known Erdos problems called the unit distance problem, one of Erdos's favourite questions and one that many mathematicians had tried.
https://t.co/SD1vVPkrHR

[Pluralis Research @Pluralis]

Today we're releasing Agora: the first ever pretraining stack that allows non-collocated consumer GPUs to be competitive with centralized clusters

Agora is 15x faster than Megatron-LM in this setting and is only 1.5x less efficient in terms of tokens per unit compute than TorchTitan on H100s, despite running on devices that have no NVLink or InfiniBand support.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Kin Health raises $9M to build an AI notetaker for patients https://t.co/5CTxQuwtFO

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Hermes Agent v0.14.0 - “The Foundation Release”

Changelog below

[Kamino @kamino]

Over half a billion has been deployed into the Ethena Market on Kamino.

Solana DeFi szn.

[Turnkey 🔑 @turnkeyhq]

Thrilled to announce a $12.5M strategic investment to meet accelerating demand for crypto wallets and verifiable computing.

With participation from @circle_ventures, @archetypevc, and existing investors @BainCapCrypto, @FactionVC, @galaxyhq, @sequoia, and @variantfund.

[Mike Cagney 🇺🇸 @mcagney]

@mikebelshe Blockchain securities don’t need DTCC…

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Senate officially confirms pro-crypto Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve Governor.

[Tim Khoury @tkhoury]

RT @MBTannenbaum: Q1 results are in @Figure / $FIGR . We’re a Rule of 140 company, which I am proud of bc it captures our ability to scale…

[Alexander Long @AlexanderLong]

My estimates are that Pluralis or Pluralis-like protocols can bring online about 4 GW of compute that is completely unusable for ML workloads today as it is not co-located.