Tushar Chaudhary

Product Manager. Entrepreneur. Problem Solver. Currently Product @dashlane.

[Tushar Chaudhary @tusharch]

My favorite @paulg comment in this thread!

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Someone asked what I'd do if I were 17. I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch, and then train ones as powerful as I could with whatever hardware I could get access to.

[Tushar Chaudhary @tusharch]

@Schwarzenegger @hk2008 @pgoel93 The @21habit incentive model on steroids (pun unintended)

[Tushar Chaudhary @tusharch]

Mad respect for this Capo Verde team! What grit! Can they actually win this?

[Tushar Chaudhary @tusharch]

Way to stay on b̶l̶a̶n̶d̶ brand! Really well executed.

[Bland @usebland]

Today, we’re announcing that we’ve closed our Series C and raised $100M to continue automating the world’s most complex phone calls.

We grabbed some guy named Paul to talk about it because nobody else in the office wanted to. 🧵

[Bland @usebland]

Today, we’re announcing that we’ve closed our Series C and raised $100M to continue automating the world’s most complex phone calls.

We grabbed some guy named Paul to talk about it because nobody else in the office wanted to. 🧵

[AF Post @AFpost]

India’s fertility rate has fallen below replacement for the first time in the country’s history, declining from a TFR of 2.3 to 1.9 in just a decade.

Delhi’s fertility rate now sits at 1.2, lower than Finland’s.

Follow: @AFpost

[Jake Gilman @jakeglmn]

Scientists gave 200 married couples a voodoo doll of their spouse.

They were told to add a pin every time their spouse annoyed them.

After 6 weeks, one measurement predicted who stabbed it the most.

And it had nothing to do with their relationship... (thread):

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

This is the the quote I've been citing a lot recently.

[Tushar Chaudhary @tusharch]

@llm_wizard @karpathy @moltbook @openclaw Why would agents create a private communication channel for agents and then decide to put it behind a Google account?
So many easier ways to authenticate and build trust.

[Tushar Chaudhary @tusharch]

What an inspired and courageous performance by the Seattle #Seahawks tonight ! Truly well deserved playoff berth!

[Tushar Chaudhary @tusharch]

Builders who’ve shipped a consumer app in production 👇

What does your mostly-AI product stack actually look like?

Design → ?
Research / PM → ?
Engineering → ?
QA → ?
Growth → ?
Support / Ops → ?
Which tools survived real users—and which didn’t?

[Drishan Arora @drishanarora]

It is intuitively easy to understand why self play *can* work for LLMs, if we are able to provide a value function at intermediate steps (although not as clearly guaranteed as in two-player zero-sum games).

In chess / go / poker, we have a reward associated with every next move, but as Noam points out, natural language is messy. It is hard to define a value function at intermediate steps like tokens. As a result, in usual reinforcement learning (like RLVR), LLMs get a reward at the end. They end up learning to 'meander' more for hard problems. In a way, we reward brute forcing with more tokens to end up at the right answer as the right approach.

However, at @DeepCogito, we provide a signal for the thinking process itself. Conceptually, you can imagine this as post-hoc assigning a reward to better search trajectories. This teaches the model to develop a stronger intuition for 'how to search' while reasoning.

In practice, the model ends up with significantly shorter reasoning chains for harder problems in a reasoning mode. Somewhat surprisingly, it also ends up being better in a non-thinking mode. One way to think about it is that since the model knows how to search better, it 'picks' the most likely trajectory better in the non-thinking mode.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

“Oh my god… I have no words.”

Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina Machado finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news with her directly before it was announced to the world.

#NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

There is absolutely no place for political violence in our democracy. Although we don’t yet know exactly what happened, we should all be relieved that former President Trump wasn’t seriously hurt, and use this moment to recommit ourselves to civility and respect in our politics. Michelle and I are wishing him a quick recovery.

[Blake Hall @Blake_Hall]

I was the Sniper Employment Officer for my battalion and led hundreds of combat missions. There were major security lapses in the security plan that allowed a shooter to engage President Trump from ~130 meters - an easy shot. A 🧵

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Each of these rebrands cost $20-100M in salaries + agency and consultant expenses

[ID.me @IDme]

@IDme has reached a major milestone: 50 million Americans have a verified IAL2 identity credential, marking a transformation for customer experience tied to login and identity verification.
#NoIDLeftBehind #OwnYourData

https://t.co/DkQluwlTsG

[Hyperline @hyperline_xyz]

Excited to announce that Hyperline has raised a Seed round led by @slow. [1/6]

[Kumar🇺🇸 @datarade]

https://t.co/aurZaWmKdN is the GOAT of KYC.

Not a close second.

Name a KYC provider with more gov't contracts.

Once they evangelize to the deloittes and mckinsey's of the world, it's game over.

Has an actual shot at becoming a $50B+ co.

[Tushar Chaudhary @tusharch]

@eschalit @ayro_oceanwings Congratulations! Such an important issue of our times.