wayne chang

Hacker • Founder @UseReasoner (neurosymbolic AI) • Co-founder: Digits (finance AI), Fabric (→Google), Crashlytics (→Twitter) • Angel

[wayne chang @Wayne]

The AI industry has a trust problem because it has a precision problem. I know, because I was forced to solve it.

After seeing "black box" AI fail in high-stakes environments where proof is everything, we built a new kind of intelligence from the ground up.

Today, we're releasing the first precision intelligence app: Mind Reasoner.

It's not a notetaker. It's a truth detector for your conversations. It analyzes 100+ dimensions of communication to show you the evidence behind every insight, revealing the hidden reality of what's happening.

Imagine seeing proof of your own imposter syndrome in your language, or finally understanding the real trigger for your frustration in meetings. Picture seeing the gap between your internal anxiety and the calm you project to the world. Then, imagine turning that lens outward—to see the unspoken concern behind a colleague’s "yes," or the real meaning behind a loved one’s "I'm fine."

This is for you.

Get and experience Mind Reasoner for yourself. https://t.co/2Y7B1DFkJB

#MindReasoner #PrecisionIntelligence #AI #ProductLaunch

[wayne chang @Wayne]

I’m a member / FM of many clubs (Aman, Seia, The Moore, Club 33, CORE, Battery, Ned, Quin, Soho Malibu, Centurion, etc) and Drink with Me is one of my favorites.

Come drink with us

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

A year ago, I announced that I had gotten a California liquor license!

Why?

So @Sommjoshua could work with wineries to buy wine directly and bypass much of the middleman fuss and markup.

We had almost 50 Founding members join us with the goal of making sure that winemaking wasn’t lost in this age of ever-marching technological process.

Our Founding Members buy wine together. We travel the world to have dinners together. We sell wine to each other. Always at cost, never with a markup and usually with a discount that can be as high as 30-40% on even the most exclusive wines.

We also wanted to become a safe harbor for multi-generational winemakers as they transition to the next generation.

As a result we are forging lifelong relationships with the most incredible wineries in the world.

Perhaps, over time, if they decide it’s time for succession planning they will bring us in as partners versus sell to a large corporation.

We are a group of humans who want to protect their craftsmanship and celebrate both the beauty of their product but also the beauty of their locations and the wineries themselves.

Today, we're launching Drink With Me for non Founding Members. You can now get the majority (but not all) of the benefits of our private wine collective that our Founding Members enjoy.

While our founding membership costs were a bit expensive, you can get most everything we do, as a non Founding Member, for $5k/yr.

If you want to learn more, you can do so here: https://t.co/UCJokzsGBm

PS, there are a few Founding Memberships which we left open for emerging members but you will need a nomination from one of the existing FMs. They will let you know if they are one but here are a few that happen to be on X:

@VinnyLingham
@Mister_Keating
@skydayton
@Andrew_Robl
@KristinaHolst
@sundeep
@BrianYutko
@underj_me
@JasonKoon
@phil_hellmuth

[wayne chang @Wayne]

@chamath @Sommjoshua Super grateful to be a FM and a part of this group. @Sommjoshua and @chamath really outdid themselves here. The events, itinerary, and of course the wine are all top notch.

[wayne chang @Wayne]

@VaibhavSisinty how does it do with the white whale of speech recognition: hyper accurate speech diarization?

[wayne chang @Wayne]

@CorinneMRiley @GreylockVC we've built a solution for this that works out of the box (integrates with affinity, etc :)

[wayne chang @Wayne]

@blader haha this is fantastic

[wayne chang @Wayne]

Could not agree more. 🔮

[a16z @a16z]

Read the full piece in the a16z newsletter.

[wayne chang @Wayne]

The most dangerous advice given to founders isn't about pre-scaling infrastructure, scaling your team, etc. It's the pressure to chase trends, build for consensus, and force a solution into a pre-existing box-of-the-moment.

This path leads to incremental products fighting for scraps in crowded markets.

Enduring products are built differently. They start with a hard, fundamental problem and build from first principles, even if it means rejecting the current "gold standard." That's where real moats are created and new categories are born.

Founders, be careful out there.

[Chris Keller @ckeller]

It's amazing how well it works!

[wayne chang @Wayne]

@tjparker @scottbelsky that’s okay :-) mind reasoner will tell us

[wayne chang @Wayne]

@tjparker @scottbelsky hey @tjparker :-) let’s do a private demo?

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

fascinating use case of AI to "reveal the gap between what people say and what they truly mean"...by detecting decision confidence, hedging language, unspoken concerns, and even the subtle power dynamics in a room...like "EQ as a service?"

[𝕻𝖍𝖎𝖑 𝕮𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖔 @philshungry]

Only one demo straight gave me the chills and it was this one

This will change the game, forever.

[Adam Lowisz X Meetup 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 @AdamLowisz]

I've met @Wayne at a @kampevents , super cool and knowledgeable guy. This is going to be a good episode with @philshungry .

[wayne chang @Wayne]

@ai_andrew 🥺🙏

[wayne chang @Wayne]

Used to being the underdog. :-)

Will post a proof soon. It’s time we show a little bit more of just what reasoner is capable of.

[wayne chang @Wayne]

Tried @UseReasoner on @arcprize’s just-released ARC-AGI-2.

Reasoner passed on first try.

“Correct!”

(Screenshot shows one rated “hard” by Arc Prize.)

[ARC Prize @arcprize]

Today we are announcing ARC-AGI-2, an unsaturated frontier AGI benchmark that challenges AI reasoning systems (same relative ease for humans).

Grand Prize: 85%, ~$0.42/task efficiency

Current Performance:
* Base LLMs: 0%
* Reasoning Systems: <4%

[FORTUNE @FortuneMagazine]

Exclusive: @Wayne is taking the wraps off an AI reasoning engine called Reasoner, which he claims can produce much more accurate and explainable results than large language models such as OpenAI’s o1 series. https://t.co/TIVNj3AJpi

[Founder Collective – Seed Stage Venture Capital @fcollective]

TL;DR: Reasoner is more accurate, more credible, and a fraction of the cost. We can't wait to see what @wayne has cooked up go live in 2025!

[Founder Collective – Seed Stage Venture Capital @fcollective]

Reasoner by @Wayne Chang: AI that thinks better, costs less, and explains its logic. Powered by adaptive knowledge graphs, it boasts 90%+ accuracy on tough benchmarks where OpenAI struggles. Coming 2025.

#ProudInvestor

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