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The Open Source AI Summit has officially wrapped!
We'll publish talks over the next week or so, covering the full breadth of the open source/weight AI movement, from engineering to policy and philosophy.
In the meantime, here is @moneyball's fireside chat with @DavidSacks
At the Open Source AI Summit in San Francisco, @DavidSacks joined @moneyball for a conversation on protecting open-source AI, the impact of regulation, and the global AI race.
All the buzz is on @buzzdotxyz
Come join us next Tuesday! Here is an overview of some topics well cover 🐝
Buzz 1.0 is here. Want to learn it from zero?
Buzz 101 is a free workshop with @_austin_f, a Spiral grantee working on Buzz and Goose. Set it up and create your first AI agent. No coding needed.
Nov 17. Course in English. Link in the first comment.
xitter.twitterapi.xyz/jack/status/2120345450…
Sign up here! ismos.xyz/en/courses/buzz-10…
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Austin retweeted
Google adds confidential compute to their TPUs? 😮
Thrilled to share a big milestone from our AI & Infrastructure team at @Google.
Today we’re expanding our 8th generation TPU portfolio with:
• TPU 8i Max: Built for massive context windows and the highest compute density per rack
• TPU 8tx: Purpose-built for secure, confidential inference
This marks the first time we’ve introduced four distinct TPU systems in a single generation, in one year.
For developers, hardware is only as good as the software stack. And we want you to be able to build with TPUs as easily and efficiently as we do at Google. You can now:
↳ Run native PyTorch & Hugging Face models via TorchTPU (zero code rewrites)
↳ Cut KV transfer latency >90% with open-source TPU Sync
↳ Eliminate idle compute waste with Agent Compute Engine
Read more about our newest TPUs on our blog: bit.ly/3VfETPR
I look forward to connecting with builders, researchers, engineers and organizations pushing the boundaries of AI and computing!
Austin retweeted
Proud of the team for shipping these updates 🙌
Here's a walkthrough of using @StratumV2 with @umbrel: solo mine straight from your own node, or build your own block templates while mining with an SV2 pool.
01:10 SV2 on Umbrel
01:48 Configuring your node
02:17 Overview of SV2 UI
03:00 Solo mining
03:41 Pool mining
06:41 Dashboard & pointing miner
08:31 New telemetry feature
09:20 Small log section improvements
09:52 New Telegram activity updates
New Stratum V2 updates are here, with more security hardening and features across our libraries and applications!
🧩 SV2 Protocol libs v1.13
🏗️ SV2 Apps v0.9
⛏️ SV2 UI v0.8 (coming soon on @umbrel )
I'm stoked for whoever gets this job.
This is a dream opportunity for the right person.
Cosmos is hiring a chief of staff who'll act as @Brendan_McCord's right hand across the Institute, @cosmos_vc, a book and a major new higher education program.
After two years, we'll back you to found something or place you at a top company.
Learn more: blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/…
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I infiltrated a stealth SF startup’s @buzzdotxyz to review their secret launch plan.
Since Buzz is built on plugins, they were planning it with their agents in a custom-built Docs plugin.
Their launch plan still needs work, but their Buzz plugin creativity is promising.
Austin retweeted
This week we rolled out our private inference for cyber security work. Along with early access to our agent harness.
Reach out if we can help set any of this up for your personal or company infrastructure.
maple.ai/cybersecurity
Banger.
This artcile focuses on science, but it applies to software engineering too.
"Can we trust the assertions of AI agents without obtaining direct understanding ourselves? And if we do, what happens to our own capacity to question, criticize, and stand behind results?"
“A paper whose authors can’t explain its claims leaves no one to consult if those claims fail.”
New guest essay from @JessicaHullman on why science needs people who can answer for results and challenge them, even once AI can verify them.
blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/…
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"Every act of product building, just as any act of creation, is a philosophical one: it shows the world what you believe."
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Congratulations, @Dulce_xyz and ISMOS team!!
Librería de Satoshi is now ISMOS 🎉
Five years teaching Technical Bitcoin in Spanish taught us this: language shouldn’t decide who gets to learn, and building Bitcoin well starts with its foundations.
A new name for a bigger mission.
Cryptography, math, software engineering, AI and critical thinking, in more languages and more countries, all built on the foundations Bitcoin taught us.
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This is a great educational opportunity.
Many harnesses assume you're coding. So they pack things like testing and git commits into the default prompt.
@goose_oss is general purpose (code, research, workflows), so it starts small and adds instructions and tools only as needed.
Your coding agent can spend ~12k tokens before you type a word.
We measured the default system prompt of 30 open coding harnesses: from 235 tokens (goose) to 11,974 (Gemini CLI).
A 50x spread, and that's before any tool definitions 🧵
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Austin retweeted
Come chat about open source ai tomorrow!
luma.com/kcornqld?tk=VGwvyY
Interested in open-source, local, and private AI? Join us this Thursday at 6pm in the Presidio!
We'll have a Socratic seminar on recent AI developments with @anthonyronning and @_austin_f, plus a short talk and demo on agent Playbooks from @dtdannen.
luma.com/kcornqld
Austin retweeted
Thanks @_austin_f and @PresidioBitcoin for hosting the Open Source AI Summit and inviting me to keynote.
Full talk (23 min). Building your own AI is how you stay in control of your AI destiny, and it's easier than you think:
youtube.com/watch?v=F0Gg5vwr…
If you're in the Bay Area on Thursday evening, come by the Presidio for some fantastic views.
Oh, and we'll be chatting about local, open, and private AI too!
Interested in open-source, local, and private AI? Join us this Thursday at 6pm in the Presidio!
We'll have a Socratic seminar on recent AI developments with @anthonyronning and @_austin_f, plus a short talk and demo on agent Playbooks from @dtdannen.
luma.com/kcornqld
Austin retweeted
@jack thinks bitcoin payment adoption isn’t where it could or should be. We want your ideas on how Block, Spiral, and you can improve adoption odds within 5 years. We need a shift to change our trajectory. Here’s more on our thinking. Now we want yours.
.@jack thinks bitcoin payment adoption isn’t where it should be. We want your ideas on how @Blocks, Spiral, and you can increase adoption within 5 years. Our trajectory needs changing. Here’s more on our thinking. Now we want yours: github.com/spiralxyz/bitcoin… View article
Austin retweeted
New on Maple Max and Team: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, abliterated.
Refusals removed from the model itself, so it works through security questions instead of declining them.
- 1M context
- Runs in the same attested enclaves as every Maple model
- Built for security research, code audits and red-teaming
Attackers already run uncensored models. Defenders shouldn't be stuck with "I can't help with that."
I would like the record to show that, at best, I am the WANNABE polymath.
Grateful to Spiral for another year of support working on open money and open intelligence!
.@PresidioBitcoin’s resident polymath and compulsive Google Docs comment dropper @_austin_f is helping champion Goose, GDK, and Buzz. With this grant, he’ll onboard bitcoin and FOSS teams, develop a self-paced GDK Builder Course, and add Buzz features like operational agents.
Austin retweeted
i expect to cross paths with @_austin_f a lot..
..doing product-ey, builder-ey work at the intersection of open money & open intelligence
.@PresidioBitcoin’s resident polymath and compulsive Google Docs comment dropper @_austin_f is helping champion Goose, GDK, and Buzz. With this grant, he’ll onboard bitcoin and FOSS teams, develop a self-paced GDK Builder Course, and add Buzz features like operational agents.
Austin retweeted
Open Source AI: It's Time to Hit the Gas
Last month, we brought the community together at the Open Source AI Summit in San Francisco's Presidio. Here are our top 5 actionable takeaways. 🧵
