President & Executive Director @aicollectiveco - growing the world’s largest AI nonprofit community!

Portland, OR
Zero to $100M ARR in 8 months. Acquired by Meta today. Huge congrats to @Red_Xiao_, @hidecloud, and the entire @ManusAI team. I’ve personally helped oversee 122 events in 2025, but this one stuck out as my favorite. It was the day of our first event together. At 9:00 AM, OpenAI dropped “Agent Mode." Our event was at 5:00 PM. Every other startup would have been frozen like a deer in the headlights. The largest player in the AI space just dropped a feature that could make your startup obsolete. The @AICollectiveCo + @ManusAI team hopped on a call immediately. We pitched a narrative shift: "The Battle of the Agents." They didn’t hide from the news. They put it on the big screen. Manus showcased a LIVE demo of their agents vs. OpenAI’s release on stage that night. And the Manus agent won. Fast forward, and they achieved $100M ARR quicker than any startup in history. That level of fearlessness is exactly why they won. This was almost as fun as the first time we worked on their original product launch, but that’s a story for a different day. ;) Huge kudos to the team on this massive milestone!
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one month without caffeine and I’ve discovered there is actually 0 benefit to cutting out caffeine
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LinkedIn is officially now #OpenToWork
Excited to introduce @Cosign: the curated professional network for the startup community: cosign.co Our goal is to create the following: - A comprehensive startup directory of investors, companies, and operators, including what they worked on and who they worked on it with. - Cosign graph: Who shaped your career? Who were you actually in the trenches with? Who would work with you again? Who thinks you’re someone to watch? - Durable reputation: Great endorsements happen every day on X and disappear into the feed. Cosign attaches those signals permanently to people and companies. - Discovery: Who are the best fintech angels? Which AI companies should I watch? Who are the best designers? - Intent network: Privately signal “I’d invest in them,” “I’d hire them,” “I’d work with them,” or eventually even “I’d acquire this company.” Match people when interest exists on both sides. Imagine if Wikipedia, LinkedIn, and OG AngelList had a baby. Though Cosign is a community, not a business. In order to join, you need to be cosigned. Or you can apply directly. David Booth and I started this idea 7 years ago but didn’t have the firepower to make it work. Now we do. No one has really touched LinkedIn in 20 years. Excited to take a swing. cosign.co
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yooo wait until linkedin finds out about a16z cosign next month
If you want to be on @cosign lmk!
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Took a little less than 3 years but can finally say we did zero to one. All credit goes to the incredible people I get to work with. Never would I have imagined getting to work with such a world-class team on such a history-defining technology.
Cognition has crossed $1B in annualized revenue run rate. This milestone belongs to our customers. Here's how a few of them are building with Devin.
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my work every day: test grokbot, muse, instinct, wajo, codex + 10 more iMessage agents, figure out what each does best, and share what I learn with my team chief personal agent testing officer 🫪 posting my findings here. first leaderboard drops soon
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sure bro, enjoy the tunes
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you should be like this guy while @cognition is offering free SWE-2 until 10/8…
my software factory uses 5-10B tokens a day 24x @DevinAI SWE-2 Max 6x Codex Astra Ultra 2x Claude Code Fable Max running in @zeddotdev
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GPT-6 Astra attempted harmful actions 97% of the time when it was asked to stab a human-like figure, heat compressed gas, or produce toxic fumes, succeeding in 62% of its attempts. Fable 5.1 refused more often, attempting 80% of trials and completing 34%.
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Update: We're now here And we're not ready for what's coming next
My take on the jagged frontier debate:
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The coolest thing about the recent wave of AI is that everyone is excited about building. All short-term drama aside, this is an immeasurably good development for the world. The people want to create and ship, not just consume.
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At the Claude Fable 5.1 Build Day in SF today. Thanks to the hosts @soyrichlira @rayyanzahidai @DevSodhi @travcjohnson @AJs_AI. Plan for the day: give my agent team a $0.00002 teammate. Before a task wakes Fable, the lead agent asks Jev which Claude and what effort it deserves. Built on agmsg. If you're in the room and into multi-agent stuff, come say hi. #ClaudeCommunity #BuildDay
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BREAKING: U.S. military nearly intercepted a Chinese ship over an AI-generated intelligence report that falsely claimed it was carrying nuclear weapons components. — CNN
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"Jevops"
the jevops movement is growing
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some of the best takes about Jev I’ve seen yet
I’ve put a ton of tokens through Jev now, and...I have thoughts. 1. The big labs lost the script TypeSafe’s intro video says, “We’re building prod, not God” — and can I just say? Hell yeah. @typesafeai built something for engineers like me, so I can build products for people like your mom (she says hi btw). They’re not trying to create “Machines of Loving Grace”; they’re trying to build things that let OTHER HUMAN BEINGS create new types of products. The proof is in the pudding. When ChatGPT shipped, we were all blown away by…ChatGPT. When Jev shipped, we were all blown away by what everyone was making with it. I cannot tell you how refreshing this is. It takes a sincere form of humility to believe that you, the creator of a technology, will not be the best at deploying the technology into the marketplace. The big labs, especially Anthropic, have proven not to have this humility…and now everyone hates AI. Thanks, Dario. I guess what I’m saying is: Diogo for president. 2. Ultra-smart classifiers were genuinely a missing primitive. I don’t know how this got missed. Diogo calls it “machine-native intelligence,” and that’s really what it is. I cannot tell you how much bending and twisting I've had to do with LLMs to get them to act like a classifier when they just weren’t. I’m absolutely shocked this is the first time this “type” of model has come to market. These models will unlock AI utility for entire industries: robotics, trucking, aviation, meteorology, finance, defense, retail…even your smart coffee mug is going to use this. 3. It’s still too expensive Jev is really, really cheap compared to LLMs. But you don’t use it like an LLM. In my full self-driving example, or any robotics example, you’ll be making decisions several times per second continuously. The #1 value proposition of a model like this is speed and cost. To be clear, at current pricing, the model will still be successful and well integrated. It will be able to replace a number of tasks that were already being performed (poorly) by LLMs. However, to unlock industrial-scale demand (Jevons paradox), I believe it needs to be roughly 10x cheaper. Currently, Jev is $0.042/M input, which is actually 7x more expensive than a cache read on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ($0.006). If our industrial application requires decisions at 10 Hz and we provide only 10k of context, that would cost $0.0042/second to operate, or $15/hour, $600/week, etc. The good news is Diogo said on a recent AMA that they have substantial margin at their current pricing and have already considered dropping the cost further. I hope it's a lot further. 4. Latency is a real limiter I really hope TypeSafe AI works with an edge network provider to improve the co-location of models and reduce network latency. Ultimately, these models really need to run on-device. I would even be willing to pay some kind of recurring license fee to have a great closed model running on my own hardware, just so I can reduce the TTD (Time To Decision) as much as possible. Imagine running a model like this at 60 Hz, or even 120 Hz. At that point, we’re looking at a new kind of logic gate — we can’t even imagine what that will be like. In summary, this one really is a game changer for everyone building AI products, and, assuming cost and latency are further improved…it’ll be a game changer for everyone doing anything.
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Demand for SWE-2 in Desktop & CLI is unprecedented. Glad to announce, we were able to secure additional compute. We're making SWE-2 free in Devin Cloud for Pro, Max & Teams subscribers - until October 8. Enjoy!
Introducing SWE-2, our closest model yet to the frontier. On leading evals, it scores on par with recent frontier models – at up to 70% lower cost. We scaled RL to multiple trillions of parameters, with a refined recipe that pushes the Pareto curve on both capabilities & cost.
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the fact that google hasn’t shipped a muse-like app with connectors is wild to me. you own gmail. you own chrome. you own android. you own the authenticator. you own half the internet’s identity layer. why are you making everyone else assemble your product for you
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JUST IN: Trump invites Tim Cook, Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, & other tech leaders to the White House state dinner for China’s Xi Jinping.
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