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t-minus 7 days till runtime @modal

. @modal moves mountains to make models manifest! Our man in pink @CompleteSkeptic will be speaking at Runtime, you won't want to miss it.

today, i'm excited to share an early preview of the @avec desktop app, which is now rolling out in alpha to folks enrolled in avec's early access program. 5 months ago we released @avec to the app store. we started with a mobile app because it was clear to us that we could build something far better than the status quo there. but as we heard feedback from early users, we realized that there was a much bigger opportunity to do something special on desktop than we initially thought. desktop is not just a bigger screen: it's where you deal with your most important tasks, typically the ones you defer from mobile. what should the interface be when ai can do most of the pre-work for you so you can deal with what remains in a simpler, more focused interface? this demo covers some of the features of avec (e.g. the best prioritization of any email app, stack-based triaging, voice composition), but there are countless more that avec users love and we didn't have time to feature in this demo (e.g. our notifications that are so good you don't need to open the app to know what an urgent email is about, unsubscribe that actually works, or our 1-minute "clean your backlog" flow). one of the things that is most unusual about avec is how simple it is to use, yet how sophisticated it is behind the scenes. we built a 99.99% uptime email processing pipeline that pushes emails through a suite of llms to enrich them and delivers them to you within 10 seconds without ever losing one. we built a cross-device sync system similar to @linear's. we use a dozen or so different llms, and jev, leveraging robust evals and our taste to figure out which one fits for what application. check out the video (or the in-thread clips)! and in the spirit of lifting the veil, today only, ask your questions on how things work and i'll happily answer them here 👇 0:00 Introducing Avec for desktop 0:34 A quick tour of Avec on iPhone 2:05 Why we built a desktop app 2:45 Triaging emails on desktop 3:20 Core interactions: Done, Todo, Voice 3:57 Swipe through email with your trackpad 4:38 Instant sync between phone and desktop 5:34 Todos and keeping track of replies 6:15 A fast, context-aware AI sidebar 7:58 Automatic deadlines and rescheduling 8:45 Teaching Avec what matters to you 9:30 Review and clear low-importance emails 10:08 Desktop alpha rollout 10:49 How get early access

The full Runtime agenda is live, including talks from: @ScottWu46, Co-founder & CEO @cognition @CompleteSkeptic, Co-founder & CEO @typesafeai @dylan522p, Founder & CEO @SemiAnalysis_ @sarahookr, Co-founder & CEO @adaptionlabs @ajratner, Co-founder & CEO @SnorkelAI

We’re not just building the best email app ever: we’re building a new interface for the internet. A new way to interact with each other and with AI. A way to reconcile what at times seems like an alien way of seeing the world with our very own human ways. More on that soon. For now, we have an email app for you, and it's a pretty damn good one. Here's a fun one-minute video about that, and, well, the universe. – It Could Have Been An Email Part III: Aliens Directed by Red Gaskell @redgaskell & Green Gaskell @GreenGaskell

To write the email or not to write the email? That was never a question. It Could Have Been An Email Part II: Shakespeare Directed by Derek Manansala & Grace Hanna Write great emails and never forget anything important with Avec. Get it for free on the App Store: avec.ai/download

we're building a world class design team at @modal here in new york to build the future of ai infrastructure. we're looking for a sr/staff brand designer to join our team: folks who want to build new systems and tools, and rethink how brands are made from the ground up. DMs open, listing in the thread.

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we've been hard at work at making @modal not just the best at being infra but also best at being observable. just mesmerizing to watch all these charts. a whole lot more to come. come work with us!

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Runtime speaker lineup is live! We're bringing together experts covering AI infrastructure, applications of AI in science and robotics, the future of software engineering, and more.

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