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Ashley Reese | AI retweeted
Introducing FoneClaw AI — your personal AI agent for Android that doesn't just answer questions, it actually gets things done on your phone.
Less tapping. More doing.
Try FoneClaw for free:
foneclaw.ai/?utm_source=x
Ashley Reese | AI retweeted
What if your devices, apps and agents knew what you wanted?
You finish breakfast, and your Uber is booked.
Running late, your agent sends a “Running late” text.
You reach home, and your lights turn on.
AI is proactive now. But it still needs your yes. It waits, for you to unlock your phone, open an app and tap approve. Every time, hundreds of times a day.
AI needs its own interface.
Aina is a ring with a screen that predicts and shows you the three things you’ll need next. One flick of your thumb, and it’s done. For everything.
✦ Cues: proactive suggestions, ready before you need them
✦ Voice: talk to your agents, take notes, dictate
✦ Remote: control your music, Mac and TV
✦ Calls: right from your hand
Pre-orders open now
aina.com
Ashley Reese | AI retweeted
she left @harvard surgery to build AI. she was told silicon valley would never accept her, that she would die under a bridge.
so she cold-messaged @KiteVC on linkedin because he backed canva early. he replied the next day and sent her to @SanghaCapital. one 90-minute call later, they were her first investors.
@larsras, co-founder of google maps, came in next. @amandaterry of @ACTAIVentures backed her at pre-seed. then @M13Company and @latifperacha led a $5M seed, with xAI co-founder @ChrSzegedy.
@heyrobynai just launched and ran out of invites on day one.
now her dad thinks they'll IPO in three years.
@iamjennyshao on nontechnical, episode 5.
00:00 she left her harvard surgical residency for a startup
00:46 "leave what? leave surgery? leave harvard?"
01:14 "you're gonna die under a bridge"
03:18 how do you walk away from yourself
05:03 now her dad thinks they'll IPO in three years
06:10 why melanie perkins and canva
07:02 the cold linkedin message to bill tai
07:49 one 90-minute call, then the round
08:32 why people are scared of AI
13:13 "decide who owns the complexity"
16:19 everyone gets their own jarvis
17:37 what if AI takes every job?
19:06 robyn, as in robin to your batman
19:52 "help my dog live longer"
28:45 "as a founder, no one's dying"
30:37 530 builds in one year
32:37 three kinds of surgeons
36:52 why AI forgets everything about you
37:30 three years with nobel laureate eric kandel
40:45 "it's like 50 first dates"
44:11 can AI just order my pizza?
45:19 would you give AI your credit card?
47:59 "jenny, I just need more tokens"
49:50 brian chesky lived with his users. she texts hers.
Ashley Reese | AI retweeted
Drop 2/15
Are we actually measuring the things we ultimately want our voice AI models to achieve?
The best AI voices are becoming hard to tell apart.
From each other. Not from humans.
🚀 Introducing Turing TTS: an evaluation that measures how often human listeners mistake AI-generated speech for real human speech.
We tested leading TTS models against real human speech. Even the best model fooled listeners only ~10% of the time.
With Turing TTS, we hope to contribute to a broader discussion within the research community about how we measure progress in voice AI.
If one of our goals is to develop speech that is indistinguishable from human speech, how well do our current evaluation methods capture progress toward that goal?
We don’t claim that Turing TTS is the right way forward, or that human indistinguishability should be the goal of every TTS system.
Rather, we hope these findings encourage the community to collectively examine whether blind pairwise human evaluations of naturalness are sufficient, and what else we might need to measure.
Results are now live on @voicearena_ai.
Ashley Reese | AI retweeted
We’ve raised $1.3M from YC & Afore Capital so you never have to type or speak again.
Typing is slow. Talking into your computer is awkward. Subvocal fixes both
Our glasses give you the speed of speech without you making a sound or touching a keyboard.
It tracks your internal speech muscles with non-contact sensing and decodes silent, almost invisible mouthing into text at more than 200 words/min.
Pre-orders are now live at:
subvocal.co/preorder?utm_sou…
Ashley Reese | AI retweeted
Introducing RL with Neural Feedback (RLNF). We have found reliable ways to train AI models to respond to human preferences purely from brain signals.
The example below is a picture of a face that self-transforms into a more attractive version for the subject as they are looking at it.
Ashley Reese | AI retweeted
Flova 1.5 | One Chat with Multiple Skills
One project. Multiple Skills.
Bring different Skills together in one creation!
- You set the goal. Agent plans the workflow.
- Mix and match Skills to explore different stories and styles.
- Refine your creations and take your ideas even further.
✨ Mix and Match Skills. Turn your ideas into videos, your way!
Ashley Reese | AI retweeted
Oxide just raised $445M at a $6B valuation.
@bcantrill and @sdtuck started @oxidecomputer to build the computers the hyperscalers keep for themselves. @EclipseVentures led the seed when nobody else would. now they're profitable, and he says they didn't even need to raise.
i also asked him if AI is a bubble, why america hates data centers, and why every oxide employee makes the same salary.
nontechnical, episode 4.
00:00 $445M at $6B, and they didn't need it
03:06 one wire transfer bigger than their whole seed
07:14 "they don't have the guts. they're too chicken."
09:09 100% banked at SVB
13:04 a 92-year-old kicking their asses in board meetings
14:48 "would you like me to name names?"
16:58 a16z loved it, then sent the first rejection
20:19 leaving a first round partner meeting for the A's
22:52 "Marc Andreessen was offended"
23:05 NEA: "we will only invest in software"
25:55 "legends are dead"
28:32 "when a VC says 'I've got a technical question'"
42:39 the firm that walked away from a signed term sheet
46:48 "if I could get sequoia, do you think you'd be here?"
49:41 "they were cowards"
52:36 the nuke email he wrote and never sent
58:33 four years later, they asked for a reference
1:02:01 "politics and business don't mix"
1:10:51 is AI a bubble?
1:14:56 how he ruined a dinner party in 1997
1:20:44 "people hate data centers"
1:22:08 how sun got thrown through the windshield in 2000
1:26:26 why everyone at oxide makes the same salary
1:30:58 the worst hire of all time
1:40:42 when oxide goes public
Ashley Reese | AI retweeted
Introducing Cartesia Managed Agents: our end-to-end voice agent platform for enterprise.
#1 on @ArtificialAnlys Speech Agent Arena and @ServiceNow EVA-Bench, built by co-designing our voice models and harness as one system.
Check it out → cartesia.ai/blog/managed-age…
Ashley Reese | AI retweeted
Drop 1/15: Introducing Joy, a dual-channel conversational dataset.
Real, unscripted conversations between two people, each on their own track. Built to teach voice models how people actually talk: when to listen, when to jump in, when to say “hmm”.
100,000 hours.
50,000 speakers.
10 languages.
Ashley Reese | AI retweeted
Give your creative workflow more time to evolve with Flova 1.5. Buy one year of Pro and get another year free during the launch promotion.
Seedance 2.5 720p starts at $0.025/sec.
flova.ai/?refCode=3BFU8P57
Ashley Reese | AI retweeted
Your OCR says it’s done—but did it get everything right? 🤔 In high-stakes workflows, even a small error can be costly.
🚀 Meet the MiniCPM-OCR suite: an open-source solution to parse fast and guard the results.
Two new models:
🔹 MiniCPM-OCR 1.0 — SOTA OCR performance and speed at 1B scale. Compact, accurate, and fast.
🔹 MiniCPM-OCR Jev — A 2B decision model that helps assess parsing accuracy, with performance approaching that of Qwen3.5-397B-A17B on JevOCRBench.
⚡ What’s new?
Small model, SOTA results: MiniCPM-OCR 1.0 scores 93.68 on Real5-OmniDocBench and 54.7 on OCRBench v2.
A sharp goalkeeper 🛡️: MiniCPM-OCR Jev is model-agnostic, checking text, formulas, and tables from different OCR parsers. It achieves 93.6 on JevOCRBench, outperforming JEV-35B-A3B (90.1) and approaching Qwen3.5-397B-A17B (93.8).
Up to 128 pages per minute 🤯: With DSpark, MiniCPM-OCR runs at 1.49× the speed of PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 and 3.62× that of MinerU2.5 Pro. The SDK’s concurrency optimizations further boost throughput to as much as 128 pages per minute.
Deploy where you work: Day-0 support for Arm, Houmo AI, Intel, and NVIDIA, plus 10 more chip vendors through FlagOS.
Ready for your stack: vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, and Ollama, with quantized models, fine-tuning support, and Agent Skills.
🔗 GitHub: github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM-O…
🤗 Hugging Face:
MiniCPM-OCR 1.0：huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniC…
MiniCPM-OCR Jev：huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniC…
👉 Try the Demo：platform.modelbest.ai/consol…
Use the API：platform.modelbest.ai/consol…
Ashley Reese | AI retweeted
Text-to-speech gets you close. But close isn’t how you’d say it.
So say it yourself, once. HeyGen Voice STS carries the whole performance over to your avatar, down to every pause, emphasis, and whisper.
Test it here: platform.heygen.com/speech-t…
Ashley Reese | AI retweeted
🏆 NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe debuts at #1 among 14 systems on Voice Arena’s Diarization + ASR leaderboard.
Across the full benchmark, it achieves 32.43% cpWER.
This track tests whether a system can get both the words and the speakers right. We evaluated 139 held-out conversations with 2-8 speakers across in-person and online settings, including overlapping speech.
Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is first in both settings: 34.08% cpWER in person (far field) and 22.13% on online calls.
It has the lowest word deletion rate on the leaderboard. Deletions are 8.32% of reference words, against a median near 31%.
Congratulations to @NVIDIAAI on the release ! 👏
Ashley Reese | AI retweeted
More and more, image models get ranked by human vote. A vote can miss that your font changed.
Today @DavidZats and I are releasing VybBench, an open benchmark that scores design fidelity with numbers instead of votes. Ask a model to change one headline and it can nudge your font, shift your blue and redraw a corner of your logo too. Each edit changes a little more, until the design isn't yours.
VybBench scores each piece:
145 fonts, matched pixel by pixel against the real font
100 hex codes, scored on how far each color drifts
200 small edits, scored on how many pixels changed, with a judge checking the edit was made
We are not including model scores in the post, but you can see how each model scores on the Hugging Face. Every prompt, output, judge verdict and the scorer is on Hugging Face, link in the reply.
Full Disclosure: At @cocoailabs we also build Vyb - our first design model built to preserve design fidelity and taste.
Ashley Reese | AI retweeted
It took me 3 years to get a real answer on which of my posts work. With Viktor, my AI teammate, it took 1 day, and now we have goals for the next month
Three years ago I left my job as a hot dog salesman at my local golf course to become a full time poster on X
When I was selling glizzies I got monthly performance reviews, but haven't had a single one since and have no idea how I'm doing
So yesterday I hired Viktor as my AI employee, and he's in charge of the reviews
Now Viktor tracks all my stats, finds my top 5 posts, tells us what worked and what didn't, and sets our goals for the next month
Pretty exciting stuff considering my previous performance reviews mostly consisted of being told to put more hot dogs on the grill
Starting to wonder how many creators go years without a single performance review
Hire @viktor_com for your team. $100 in credits included, no card. Full link in first comment.
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Ashley Reese | AI retweeted
That phone ringing outside the window is creepy enough. But wait until the ghost actually climbs in for the product 👻📱 Here's how I'd build a Halloween promo around that reveal.
#CapCutWeb #ChatGPT
Ashley Reese | AI retweeted
Introducing Flova 1.5
Smarter. More Adaptive. Bring Ideas to Life.
✨ Run multiple sessions in parallel and explore your creativity freely
✨ Chat at any step and switch between creative tasks with ease
✨ Build and reuse Skills to keep expanding your creative capabilities
✨ Rediscover inspiration quickly with smart memory and retrieval
✨ Manage assets flexibly and keep your creative work organized
✨ Take control of your Agent and create at your own pace
🎊 Smart and flexible—turn ideas into videos, your way!