21 | co-founder @knowlifyai (YC S25) | physics, cs
San Francisco
Joined May 2022
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Jonathan Maynard retweeted
The internet is dead. We’ve raised $35M total funding led by Khosla and Hanabi to bring it to life.
@coframe is a growth engine for your website/ads/more which tests, personalizes, & learns 24/7.
It’s working. Dropbox increased conversion by 158%. Replit, 410%. Cash App, 60%.
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
Today we release Mirage: A 22 MB visual-language model that runs scene descriptions + object detection + OCR + segmentation + spatial relations analysis + extractions + decisions, in a single pass.
It can do all that in 74 ms on Samsung Galaxy S26 NPU or 107 ms on its CPU.
Mirage has a 7.8M encoder + a 40.8M decoder at 2bits, and describes images in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Polish.
We trade general language capacity, to compete top small VLMs today (SmolVLM2-500M, LFM2.5-450M and Florence2-230m) on these tasks.
On 256 VQAv2 questions, feeding Mirage's structured output and full trace to text-only Qwen3-0.6B raised its score from 9.3 to 31.3 out of 100, without fine-tuning either model.
Read more and benchmark it yourself here:
cactuscompute.com/blog/mirag…
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
officially moving our office out of downtown SF after 12 months on Market Street.
a space that incubated over 100 startups just a few years ago is down to fewer than 10 teams today.
the physical reality of working here took a heavy toll. getting chased down the sidewalk by an aggressive bulldog. a close friend rushed to urgent care with severe bite wounds after another attack. 20+ street dog encounters, shattered car glass on every block, and another friend struck in the head by a stranger while standing in line for dinner.
startups require total obsession with product and execution. a team cannot build the future when everyday survival consumes half their focus between the transit stop and the front door.
San Francisco is still home, and we are relocating to a neighborhood where people can walk to lunch without fearing for their physical safety.
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
Crypto never sleeps. Neither do your agents.
You asked for it. We built it.
You can now deploy agents on Conviction that monitor and trade crypto 24/7.
Link in comments.
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
Today, we're shipping real-time graphics.
Using Sol 6.1 Ultrafast we can generate custom overlays, diagrams, and even interactive 3D scenes right on a user's screen, no chat.
It's a new visual interface for AI.
Here's me learning about LLMs + hardware.
Demo:
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
Options trading is still painfully manual.
Watching charts on TradingView. Scanning options chains. Setting price alerts. Managing exits.
Today, we're launching Options Trading on Conviction.
What if trading options was as simple as describing your strategy? Conviction turns your idea into a trading agent that monitors the market, selects contracts, and executes when your conditions are met.
Link in comments.
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
Presenting R² Index, a global leaderboard of the top 800k "de-sloped" AI researchers, along with papers, patents, institutions, founders, startups, investors and countries.
I designed the algorithm to filter job applicants without relying on fancy metrics like alma-matter, but it ended up rediscovering common beliefs, while including industry underdogs like Georgi (llama.cpp author) in the top percentile.
I explain the algorithm in this thread, but the full ranking is here: r2index.fyi
this is pretty cool.
what if they used this style for their iPod launch?
with contentyard.io, you don't have to imagine.
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wow.
Apple took a couple weeks and $50k+ on this, and although ai can't beat the hand-made aspect of this, @knowlifyai gets pretty close - recreated it in 10 minutes with no edits.
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Jonathan Maynard retweeted
@knowlifyai just passed the Turing test for educational video.
Researchers showed 170 students videos made entirely with Knowlify without telling them AI was involved.
Half couldn’t reliably tell.
Students averaged 86% on the follow-up quiz.
Each 3-minute video took just 25 minutes to create and verify. Great educational videos no longer need a production team.
Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2607.28203
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
I know the poster probably doesn't recognize this, and by no means am I saying this stuff isn't common in SF, but posts like these come off as incredibly gauche and tone-deaf. Our new American industrialists and technological leaders need to stop worshiping the superficial hierarchy of "success prestige" that they themselves have created within higher ed since the 2000s, and recognize that worshiping money is not cool or ironically cool.
What has always confused about the strivers is that they believe "grinding" or "working hard" is good in and of itself. What they fail to recognize is that simply "grinding" without any purpose makes you beholden to whoever profits from it. I want these strivers to think harder about why they are in the jobs they are in, why they work for the people they do, and, eventually, what purpose their grind really serves.
Grinding it not a virtue. A virtue takes a positive position, by which I mean a declarative one.
imo this country needs a counter-elite of young American industrial and technological leaders who direct their grind, above all else, toward the prosperity of the nation, and by that I mean its people and their collective economic and national self-interest. Unless our smart young people find it within themselves to grow up a little, they will continue to work hard for some vague notion of personal or societal prestige that forever leaves them empty.
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
The greatest video platform in the world
You now get 4.2x more video for the same price, plus a drastically improved experience on @knowlifyai
Try free now: create.knowlify.com
You now get 4.2x more video for the same price, plus a drastically improved experience on @knowlifyai
Try free now: create.knowlify.com
Jonathan Maynard retweeted
China is not putting moratoriums on data centers. The race for super intelligence needs to be won by the USA or our country and democracy will be at risk.
Thank you for your leadership, @GovKathyHochul.
A data center moratorium gives lawmakers time to put strong protections in place and guarantee AI benefits all of us, not just a powerful few.
CMS Vocational Training made 241 training videos (~20 hours of learning content) in 6 weeks, saving them 363 hours of production time using @knowlifyai.
Before @knowlifyai, making this amount of video wasn't possible. Even a skilled person took a few hours to make a video, or worse yet, finding videos on YouTube that don't fit your needs.
Creating explainer videos is now simple using @knowlifyai:
- Enter your script, docs, or ideas
- Wait a few minutes for our AI to make your video
- Edit (if you want) and then export
We also released a major video quality update yesterday. Videos are more polished, more engaging, and overall higher production quality.
If you've looked at @knowlifyai before, it's worth seeing what it can do now.
To celebrate the update, we're giving everyone 30 seconds of video free-of-charge to try it yourself.
Comment "UPDATE" and I'll DM you the link.
Funny video
Today we’re introducing the easiest way to turn documents into videos.
Tell it what you want to explain, upload your content, and Knowlify writes the script, creates the animations, and produces a professional explainer video in minutes.
Perfect for training, onboarding, product education, and internal knowledge. (And even Rick and Morty style videos)
Try it free: create.knowlify.com
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