CEO & co-founder, Supercell.
Helsinki
Joined February 2009
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Ilkka Paananen retweeted
We are releasing our first model, Flint, a best-in-class local OSS coding model that runs at 150+ tokens/s on an @nvidia DGX Spark and 125+ tokens/s on a MacBook Pro M4—developed from scratch in less than four months with help from @Recursive_SI's autoresearch system.
Introducing Flint, @Recursive_SI’s first model: a fast local coding model built with our automated research system, the Eureka Machine.
• Best-in-class fast local coding
• Up to 2x faster than comparable models: 125+ tokens/sec on a MacBook Pro, 150+ on RTX Spark
• Built from scratch in under 4 months
Private, unmetered intelligence on your own machine. Open weights available now on @huggingface, run it locally on your favorite framework or try it for free on @opencode or @pidotdev.
Ilkka Paananen retweeted
Today we're announcing our second employee tender offer.
We passed $100m ARR earlier this year and now have more than 40,000 paying customers.
The tender lets our teammates participate in that success at a $2.5B valuation:
linear.app/now/sharing-growt…
Ilkka Paananen retweeted
”We need men to show other men and boys that you can be strong and respected without putting women down or using violence against them.”
This was the message delivered by Suzanne Innes-Stubb, spouse of the President of the Republic of Finland, at the Girls’ night event organised by SuomiAreena and UN Women Finland in Pori on Wednesday 24 June.
Mrs Innes-Stubb took part in a discussion with David Pelicot, a French human rights advocate dedicated to combating sexual violence against women.
The event also marked the launch of a commitment called “Every man’s responsibility. Don't stay silent – be part of the solution”. President of the Republic of Finland @AlexStubb was the first signatory of the commitment.
📸: Maarit Laakkonen
Ilkka Paananen retweeted
Definitely NOT a Roadmap video. 😅
#brawlstars
Ilkka Paananen retweeted
It's the first time I'm taking a look back at a year in this format. Sharing my thoughts. If you enjoy the read, drop us a note and who knows, maybe this becomes a new tradition? 😉
PS: We've recorded the "roadmap" video, more about that in the next few weeks. 🤝
#brawlstars #lookingback
‼️2025 in review‼️
The Brawl Boss @FTMKeienburg himself just dropped a blog post going over the past year, the hits, the misses, the learnings, how it all came to happen, and why we did the things we did!
Grab something to drink and go read it from the in-game news! 📰
Ilkka Paananen retweeted
Bitmagic partners with Arizona State University, the largest public university in the USA, to bring AI games education to university students! 🔥 bitmagic.ai/news/asu-bitmagi…
Incredibly excited about this! 🔥🔥🔥
You're wasting half your context window.
We’re launching @thetokenco (YC W26) today.
We compress LLM inputs before they reach the model.
Fewer tokens, lower cost, faster inference.
Models also perform better. In customer case studies we’ve seen a +5% lift in user purchases due to higher preference for outputs from compressed prompts.
The API is live. Link in the comments
Updated my blog post with something I should’ve included from beginning: proper recognition of Royale creators whose passion — from tournaments to content to community building — was central to game's best year ever. That's on me, and me alone. I'm sorry. supr.cl/best-games
💪 Supercell 2025: $3B revenue, $1B+ profit – one of our best years ever.
The mobile games industry needs more innovation to grow.
That's why we're going full startup mode in new games 🚀
Founders: come build the rocket, we'll be your launchpad 🎮
supercell.com/en/news/the-be…
Ilkka Paananen retweeted
For every person Finland has, USA has 60. For every youth hockey player Finland has, USA has nine. For every indoor rink Finland has, USA has seven. Finland is an incredible hockey country.
Really look forward to this!
Excited to chat with @ipaananen & @narimer in a private session at Slush on Wednesday!
This will be truly off the record, and folks will be asked to leave their phones at the door 📵 📵📵
Register below for entry 👇
It was an honour to be on Sequoia Capital's Crucible Moments podcast! We’ve been very lucky and it was fun to reflect back on our journey.
“Many of the best things we’ve learned have come through failures.”
@ipaananen built @supercell into Europe’s first decacorn by inverting the standard corporate hierarchy and radically accepting failures.
Hear the story of Supercell today on a new episode of Crucible Moments.
