Karim Zaidi retweeted
MiMo V2.6 Flash from Xiaomi is now on hosted on Inworld Inference:
- Open-weight reasoning model with vision and function calling
- V2.6 family showcased for 3D game development
- 524K-token context
- $0.14 in / $0.28 out per 1M tokens
- Cached input at $0.003, so long conversations stay cheap
Check it out at: inworld.ai/models
half of these are right
A few controversial things I believe:
1) A grown man with a family has no business getting on a ladder to put up Christmas lights.
2) a larger vehicle is safer than a smaller vehicle. Put your family in an SUV. Period. Crash ratings are a scam.
3) Pitbulls are a public nuisance.
4) politics is a total waste of time. Putting energy towards it is inversely correlated to happiness.
5) earning money is hard. $100k a year is a lot of money. Twitter acts like it’s easy but it isn’t.
6) sports betting is a disaster for society. Quietly destroying a lot of men’s lives.
7) waiting till 35 to think about kids is a huge mistake. These folks are all going to regret not having more, earlier.
8) SEC and Big10 schools are the new Ivy League. Wealthy families want to send their kids there, not Harvard or Stanford.
9) religion is making a comeback. And the people who get serious about it end up with better lives.
10) marrying a doctor or a lawyer is high status, but low enjoyment. These folks live stressful lives with very little flexibility.
11) vaping and weed are better for your body than alcohol, but worse for your career and life. They remove ambition and energy and make you less social.
12) giving our kids 75 vaccines is going to go down in history as a net-negative on society.
13) technology won’t actually advance a lot from here. Our physical worlds will largely be the same 20 years from now.
14) driverless cars are 20 years away. Waymo won’t make it out of the major cities with 25 mile an hour speed limits.
15) Virtual reality won’t become a thing. Nobody has any use for it.
16) 99% of people have no use for AI and it has reached 90% of its potential utility. Massive waste of electricity on the whole.
17) Web3 is a joke. Crypto is worthless. Bitcoin is a fad and is 100% speculative. Massive waste of electricity. Solves a problem that doesn’t exist.
18) electric vehicles will not become mainstream. They do more harm to the environment than good. Creating them and disposing of them is an environmental catastrophe.
19) Starlink is a miracle and ads 10x more value to society than the previous 5 things on this list combined. Elon needs a Nobel prize.
20) the fed has done a great job over the last 3 years with rates.
21) nuclear power is the only way forward. Solar and wind are not sustainable and are a total waste of money. Oil and gas is the only viable solution today and America should invest heavily in more production.
22) Silicon Valley influencers and Tech titans are out of touch with the true needs of Americans. They could benefit by spending some time in a Walmart. Most people are trying to figure out how to put food on the table. They don’t need another app for their meta glasses.
What’s something you believe that isn’t a common belief? Which one am I wrong about?
and it’s on @inworld
Karim Zaidi retweeted
@thestatusai has scaled to tens of millions in annualized revenue. Working with @inworld, we cut our AI costs by about 95% while maintaining or improving content quality.
When you build consumer AI, you want people to be obsessed with your app. Then you have to afford that obsession.
Our users spend an average of over an hour and a half a day on Status. They’re building relationships with characters, creating stories, and getting absorbed in these worlds. Every interaction needs to feel worth coming back for.
Inworld’s team got into the details with us: which models to use, how to structure prompts, and how to test whether the content was actually funny and engaging. They’ve been hands-on and fast, and we’ve kept working together to improve performance and lower costs.
That gave our team more room to keep shipping. More features, more things for players to do, and a business that could support the experience we wanted to build.
There’s so much opportunity in consumer AI when you understand what people enjoy. Making the economics work gives you room to keep finding more of it.
Read more on how we scaled with Inworld: inworld.ai/customers/status
Karim Zaidi retweeted
Inworld is your new favorite inference provider.
We already process tens of trillions of tokens a month because we understand consumer AI different, and we've built our inference from the ground up for it.
Today, the inference top consumer AI apps run on is opening up.
Karim Zaidi retweeted
We’re excited to announce that @ultravox_dot_ai is now part of Inworld.
Ultravox is the platform developers use to build real-time voice agents. We've worked with the team for a while through our TTS partnership, and today members of the team that built it are joining Inworld to keep developing it.
Karim Zaidi retweeted
inworld-tts-2 from @inworld is live on Speko.
Of the 7 best-sounding models on our board it is both the fastest and the most robust: 116ms to first audio, and zero currency or number errors.
Try it:
platform.speko.ai
Karim Zaidi retweeted
Realtime TTS-2 is GA today, now the #1 model on Artificial Analysis and fastest TTS in the world of its class.
The research preview got far more usage than expected. That experience went back into research and today's GA model represents the biggest leap in Inworld's history.
Karim Zaidi retweeted
Congrats to @Thobey_Campion and the @lore_machine team on blowing up in South Korea!
Lore Machine is a US-based interactive storytelling platform that started seeing massive organic traction in South Korea. They needed to move fast to capture momentum but had to do so without having to spin up a full localization effort.
By integrating Inworld's Realtime TTS-2, they brought Korean voice-over support to tens of thousands of users almost immediately.
Can't wait to see where this goes next!
Karim Zaidi retweeted
We just shipped something nobody else has.
Our STT API doesn't just transcribe, it returns a full voice profile in the same response: emotion, accent, age, pitch, style, each with a confidence score, all in one call.
When you feed that into our Realtime API, the LLM decides not just what to say but how to say it. It adds steering tags that our TTS-2 model picks up and uses to guide how it speaks. So, if a user sounds frustrated, the voice responds with empathy. If they're excited, it matches that energy.
Here's our very own @ClintMcLean_ walking you through how the full pipeline works:
Karim Zaidi retweeted
This is what would-be founders should be doing when they're young, not bogus startup pitching competitions.
Karim Zaidi retweeted
Increasingly believe that the "good, cheap, fast—choose two" maxim is devious misinformation spread by the slow.
In my experience, "slow" and "expensive" usually go together. I was in a meeting yesterday where lopping a year off a project schedule also ended up reducing the cost substantially. Fundamentally, it takes time to spend, and adding the temporal constraint tends to make things simpler and more efficient.
Karim Zaidi retweeted
A lot of software can be built quickly now but it is becoming a lost art to actually make it self-serve and consumer-quality.
You must sand down all the edges and fix the P2 bugs, instead of only focus on the demo paths.
This year, personal software will force its return.
Karim Zaidi retweeted
Founder tip:
A "diverse customer base" at pre-seed is not necessarily a positive selling point. It likely means you don't have PMF. IMO I would rather see you nailing one niche than trying to compete for everyone...
Karim Zaidi retweeted
I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health. The Safety and Health of all Americans is the most important role of any Administration, and HHS will play a big role in helping ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this Country. Mr. Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!
