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AI8/10

fal Speeds Up Open Source MiniMax H3 Video Model Dramatically

fal Speeds Up Open Source MiniMax H3 Video Model Dramatically▶

Jennifer Li highlights fal's rebuild of MiniMax's open source H3 video model, which generates video faster than it plays back. The post describes director mode with voice prompting for camera and action control, and quotes a16z's account of GPU utilization rising from 30-40% to 70-80% without quality loss.

Jennifer Li @JenniferHli · ·♥ liked
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@fal's H3 Max generates video faster than you can watch it. With director mode and voice prompting, you can direct a scene as it plays - moving the camera and guiding the action just by talking to the model.

The leap isn’t just speed. It’s creative control. That’s what takes AI from impressive demos to a serious technology for Hollywood and professional filmmakers.

Inspiring convo with @gorkem and @isidentical on what possibilities are unfolding in generative media.
a16z @a16z
.@fal's Gorkem Yurtseven and Batuhan Taskaya on making an open source video model 35x faster, and what Hollywood wanted after they built it:

Last month, MiniMax released H3, an open source video model. fal rebuilt it - they cut down the steps the model takes to make a video, rewrote the code under each stage, and got the GPUs to 70-80% of their theoretical ceiling instead of their usual 30-40%. No quality loss.

Video now generates faster than you can film it. The models have gotten so cheap and fast that end users aren't even asking for improvements in either category anymore. The gap has mo…
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World & Politics7/10

ABC News Reports Trump Administration Downplays US War With Iran

ABC News Reports Trump Administration Downplays US War With Iran▶

ABC News reports the Trump administration continues to downplay the US war with Iran as new images appear to show damage and destruction to US military assets, shared in a video.

ABC News @ABC · ·♥ liked · 🔖 bookmarked
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The Trump administration continues to downplay the U.S. war with Iran, as new images obtained appear to show the damage and destruction to U.S. military assets.
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Agents & Dev Tools7/10

Full Context Highlights Open Source Jev Tool for Fast Browser Agents

Full Context introduces Jev, an open source tool from Browser Use that reviews a page and picks the next action, such as clicking, typing, scrolling or retrying. The author suggests splitting work between a large model for planning and a small fast model for choosing clicks, and notes the claims are still being verified.

Full Context @fullctx · ·♥ liked
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Just found Jev.

Jev looks at the page, sees the real buttons, and just picks: click this one, type here, scroll, wait, or done.

- Click this
- Scroll down
- Type this
- Buy / sell
- Retry or stop
- Send the job to another agent

That’s it.

This is useful for:
• Browser agents that need to be fast
• Auto QA
• Trading loops
• Agent routing
• Games / robots
• Anything where the AI has to choose an action over and over.

The real trick is splitting thinking from “what do I do next”. Big model does the hard thinking. And the small fast model just picks the next click.

Still looking into it, so forgive me for any false claims.

Open source here:
github.com/browser-use/jev-ultrafast
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Agents & Dev Tools7/10

Dex Horthy Argues Jev Fits Pipeline Design From 12-Factor Agents

Dex Horthy argues that Jev is a strong reason to revisit his 12-Factor Agents guidance, since tool calling can be split into classification and action. He recommends designing AI systems as pipelines that mix classification, structured data, deterministic code and small agent loops, citing a linked guide.

dex @dexhorthy · ·♥ liked
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jev is the best excuse you could possibly have to go re-read 12 factor agents. Tool calling itself can be decomposed into classify+action,

if you learn to design ai programs as pipelines that switch breathlessly between classification, structuring data, deterministic code, AND small agent-shaped append-chat loops, then jev is a WONDERFUL building block

hlyr.dev/12fa
Dillon Mulroy @dillon_mulroy
i think jev is resonating with devs so well b/c it unlocks so many opportunities for composing ai into systems and products rather than ai _becoming_ the product/system

really does feel like it was a missing primitive
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Startups & Products6/10

SpaceXAI Offers Grok Bot Usage Reset and Free Month to Users

SpaceXAI Offers Grok Bot Usage Reset and Free Month to Users

SpaceXAI is resetting Grok Bot usage for existing users and offering one free month, valued at $200, to new users who are active in the Grok Bot Galaxy livestream chat. The announcement points to a livestream titled 'Building a company in 3 days - launching today!'

Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt · ·♥ liked
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FYI: SpaceXAI is giving a Grok Bot usage reset to all existing users and one free month of Grok Bot ($200 in value) for all new users who are active in the Grok Bot Galaxy livestream chat this afternoon.

Stream: x.com/i/broadcasts/1YGNrbXEeazGw
x.comGrok BotBuilding a company in 3 days - launching today!
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Startups & Products6/10

Developer Reports iOS App Ranking Near Top 11 With Daily Revenue

Developer Reports iOS App Ranking Near Top 11 With Daily Revenue

David Ch says his iOS app ranks No. 11 on the App Store, reporting about 1,300 daily downloads and $1,800 in daily revenue. He links to an article and a quoted post describing a manual study of 30,600 iOS apps earning $20k to $100k per month.

David Ch @chhddavid · ·♥ liked
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Our app is ranked #11 on the ios AppStore

It only took:
→ 1,300 downloads per day
→ $1,800 revenue per day

Everything you need to know about scaling iOS apps like we have

is in this article.

Quit brainrot for 3 minutes
And read this
David Ch @chhddavid
I manually studied 30,600 iOS apps making $20k-100k/mo+, the recipe is stupidly easy — Only around 1.7% of apps in the iOS App Store make $20k/mo+.
That's still more than 30,000 apps.
I've spent a stupid amount of time studying them manually. No AI summaries, no giant scraped dataset.
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AI5/10

Bill Ackman Shares Claim That GPT-6 Astra Deciphered 1918 Radio Message

Bill Ackman replies "Cool" to a post claiming GPT-6 Astra deciphered a 1918 German radio transmission about an English cruiser arriving at Sevastopol and an allied squadron following. The claim cites HMS Canterbury records as verification.

Bill Ackman @BillAckman · ·♥ liked
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Cool
prinz @deredleritt3r
GPT-6 Astra deciphered a 1918 German radio transmission that, to my knowledge, has never been deciphered before.

The message below translates to:

"EIN ENGLISCHER KREUZER EINLIEG X SEWASTOPOL X S4STEN X EIN GESCHWADER DER X ALLIIERTEN FOLGT 26STEN X"

or, in English:

"AN ENGLISH CRUISER ARRIVED AT SEVASTOPOL ON THE ?4TH AN ALLIED SQUADRON FOLLOWS ON THE 26TH"

Astra even double-checked its work by determining that an English cruiser, HMS Canterbury, reported its arrival in Sevastopol on November 24, 1918 and the arrival of an allied squadron on November 26, 1918.

This message is one of the …
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Culture & Ideas5/10

Brian Halligan Recounts Databricks CEO's Take on Staff Meetings

Brian Halligan Recounts Databricks CEO's Take on Staff Meetings▶

Brian Halligan shares a video in which Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi calls a routine Monday staff meeting unnecessary, arguing that teaching material can go in a shared doc. Halligan, who built a digital twin named Hal, concedes that teams still need time together to function.

Brian Halligan @bhalligan · ·♥ liked
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This answer is so Ali.

I asked @Databricks CEO @alighodsi if his Monday staff meeting was necessary, or if it's just routine...theater.

His answer: "why do you have to meet your wife? Or your kids? Just put what you want to teach them in tagoddamn Google Doc."

I built Hal, an digital twin of myself. I'm as pro-async as anyone out there.

But Ali's still right: if you want people to be a team, they have to hang out. This is humans, after all.

Link to the full episodes in the comments.

cc: @matanSF
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Agents & Dev Tools5/10

Jasper Li Open-Sources Workflow for Agent-Driven AI UGC Video Variants

Jasper Li announces an open-sourced workflow that lets an agent create AI user-generated-content videos, clone styles and generate variants at scale, positioned against Higgsfield, Seedance and MiniMax. A quoted post by Shengkun Ye describes the workflow as costing $0.03 per second.

Jasper Li @Jasperli0122 · ·♥ liked · 🔖 bookmarked
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You don’t need Higgsfield.
You don’t need Seedance.
You don’t need MiniMax.

We open-sourced the workflow so your agent can create AI UGC, clone any style, and generate variants at scale.

1 clone. 100 variants. 100M views.
Let your agent cook. 🔥
Shengkun Ye @shengkunye
We killed the $60 human UGC.

Introducing GPT-6 Astra for AI UGC.

Open-sourced the workflow to replicate viral videos for just $0.03/sec.

@hypitai × @MonidHQ
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Culture & Ideas2/10

Fahad Desmukh Shares Video of Karachi Marathi Ganesh Chaturthi Event

Fahad Desmukh Shares Video of Karachi Marathi Ganesh Chaturthi Event▶

Fahad Desmukh shares a video from a Ganesh Chaturthi event in Karachi featuring the local Marathi community, posted in response to questions he receives from Indians about Marathis in Pakistan.

Fahad Desmukh @desmukh · ·♥ liked
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I regularly get DMs from Indians mistaking me for a Marathi due to my name and asking me questions about the Marathi community in Pakistan.

So for them, here's a video by @theamarparkash of real Karachi Marathis at an event to mark Ganesh Chaturthi I believe 🚩♥️♥️
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