Amjad Masad is the CEO of Replit, who posts on X about the company's products and the AI industry. Recent coverage centers on Replit's Cloud Agents, which can run any codebase and generate pull requests, running any GitHub repo by pasting a link, the launch of Replit for Government, and the Chroma team joining to work on agent context and memory. He also discusses the "self-driving company" idea and where frontier AI investment should go.
“Promote my app on tiktok” [Quoting @Replit]: You create it. Help your next users discover it. TikTok Ads MCP is now available in Replit, bringing advertising workflows into the workspace where you create. Connect your TikTok Ads account and try it:
Really proud of how many family-run businesses are powered by Replit. [Quoting @Replit]: Dan grew his business 15% in 3 months on Replit. When more and more business knocked on the door at Cockle Finance, Dan and his dad, Steve, needed a plan to keep up. So t…
The US is catching up on open-weights models. [Quoting @reflection_ai]: Introducing Beam: a highly efficient agentic open model with 501B total parameters and 23B active. - Frontier reasoning efficiency - Advances the Western open frontier on coding & agentic…
Who’s building this? [Quoting @a16z]: Replit CEO Amjad Masad on how general models could train smaller, domain-specific models on the fly: "There's a lot of talk of recursive self-improvement, but there's something I don't think is getting a lot of discussion…
We go really deep and somewhat technical here with the brilliant @alexatallah of OpenRouter. Enjoy! [Quoting @a16z]: .@OpenRouter co-founder Alex Atallah, in his first podcast since Stripe acquired the company, joins @Replit co-founder Amjad Masad and a16z's…
a16z: Specialized AI Beats One God ModelOpenRouter's Alex Atallah and Replit's Amjad Masad told a16z that the enterprise future is not one all-purpose model but routing across specialized agents with per-task cost evaluation. Both admitted the orchestration protocols, agent-to-agent standards and data sovereignty plumbing are still missing.
Reaching concerning levels of psychosis. [Quoting @ChristopherHale]: NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the…
Make and one-click publish Meta VR apps. [Quoting @Replit]: Game time. Replit apps are now available in Meta VR.
How to design and build a harness to reach frontier performance at a fraction of the cost! [Quoting @pirroh]:
We’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to build the self-driving company. A big part of that is putting the ability to understand a business in everyone's hands. Atta has built a beautiful approach to business analysis and data visualization, and they…
Muse can now make apps on Replit
You need young people to break the mold, question deeply held beliefs, and attempt the impossible. The ideal college would cultivate exactly that. [Quoting @a16z]: Amjad Masad with Gagan Biyani and Erik Torenberg on HAA: The Horowitz Andreessen Academy The id…
Your intelligence is fake. It’s artificial. Mine? It’s super. Super Intelligence. Aka SI. [Quoting @atrupar]: Trump tells the UN he is officially changing the name of Artificial Intelligence to "Super Intelligence" and says all US government documents will no…
AI is reviving the American Dream. [Quoting @Replit]: Jon Cheney built GenAIPI for $400 on Replit. In 5 days, he made $15k with his first customer. In 6 weeks, he made $180k. GenAIPI was worth $20M 18 months later. Jon had the vision. Replit made it possible.
This is cool, but if your output domain is known in advance, why not just train a model to produce logprobs over enums? [Quoting @CompleteSkeptic]: After co-inventing ChatGPT, I kept asking myself: why have superhuman chat models not led to AGI? I’ve spent th…
The AI naming curse strikes again. “AI Safety” firm made AI unsafe. “Effective Altruists” are both ineffective and enabling criminal activity. “Irregular” is regularly incompetent. [Quoting @brianchau57]: BREAKING: A single Israeli Effective Altruism firm is…
[Quoting @brianchau57]: BREAKING: A single Israeli Effective Altruism firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta cyberattacks 🧵 with help from @lumpenspace
Not a bad idea to slow down to harden systems. Especially since we haven’t even discovered all the systems that agents hacked recently. [Quoting @DarioAmodei]: We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a…
Replit acquires a business entirely built on Replit. I expect first of many to come. [Quoting @ViktorThulin]: Test 13 is joining @Replit . 18 months ago, @gunnarkolbeins and I started Test 13 on a simple belief: AI is changing how software is made, and as a t…
Lots of risk with AI. I worry a lot about cybersecurity for example. However, “extinction risk” — literally 100% of humans die — is not remotely one of them. [Quoting @DavidSacks]: “I think they're having AI psychosis… I'm not sure they're dispassionate criti…
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