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THE AI POST

INTELLIGENCE. CURATED.

The Pulse

The heartbeat of AI. Daily clips from leaders, people to follow, and tools that matter.

THE LEADERS

Sam Altman on AI Singularity, AGI Timeline, and Human Agency

Sam Altman - CEO, OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discusses the singularity moment, the pace of AGI capability development, and why human agency still matters in the age of superintelligence.

Dario Amodei on Nobel-Laureate Level AI Capability

Dario Amodei - CEO, Anthropic

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei outlines his vision for AI matching or exceeding Nobel-laureate capability across most disciplines by late 2026 or early 2027.

Mark Zuckerberg on Open-Weight AI Push

Mark Zuckerberg - CEO, Meta

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg champions the open-weight AI movement and explains why open models are the key to American leadership in AI infrastructure.

WHO TO FOLLOW

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Sam Altman

OpenAI CEO driving singularity narrative

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Dario Amodei

Anthropic CEO, Nobel-level AI vision

3

Demis Hassabis

Google DeepMind Chair, Chief Scientist of Alphabet

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Jensen Huang

NVIDIA CEO defining AI compute era

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Sundar Pichai

Google CEO scaling Gemini to 1B users

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Mark Zuckerberg

Meta CEO, open-weight AI manifesto

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Lisa Su

AMD CEO driving AI chip architecture

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Yann LeCun

Meta Chief AI Scientist, deep learning pioneer

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Andrej Karpathy

AI researcher, Eureka Labs founder

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Fei-Fei Li

AI + humanity advocate, Stanford HAI

TOOLS OF THE DAY

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Fireworks AI

Infrastructure

Specialized intelligence platform for high-performance AI inference. $1.5B Series D (July 2026) at $17.5B valuation. Built by PyTorch team. Leader in agentic benchmarks.

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Grok Bot

Agents

xAI's always-on autonomous AI agent. Each bot gets its own persistent cloud computer, signs into your apps, and completes multi-step tasks 24/7. Launched Aug 11, 2026 in beta.

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Meta Muse Glimmer

Models

30B open-source agentic model (Apache 2.0) optimized to run autonomous AI agents on your device. No cloud required. Released Aug 10, 2026. Download via Hugging Face.