appughar

@appughar

CEO & co-founder, Mobius Labs (exited to Dropbox). Making Dash multimodal. Trying to make computers see.

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appughar
@appughar
Oct 23, 2025
After an incredible 7-year roller coaster of building @Mobius_Labs — a journey filled with both amazing excitement and moments of grief — I’m super thrilled to join @Dropbox along with my fellow Mobius team to bring multimodality to Dropbox Dash.
Mobius Labs
@Mobius_Labs
Oct 23, 2025
@Dropbox is acquiring our IP, and the Mobius core tech team is joining them. A huge milestone for us! dropbox.tech/machine-learni…
appughar
@appughar
Sep 28, 2025
A big part of my PhD was on manifold optimization researchgate.net/publication/43…. Back then, training data were only in the 1000s. I never thought I’d hear about the Stiefel manifold again in the era of stochastic gradients—where massive datasets often make simpler, heuristic methods
Thinking Machines
@thinkymachines
Sep 26, 2025
Efficient training of neural networks is difficult. Our second Connectionism post introduces Modular Manifolds, a theoretical step toward more stable and performant training by co-designing neural net optimizers with manifold constraints on weight matrices.
appughar
@appughar
Mar 28, 2025
What fascinates me about Miyazaki’s work is how much empathy it stirs. In Totoro, when Satsuki runs searching for her sister—worried, confused, a bit angry—it felt like I was sharing the experience with her. That, to me, is the core aesthetics behind the shot.
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appughar
@appughar
Feb 18, 2025
Gemlite and HQQ comes to @vllm_project 🤘
Mobius Labs
@Mobius_Labs
Feb 18, 2025
New releases for hqq ( github.com/mobiusml/hqq/r……) and gemlite ( github.com/mobiusml/gemli…… )! The most exciting update is that we're bringing support to @vllm_project
appughar
@appughar
Jan 31, 2025
My 2 cents on R1 momenttech.eu: Open source and innovation unlocks opportunities for European startups. Speed & innovation now matter most. Deploying models for a few 100€s was once unimaginable. Now we can. Eg: lnkd.in/e-dHQk5T. tech.eu/2025/01/31/dee…