We have a new coffee grinder (and $190M fund). I rebuilt the electronics to add grind-by-weight and Wifi/BLE.
The firmware is also running a server to announce our new fund: rootventures.coffee
☕️🚀🤑
I remember going to the DARPA challenge in 2015. Progress seems slow when you are watching closely. Don’t get discouraged by everyone’s “rapid progress”, put in the work.
Introducing PhoneLLM, an open model for voice agents.
GPT 5.6 Terra performance on typical voice agent tasks at 1/3 the latency and 1/18 the cost.
For voice agents, we need models that are both very low latency and very good at tool calling and instruction following.
There's a
Today we’re introducing Delta. Delta is a multiplayer environment for coding with agents and reviewing what they build, powered by DeltaDB.
The first invites to our private beta are going out now.
zed.dev/blog/introduci…
my only memory of eating in the restaurant at the top of this building was using the urinals -- they placed them against massive windows overlooking the city. I can only imagine the architectural conversation around that one...
