Patrick Collison

@patrickc

@Stripe CEO, @ArcInstitute cofounder.

[email protected]

patrickcollison.com

Joined April 2007

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Patrick Collison
@patrickc
May 25
Tyler and I just published a list of the recipients of the New Aesthetics grants: newaesthetics.art/grants. Thank you very much to all who applied. There were far more applications than we expected. We funded 28 grantees and are excited to see what they create. My reflections on
New Aesthetics Grants
From newaesthetics.art
Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Aug 21
$ ori [your favorite harness] --model thinkingmachines/inkling:free (More: openrouter.ai/docs/guides/or….)
Thinking Machines
@thinkymachines
Aug 21
We want to improve Inkling’s agentic performance. To help us understand its real-world behavior, we are making it available for free on OpenRouter (only with agentic harnesses) for the next few weeks, starting now. We’ll use the data, disassociated from accounts, to better it.
Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Aug 21
$ ori --model stealth/ox-alpha It's very impressive.
OpenRouter
@OpenRouter
Aug 20
🥷 New stealth model: Ox Alpha Ox Alpha is a frontier model built for efficient coding, sustained agentic work, and real-world production use. - 1M token context window - Text, image, and video input Try it now and share feedback to improve the model! openrouter.ai/stealth/ox-alp…
Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Aug 20
The 2026 @arcinstitute Virtual Cell Challenge just launched. The grand prize is $100,000, sponsored by @nvidia, @10xGenomics, and @UltimaGenomics. There's a lot of interest in virtual cells these days: ML models of cells that can complement wet lab experiments. (You'll always
The 2026 Virtual Cell Challenge: predicting perturbation responses in cell contexts a model has...
From arcinstitute.org
Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Aug 19
OpenRouter is joining Stripe: stripe.com/newsroom/news/…. As anyone who uses it knows, @OpenRouter is a truly delightful developer tool. It is by far the best way to use new models and manage multiple inference providers. OpenRouter is also playing an increasingly important role:
Stripe agrees to acquire OpenRouter to help businesses optimize token routing and usage
From stripe.com