at this pace, @cursor_ai will be the number one or two coding agent on a year
— @jason (@Jason) June 17, 2026
very impressive squad... now with unlimited compute behind them
the best acquisition since Instagram and YouTube
I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there.
— Noam Shazeer (@NoamShazeer) June 18, 2026
It was a difficult decision to move on. I’m incredibly proud of the amazing team at Google and everything we’ve built together. It has been an honor and a pleasure to…
google paid $2.7b to acquire him in 24 & couldn’t hold him 18mo later.
— signüll (@signulll) June 18, 2026
that’s pretty insane.
i don’t even know a good sports analogy that works here. feels like they recruited ai jesus. https://t.co/5MrPdVrrmL
noam is one of the people I have most wanted to work with since the very beginning of openai.
— Sam Altman (@sama) June 18, 2026
only took 10 years.
i think it will be worth the wait! https://t.co/Hj2fjCywjv
Who is Noam?? :)
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 18, 2026
If Ploy AI were to hop from the Columbus Paradigm to the Neil Armstrong Paradigm, and to stretch to a Grand Solara Vision, it will see it is only one piece of a grand puzzle. Do you want to talk?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 18, 2026
Gave an impromptu talk to the interns at our New York office today.
— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) June 18, 2026
Many aspiring entrepreneurs, looking to build the future. pic.twitter.com/UMdlc8bf7d
We did @ycombinator 2 years ago with an average founding team age of 41 and became YC’s fastest unicorn 💪🏻👴🏻💪🏻
— Philip Johnston (@PhilipJohnston) June 17, 2026
YC is the YC for 35+ founder 👌 https://t.co/2xUZfXdQCb
From writing $2k angel checks a year ago…
— Brycent (@brycent) June 17, 2026
To tithing $2k when a payment hits and not feeling it.
My God is able, I’ve seen him do incredible things in my life.
Jesus is King. 👑 https://t.co/Yemow31uC1 pic.twitter.com/r1OdWGrxDc
The only Man I truly TRUST, is my Barber……
— Damon Zumbroegel (@DamonZumbroegel) June 18, 2026
Straight razor to my throat? This is the only man on earth I would let do that. We’ve known each other 25 years. We used to say “Namaste Bai” to each other, now we say “Namaste Dai”. That’s how long! I wanted a shave today, and… pic.twitter.com/yK9blq2dp6
Hey @jietang I’m honoured. Thanks for following back! 🫶 pic.twitter.com/Txc4EIVOcF
— Jen Zhu (@jenzhuscott) June 18, 2026
Exactly 10 years ago today, I boarded a plane for the most consequential trip of my life. 🛫
— Federico Ast (@federicoast) June 17, 2026
The government of Buenos Aires had awarded me a prize to study at @singularityu, an innovation think tank and incubator, based on the early version of an idea I was starting to develop… pic.twitter.com/YPZL4FAI7P
Cool to see Parkway Venture Capital listed in the top 20 U.S. venture firms
— Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) June 17, 2026
I’ve known the co-founders for a long time and would strongly encourage founders to reach out to them pic.twitter.com/7PFlEfKvoW
At age 11, Elon saw his first real computer in a Johannesburg mall and just stood there staring. He had only read about them in magazines before.
— Astro Greek (@astro_greek) June 18, 2026
His dad hated computers (“just for games”), so Elon saved up from odd jobs and bought a Commodore VIC-20.
He finished the 60-hour… pic.twitter.com/PUrwTa07UF
When I came back to Austin after almost 30 years, one of the first people to reach out and welcome me back was Josh. No one tilted harder as an enthusiastic supporter of Austin entrepreneurism. Will be greatly missed. https://t.co/KJ6O4nUpRg
— Bill Gurley (@bgurley) June 17, 2026
In the summer of 1986, I was a lifeguard at a swanky Fort Worth country club.
— Roy "Deacon" Qualls (@RoyDeaconQualls) June 17, 2026
One Sunday, a friend invited me to an airshow.
On Monday, I bought a book about flying.
On Wednesday, I saw Top Gun.
Quite the aviation trifecta.
When the movie ended, I walked into an Air Force… pic.twitter.com/6EEbwSfAEb
Yesterday was a very surreal day in many ways.
— Morgan (@morganlinton) June 17, 2026
Waking up to see that SpaceX had acquired Cursor, and then a few hours later, watching @mntruell deliver his keynote on stage at Compile, Cursor's first user conference, was just incredible.
I think this is a truly historic… pic.twitter.com/6N251bszpo
People have no idea how to sell to technical founders
— Yahia Bakour (@mynameisyahia) June 18, 2026
I know because I am one, and my DMs are full of people doing it horribly, truly horribly
some guidelines:
> no BS. If your opener is “looking to connect” and you run an agency, I am not replying
> be honest. Tell me what…
If you need a website, this is the best website creator on the planet: Ploy by Bryant Chou
— Garry Tan (@garrytan) June 17, 2026
Drop everything and use this to improve your website now. A total redesign to your taste is at your fingertips. Try it with a side project and you'll bring it to your main project in 2… https://t.co/GLPOaWE9Eh
When you hear "founders in the current YC batch swear by it," that is a serious predictor of success. They are sophisticated judges of technology, and they won't use something merely out of loyalty to their batchmates. https://t.co/Wy3bEmUVNQ
— Paul Graham (@paulg) June 17, 2026
Great CEOs have a weird psychological blend where they are both deeply humble and shamelessly arrogant.
— Adam Shuaib (@adamshuaib) June 17, 2026
We’ve seen the humility show up in things like their willingness to walk away from a feature if users hate it, or the desire to handle personally the early customer support…
SF voters! CA voters!
— brryant (@bryantchou) May 19, 2026
Don't get Connie Chan bring her anti-police policies to the state. she has been terrible for residents in my community. NO response from her office when my child was abducted by a crazy homeless person outside a preschool in 2022! https://t.co/OMuTZG1ggq
I think you still need both, but the main lede is: technical founders now have access to business thinking
— Garry Tan (@garrytan) June 17, 2026
Business founders now have access to technical thinking
Net net: more startups that actually work, period https://t.co/Kd3iRxQrtE
No one wants to admit this, but the Steve Wozniak / Steve Jobs era of "technical founder + business founder" is over.
— Romàn (@romanbuildsaas) June 15, 2026
For 40 years the model was the same.
One founder builds. One founder sells.
That split made sense when writing code took a CS degree and distribution took a… pic.twitter.com/uS4uMnQcsv
2026 has been so wild, I can barely believe it.
— Romàn (@romanbuildsaas) June 17, 2026
- Got accepted into YC and tripled our ARR in 3 months. We just crossed $3M.
- Helped clients book thousands of demos.
- Passed 2,200 paying customers.
- Hired a great team of sharp killers.
- Moved to San Francisco.
- Raised… pic.twitter.com/w6C9QjHze6
Paul Graham published “Startups in 13 sentences” back in 2009.
— Pierre-Eliott Lallemant (@pierreeliottlal) June 17, 2026
I reread them after being accepted into YC.
The advice is still relevant today.
Here’s the summary:
1. Pick good cofounders.
You can swap your idea overnight, but you're stuck with your cofounders, so pick them… pic.twitter.com/uLKCr6rhIq
Back at it. At the mothership. Grateful to be amongst the world's best and brightest founders at YC. @garrytan as group partner. He was also Webflow's group partner when we both had less white hair.
— brryant (@bryantchou) May 15, 2026
Can't wait to show ⬜⬜⬜⬜ to the world pic.twitter.com/OjUE491Ocd
it's time we have a new publication that talks about issues the center cares about. no idealogical virtue signaling. just common sense. subscribe to https://t.co/KhH2kH0gIo
— brryant (@bryantchou) February 12, 2026
Lets bring SF back! pic.twitter.com/M7aI05Qmxq
i feel both incredibly inspired and terribly lonely every time i visit sf
— Sherry Jiang is in sf ✈️ (@SherryYanJiang) June 18, 2026
inspired bc so many people betting on themselves, so many interesting builders i got to learn from
but the conversations can become formulaic. name drop yc this, a16z that. "how many users."
cool... but…
Walking the red carpet with @kimbal at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere for the Burning Man documentary “The Man Will Burn”🔥 Kimbal has quite a huge role. I really enjoyed the two episodes, which were really well edited. It will be on @HBO starting Thursday July 9.@elonmusk… pic.twitter.com/r90xXW5McL
— Maye Musk (@mayemusk) June 17, 2026
This would be a paradigm shift.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 18, 2026
Nine years at Google, three on Gemini at DeepMind, working on post-training with people I'd follow anywhere. Close enough to scale to see how far it goes, and where it stops.
— Sanjay Ganapathy (@sanjaygsub) June 17, 2026
Today's AI is remarkable, but jagged: it hallucinates fluently. In high-stakes domains like healthcare,… https://t.co/LCAkLdW3VB
we hit 1,000+ B2B customers in under a year.
— Finn Mallery (@fin465) June 17, 2026
i made a TIER LIST for every growth channel to grow a startup in 2026. here it is:
S TIER (best) → Outbound
unbeatable way to get your first 10 customers. literally just ask people if they want to buy your sh*t
if you built…
We offer no explanation as to why Noams are so good at AI; we attribute their success, as all else, to divine benevolence. https://t.co/QQ93UCF4ok
— Sam Altman (@sama) June 18, 2026
“Sir… Noam Shazeer, the legend who invented the Transformer… who Sundar paid $2.7 billion to bring back and led Gemini… sir… it hasn’t even been two years and announced he’s leaving Google AGAIN…” https://t.co/pduo0pgxli pic.twitter.com/YJELJyFUuU
— NIK (@ns123abc) June 18, 2026
cold open: google campus. a conference room named “moonshot serenity 4b.” twelve people are in a meeting titled: pre-sync for sync alignment on ai velocity.
— signüll (@signulll) June 18, 2026
sundar sits calmly at the head of the table.
a pm clicks to slide 1 of 187.
“the agenda today is simple,” she says. “how…
Very excited to welcome @NoamShazeer to OpenAI as our new lead for architecture research! His work on transformers, MoE, and efficient decoding have shaped modern AI.
— Mark Chen (@markchen90) June 18, 2026
He’s extremely AGI-pilled and is super thoughtful about making it all go well. Welcome, Noam! https://t.co/EIpAF50f1v
Noam Shazeer - co-author of the Transformer, T5, and Switch Transformer papers, and one of the pioneers of sparse MoE models - is leaving his VP Engineering / Gemini co-lead role at Google DeepMind to join OpenAI
— Lisan al Gaib (@scaling01) June 18, 2026
This is likely the most significant AI talent move of the year.… https://t.co/ZWyyBaWRu4
decades of racial discrimination against smart white men has limited the talent pool https://t.co/dpZbOpwlTI pic.twitter.com/FVgenYzkJl
— Fugitive Caesar (@ThomBrady5) June 18, 2026
Noam’s leaving Google makes Gemini’s future feel uncertain.
— Yuchen Jin (@Yuchenj_UW) June 18, 2026
More than one DeepMind person has told me Noam saved Gemini. There’s even lore that he tweaked a few lines of training code and Gemini’s quality instantly jumped.
Gemini’s coding ability still feels behind. I really… https://t.co/s4SPgPdjVq
OpenAI just acquired Noam Shazeer one of the original authors of ‘Attention Is All You Need,’ the paper that invented the transformer architecture every major LLM is built on.
— Chris (@ChrissGPT) June 18, 2026
Massive heavy hitter. https://t.co/hNH4k2pUPw pic.twitter.com/tBOpDfyIS0
OpenAI just fixed their supposed "scaling pretraining problem" https://t.co/VEvxoRAReH
— Nathan Lambert (@natolambert) June 18, 2026
believe it or not, but Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are all in different categories now
— Lisan al Gaib (@scaling01) June 18, 2026
Anthropic > OpenAI >> Google, SpaceX AI, DeepSeek, Moonshot, ZAI, Meta https://t.co/QGqwVn8GTy
生成AIの最重要研究であるTransformer論文の当時Googleの著者8人は「神8」やTransformer Eightなどと言われて特別扱いされ、その一人Noam ShazeerはTransformerの成功を「説明できず、神の慈悲によるもの」 と書いたことで有名です。
— 今井翔太 / Shota Imai@えるエル (@ImAI_Eruel) June 18, 2026
なんとそのShazeerがGoogleからOpenAIに移るというニュース。… https://t.co/PpTNvhN7yU pic.twitter.com/Ka1laIjrGR
Noam Shazeer is leaving Google for @OpenAI. He is not just another big-name AI hire. He co-led Gemini, co-founded Character AI, and was one of the people behind the Transformer paper that kicked off the modern LLM era.
— Mark Kretschmann (@mark_k) June 18, 2026
For OpenAI, this is a major talent win. For Google, it has…
一行解説：G社にイラついて辞めて起業したのをG社が4000億円払って呼び戻したけどやっぱり耐えられず辞めた
— Kenn Ejima (@kenn) June 18, 2026
最後は自由と仲間が大事という教訓か… https://t.co/CNIlEoMJv2
Google spent $2.7 billion to bring Noam Shazeer back in September 2024.
— AshutoshShrivastava (@ai_for_success) June 18, 2026
Less than two years later, he's joining OpenAI. https://t.co/5qLYoO2Nq3 pic.twitter.com/zykg31fMil
OpenAI already has the best RL stack, and now it will have the best pretraining stack (again) https://t.co/lePeJgvVCU
— Cheng Lu (@clu_cheng) June 18, 2026
Wow, I was really right about Google months ago 😂
— jinjingliang (@JinjingLiang) June 18, 2026
Now even the head of Google Gemini is joining OpenAI. https://t.co/o7uWMtfEME pic.twitter.com/APxgRVxb9U
Noam Shazeer on OpenAI (via Character AI's pitchdeck) pic.twitter.com/fphw0dRMtV
— Nitasha Tiku (@nitashatiku) June 18, 2026
How long do you think Noam Shazeer will stay at OpenAI? pic.twitter.com/MNVKZYrS3I
— NIK (@ns123abc) June 18, 2026
biggest Code Red ever https://t.co/nK9qCPn6lA
— Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞) (@teortaxesTex) June 18, 2026
OpenAI lost $38,530,000,000 in 2025 alone according to recent financial documents, with the company struggling to figure out how to make a profit. pic.twitter.com/xAKk0F9dn3
— Pubity (@pubity) June 18, 2026
Huge!
— Jia-Bin Huang (@jbhuang0604) June 18, 2026
It’s amazing how often Noam’s papers end up at the center of the field. In many tutorial videos I’ve made, they’ve been a recurring foundation for explaining key ideas. GOAT!
MoE: https://t.co/rSGFZn7qVL
SwiGLU: https://t.co/7YRpAZcjlN
MQA: https://t.co/l8YwoUv3J0… https://t.co/Rp0ZFFPUth
Breaking: OpenAI overtakes Anthropic’s valuation https://t.co/tcVUYCWy3a
— Liam Fedus (@LiamFedus) June 18, 2026
GPT 5.6 Soon 👀: Noam Shazeer leaving Google for OpenAI
— Salio (@Mr_Salio) June 18, 2026
google paid $2.7b to acquire him in 2024
For anyone wondering why he is such a big deal:
> Co-authored the Transformer paper that kicked off the modern AI revolution
> Helped create some of Google's most important… https://t.co/YYO9wpo4Bg pic.twitter.com/GyaH3gVKBz
OpenAI generated $13.07 billion in revenue in 2025 but recorded operating losses of nearly $21 billion, according to leaked audited financial documents obtained by Ed Zitron.
— Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation) June 18, 2026
The documents show OpenAI spent around $34 billion that year, including $19.18 billion on research and… pic.twitter.com/mub63AggOL
You are all over Twitter today. What did you do? :)
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 18, 2026
No comments:
Post a Comment