Cooking fun AI systems & products @databricks. Prev: co-founder & CTO @ Hyperbolic, OctoAI (acquired by @nvidia) Apache TVM, PhD @ University of Washington.
3 frontier models in one day!
- Grok 4.6: Fable 5-level, but 85% cheaper.
- Qwen3.8-Max: 2.4T params, 95B active. Weights are out.
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813: weights could drop any time. Heard it’s good, not just benchmaxxing.
Competition is great for consumers and businesses.