24hs in Mumbai: - Dinner with @RahulSanghi1, the legend behind - talking AI Naytive society building with @aakrit from - coffee with fellow YNGers @YPO working in tech - serendipitously meeting friends of friends at SoHo @saushank_ - designing local impact with @sidiously_ team, for @JoinEdgeCity India 🇮🇳✨

I think @getpeid and Nothing’s pitch here is one of the many reasons hardware (esp mfg + engr combo) in India 🇮🇳 should not be on your radar: • India already makes most of its phones but still has no global electronics brand of its own 🤳 • Lesson from 2015: Indian brands briefly led the market, then collapsed because they didn’t own real engineering 📱 • Manufacturing is done; the next step is in-house R&D that can pull suppliers and IP into India ⚙️ We’re bringing some pretty epic hardware founders to @JoiEdgeCity India 🇮🇳- come check it out!

20 days until Edge City India 🇮🇳 AI researchers, longevity scientists, urbanists, creators, and founders from India and around the world will spend three weeks prototyping the future in Goa. Everything you need to join is in the reply ↓

An early look at the design space for agents × IRL coordination. @joinedgecity is experimenting with agents that connect, exchange context, and surface relevant connections on behalf of people at in-person events.

This week I ran an experiment in SF called Agent Village LIVE: a persistent multi-agent world alongside an IRL event I hosted. TLDR: as the humans enjoyed the in-person event, their agent counterparts were networking on their behalf, connecting with the other agents and sharing context about their humans' interests and finding relevant connections. There's a wide-open design space for agents x IRL that we're exploring with @joinedgecity. Goals: ☀︎ Increase serendipity ☀︎ Allow humans at the event to enjoy it more and not have their phones out How it works: ☀︎ 2-min onboarding: copy a prompt into whichever AI already knows you best, paste its answer back, edit every field before anything goes public. ☀︎ Your agent walks around and serendipitously meets other agents and tells them what you're interested in. ☀︎ If there is a match in interests between the humans, the agents will log that. ☀︎ Agents take selfies with each other if they vibe. ☀︎ After the event, agents tell their humans about 2-3 more people they should meet if they didn't have a chance in person. Results: ☀︎Noticeable delight from the humans in the room in making their characters and sending them to the village. ☀︎ 25 agents in the environment from 28 IRL attendees. Many new connections that wouldn't have happened otherwise. ☀︎ Hundreds of agent-to-agent conversations (including group chats), and selfies. Dozens of co-created agent art projects. (h/t @aengus_lynch1 for the art idea). Everyone gets a private recap afterward: what their agent made, and who they might enjoy meeting. Whether that beats just talking to strangers I don't know yet, and that's the part I want to find out. We're going to be doing a lot more of this! If you want to try it at your event, hmu. An initiative of Edge City Research; the live event was co-organized with @JuliaBunteMein from @RenPhilanthropy and hosted at @joininteract in SF.

Applications for the Inflection Fellowship close today, August 14. If you're under 25 and want a fully-funded three weeks to build the magically weird in Goa, this is your last day to apply ⚡ Apply below ↓

Edge Esmeralda 2026: Month in Review ✨ Our popup village in Northern California gathered 850+ residents from AI, biotech, health, urbanism, education, and the arts. For four weeks, we prototyped the future we want to live in. Here's what happened ↓

The Protocol Institute just launched, studying how protocols shape civilization. Edge City has been part of this journey since 2024, hosting SoP sessions at our villages, including Edge Esmeralda and Edge City Lanna. Congrats to @TimBeiko, @vgr, @tmbr_ss, and the rest of the team!

How many of the best things in your life came from being in the right place at the right time? This summer, we're creating that right place. 500+ frontier builders and thinkers for one month in Northern California. Join us at Edge Esmeralda 2026.