Meta + Paradigm open challenge to optimize Muse Spark Top prize is $50K + an H200 signed by Meta team

10 days left for GPU World, the story competition from Neal Stephenson, Gwern, and me. What happens when frontier per-GPU capabilities diffuse?

Okay it’s happening: - Added 160k square feet in Reno for our automated high volume lines and parts up to 5’x10’. Operational now. - Added 170k square feet in Pittston PA for 1-day shipping (or faster) to the Northeast US. Landing machines and growing the team now. - Southeast US is next (flying out next week to negotiate a lease). 3 more leases in 3 more states to sign after that. Expect massive lead time reductions across our factory network. - Finalizing our first acquisition and working on the second and third. These are services you’ve been asking for. More coming. We’ll be able to say yes to more of your BOM. - Welding is ramping nicely. More assembly support soon. - More materials and capabilities for CNC machining in development now, including much smarter pricing. Increased capacity will also help us cut lead time drastically. - Added 450 people so far this year. Hopefully double that in 2027. - Candy and merch budgets have been tripled. …And we’re just getting started. That’s a big part of why we raised again: to build more, ship faster, and make manufacturing easier and more accessible. I’m doing my best for ya. I love you guys. Big thanks to @willreed at @sparkcapital , @caitlinbolnick1 at @CRV, @marksugarman at MHS, @andrew__reed at @sequoia and @matthuang at @paradigm for supporting our Series B (and the extra rocket fuel) LFG!!!!! 🇺🇸

Introducing: The Claw While you were setting up your OpenClaw we set up a physical claw machine in our office and hooked it up to the Tempo blockchain Play it yourself, or train your own robotics model to play it and climb the leaderboard 🧵

Frontiers: Day 3 nitter.siddz.com/i/broadcasts/1oJMvNXzL…

Frontiers: Day 2 nitter.siddz.com/i/broadcasts/1qKDzWpnl…

Frontiers: Day 1 nitter.siddz.com/i/broadcasts/1XxygwApP…

Research output is going superexponential. 2/3 of arXiv papers are now written with AI. @notnotstorm breaks it down with data: paradigm.xyz/research/public…

4 weeks to go for GPU World, the story competition from Neal Stephenson, Gwern, and me. $100K in prizes. Submit your story!

PK9 and PK10 have fallen and the Paradigm Kryptos challenges are complete Congrats to @LazlosBatForm, @forwardsecrecy, and the rest of the PK Solvers Club As well as Opus 5.5, which made the final breakthrough Now on to K4!

Live discussion with @danrobinson and @MTSlive on pacing the frontier

After nearly six incredible years building spacecraft, I’m beginning a new chapter as an entrepreneur in residence (EIR) at @paradigm. Varda was a grand adventure and a one of one experience I’ll cherish forever. I had the rare privilege of joining the founding team and helping take a wild idea from zero to one, from a blank sheet of paper to hypersonic vehicles coming home from orbit. I’m incredibly proud of what we built together. Thank you to Will, Delian, and the whole team. Paradigm is giving me something incredibly cool. I’ll have the freedom to search for the next important thing worth building. This might look like a radical departure, but I see it as a chance to step back, look broadly, and follow my curiosity. An EIR sits somewhere between researcher, inventor, and founder in waiting. Paradigm feels like a natural home for that kind of exploration, full of earnest nerds who pair deep technical curiosity with research. My role is to explore important problem spaces, develop conviction, run experiments, and eventually turn the most promising direction into something real. In many ways, it feels like a natural extension of my hobbies and passion projects. I’ll be in SF during the week and LA on weekends. I want to use that time to meet as many interesting people as I can. Let’s get coffee and talk about energy, compute, artificial intelligence, and manufacturing. I want to hear about your most ambitious ideas and deepest technical rabbit holes.

We built a game to demonstrate the difficulty of pacing the frontier, based on a new paper from @andrewjkoh and @DrewFudenberg Play online now and work your way up the leaderboard!

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Excited to share Wave 2 of Frontiers by @paradigm Speakers! Frontiers is our intense annual conference & hackathon for those beyond the edge in SF, Oct 12-14th 2026. - @johannes_hage of Prime Intellect - @_patrickogrady of Commonware - Sam Herring of Nous Research Apply to attend in the link below! Logistics: - Wave 1 of acceptances goes out today. - 2 weeks left for any new applications. - Merch and more sick videos to be announced. - 1 more super special speaker to be announced!

GPU World: A story competition from Neal Stephenson, Gwern, and me. The AI future is unevenly distributed. What would the world look like with AI broadly diffused, such as if we had one GPU per person? 1000-5000 words, fiction or non-fiction. $100K in total prizes. gpuworld.org