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Yash Patil Verified account @ypatil125 · 6d

Applied Compute update:

- crossed ⁠$100M annualized revenue run rate up from zero 18 months ago
- raised $350M at $3.25B led by Elad Gil
- 40% of customers use AC for both custom model training + production inference
- inference serving 1T tokens a day after launching 12 weeks ago
- 2X enterprise customers since last raise
- 3X team since January, 85% are researchers and engineers
⁠- Working with customers like Microsoft, Shopify, Harvey, DoorDash, Cognition, Clay, Decagon and others

To move even faster we need people who are extremely technical AND extremely practical. If this is you, please reach out.

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Karim Atiyeh Verified account @karimatiyeh · Oct 27

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Colossus Verified account @colossusmag · May 11

Scott Wu is the co-founder of Cognition AI, one of the fastest-growing companies in history. He’s also the greatest competitive programmer the US has ever produced. You may have seen him doing impossible card tricks and mental math.

You’ve never seen him asked about weed, Michael Jordan, cancer, and human consciousness over a punnet of strawberries. That is what Colossus editor-in-chief Jeremy Stern did on a recent visit to San Francisco.

For those less familiar with @ScottWu46: In 2nd grade, he entered a math competition for 7th graders, lost, and was so furious he still fumes about it 20 years later. The next year he entered the 9th-grade division as a 3rd-grader and got a perfect score.

Then he won first place at the US national middle-school math competition and three straight gold medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics, where he became the greatest American gold-medalist and coach in history.

Most of the people running the biggest AI companies met as teenagers, competing for their countries on international math and science teams. OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Meta’s Alexandr Wang, to name just a few.

Most agree that the von Neumann among them was Scott Wu.

In November 2023, a few weeks after his mother died of lung cancer, on the day Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI, Wu founded his own AI company: Cognition.

He was 26 and saw earlier than almost anyone that AI would converge on agents that work in the background, 24/7, like coworkers. He shipped Cognition’s AI software engineer Devin in March 2024. It worked poorly, and he took intense public criticism for it.

Now, in its first 18 months of service, Devin has generated $445 million of revenue run rate and usage has doubled every eight weeks. The US Army, Goldman Sachs, and Mercedes-Benz are all customers. Cognition is raising at a valuation around $25 billion.

@JeremySternLA sat down with Wu, the emperor of the nerds, to ask the questions we’d all ask one of the smartest people in America—building the most consequential technology of our generation—if we ever got the chance.

As well as MJ and weed, they talk about the cluster of competitive math prodigies behind so much of AI, what makes us human when AGI arrives, and why Wu believes he was put on this earth to teach AI how to code.

Read the piece below.

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College Transfer Portal Verified account @CollegeFBPortal · Mar 28

NEW: Memphis football doesn’t practice with music…

Head Coach Charles Huff explains why: “When the Navy SEALs get ready to go on a mission, they’re not listening to Lil Baby.” 😳

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