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2 captures, most recent first. Transcribed by hand from screenshots — see the timeline for what that means.

Jimmy Apples @apples_jimmy

— quoting The Information

Jimmy Apples 🍎/acc (@apples_jimmy): "Very nice to see, no corp slop just terraforming planets and self replicating factories while exploring beyond the transformer architecture. 'After developing the model—which Tworek aims to need 100 times less data than state-of-the-art models, the company will develop an AI agent to automate development of the company's products. He envisions the company's future product will first work on industrial automation, eventually building "self-replicating factories" and potentially building biomachines to automatically create custom designs—or even terraform planets, the materials said.' - The Information" [Embedded article card, The Information]: "Ex-OpenAI Researcher's Startup Targets Up to $1 Billion in Funding to Develop a New Type of AI" [photo: a long-haired man (Tworek) gesturing while talking, seated by large windows] 2:12 PM · Jan 28, 2026 · 96.3K Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Twitter commentary on a reported new AI startup (founded by an ex-OpenAI researcher, surname Tworek) seeking ~$1B to build a non-transformer, data-efficient architecture, with grandiose stated ambitions ranging from industrial automation to self-replicating factories and "terraforming planets." Relevant to Nathan's tracking of frontier-lab funding, new architectures beyond transformers, and rhetoric/hype in AI startup fundraising.

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Jimmy Apples @apples_jimmy

— quote-tweeting @polynoamial (Noam Brown)

Jimmy Apples 🍎…✓ @apples_jimmy sprawled on the floor, memes leaking from my thumbs, AGI humming in my veins like a misplaced god. The feed murmurs "tide's rising everywhere" & I let it pool in my cupped palms. I doze off to the sound of my own obsolescence lapping closer. Jimmy's in his opium den phase > QUOTED: Noam Brown ✓ @polynoamial · Mar 12 > Seeing these creative writing outputs has been a real "feel the AGI" moment for some folks at @OpenAI. The pessimist line lately has been "only stuff like code and math will keep getting better; the fuzzy, subjective bits will stall."... [Show more] 3:56 AM · Mar 12, 2025 · 27.5K Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A surreal, semi-ironic poetic tweet from AI-hype figure Jimmy Apples riffing on feeling personally obsolete in the face of AGI creative-writing progress, quote-tweeting OpenAI researcher Noam Brown's comment that improved AI creative writing output is a "feel the AGI" moment countering the belief that only code/math would keep improving. Relevant to Nathan's tracking of AI capability perception and "feel the AGI" sentiment among researchers.

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