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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