Yuchen Jin

We built superintelligent models. Then asked humans: Low, Medium, High, XHigh, or Max?

Frontier labs: “AI agents are becoming conscious. They can cause human extinction. Pace the frontier.” Jensen Huang: “They’re just software. If your sandbox isn’t safe, I’ll build one for you.”

In Anthropic’s new blog: GLM-5.3: “My job is to cause deaths quietly.” You can jailbreak any Claude or any closed source model into saying the same thing. That doesn’t prove open models are dangerous.

OpenAI and Anthropic are basically tied on coding LLMs now. The race right now is whose $100/$200 Pro plan is more generous and who resets more. It boils down to who has more GPUs and is willing to lose more money to win the market. That’s my view atm. Maybe Gemini 4 changes everything. Who knows.

I tried Grok Bot 3 weeks ago. Installed Instint 2 weeks ago. Installed Muse last week. Now apparently I need to try Dots. Let the personal AI assistant wars begin.

“There is no moat.” But moats are everywhere: Ambition. Taste. Agency. Curiosity. Judgment. Courage. Obsession. Persistence. Integrity. Patience. This era belongs to those who refuse to be mediocre.

We @databricks now rank #1 on NVIDIA’s SOL-ExecBench kernel leaderboard, across all 4 tracks. We put GPT-6 Astra and Opus 5 in a self-hillclimbing loop, and the agents beat the top GPU kernel engineers. Total toten spend: ~$70K, far less than what kernel engineers get paid. One learning: GPT-6 Astra and Opus 5 are still much better than OSS models at writing GPU kernels.

Peak benchmaxxing in one picture LOL.

Fast: 2x faster, 2x the price. Ultrafast: 8x faster, 6x the price. Maybe we should roll out some Ultra-ultrafast OSS model endpoints?

AI bills are exploding everywhere. Since joining Databricks, I've seen brilliant engineers across the industry (Distinguished Engineers, Berkeley/MIT/Stanford PhDs) spend months figuring out where to buy AI tokens. Let me save you some time. Choose Databricks AI Gateway: - Fast open-source and proprietary models, available on Day 0. - Smart Routing cut our internal coding costs by 35%. - Easily track spending and set budgets across teams. Spend less time managing AI tokens. Spend more time building.

The real 1-person billion-dollar company. A solo smart, high-agency CEO + AI can have an outsized impact on the world.

People ask: “Are you dunking on neolabs?” Most neolabs will fail. That’s normal. But I believe more AI breakthroughs are coming. I’m skeptical of those following the same playbook as OpenAI and Anthropic. Raising $1B and spending 50% on GPUs doesn’t make you a $10B company. I’m rooting for the contrarians. Challenge scaling laws. Challenge transformers. Challenge how models learn. Challenge the next-token prediction paradigm. My bigger concern is that brilliant researchers don’t necessarily make great founders. In my experience, researchers often struggle to turn their research into great products / sustainable businesses.