Director of Developer Tech @ NVIDIA, Co-founder/CEO Brev.dev acquired by NVIDIA • I laugh til I cry it's not the same on zoom •YC W20 | UCSB • views are my own

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Exciting news... 🚨 Brev.dev has been acquired by NVIDIA! ❤️🤙 We started Brev with the goal of building the best damn developer experience possible. We’ve been working closely with NVIDIA since August, and we couldn't be more excited to team up. I'm infinitely grateful for our early users, investors, and team that supported us thus far. So excited for what's coming 🤙
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Nader Khalil🍊 retweeted
After Llama 2, the market figured out that value accrues at the data. Nader Khalil (@NaderLikeLadder) of @nvidiaai joined @PatrickMoorhead to share why @nvidia's Nemotron ships fully open, datasets included, so enterprises can post-train on their own data without building a foundation model from scratch. $NVDA
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"But GLM-5.3 is unlike other frontier models [Claude Mythos] in that it has been released without meaningful safeguards" And no one died. Civilization did not end. The bit is getting old. Plz try GLM 5.3 it's amazing.
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Just as important as the technical solution is how it was delivered: the industry coming together openly & collaboratively. This is how we build safe AI. Notably absent: fear-mongering
Today, with over 100 industry partners, we introduced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, bringing together OpenShell and Sentry. Artificial intelligence is extraordinary technology that will advance discovery, productivity, security, health, and prosperity for generations to come. But its full promise can only be realized when people have confidence that AI is being built to be safe and deployed with wisdom and responsibility. This is bigger than a single product. It's the beginning of an open ecosystem to build the trust layer for safe agent systems. Together, we are building the foundation of the AI economy. Trust and innovation are not in conflict. Safety is how trust is earned. We must build not only the most capable AI, but the most trusted AI, so that this extraordinary technology can realize its enormous promise for the world. nvda.ws/4hcoq7m
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Nader Khalil🍊 retweeted
This is how mature enterprises solve security problems (vs braggadocios press releases that create panic instead).
Today, with over 100 industry partners, we introduced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, bringing together OpenShell and Sentry. Artificial intelligence is extraordinary technology that will advance discovery, productivity, security, health, and prosperity for generations to come. But its full promise can only be realized when people have confidence that AI is being built to be safe and deployed with wisdom and responsibility. This is bigger than a single product. It's the beginning of an open ecosystem to build the trust layer for safe agent systems. Together, we are building the foundation of the AI economy. Trust and innovation are not in conflict. Safety is how trust is earned. We must build not only the most capable AI, but the most trusted AI, so that this extraordinary technology can realize its enormous promise for the world. nvda.ws/4hcoq7m
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Nader Khalil🍊 retweeted
If your product isn’t safe, don’t release it. I worked on FaceID, the pitch wasn’t “this is useful, but there’s a 10% chance the lasers will blind you.” The internal testing protocols for that were incredibly strict.
Dario Amodei is at the desk to assure that the future of humanity is safe from AI
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I love that pop culture now sees how ridiculous doomers are 🤣
Dario Amodei is at the desk to assure that the future of humanity is safe from AI
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Nader Khalil🍊 retweeted
we're post economic anyways
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If you believe the risk is coming from 1-3 people in a garage with no money and no compute, you just don't understand this technology and haven't learned anything this summer. Risk comes from the asymmetry of capabilities created by secret labs training frontier agents and running them with massive amount of compute. Open-source is exactly the solution to this asymmetry and empowers hospitals (and any smaller orgs) to defend themselves!
We're used to thinking of open-source models as an unadulterated good. But in the case of AI, they can actually pose additional dangers, as @ReidHoffman and I got into at #CGI2026. I appreciated this nuanced discussion.
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This is very exciting. But the rhetoric needs to stop: “The work was done mostly, though not entirely, by Claude” That isn’t true. It was done by some of the smartest life science researchers in the world, using every tool at their disposal. Pretending AI is alive is precisely what scares people, and it diminishes the role of talent. This can make young people feel developing skills is useless, and working professionals feel anxious about job security.
Today we announced the Claude-led discovery of a molecular machine that we suspect could represent a new gene editing mechanism. Its precise function, biotechnological utility (if any), or level of significance is not yet clear, but at minimum it is work I would have been proud to do as a PhD student. The work was done mostly, though not entirely, by Claude: our life sciences team suggested a broad area of research, Claude read through the literature and a bunch of genome data and discovered something interesting, then Claude proposed experiments to verify the discovery and our team carried them out. It’s easy to dismiss this as a one-off or curiosity, but we’ve repeatedly seen a pattern where AI performance in new intellectual domains goes from weak to superhuman in a matter of a few years. In 2023 models struggled to do math at the level of an average high-school student. In 2024 they started to do well on math competitions for the best high-schoolers in the country, in 2025 they started to solve minor open problems, in early 2026 more significant open problems, and in late 2026 they are beginning to solve the top few open problems in all of mathematics. We believe AI for biology is on a similar exponential trend. The main difference between biology and mathematics, of course, is that math can be done purely theoretically, while biology requires experimentation. Some have used this to draw the conclusion that AI’s utility in biology will be limited. We think this is wrong. As we’ve demonstrated today, humans can collaborate with AI to perform the experiments, validate key results in a few weeks and, if necessary, work with the AI to iterate on what they find. Eventually it may even be possible for Claude itself to safely perform the experiments by autonomously controlling lab equipment, with appropriate safeguards in place, but we aren’t doing that today (our lab is also a BSL1/BSL2 facility that doesn't handle materials dangerous to humans). More broadly, biomedical advancement has many stages — from fundamental biology discoveries, to translational research, to drug discovery, clinical trials, and finally the actual delivery of medicines and health care to patients. We are also interested in these later stages, but even simply accelerating the first stage of fundamental biological discoveries has the potential to speed up and broaden the entire pipeline. Improving our understanding of biology and sharpening biologists’ tools can drive forward all of the later stages, for example by identifying new drug targets, finding new therapeutic modalities, allowing for more precise measurement, and speeding up the experimental loop which itself further accelerates our understanding of biology. This will not in itself speed up clinical trial times, but if it succeeds it could greatly increase the number of promising candidates that go into the pipeline — an increase in throughput even though latency remains. In Machines of Loving Grace, I wrote about AI’s potential to “cure most diseases in 5-10 years” — a goal that sounds impossible, but one I believe is just barely possible if AI is applied to every stage of the pipeline. The first step is showing that AI can first help with, and then drive, biological discoveries. Claude’s discovery is the latest in a line of related prior work that goes back decades, beginning with systems like CRISPR, and continuing with discoveries like the bridge recombinase and VIPR in the past few years. Recently, there has been heightened interest in systems based on reverse transcriptase (RT) enzymes, the enzyme underlying the system Claude identified. And most recently, a Stanford team working independently described a novel RT system with an associated non-coding array that is in some ways similar to the one Claude found, though they are distinct systems that evolved independently from each other. I believe that we’re at the very beginning of finding such systems and developing them into powerful tools for biotechnology. I’m proud of the resources Anthropic has invested in accelerating the public benefits of AI through the life sciences, and we’re aiming both to grow our life sciences team and to work with other scientists to extend this approach to a broad range of problems. If you have a proposal for a research collaboration or are interested in joining our life sciences team, please reach out.
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Nader Khalil🍊 retweeted
Thanks so much for the compute!! More cool stuff incoming!
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Can’t wait for all the new unsloth quants 🤩
We got @UnslothAI a DGX Station! @DanielHanChen and @NaderLikeLadder checked out Unsloth’s new @Dell Pro Max with GB300 and talked about what comes next: support for more models, faster quantization, and more efficient reinforcement learning.
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Nader Khalil🍊 retweeted
We got @UnslothAI a DGX Station! @DanielHanChen and @NaderLikeLadder checked out Unsloth’s new @Dell Pro Max with GB300 and talked about what comes next: support for more models, faster quantization, and more efficient reinforcement learning.
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AI doesn’t take your job, it lets you focus on it.
the right way to use model capabilities is not to ship 10x more features to prod it's to spend more time understanding your users, trying experiments, building prototypes, learning about things you don't understand so that you can ship things that actually work
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TIL @trq212 and I were in the same YC batch! We exchanged numbers and had each others contacts saved 🤣❤️🤙 Lots happened since W20
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Nader Khalil🍊 retweeted
Friday nights at Alif. w/ @NaderLikeLadder, @trq212, @FurqanR, & @pk_iv.
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This is how badly we missed each other during the pandemic
Clubhouse will be a $100b company in 10 years.
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I’m fascinated about this kind of signaling ritual
we need a name for this kind of signaling ritual
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This could make San Francisco drink again
OMG why doesn’t every menu do this?
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Nader Khalil🍊 retweeted
Hosting a panel this Friday: Pacing the Frontier? AI is moving fast. The question is how fast should it move, and what are we building toward? Joining me: @pk_iv, Browserbase @NaderLikeLadder, NVIDIA @FurqanR, Nebula @trq212, Anthropic Limited spots. RSVP below.
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it's all just so tiring
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