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Mario Saverin retweeted
We just made a 5x cheaper Higgsfield.
Voyager gives you AI video models like Seedance 2.5 at half Higgsfield’s price.
More importantly, it cuts wasted generations.
Users get final outputs in 2–3x fewer API calls.
Half the price per generation. A fraction of the generations.
Mario Saverin retweeted
Our security researchers built an autonomous cyber vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and patching pipeline.
In a single run with an upcoming cyber model, it validated and generated patches for 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel at a total API cost of $1.2 million.
Mario Saverin retweeted
🚨 Canva is firing people and giving them at least six months' pay, their MacBooks, a year of LinkedIn Premium and a $10,000 grant to start something of their own.
People are calling it a masterclass in how to do layoffs. Maybe it is. But I read Melanie Perkins' memo, and the word "AI" isn't in it.
1,271 people are affected, 22% of the company.
Not all of them are leaving. Some are getting new roles or being asked to move to hubs like Sydney.
The memo puts it down to growth slowing for the first time in a decade and "new technology."
Her August letter to shareholders was more specific. It said the average cost of serving an AI task was too high and Canva was "relying too heavily on frontier models," so it slowed the rollout to fix the costs and cut this year's growth forecast from 30% to 20%.
Early backers Blackbird and Airtree marked Canva down from $42 billion to $34.9 billion.
Canva ended 2025 with about 265 million monthly users. Roughly 31 million pay. By July, monthly users were down to about 208 million.
That's a lot of free accounts to run expensive AI for, and ChatGPT and Gemini will now make the poster or the slide deck people used to open Canva for.
In 2023 Canva said it had "no plans to do any lay-offs." In 2025 it cut 10 of its 12 technical writers.
It's been cash-flow positive for nine years, but leaked numbers show revenue barely moved this year.
This is what it looks like when AI squeezes a company rich enough to hand out MacBooks and $10,000 grants.
Most software companies feeling that squeeze aren't.
Mario Saverin retweeted
BE THE FLOWER IN SOMEONE'S DARKEST DAY. 🌷
Create in @PixVerse
#pixverse #pixversecpp @PixVerseCreator
Mario Saverin retweeted
People should always be in control of the future.
OpenAI is against the notion that it would be acceptable for people to be relegated to a role of doing things that “AI systems think makes sense to reward in humans”.
People should not cede control of the future to superintelligence, and that requirement should ultimately constrain AI progress.
Mario Saverin retweeted
Inspired by those “Alpha male” rules: help the elderly, kids, women… and, of course, the dog. 😂
Another man needs help?
Sorry, bro. You’re not on the list. 🤣☕
🎬 LADIES ONLY
Thanks @antrofrog_ for starting such a fun trend! :)))
Created with Seedance2.5 on @ElevenLabs #ElevenLabsAmbassador
Mario Saverin retweeted
GPT-6 Astra 的自主循环太猛了！
把一个 GitHub 仓库交给一个 Astra
github.com/oraios/serena
一晚上过去，它趁你睡觉就把一天大约 5 小时的工作量干完了。
它先解析整个代码库，
只找出「Astra 现在真正该读的文件、符号和依赖关系」。
不让它一上来就把巨型仓库全读一遍。
光这一步就能省掉大量 Context 浪费。
Mario Saverin retweeted
Another reason why you wanna use your own harness and not one where companies change what you can or can’t do at will.
ANTHROPIC IS CRACKING DOWN ON VIDEO GAME REWRITES 🚨
Claude Code picked up a new rule around Oct 27, sent from Anthropic’s servers under a flag called "tengu_heron_brook". There’s no setting to turn it off.
The full rule: “Do build original games, games in a genre, and games from the user’s own designs and assets. Don’t build a recreation of a specific existing game, even if it is renamed or called original.”
Is this the end of game rewrites, modding and everything in between?
Mario Saverin retweeted
I just packed my whole 3D workflow into one Claude skill.
i gave opus 5.5 one reference picture and said: build me a full teardown of this, every part in code.
the build:
> the picture set the look, every shell, gear and hose is three.js code
> opus matched its render to the picture side by side for 3 rounds before any video
> 260 tiny pistons, hoses, screws and wires sit under the big gears
> my first version just hovered, so now something comes apart every 2-3 seconds
> pull a leg and its servo bar flips to DETACHED
i built 7 of these in 2 days. the sims are live on my playground.
the skill, the playground and all 9 prompts 👇
Mario Saverin retweeted
Sequoia's thesis that the next $1T company will sell work, not software, is the most important reframe in AI right now.
The argument: if you sell a copilot, you're competing with every new model release. But if you sell the outcome, books closed, contracts reviewed, claims handled, every AI improvement makes your margins better, not your product obsolete.
The key insight most people miss: for every $1 spent on software, ~$6 is spent on services.
The entire SaaS playbook was about capturing the software dollar. The AI playbook is about capturing the services dollar, at software margins.
Not "AI for accountants." The AI accounting firm.
Not "AI for lawyers." The AI law firm.
The companies that figure this out won't look like SaaS companies. They'll look like services firms rebuilt on software infrastructure.
That's a fundamentally different company to build, fund, and scale. And most founders are still building copilots.
I went deeper on this in AI Market Fit: Sequoia Capital: The next $1T company won’t sell software. It will sell the work.
theaiopportunities.com/p/seq…
Mario Saverin retweeted
This AI video is an absolute masterpiece 🔥
Hollywood is cooked rn 🤯
Seedance 2.5
