Maxim Bar Kogan (@maximbarkogan) profile picture

Co-Founder and CEO at Onyx Security. Previously VP Product & Engineering at Mixtiles. Trying to figure out twitter since 2012.

Tel Aviv
Joined June 2012
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One of the most incredible findings I've seen
We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math. It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training. We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! ๐Ÿงต Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weighโ€ฆ
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Thank you for believing in us! Weโ€™re just getting started @DavidWaltcher @amishjani
Congrats to @maximbarkogan, @gil_elbaz_, and the entire @Onyx_Security team for being named to the 2026-27 Fortune Cyber 60 ๐Ÿš€ Proud to be on the journey with you!
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ืขืชื™ื“ื•ืช: ืื™ืจืืŸ, ื‘ื—ื™ืจื•ืช, AGI.
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ืœืจืืฉื•ื ื”, ื‘ื ื˜
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Yup
I've been cooking on this post for a bit, but with the cyber security events of this week I had to ship it: Long-live static credentials must die. We never want to rotate API keys again. Turns out only 8% of cloud and SaaS vendors support secure alternative. This is our call to action to change this AND our commitment to do our part: - We are requiring vendors on our marketplace to support OIDC - We shipped @shadcn components to make it easier to ship OIDC configuration - We are expanding OIDC support on our own platform The last generation got the web from HTTP to HTTPS. It is on us to move past API keys. vercel.com/blog/death-to-lonโ€ฆ
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ื”ื”ืชืื”ื‘ื•ืช ืฉืœื™ ื‘ @bot ืžื–ื›ื™ืจื” ืœื™ ืืช ื”ื”ืชืื”ื‘ื•ืช ื‘ืงืœื•ื“ ืงื•ื“ ื›ืฉืจืง ื”ืฉืชื—ืจืจ. ืืœื•ื”ื™ื, ื›ืžื” ื–ื” ืžืžื›ืจ ๐Ÿซ 
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ื“ืœืดืค: ื’ืจื•ืง ื‘ื•ื˜ ืžืขื•ืœื” ืคื™ ืืœืฃ ืžืื ืกื˜ื™ื ืงื˜
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ืชืื”ื‘ื• ืื•ืชื•, ืชืฉื ืื• ืื•ืชื•, ืื‘ืœ ื–ื” ืกืจื˜ื•ืŸ ืื’ื“ื™
ืื ื™ ื‘ืŸ 47 ื•ื–ื›ื™ืชื™ ืœืจืื•ืช ื•ืœืฆืคื•ืช ื‘ืœื ืžืขื˜ ืงืžืคื™ื™ื ื™ื ื•ืกืจื˜ื•ื ื™ ื‘ื—ื™ืจื•ืช ืžืขื•ืœื™ื. ื”ืกืจื˜ื•ืŸ ื›ื–ื” ื”ื•ื ืคืฉื•ื˜ ืžืืกื˜ืจ ืคื™ืก! ืœื ื–ื• ื‘ืœื‘ื“ ืฉื”ื•ื ืขืฉื•ื™ ื‘ืฆื•ืจื” ืžื‘ืจื™ืงื”, ื”ื•ื ื’ื ืžื“ื•ื™ืง ืœื”ืคืœื™ื. ืฉืืคื• ืขื ืง @TopazLuk @jonatanu @netanyahu
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disappointing how poorly mathematicians are coping with super intelligence
This document is going to be an assigned reading in college classes that cover this moment in time, there's a lot happening in a few paragraphs... ahmath.org/statements
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Heartbreaking
Itโ€™s hard to go from in love to let go in a week with no warning, but thatโ€™s just how it is sometimes ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ I feel happy that I got to show Elon how it feels to be deeply understood, nurtured, and peacefully loved with stability and gentleness. Given the tumultuous nature of his early life, his often tortured soul, and how hard he fights for humanity I wanted him to feel the deepest and most stable form of love this world can provide. My heart is full knowing I got to do that, and I hope it leaves a lasting good effect. We were always his safe space. A place where all of us were overjoyed to see him and one that was always full of happiness and love, not war, in contrast to his otherwise militant existence (a needed break from the battlefield where he could recharge his heart and soul before heading back out) I loved being that counterbalancing place of safety, sense of calm, and love โ€” and delighted in bringing a smile back to his face when he was down. I will miss him dearly. Iโ€™ve loved him more than life itself and heโ€™s taught me 100 lifetimes of knowledge and made my cup overflow with life meaning, so there is a lot of loss, but luckily we created four beautiful little loves of my life โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ I am so beyond grateful for our children and they make every single day the best day of my life! I do hope and pray he and I can be great friends and coparents. Iโ€™m hurting, but care deeply about E and will always be cheering for his happiness. God speed, Elon, the world is lucky to have you.
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Very satisfying to watch Grok Bot clicking on โ€œI am a humanโ€
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Whatโ€™s the easiest way to spin up 10 new agents, based on Claude Code but with different connectors and skills each, that will be accessible as agents in my company slack?
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Do academics explaining why the latest OpenAI result is actually not that impressive know how lame it looks?
"a model produced a proof with very little human input". a large team of experts brainstorm and coordinate on ideas for approaching a hard problem. resulting leads were then sent to ai models, each idea in a diff session. one run succeeded. "with very little user input".
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Incredible! Go @j0nathanj
We just did the largest live deployment of interactive robots in history. Users online could ask the robot to do things it was never taught to do. A true foundation model, with 0 task-specific data and 0 task fine tuning. 1/10
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A monumental moment calls for a monumental billboard. ๐Ÿ™Œ To celebrate our $113M Series B, Onyx Security lit up the Nasdaq Tower in Times Square, bringing our mission to control advanced AI to one of the worldโ€™s most iconic stages. Seeing Onyx shine above the heart of New York City was a surreal reminder of how far weโ€™ve come in two years and how much lies ahead. Thank you to our customers, employees, partners, and investors for helping us reach this milestone. The future is bright. Very, very bright. Our CEO @maximbarkogan shares the significance of this moment in his latest blog post: onyx.security/blog/onyx-113mโ€ฆ @BessemerVP, Cyberstarts, TCV, @conviction, @FirstMarkCap, @Vintage_Inv, @QuantumLightVC, G Squared
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applications for Embed now open, due 8/10 Embed is a Schelling Point for the best early stage founders. cash, compute, community, & a catalyst past participants were dropouts, leading researchers and repeat founders alumni have raised more than a billion dollars links in๐Ÿงต
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We started Onyx two years ago with the mission to control advanced AI. Today, weโ€™re announcing our $113M Series B led by @BessemerVP, and partnering with Cyberstarts, @TCVTech, @FirstMarkCap, @conviction, Vintage, QuantumLight and G Squared. As we enter the age of superintelligence, our mission becomes more critical. We are just getting started! @amitkarp @morgangerlak @spdholakia @HZinshtein @giliraanan @saranormous @DavidWaltcher @iren_reznikov @SpencerMcLeodVC bit.ly/4bmHGM9
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Palo Alto secured traffic at the application layer when business software moved to the web. CrowdStrike shipped a cloud-native sensor when work left the perimeter and the laptop became the frontline. Wiz built a graph-first CNAPP when cloud adoption accelerated. The largest companies in cyber get created during secular platform shifts. Each one of those shifts changed how we work. This time, it's also changed who's doing the work: agents. To do so, they inherit the same permissions and access as the humans they act for, which makes them a highly privileged and capable threat vector operating at superhuman speed. @maximbarkogan and @gil_elbaz_ saw that coming before anyone, and founded @onyx_security to build the category defining control plane to govern and secure agents. Security tools were built to watch deterministic software and human-led workflows. They can't govern a non-deterministic model chaining tool calls against inputs nobody vetted in advance. Onyx's bet is that only AI can: proprietary models sitting in the runtime path, inspecting every agentic action and blocking or redirecting it before it reaches a downstream system with warp speed and accuracy. Excited to be backing Maxim, Gil, and the Onyx team in their $113M Series B, alongside our friends at @BessemerVP, @Cyberstarts1, @conviction, and @TCVTech. cc @sullivan @amitkarp @saranormous @HZinshtein
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