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Founder & CEO @boundlessHQ. Transforming the economics of intelligence. Prev: @AvaLabs @Coinbase @amazon. Views are my own.
Jacob @jacobeverlyI have talked to security teams from small to fortune500 companies in the past week. It’s deeply worrying that <1% of them are using abliterated models. These models are a step function in offensive capability that adversaries now have access to. The bottle is open and the only way is forward and we need to move fast as possible. Skeptical? Happy to give you $10 to try them on @BoundlessHQ. Access below.
Boundless @BoundlessHQAttackers already use models that don’t refuse, and defenders should have the same. Boundless Defensive Access gives security teams DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Abliterated, a version with its refusal behavior removed. Apply for access:
Boundless @BoundlessHQBoundless is top 3 for throughput on Vercel AI Gateway. 367 tokens per second on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017. Fast inference starts with Boundless.
a16z @a16zIn a single year, AI has rewritten the security priority list for CISOs. Attackers are moving faster. Bain estimates AI compresses a typical cyberattack from about four weeks to about 18 hours, and models keep getting better at finding and exploiting weaknesses. There's also more to protect, with employees shipping apps they couldn't have built a year ago and agents getting access to source code, documents, and production systems. In a survey of 100 CISOs at companies with 1,000+ employees, all seven of the most-selected 2027 priorities involve AI. The biggest jumps since 2026: - Internal AI agent security (+28 pts) - AI SOC (+26 pts) - AI offensive security (+24 pts) - AI code security (+23 pts) - AI vulnerability remediation (+22 pts) Last year's staples: - Exposure & vulnerability management (-21 pts) - SIEM / security data (-18 pts) - Privileged access management (-18 pts) From a16z's @OwenColby and @steph_zhang on The New Security Agenda:
Nahoc @_nahocGot so frustrated with how outdated dependabot was I just built my own on top of Boundless instead
Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UWAre we entering another “Google is back” cycle? Google’s new model Gemini 4 Carbon beats Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra on most benchmarks and ranks #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5. Let’s see if it can shake up Anthropic’s IPO.
Emiliano Bonassi @emilianobonassiFor Halloween, I've been doing some brain surgery on an open model 🎃🧟 Taking inspiration from @_lyraaaa_ 's work Push 2 of its neurons and Qwen3.5-4B becomes a cookie lover. Push 1 and it's a lawyer Built a small app on top of @BoundlessHQ so anyone can try 👇
Emiliano Bonassi @emilianobonassiFor Halloween, I've been doing some brain surgery on an open model 🎃🧟 Taking inspiration from @_lyraaaa_ 's work Push 2 of its neurons and Qwen3.5-4B becomes a cookie lover. Push 1 and it's a lawyer Built a small app on top of @BoundlessHQ so anyone can try 👇
Panos Panay @panos_panayBig updates to our Alexa product lineup today. I can’t wait for you to experience these. Pumped might even be an understatement.
khushi @khushii_wHow are companies decreasing AI costs? Shiv Shankar (@sshankar) breaks down the AI adoption lifecycle at Fortune 500 companies, and why they all end up on open source models that cut costs by 95%. Full episode below.
Dry Run @TheDryRunPodWhat is an open weight model? Shiv Shanker (@sshankar), founder and CEO of Boundless, joins the Dry Run to explain what an open weight model is, and why he thinks most companies will try closed models first but eventually shift to open ones. 00:40 Understanding open weight models 01:57 What labs actually share when they publish weights 06:33 Cost considerations in AI adoption 08:47 Security and data privacy 13:08 You can't vibe code DocuSign 15:48 The MySQL playbook for open source profits 20:33 Why the top open weight models come from China 24:09 What changes after OpenAI and Anthropic go public 25:32 The case against open weight models 30:04 Don't give an agent your passwords 31:50 Regulatory frameworks for open weight models 36:23 Education and workforce development for AI 38:41 The sign that open weight models are winning
Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbingsWill the majority of tokens flow through open or closed models? “My suspicion is that there will always be a market for frontier. There will always be some new thing. Science may be the next thing that frontier is being set at. But I think predominantly token usage will be commodity token usage.” @satyanadella Love to hear your thoughts @natolambert @lqiao @Thom_Wolf @swyx
Ayush Agarwal @ayushagarwalsomeone outside our GitHub org deleted one of our private repos. no membership or invite or role. nothing in our org or enterprise audit logs gave them access. just one repo.destroy from the gh CLI. and it's not in deleted repositories, so no restore. @github how is this possible, what sorcery is this?
Instinct @instinctAll iMessage users can now add Instinct to group chats. It works for everyone in the thread, including friends who don't use Instinct. Your personal Instinct still asks before sharing anything with the group.
Boundless @BoundlessHQIntroducing Boundless Defensive Access. The security industry is facing an unprecedented volume of attacks. It’s time to arm defenders. Access abliterated models for authorized security testing, starting with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017. Apply:
Boundless @BoundlessHQIntroducing Boundless Defensive Access. The security industry is facing an unprecedented volume of attacks. It’s time to arm defenders. Access abliterated models for authorized security testing, starting with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017. Apply:
Boundless @BoundlessHQDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Abliterated is now available on Boundless. → $0.24 input → $0.006 cached input → $0.96 output Arm your defenses. Apply below ↓
