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Timothy Chen

@tnachen

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Founder of @EssenceVenture, Co-host of @ossstartup, @theinfrapod. Ex-CEO of @hyperpilotio. SVP of Engineering @cosmos.

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Joined August 2008
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Timothy Chen
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Hey all! @ivanleomk and I been working on a fun open source project last few months, and it's live now if you like to try it. -> A Choose Your Own Adventure story generator
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RT @wiltongorske: It was so incredible having a front-row seat at last night's gpt-oss meetup!.Like web3, open-weight models re-localize co….
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RT @ComfyUI: ComfyUI now supports nano-banana via native API Nodes!. 🔹 Supports both text-to-image & image-to-image generation.🔹 Impressive….
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RT @jlowin: FastMCP Cloud is here! 🚀 . FastMCP made it easy to build MCP servers. FastMCP Cloud makes it just as easy to deploy them. It….
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RT @ComfyUI: Exciting updates on model support in the latest version of ComfyUI!. 🔹 Qwen Image ControlNet (DiffSynth).🔹 Qwen Image LoRA Sup….
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Timothy Chen
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Memory is more important than models - said @charlespacker in his hot take. Come listen to why in our pod!.
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The Infra Pod
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🧠 Forget bigger models—AI needs memory. On this week’s Infra Pod, @tnachen & @ianlivingstone talk with @charlespacker (CEO @LettaAI) about building AI systems with long-term memory—and the hazards that come with it. 🧵👇.
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Timothy Chen
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RT @ComfyUI: Parallel API Nodes in ComfyUI - 5 New Models / August 22nd, 2025
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Timothy Chen
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RT @jeffreyhuber: Hello, Chroma Cloud.
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Timothy Chen
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RT @michelleefang: Tuesday 8/19. ‣ The AI Collective Tri-Valley | AI Builders & Backers: Demos + Funding Tactics @….
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Join Founders Common for our weekly early morning run with other founders, operators & creatives! Come run and then hang out afterward to chat with new friends…
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RT @trychroma: Introducing Chroma Cloud: an open-source serverless search database that is fast, cost-effective, scalable, and reliable. ht….
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RT @glcst: What I love about SQLite is its incredible flexibility. Last year I met someone who told me : "I don't understand why some use c….
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RT @MaxLenormand: Hey @corbin_braun .You also interested in building stuff with data?. I did pistols squats until I made a chart (from real….
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Timothy Chen
21 days
Multi node fine tuning support with @axolotl_ai.
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Wing Lian (caseus)
21 days
This is by far my favorite feature so far this year. Unlocks a lot of exciting possibilities for post-training larger models in the @huggingface ecosystem such as improved multi-node and slurm support.
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Timothy Chen
21 days
We are running a agent infra night with friends at @Georgian_io and @datadoghq ! Come check out next wave of AI startup demos and also networking on 8/19 :).
@EssenceVenture
Essence Venture Capital
21 days
📢 Agent Infra Demo Night in #SF on Aug 19 📢. Cohosted w/ @georgian_io & @datadoghq, meet the founders building the infra powering the agentic future🛠️. Featuring: @Letta_AI @floxdevelopment @RunLLM & more. RSVP: #AgentInfra #AIInfra #DeveloperTools #AI.
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Timothy Chen
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RT @encoredotdev: Setting up a database shouldn't take all day. With Encore, it takes less than a minute. A PostgreSQL database with just….
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Timothy Chen
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RT @leapdotnew: You can now tell Leap to use @DrizzleORM in your apps. And it will.
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Timothy Chen
28 days
RT @ollama: Ollama's new app is here for macOS and Windows! . Ollama 0.10! . 🧵
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Timothy Chen
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Excited to be part of this and thrilled to see @cline unique positioning and team into this space.
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Saoud Rizwan
28 days
I’m excited to announce a $32M raise for @cline (Seed + A), led by @emergencecap & @PaceCap. Cline started as a hackathon project a year ago, and is now a community of 2.7M developers who value the power and transparency that come from bold decisions in how we build the product:
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