staff @DecartAI

Joined July 2014
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Ethan retweeted
What if video editing had a โ€œvolume knobโ€? We are excited to share new research from @DecartAI and @TelAvivUni, accepted to #SIGGRAPH2026. We found directions within video models that enable smooth control over edit strength, from subtle changes to full transformations! Check out our paper & blogpost ๐Ÿ‘‡
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We're hiring in SF! Autoregressive diffusion models have their own unique challenges and our opt team paves the way for new experiences like Lucy.decart.ai If this type of impact resonates with you, reach out to @hiba280700 with ref to your perf work!
I joined Decart to shape the AI industry and Iโ€™m hiring an engineer to join me. At most inference companies I could have gone to, I would just be improving Deepseek/Qwen and existing models. At Decart I shipped the first realtime diffusion model in the world to run on Trainium.
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Mar 7
stacked speaker lineup on perf ahead of GTC, come by if you're in SF!
Excited to have our chief scientist & co-founder Orian Leitersdorf speaking on realtime diffusion models โ€” alongside @tedzadouri (FA4 first author) and @bfspector (ThunderKittens / @flappyairplanes) โ€” at a perf-focused evening, hosted by @Accel & @GPU_MODE. Register now! luma.com/gpumodexdiffusion
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Feb 13
Come chat with the team about realtime video at GTC!
Feb 12
We are hosting the first realtime AI event with @nvidia, @awscloud, @Deloitte, and @fal. Meet the people building realtime AI and see what's shipping next from the lab. ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Tue, Mar 17 ยท 5โ€“8 PM ๐Ÿ“ Fuze, San Jose ๐Ÿ‘‰ Spots are limited, RSVP now โ†’ luma.com/burxctxy
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I am some dude at Decart. We don't have titles, and if we did they'd change more often than our GPU clusters. That happens twice a week. Our domain is the name of a french philosopher, if you spelled it wrong. .ai. Our entire budget is spent on the best scientists you can get. And DoorDash for dinner. We don't have a marketing team. Well we do, but they are not allowed to use computers. You can reach them by standing under the balcony and yelling "Ido!!". We don't have a balcony anymore. We are also on the 32nd floor. We probably have a product somewhere, but who knows. It's realtime for sure tho. We are not hiring. If we did, we wouldn't tell you. Members of technical staff preferred.
I am the lead engineer at ai.com. We had $78 million to work with. $70 million went to the domain. $8 million went to the Super Bowl ad. ย I got the rest. "The rest" was $500 and a Cloudflare free tier. This ratio -- 156,000 to 1, marketing to engineering -- is not a bug. It is the business model of the entire artificial intelligence industry in 2026. You do not need a product. You need a name. Preferably two letters. Preferably letters that made investors lose bladder control in 2024. I built the website in a weekend. I didn't build it, actually. I described it to OpenClaw (previosely Moltbook), (previously, reviously Clawdbot) and the AI built it. We are, after all, an AI company. Using AI to build the website felt appropriate. The AI charged us nothing. We are charging users $20 a month. This is called "margin." We have a free tier and a paid tier. The free tier gives you access to a product that doesn't exist. The paid tier gives you access to the same product that doesn't exist, but with more input tokens. No one has asked "input tokens for what." This is the kind of question that delays launches. Nobody checked if it worked. Nobody checked if it scaled. Nobody checked if it did anything at all. We were too busy approving the logo. The logo is a planet with a ring around it. Someone said it looked like the old Saturn car logo. Saturn went bankrupt in 2010. But the logo was free and our design budget went to the domain, so here we are, orbiting a dead brand at $70 million per revolution. Our product is an "autonomous AI agent" that "organizes work, sends messages, and executes actions across apps." Which actions. Which apps. At what cost. In the AI industry, these are called "implementation details." Implementation details are beneath us. We are a vision company. The vision cost $70 million. The implementation cost $500. The gap between the two is where shareholder value lives. Our press release promises the agent will "trade stocks, automate workflows, and update your online dating profile." We are building artificial general intelligence so it can fix your Hinge bio. This is on the roadmap. The roadmap is longer than the codebase. Our marketing says you can create an AI agent in 60 seconds. This is technically true. You type a username. You click "generate." You receive a loading spinner. Sixty seconds. What you do not receive is an AI agent. But the experience of waiting for one is, I'm told, "the product." Our press release describes a "decentralized network of billions of agents." We used the word "decentralized" because our CEO comes from crypto. In crypto, "decentralized" means "we haven't decided how it works yet." We have not changed the definition. This is not unique to us. OpenAI has raised $40 billion. Their product loses money on every user. Anthropic has raised $15 billion. Their stated goal is to build something they believe might destroy humanity, and investors are fighting to give them more. Microsoft has committed $80 billion to AI infrastructure this year. Their Copilot product tells people to put glue on pizza. The entire industry is a $300 billion screensaver with a loading spinner. We fit right in. Our CEO is the Crypto.com guy. He previously spent $700 million to rename a basketball arena and hired Matt Damon to tell America "fortune favors the brave" six months before crypto lost 70% of its value. He paid for our domain in cryptocurrency. I am told this was "tax efficient." I have learned not to ask follow-up questions about things that are "tax efficient." He is now pivoting from crypto to AI. In the industry, we don't call this "pivoting." We call it "convergence." Convergence means the last bubble popped so you inflate the next one using the same PowerPoint deck with different nouns. The Super Bowl ad ran during the fourth quarter. Thirty seconds. It told 130 million Americans to visit our website. The ad was thirty seconds. That's $266,666 per second. Each second of airtime cost more than our entire engineering budget. Second fourteen showed the logo. Second fourteen cost more than the website. They did visit. All of them, apparently, at once. The website went down. "Prepared for scale, but not for THIS," our CEO tweeted, adding three fire emojis. The fire emojis were load-bearing. They were doing more work than our infrastructure. The entire site was hosted on Cloudflare's basic tier, which is designed for food blogs and wedding photographers, not for absorbing the combined curiosity of a nation told to visit a two-letter domain during the biggest television event on earth. But the crash was, in a way, perfect. It is the most honest thing the AI industry has produced. A $78 million promise that, when 130 million people showed up to collect, returned a loading spinner and the words "please refresh and try again." Every AI company should adopt this as their mission statement. The previous owner of ai.com was OpenAI. They used it to redirect to ChatGPT -- a product that exists, built by thousands of engineers who were paid more than $500, running on billions of dollars of compute. We bought the domain from them to redirect to a page that asks you to pick a username. OpenAI also ran a Super Bowl ad this year. They sold us the domain, then bought ad time in the same broadcast to promote the product they used to host on it. We are now competing with the company that built the thing we may or may not be reselling. During the same commercial break. On the same channel. For the same audience. The AI industry is a snake eating its own tail, except the tail cost $70 million and the snake can't stay online. That's the product. A username. For an AI agent that doesn't exist yet. On a website that couldn't survive its own launch. Sold by a crypto CEO during a crypto winter. Wearing the logo of a bankrupt car company. Twenty-three percent of Super Bowl ads this year were AI companies. That's 15 out of 66. In 2000, it was dot-coms. Pets.com ran a Super Bowl ad. They went bankrupt nine months later. Their sock puppet mascot outlived the company. I'm not saying history repeats. I'm saying it rhymes, and the rhyme scheme is expensive. But none of that matters. What matters is the domain. Two letters. Seventy million dollars. The most expensive thing we own is our name. The least expensive thing we own is everything the name is supposed to represent. In the AI industry, this is called "brand-first development." In every other industry, it's called something else. Anyway, we're hiring. Backend engineers preferred. Budget: whatever's left.
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Ethan retweeted
Drag, Drop and Try it live That's just a small glimpse of whatโ€™s possible when AI runs in Realtime, powered by Lucy 2.0. What else can you build?
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Jan 27
Excited for people to see what we've been cooking, the first real-time v2v model with reference image support running at these specs! We're still just scratching the surface of these models and some prompts have surprised us (e.g. add a cat/spider and some light vfx). Try it out and let us know what you think! ๐Ÿš€
Jan 27
Introducing Lucy 2.0: a World Editing Model running at 1080p, 30FPS in realtime. Read the technical report, API access, and try the live demo ๐Ÿงต
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Jan 20
Now I'm only one character away from @ethan @XHandles if I start publishing articles can we talk pls
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Ethan retweeted
16 Dec 2025
Meet Lucy Motion - an image-to-video model with precise control over motion. Instead of struggling to describe movement in text and hoping the model gets it right, you draw a path from a subject to its destination. Lucy animates it exactly along that path.
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2 Dec 2025
When you have the world's best infra/optimization team and video research lab, you go beyond incremental perf gains to enabling new markets that were previously prohibitively slow/costly ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿš€
2 Dec 2025
Decart is pushing real-time visual intelligence forward. Early access to Trainium3 helped us unlock 4ร— higher FPS and far more stable real-time video generation. A new performance tier for our models. wsj.com/tech/ai/amazons-custโ€ฆ
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Ethan retweeted
26 Nov 2025
Make quick, local edits to your video with Lucy-edit Fast. Enjoy near Pro-level quality at 2ร— the speed and a fraction of the cost, bringing batch edits closer to real-time performance.
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20 Nov 2025
I'd love to see remixes to add collisions, environmental damage, and some enemy AI!
20 Nov 2025
You can plug real-time video models directly into gameplay. Built with @v0 on @vercel, vibe-coded with @geminiapp Pro 3. This Flight Simulator pipes Three.js into Decart LSD v2, turning it into an AI video renderer with live prompts, VFX, lighting, and shadows.
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Ethan retweeted
20 Nov 2025
You can plug real-time video models directly into gameplay. Built with @v0 on @vercel, vibe-coded with @geminiapp Pro 3. This Flight Simulator pipes Three.js into Decart LSD v2, turning it into an AI video renderer with live prompts, VFX, lighting, and shadows.
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Ethan retweeted
14 Nov 2025
Restyle your live video while it is playing. Introducing LSD v2 - our new realtime flagship model. Itโ€™s illegally good. Try it now - free for the next 72 hours!
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Ethan retweeted
7 Nov 2025
Our video editing model Lucy-Edit just got way better. 2ร— faster, half the price (and open source). More control, faster performance, and seamless results.
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12 Oct 2025
What used to take hours of careful scaffolding and pipeline management can now be done with just a text prompt ๐Ÿš€
12 Oct 2025
Your Live Stream is ALIVE Meet DecartStream - Realtime editing for streamers. No installs, no setup. Just instant transformations on any streaming platform. See below how to use it now.. right on time for @TwitchCon ๐Ÿงต
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I think this actually highlights a strength of AI in rapid ideation/exploration of an art direction which got tons of engagement and de-risked game development - is this not the ideal win/win?
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Ethan retweeted
4 Oct 2025
๐Ÿšจ XR Builders โ€” Contest Alert! ๐Ÿšจ Build the best XR app on the Decart API Platform and win: ๐Ÿฅ‡ Apple Vision Pro Meta AI Glasses 500K API credits ๐Ÿฅˆ Meta AI Glasses 200K API credits ๐Ÿฅ‰ 100K API credits โณ Deadline: Oct 7, 23:59 PDT (San Francisco time)
4 Oct 2025
DecartXR: AI meets XR "welcome to the Oasis" ๐Ÿฅฝ An open-source app that lets you transform your world in real time, just by speaking. A new way to create, build, and imagine โ€” live. See below how to build with this tech (and a demo on Meta Quest or web) ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป
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Ethan retweeted
โšก None of This Exists. But Lucy Image Made It So. Every image youโ€™re about to see was generated by Lucy Image, the new AI image model from @DecartAI โ€” and none of them exist in real life. Whatโ€™s truly impressive is how Lucy Image captures light, color, and mood with incredible precision โ€” even from the simplest prompts. No fancy settings. No complex tools. Just a single line of text. ๐Ÿ’จ Speed: 4 seconds per image ๐Ÿ’ฐ Cost: Only 3 credits ($0.03) ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Format: 16:9, 1280ร—720 โ€” tuned for cinematic storytelling Lucy Image is part of Decartโ€™s broader video-generation ecosystem, built to turn imagination into motion. If you want to experience this speed and quality yourself, head over to Decart โ€” or scroll down to see what Lucy can do. ๐Ÿ‘‡
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Ethan retweeted
30 Sep 2025
Millions of user sessions ran on Oasis2.0 this week. Today we are open sourcing it ๐Ÿ‘‡
5 Sep 2025
Introducing Oasis 2.0: Our most advanced AI model Transform game worlds & styles in real time. 1080p, 30fps Hereโ€™s how to play it live (and also a Minecraft Mod)! ๐Ÿงต
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The generative AI frames aren't in 1080p, nor does this mod give a smooth 30fps experience x.com/IrisShaders/stโ€ฆ x.com/NOESISReality/โ€ฆ
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