@xai | πŸ‘Ό forward deployed angels | 2x Founder | @uwaterloo

Joined August 2015
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Founders have an incredibly difficult job. Creating something from nothing is insanely hard. I try to provide more than just capital and be as useful as possible in removing barriers so founders can focus on building. It’s a privilege to be working with unapologetically ambitious founders like @weberwongwong
24 Jun 2025
enough about forward-deployed engineers we need more forward-deployed angels was thinking about this because one of our angels Umesh Khanna (@forwarddeploy) has just been pulling up on Sundays and going deep with us on the product problems we're dealing with, designing growth loops, sharpening our "aha" moments and more. It’s been super helpful very lucky to have him aboard the FLORA cap table
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Umesh Khanna πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ retweeted
We've updated the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, replacing SWE-Bench Pro with Datacurve's DeepSWE benchmark - the swap lifts Codex with GPT-5.5 (xhigh) above Claude Code with Opus 4.8 (max), while the newly released Claude Fable 5 (max) in Claude Code debuts at the top DeepSWE, built by @datacurve, writes its tasks from scratch rather than adapting them from public GitHub issues or pull requests, so no model has seen the solutions during training. That matters because SWE-Bench Pro, the benchmark it replaces in our Coding Agent Index, had grown gameable, with some models recovering the fix from the repository's commit history instead of solving the task. The swap reorders the index: Codex with GPT-5.5 (xhigh) rises from 65 to 76, overtaking Claude Code with Opus 4.8 (max) at 73. Claude Code with Fable 5 (max), which enters directly on the refreshed index, leads at 77. SWE-Bench Pro had been flattering some combinations and penalizing others. More below.
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Excited to see what you all build with Grok Voice today!
🚨 Excited to announce we're hosting the first Autonomous Healthcare Hackathon! Sponsored by the amazing folks at @xai @vercel @cursor_ai @inngest The future of healthcare will revolve around patient agency; come build it with us! πŸ“Œ June 13th, SF πŸ”— register below (space limited!)
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What a day, now back to work
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Umesh Khanna πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ retweeted
I believe that @SpaceX is the most important company ever It transcends the scope of a traditional company It will open up the Stars Elon had the vision And then the team pushed through limitless pain to get where they are Which is just the beginning

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There’s a bunch of fellow πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Canadians at SpaceXAI! Come join us πŸš€
Jun 12
JUST IN: SpaceX is now worth more than Canada
Community note
SpaceX's market cap is about $2 trillion. Canada's GDP is about $2.5 trillion per year. The post compares the company's valuation to the country's annual economic output. finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPAX.PVT/ worldometers.info/gdp/canada-gdp/
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Happy SpaceX Day!
Jun 12
.@SpaceX listing day is here. Watch live. $SPCX x.com/i/broadcasts/1qJVmmVYk…
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Always fun seeing the animations on the heart on X for special events Can’t wait for $spcx tomorrow πŸš€
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Chai and Samosas 08. β˜•οΈ Why do we say β€œchai” vs β€œtea” for the same drink? Both come from the Chinese word 茢. β€œChai/Cha” (chΓ‘) traveled overland via the Silk Road to India, Persia, Turkey & beyond. β€œTea” (tΓͺ) sailed from southern China by sea to Europe. 🧠 Tea if by sea, chai if by land. Let me know if you’re around to join us for the next one!
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Shoutout to @mathemagic1an for the wonderful fact!
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Umesh Khanna πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ retweeted
The best hires are the ones you can delegate outcomes to, not tasks. Good hires come back with smart questions about the next step. Great ones just get the job done.
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Umesh Khanna πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ retweeted
SpaceX IPO info
Jun 4
SpaceX was founded to make life multiplanetary. We’ve been able to expand that mission with our Starlink constellation and AI solution Learn more β†’ spacexipo.com
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Grok Voice team is absolutely crushing it @xai 🀝 @Vapi_AI x.ai/news/grok-vapi If you’ve built great voice apps or build in the voice model space and want to join this cracked team, shoot me a dm!
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Umesh Khanna πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ retweeted
She wrote the definitive article on where the best talent should go, a place where "the distance between your taste and what actually gets built is zero." Sat with her own analysis for months, weighed all of it, and today joined xAI.
Personal update: I’ve joined @SpaceX and @xAI. After investing in the future of work and AI at Bloomberg Beta, it became clear: AI capabilities are advancing and compounding at an unprecedented rate. It only made sense to join the team accelerating the fastest and to build the future directly. Excited to be working on making life multi-planetary and building AI to understand the universe. If you’re a high-agency builder and want to join the mission, DM me. Ad Astra! πŸš€
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Gopuff 🀝 SpaceXAI
Jun 3
Meet Go. Gopuff's AI shopping genius, co-developed with SpaceXAI. Just say what you need. It's already on its way.
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Welcome to the @xai team! πŸš€
Personal update: I’ve joined @SpaceX and @xAI. After investing in the future of work and AI at Bloomberg Beta, it became clear: AI capabilities are advancing and compounding at an unprecedented rate. It only made sense to join the team accelerating the fastest and to build the future directly. Excited to be working on making life multi-planetary and building AI to understand the universe. If you’re a high-agency builder and want to join the mission, DM me. Ad Astra! πŸš€
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xAI 🀝 Cursor Have been incredibly supercharged in my day-to-day with Grok Build Everything from finding hard to find info, to doing analysis across large datasets, to automating full end to end workflows
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Composer 2.5 is now available inside Grok Build. Composer 2.5 is a fast, highly intelligent model that excels on long-running tasks and following complex instructions.
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Umesh Khanna πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ retweeted
Been working with @SamAsante on a new company. Today we’re releasing our first product. It’s called Typeahead and we’re live on Product Hunt. You type and inline suggestions appear right in the text field. Tab to accept the full suggestion or right arrow for one word at a time. It learns how you actually write. Everything runs locally on your Mac, works offline, and you pay once. $79 and you own it forever. If you write a lot on a Mac, check it out and let us know what you think. Live on Product Hunt right now β†’ producthunt.com/products/typ…
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If you’re building in the voice space and want to get access to our new model / meet the team - come through! πŸ”₯πŸ§‘β€πŸ³πŸ”₯
🚨 Excited to announce we're hosting the first Autonomous Healthcare Hackathon! Sponsored by the amazing folks at @xai @vercel @cursor_ai @inngest The future of healthcare will revolve around patient agency; come build it with us! πŸ“Œ June 13th, SF πŸ”— register below (space limited!)
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