--- title: "First Principles and the Colossus Sprint" date: 2025-02-18 url: "https://x.com/ccatalini/status/1891864076105425257" tags: ['ai-agi'] deck: "OpenAI's old edge was scale and talent. Then Colossus hit, built in record speed — nothing like an AI boom to make CEOs personally oversee the plumbing." tweetCount: 3 likes: 3 reposts: 0 --- Attacking problems from first principles is powerful— [@OpenAI](https://x.com/OpenAI)’s old edge? Scale and talent. Then Colossus hit, built in record speed, with [@nvidia](https://x.com/nvidia) prioritizing [@xai](https://x.com/xai)’s orders and fancy networking demands. [x.com](https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1891719655301267599) [@MichaelDell](https://x.com/MichaelDell) and [@charlesliang](https://x.com/charlesliang) racing to juice up [@xai](https://x.com/xai) with liquid-cooled racks in record time. Nothing like an AI boom to make CEOs personally oversee the plumbing. Just don’t ask about the margins—or the water bill. [x.com](https://x.com/Supermicro_SMCI/status/1850915433073025140) But really, the rest of the secret sauce is the brain trust: [@ibab](https://x.com/ibab), [@makro_ai](https://x.com/makro_ai), [@Yuhu_ai_](https://x.com/Yuhu_ai_), [@ChrSzegedy](https://x.com/ChrSzegedy), [@jimmybajimmyba](https://x.com/jimmybajimmyba), [@TobyPhln](https://x.com/TobyPhln), [@rpoo](https://x.com/rpoo), [@TheGregYang](https://x.com/TheGregYang), [@Guodzh](https://x.com/Guodzh), and more, all with a nudge from [@Tesla_AI](https://x.com/Tesla_AI). That's how you cook up self-improving magic. [x.com](https://x.com/Tesla_AI/status/1884458086859170050)