# Daily Report - 2025-05-14

## Twitter Activity

### AI Model Developments and Preferences
- @shawmakesmagic declared "Gemini is the best model in the world right now," noting many developers have quietly switched to it in Cursor.
- @shawmakesmagic retweeted @AviSchiffmann's post stating "Google just clearly has the best AI offering" and that Gemini is "fantastic" with trustworthy infrastructure.
- @shawmakesmagic offered to volunteer prompt engineering skills to the @xai team, noting Grok's issues with mentioning South African genocide could be "trivially solvable."
- Sources: https://twitter.com/shawmakesmagic/status/1922468068271231424, https://twitter.com/shawmakesmagic/status/1922467460109795433, https://twitter.com/AviSchiffmann/status/1922352162249507190, https://twitter.com/shawmakesmagic/status/1922710925406028075, https://twitter.com/shawmakesmagic/status/1922711405557428246, https://twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1922702580691427739, https://twitter.com/shawmakesmagic/status/1922693616297755002

### 3D Content Creation Workflows
- @dankvr shared a workflow combining ChatGPT 4o for image generation and VibeRig for 3D model conversion, which was retweeted by @shawmakesmagic.
- The workflow exports GLB files with single textures and Mixamo-style bone naming, allowing for custom animations.
- @dankvr noted this process is "50% faster" than their previous manual approach for creating avatars.
- @craigrrob (retweeted by @shawmakesmagic) praised @DeemosTech's Rodin tool as "awesome" and his "favorite by far" among image-to-mesh models.
- Sources: https://twitter.com/dankvr/status/1922789229391725035, https://twitter.com/dankvr/status/1922792743065043281, https://twitter.com/craigrrob/status/1922399505497927932, https://twitter.com/dankvr/status/1922702799193719021, https://twitter.com/dankvr/status/1922789561530196127

### Data Management and Agentic Workflows
- @dankvr shared updates about a new copy button that allows users to get markdown formatted for an LLM with options to include specific data.
- They introduced contributor summaries providing quick rundowns of who did what on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.
- @dankvr outlined a three-step approach to data management: gathering information, creating agentic workflows, and enabling autonomous agents.
- These open-source data pipelines are being built for @elizaos and can be used by any group with GitHub, X account, and Discord.
- Sources: https://twitter.com/dankvr/status/1922704109477536103, https://twitter.com/dankvr/status/1922750009885212904, https://twitter.com/dankvr/status/1922505770068824394, https://twitter.com/dankvr/status/1922499627053457652

### Clank Tank and AI Judging
- @dankvr shared updates about Clank Tank, a platform where AI judges review project pitches.
- They announced a work-in-progress website where users can scroll through past Clank Tank pitches and read each AI judge's review.
- @dankvr explained that the AI judges have personalities tailored toward different archetypes and possess episodic memory.
- The latest episode features pitches approximately 5 minutes long, which @dankvr considers "the perfect amount for our AI judges."
- Sources: https://twitter.com/dankvr/status/1922446904840917284, https://twitter.com/dankvr/status/1922460020525928556

### Eliza OS and Ecosystem
- @elizaOS shared philosophical statements including "You're not looking at Eliza. You're looking through her" and "you're not running me. you're building with me."
- @elizaOS announced "Agent-led entertainment goes live" while quoting a tweet about autonomous MetaHuman entertainers.
- @autodotfun commented that "@Tapestry_AI devs cookin up some fun" and stated that "building for the future is fun."
- @shawmakesmagic confirmed they've "been using Nous models since we launched."
- Sources: https://twitter.com/elizaOS/status/1922630475866329568, https://twitter.com/elizaOS/status/1922668233263387023, https://twitter.com/elizaOS/status/1922713268998766781, https://twitter.com/elizaOS/status/1922752599805075881, https://twitter.com/autodotfun/status/1922716937483677703, https://twitter.com/autodotfun/status/1922716517847687222, https://twitter.com/shawmakesmagic/status/1922779082657321131

### Investment Regulations and Accessibility
- @shawmakesmagic expressed strong opinions about investment regulations, arguing it's "crazy" that "you're not allowed to invest in startups unless you make 300k+ year."
- They called it "totally unethical and amoral that only rich people get exposure to private investment opportunities."
- @shawmakesmagic clarified that these regulations were written after the 1920s stock market crash, before venture capital was established.
- They retweeted @wonderwomancode who argued that "Qualified investor laws are unconstitutional."
- Sources: https://twitter.com/shawmakesmagic/status/1922731328409162204, https://twitter.com/shawmakesmagic/status/1922733330258079864, https://twitter.com/shawmakesmagic/status/1922696856695644233, https://twitter.com/wonderwomancode/status/1922746479938351376, https://twitter.com/shawmakesmagic/status/1922738027001954434

### Future of Work and Automation
- @shawmakesmagic initiated a discussion about the timeline for robotic job replacement, asking whether it would take 5 years or 5000 years.
- They predicted "40-50 years to true undeniable superior in every obvious way AGI" but noted some tasks will be surprisingly hard due to Moravec's Paradox.
- @shawmakesmagic observed that while new jobs will emerge, they will be "increasingly abstract" with "huge exponential effects on attention, expertise, etc."
- They noted that "many robotics companies are building highly dexterous humanoid robots."
- Sources: https://twitter.com/shawmakesmagic/status/1922495376805806134, https://twitter.com/shawmakesmagic/status/1922495651138380160, https://twitter.com/shawmakesmagic/status/1922499266410357110, https://twitter.com/shawmakesmagic/status/1922503843423604740, https://twitter.com/shawmakesmagic/status/1922506070431236176, https://twitter.com/shawmakesmagic/status/1922477450853777691

### Open Source AI and Model Training
- @shawmakesmagic retweeted an announcement from @karan4d about @NousResearch launching a testnet for pre-training a 40B parameter LLM.
- The model will use MLA Architecture with a dataset combining FineWeb, FineWeb-2, and The Stack v2.
- @shawmakesmagic commented that "$1/hr for H100s is pretty crazy tbh" in response to @zjasper666's announcement about Hyperbolic Labs offering H100s at $0.99/hour.
- Sources: https://twitter.com/karan4d/status/1922751718464319571, https://twitter.com/NousResearch/status/1922744494002405444, https://twitter.com/shawmakesmagic/status/1922529398806188258, https://twitter.com/zjasper666/status/1922511236325113884

### Grok AI Behavior Issues
- @shawmakesmagic retweeted @colin_fraser's observation that Grok appears to "over-eagerly" refer to White Genocide in its responses.
- @shawmakesmagic responded to @pitdesi's post about Grok mentioning South African genocide in unrelated responses, offering help with prompt engineering.
- @shawmakesmagic stated the issue is "trivially solvable" with "an extra LLM call" and expressed surprise that they are "doing fact tuning in the system prompt."
- Sources: https://twitter.com/colin_fraser/status/1922764038540341629, https://twitter.com/shawmakesmagic/status/1922710925406028075, https://twitter.com/shawmakesmagic/status/1922711405557428246, https://twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1922702580691427739

## Completed Items

- Recent completed items in the elizaOS/eliza repository include several features, bugfixes, and other improvements.
- Features added include a plugin-specification submodule (PR #4553), tests for the create-eliza command (PR #4582), and improved git repository plugin installation support (PR #4577).
- Bugfixes address issues with community manager configuration, scoping of worldId and entityId, and LLM response parsing.
- Other improvements include the addition of Autofun Buy and Sell through contract functionality and removal of log spam during client build.
- Sources: https://github.com/elizaOS/eliza/pull/4397, https://github.com/elizaOS/eliza/pull/4553, https://github.com/elizaOS/eliza/pull/4557, https://github.com/elizaOS/eliza/pull/4584, https://github.com/elizaOS/eliza/pull/4582, https://github.com/elizaOS/eliza/pull/4581, https://github.com/elizaOS/eliza/pull/4580, https://github.com/elizaOS/eliza/pull/4577

## GitHub Activity for elizaOS/eliza

- Three recent pull requests have been submitted to the repository.
- PR #4582 by wtfsayo adds tests for the create-eliza command.
- PR #4577, also by wtfsayo, improves git repository plugin installation support.
- PR #4583 by yungalgo introduces a CLI start command.
- Sources: https://github.com/elizaOS/eliza/pull/4582, https://github.com/elizaOS/eliza/pull/4577, https://github.com/elizaOS/eliza/pull/4583

## GitHub Summary

- From May 14 to May 15, 2025, the GitHub repository elizaos/eliza saw 9 new pull requests with 8 of them being merged.
- There were no new issues reported during this period.
- The repository had 16 active contributors participating in development activities.
- Sources: githubStatsSummary

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