# Surya Dantuluri

> Surya Dantuluri. I train models, write, and build things on the internet. I started with GPT-2 in high school, built ChatWithPDF, Geospot, and NotRealNews, and later founded Prava to train computer-use models. I care about agency, information asymmetry, and getting intelligence to do useful work in the real economy.

Thesis: intelligence is already here. The bottleneck is diffusion. Models need to leave the screen and get pushed into the real economy, where the constraints are physical, financial, and human.

## Writing

- [Training Imperative](https://sdan.io/blog/training-imperative): Labor priced in tokens.
- [Teaching GPT-5 to Use a Computer](https://blog.sdan.io/archon/): Towards self-driving computers.
- [Intelligence Arbitrage](https://sdan.io/blog/intelligence-arbitrage): $25T Services Market.
- [Perceived Age](https://sdan.io/blog/perceived-age): Half Our Life is Over by 21.

## Archived Writing

- [Country of Services](https://sdan.io/blog/country-of-services): Backpropagating across a country.
- [Information Asymmetry](https://sdan.io/blog/information-asymmetry): High frequency info.
- [Hero's Journey](https://sdan.io/blog/hero-journey): The Hero's Journey.
- [High Agency](https://sdan.io/blog/high-agency): Mastery in shape rotation.
- [Social Capital](https://sdan.io/blog/social-capital): Interest paid in lifetimes.
- [Vector Fields](https://sdan.io/blog/vector-fields): Incentivizing work than hacking.
- [DAgger Explained](https://web.archive.org/web/20200812043039/https://blog.suryad.com/dagger/): Expert-guided imitation learning.

## Thesis

- [AGI Diffusion](https://sdan.io/thesis): Why diffusion matters more than capability.

## Active Projects

- [Flâneur](https://sdan.io/projects/flaneur): A map of Curius links.
- [Backscroll](https://sdan.io/projects/backscroll): Agent that scrolls your feeds.
- [Pingpong](https://sdan.io/projects/pingpong): Realtime analytics.
- [vmux](https://sdan.io/projects/vmux): Stateful sandboxes for agents.
- [WikWok](https://sdan.io/projects/quickquack): Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok.
- [continualcode](https://sdan.io/projects/continualcode): Continual learning coding agent harness.
- [GeoVLM](https://sdan.io/projects/geovlm): Training a 30b VLM to geoguess.
- [Geospot](https://sdan.io/projects/geospot): Teaching models to geoguess.
- [tviz](https://sdan.io/projects/tviz): RL visualization dashboard for the Tinker API.
- [Jokegen](https://sdan.io/projects/jokegen): Teaching 1T parameters to be funny.
- [Cuaview](https://sdan.io/projects/cuaview): Native computer-use app for Mac.
- [Geospot Infinity](https://sdan.io/projects/geospot-infinity): Online RL policy for geoguessing.
- [diffcua](https://sdan.io/projects/diffcua): Differential vision encoding for computer-use agents.
- [Sudo](https://sdan.io/projects/sudo): Realtime website generator.
- [r1-web](https://sdan.io/projects/r1web): WebGPU inference for DeepSeek-R1.
- [fourcast](https://sdan.io/projects/fourcast): Permissionless prediction market.
- [Brainrot Stimulation](https://sdan.io/projects/brainrot-chrome): Subway surfers on ChatGPT and VSCode.
- [Bountylist](https://sdan.io/projects/bountylist): Small bounties for serial hackers.
- [yecombinator](https://sdan.io/projects/yecombinator): Searchable index of all ye tweets and quotes.
- [Open Animator](https://sdan.io/projects/open-animator): GPT-3.5 creates math animations from text.
- [vlite](https://sdan.io/projects/vlite): Fast vector DB.
- [ChatWithPDF](https://sdan.io/projects/chatpdf): The #1 ChatGPT plugin.
- [NotRealNews.net](https://sdan.io/projects/notrealnews): GPT-2 generated news sites.
- [Self-driving RC car](https://sdan.io/projects/raccoon): Neural network RC control.
- [Balsa bridge](https://sdan.io/projects/balsa): A ~15 gram bridge that can hold 15kg.

## Archived Projects

- [Bashroom](https://sdan.io/projects/bashroom): Shared bash for coding agents.
- [Qwen3-VL-JAX](https://sdan.io/projects/qwen3-vl-jax): Qwen3-VL implementation in JAX.
- [99.5k tps on a B200](https://sdan.io/projects/hundredtps): With llama-3.1 8b.
- [vlm-gym inference TUI](https://sdan.io/projects/jax-geoguess): Small vision model in JAX for geoguesssing.
- [nanoEBM](https://sdan.io/projects/nanoebm): Minimal Energy-based transformer.
- [vlm-gym](https://sdan.io/projects/vlm): RL gym for VLMs in JAX.
- [Cua-view](https://sdan.io/projects/cua-view): Computer-use agents inference sandbox.
- [Tempora](https://sdan.io/projects/tempora): Agents that scroll your feeds and deliver briefs.
- [Mirador](https://sdan.io/projects/computer-use): Agents that take over your computer to do work.
- [Mercata](https://sdan.io/projects/mercata): Workspace for spreadsheets, code, and docs.
- [minDiT](https://sdan.io/projects/mindit): Simple diffusion transformer.
- [Talos](https://sdan.io/projects/talos): AI agent that conducts live video and audio interviews.
- [Self Extend](https://sdan.io/projects/self-extend): Extend LLM context window via grouped attention.
- [Sentor](https://sdan.io/projects/estel): OSINT agents tracking 350k+ geopolitical signals a day.
- [gptwrapped](https://sdan.io/projects/gptwrapped): Spotify wrapped for ChatGPT.
- [Brainrot Stimulation for VSCode](https://sdan.io/projects/brainrot): Subway surfers on VSCode.
- [vibeshift](https://sdan.io/projects/vibeshift): Diffusion style transfer.
- [Peeko](https://sdan.io/projects/peeko): Tiktok dances as a service.
- [Prave](https://sdan.io/projects/prave): Boosted Stripe recovery rate 75%+.
- [Ascii token counter](https://sdan.io/projects/token-counter): Count tokens for any LLM model.
- [functioncalling.fun](https://sdan.io/projects/functioncalling): Serverless GPT function calling.
- [GPT-2 in Code Interpreter](https://sdan.io/projects/gpt2-code-interpreter): Running GPT-2 with GGML entirely in ChatGPT.
- [Partychat](https://sdan.io/projects/partychat): Multiplayer plugin with Durable Objects.
- [Plugin Proxy](https://sdan.io/projects/plugin-proxy): Lightweight composable proxy made for scale.
- [ChatWithWebsite](https://sdan.io/projects/chatwithweb): Website content ChatGPT plugin.
- [GitSearch](https://sdan.io/projects/gitsearch): Github snippet search ChatGPT plugin.
- [ChatWithVideo](https://sdan.io/projects/chatwithvideo): Youtube transcription ChatGPT plugin.
- [Wordflow Ads](https://sdan.io/projects/wordflowads): Inject ads into your llms.
- [ChatMaps](https://sdan.io/projects/chatmaps): Semantically Search Google Maps with ChatGPT.
- [LLMIndex](https://sdan.io/projects/llmindex): LLM metrics dashboard.
- [SearchGPT](https://sdan.io/projects/searchgpt): GPT powered search engine.
- [randnft](https://sdan.io/projects/randnft): Proxy that points to a random Art Block.
- [BlueSearch](https://sdan.io/projects/blue-search): Search, sort, and summarize your Twitter timeline with GPT-3.
- [wg-netcheck](https://sdan.io/projects/wg-netcheck): Print latency analysis of Wireguard config files.
- [getrekt](https://sdan.io/projects/getrekt): real time defi liquidation tracker.
- [shl.vc](https://sdan.io/projects/shlvc): VC dealflow engine.
- [Rapid Analytics](https://sdan.io/projects/rapid-analytics): Fast website analytics with Cloudflare Workers.
- [shiftsms](https://sdan.io/projects/shiftsms): SMS Client for Twitter DMs.
- [Bigbird](https://sdan.io/projects/bigbird): Networking and clustering system built on top of Swarm.
- [Wordflow Summarizer](https://sdan.io/projects/wfsum): LLM powered summarizer.
- [Wordflow](https://sdan.io/projects/wordflow): AI gen content media network.
- [Parallax](https://sdan.io/projects/parallax): Turn regular photos into 3D Photos with AI.
- [gradient](https://sdan.io/projects/gradients): Stripe inspired multicolor gradients.
- [finetune gpt-2](https://sdan.io/projects/gpt-2): Train 774M, 1.5B models with the Google's S3 optimizer.
- [NoWalking](https://sdan.io/projects/nowalking): PPO RL Agent trying to walk.

## Notes

- [AGI diffusion](https://sdan.io/notes#agi-diffusion): AGI diffusion is the bottleneck to getting intelligence to solve real-world constraints across the economy.
- [Information-bound society](https://sdan.io/notes#information-bound-society): AGI shifts society from labor-bound to information-bound, where private information becomes the sharpest edge.
- [Information asymmetry](https://sdan.io/notes#information-asymmetry): The biggest arbitrages happen when you know something others do not and can act sooner.
- [Focus](https://sdan.io/notes#focus): Focus is choosing what you do when all things look urgent and all your instincts are noisy.
- [Blinders](https://sdan.io/notes#blinders): You build by running the race in front of you instead of looking in every direction at once.
- [High agency](https://sdan.io/notes#high-agency): Agency compounds when you make valuable choices before anyone asks.
- [Trust economy](https://sdan.io/notes#trust-economy): Every introduction is a trade in trust, and trust compounds harder than expertise.
- [Against mediocrity](https://sdan.io/notes#against-mediocrity): Mediocrity compounds into bad decisions. Quality compounds into optionality.
- [Up the intensity](https://sdan.io/notes#up-the-intensity): Intensity wins against indecision; most of life is choosing how much clock speed to bring.
- [Legacy as narrative](https://sdan.io/notes#legacy-as-narrative): The things that last usually begin as stories people cannot stop repeating.
- [Love for the game](https://sdan.io/notes#love-for-the-game): Replace ego with love for the game and the outcome gets harder to avoid.
- [Speed kills](https://sdan.io/notes#speed-kills): Action creates momentum, and momentum reveals information you cannot think your way into.
- [Just ask](https://sdan.io/notes#just-ask): Information gets cheaper the sooner you ask for it and the sooner you hear no.
- [Perceived age](https://sdan.io/notes#perceived-age): Each year feels shorter. The only real defense is novelty, risk, and change.
- [AGI is here](https://sdan.io/notes#agi-is-here): The systems are lagging the intelligence, not the other way around.

## Contact

- [GitHub](https://github.com/sdan)
- [Twitter/X](https://x.com/sdand)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/surya-d/)
- [Substack](https://substack.com/@sdan)
- [Email](mailto:surya@suryad.com)

## Optional

- [Curius](https://curius.app/surya2)
- [Full content version](https://sdan.io/llms-full.txt)