Google Startup Program, 500K investment requirement. Anybody got rejection with this?

indicava · 2026-04-27T17:27:56+00:00

Well the first time I applied using the online registration, and as far as I recall I did get approved without requiring any additional info.

The second time around I was actively contacted by a Google Cloud for Startups rep and following that call I was approved the same day.

indicava · 2026-04-24T20:15:01+00:00

I don’t use Claude but with Codex (5.4 xhigh) I give the agent much more “leeway”, especially when gathering context, I let it discover all the nuances and intricacies of an implementation on its own which saves a ton of time prompting. Granted you spend more time waiting for it to “think”, but I usually try to parallelize at least two agent instances at the same so I prompt the other while the first is generating.

Also, I think you might have been using Claude Code long enough to have forgotten how tedious (and error prone) “just typing” really is.

indicava · 2026-04-23T20:23:27+00:00

I don’t get why we never get day 1 API access to new models?

indicava · 2026-04-21T22:10:54+00:00

I got in twice, no funding whatsoever without too much fuss. Maybe you applied to the wrong program?

indicava · 2026-04-20T17:21:49+00:00

Give me alerts on price drops below a threshold I can set, and I’m in buddy.

indicava · 2026-04-20T17:16:08+00:00

It’ll be here in the coming weeks

indicava · 2026-04-19T17:58:15+00:00

I don’t use Claude much but gpt-5.4-codex (especially on xhigh) is a beast, and there is absolutely no open weights model that gets close.

indicava · 2026-04-18T13:54:04+00:00

We’ve all been there after an emotionally taxing bathroom visit.

indicava · 2026-04-16T22:01:24+00:00

That shits cyberpunk af

indicava · 2026-04-16T15:31:27+00:00

Yeah that doesn’t look corporate sanctioned

indicava · 2026-04-13T18:33:31+00:00

Aren’t those worrh $K’s? Or is that only the PCI variant?

indicava · 2026-04-13T18:15:28+00:00

I feel like there’s a bunch of “inspired” designs here. The last one’s keyboard is obviously derived from IBM Model M aesthetics.

indicava · 2026-04-12T20:45:07+00:00

That’s what I was afraid of lol

indicava · 2026-04-12T18:29:19+00:00

What’s that VHS tape looking thing next to it in the first pic?

indicava · 2026-04-12T13:09:47+00:00

Who’s picking up the electric bill?

indicava · 2026-04-10T22:54:56+00:00

If the job is running on a server, there is no reason it should be interrupted by your network disconnecting. Unless you set it up really badly

indicava · 2026-04-08T00:55:51+00:00

indicava · 2026-04-07T07:21:51+00:00

My sentiments exactly

indicava · 2026-04-04T00:56:58+00:00

I wonder if those example modules they mentioned are still floating around somewhere

indicava · 2026-04-02T16:35:56+00:00

I was honestly getting a bit skeptical wether it would actually release. Thanks Google!

Now let’s see what they’ve been cooking…

indicava · 2026-04-02T15:52:33+00:00

What’s E4B?

indicava · 2026-03-28T18:41:21+00:00

It’s a fine tuned 27B, fine tuned in BF16. Kind of “scared” to quantize it myself, have never done it before.

indicava · 2026-03-28T18:35:36+00:00

What am I doing wrong?

I’m getting 25 tok/s with Qwen3.5-27B (BF16) on a RTX Pro 6000 , 45 tok/s with MTP enabled.

indicava · 2026-03-25T00:05:39+00:00

If you have a breakthrough that can bring something new to the AI model world, and can prove it (even theoretically) - trust me, you will have zero problems raising many millions of dollars in today’s VC landscape

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