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On 2026-08-06 19:17:55+00:00 0xSero posted a “Best people to follow in AI rn”…

2026-08-06 · 19:17 UTC ·@Scav ·3 min read

Brief

Scav responded to 0xSero’s 2026-08-06 "Best people to follow in AI rn" list by thanking 0xSero and saying he’s honored to appear next to @steipete. 0xSero assembled 33 AI-focused handles and short endorsements covering mentorship (MilksandMatcha), Local AI partnerships (alexocheema), quantisation work (TheAhmadOsman, cpatonn), large‑scale hardware ownership (Hikari07_jp "owns 6000s"), and community builders (steipete, Scav). The thread calls out concrete technical contributions—2‑bit quantisation progress, Baseten’s inference and vision work plus the free "Inference Engineering" book, and Teknium building Scav’s AI rig—while preserving emphatic claims (e.g., steipete’s role in a major AI agent onboarding event) and Scav’s promise of ongoing Local AI updates from his projects.

Why it matters

On 2026-08-06 19:17:55+00:00 0xSero posted a “Best people to follow in AI rn” list; Scav replied saying he’s honored to be listed next to @steipete and thanked @0xSero for the inclusion and advice on spreading work.

Key details

  • 0xSero’s list names 33 handles (examples: MilksandMatcha as Scav’s mentor; alexocheema as Scav’s Local AI partner; _cpatonn noted for AWQ quantisations; Hikari_07_jp described as an "amazing dev, doing great work, owns 6000s").
  • Scav endorses specific contributions and people: he credits @steipete with doing a "tremendous amount for open source" and calls him "arguably responsible for the largest AI agent onboarding event ever," and says he’s "biased" about localdotai as a source of updates, configs, and info.
  • The list highlights technical work: TheAhmadOsman is credited with pushing 2‑bit quantisation limits; Baseten is credited for speeding inference, adding VISION to GLM and publishing the free book "Inference Engineering"; Teknium built Scav’s latest AI rig and documented components and costs.
Source evidence

honored to be next to @steipete on this list 😄

In all honesty, thanks @0xSero. Immensely glad you got to see the space, and for the advice on how to spread great things!

0xSero (@0xSero)

Best people to follow in AI rn.

Remember, you are who you surround yourself with.

  • MilksandMatcha

my mentor, excellent human being.

  • alexocheema

my partner in Local AI

  • cpatonn AWQ quantisations cyankiwiai

  • tszzl

cryptic messaging about state of AI

  • SIGKITTEN

a very smart cat, a grumpy pioneer

  • Hikari07jp

amazing dev, doing great work, owns 6000s

  • alecqfong

only person I know sharing content on the DGX Station

  • NaderLikeLadder

I can't state enough how much this man has improved open source and local ai.

  • badlogicgames

Best harness hands down, Pi.dev is revolutionising OSS building blocks.

  • MatthewBerman

Weekly news, OSS advocate, amazing youtube channel.

  • KingBootoshi

I love him dearly, incredible human being doing amazing things. He gets it.

  • elliotarledge

Kernel bench, minecraft clones, and motivational work content. I believe he will educate millions.

  • localdotai

I'm biased, but you'll be getting a lot of updates, configs, and info out of it.

  • LottoLabs

Localmaxxing king, has one of the weirdest and coolest platforms out there for benchmarking

  • mervenoyann

Open source maverick, huggingface contributor, wonderful person. Always helping

  • RayFernando1337

Ray is doing educational and health content, he's very kind and has a winning philosophy.

  • trq212

Best communicator @ anthropic, makes great content on how to best use Claude Code.

  • UnslothAI

The highest quality and most accessible compressions, they've really pushed 2 bit quantisation to it's limit.

  • TheAhmadOsman

His writing is very informative, I've learned a lot from him and I'm sure you will too. I recommend his X Articles

  • MikeBradleyAI

He built my latest AI rig, has done me a great favour by taking the time to breakdown all the components and costs, always smiling

  • Teknium

Contributed Hermes agent to the world, and trained low refusal models for the world.

  • louszbd

Everything GLM, ZAI has really stuck to their promise to keep their work open to us.

  • goodhunt

Hunter is @ Arcee & made deepseek TUI, great guy full of life and hope.

  • sqs

Quinn lit a flame under us all and hosted the first freedom of intelligence event in SF. Fighting the good fight.

  • iamgingertrash

Truffles will change the world, I have no doubt about it.

  • JensenHuang

I mean it's the goat himself, this is all downstream of this man's unwavering dedication to improving compute.

  • jessalanfields

Jesse is helping me spread local AI around the country, taking on more than is fair to expect from 1 person to help the United States <3

  • steipete

Has done a tremendous amount for open source and is arguably responsible for the largest AI agent onboarding event ever

  • Scav

Mattie is running a robotics space to help people with ideas access the resouorces needed to bring them to life.

  • DavidOndrej1

David's videos are really well timed, and he's pushing what can be done with these models

  • davis7

Ben is my favorite tech deep diver.

  • philipkiely

Baseten has done incredible things with speeding inference up and providing VISION to GLM <3 his book Inference Engineering is free and will give u the foundation you need.

Who am I missing?

I love you all.

— https://nitter.net/0xSero/status/2085428222100140534#m