Ahmad Al-Dahle ✓

@Ahmad_Al_Dahle · San Francisco, CA · joined 27 Mar 2024

#Girldad of twins. CTO @ Airbnb, ex-Meta head of GenAI, ex-Apple

24 478Followers

167Following

304Posts total

111.8KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Ahmad Al-Dahle ✓@Ahmad_Al_Dahle3 Sep

Congrats @ClementDelangue, @huggingface & @nvidia on today's news. From working with Clem on open source model releases at Meta, he's been a relentless champion for open weights long before it was fashionable. AI wins with healthy open and closed ecosystems, a principle we're 3.7K views · 28 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Ahmad Al-Dahle ✓@Ahmad_Al_Dahle7 Aug

Been pretty quiet while we've been building, but Q2 says it all, being AI native with smaller teams drove the concept to launch up to 60% faster, ~80% more shipped in H1 than last year. AI is just how we build at Airbnb now. The team is just getting started. 3.8K views · 18 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Ahmad Al-Dahle ✓@Ahmad_Al_Dahle29 Jul

It's earnings season, so the bubble discourse is back. Two things are true at once: we don't have enough compute, and we're overbuilding it. Both camps are sort of right. Here's the game that I think makes that possible. https://t.co/u2KreW2mzl 3.1K views · 11 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ahmad Al-Dahle ✓@Ahmad_Al_Dahle24 Jul

I spent years building and shipping open models, back when advocating for openness was a lonely position. So seeing Microsoft, NVIDIA, and much of the industry sign this letter feels like real progress. But the uncomfortable reality is that we can win the argument while also 11.1K views · 107 likes · 10 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Ahmad Al-Dahle ✓@Ahmad_Al_Dahle23 Jul

AI distillation has been one of the hottest, and most misunderstood, topics in the industry over the past few weeks. There’s a lot of noise, speculation, and misinformation. So I thought it would be useful to separate myth from reality 10.8K views · 27 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ahmad Al-Dahle ✓@Ahmad_Al_Dahle23 Jul

https://t.co/cVPrh52s4s 77K views · 159 likes · 23 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Ahmad Al-Dahle ✓@Ahmad_Al_Dahle5 Oct 2024

@Ahmad_Al_Dahle https://t.co/T1n3hWBrYF 764 views · 33 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ahmad Al-Dahle ✓@Ahmad_Al_Dahle4 Oct 2024

@Ahmad_Al_Dahle Can't wait for all the fake videos flooding instagram 1.6K views · 32 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

3 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views3 695this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %15.10%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.59%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 695	924	4.00×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	15.10%	3.62%	4.17×
Engagement rate	0.59%	1.52%	0.39×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

1.6K4 Oct

7645 Oct

77K23 Jul

10.8K

11.1K24 Jul

3.1K29 Jul

3.8K7 Aug

3.7K3 Sep

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.02%4 Oct

4.32%5 Oct

0.25%23 Jul

0.29%

1.11%24 Jul

0.42%29 Jul

0.59%7 Aug

0.87%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes78.7%415 in total

Reposts6.8%36 in total

Replies3.2%17 in total

Quotes2.5%13 in total

Bookmarks8.7%46 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.