Soumith Chintala ✓

@soumithchintala · New York City · joined 02 Sep 2009

Building new things @thinkymachines. Also dabble in robotics at NYU. Cofounded @PyTorch. AI is delicious when it is accessible and open-source.

321 708Followers

1 316Following

4 051Posts total

722.5KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views64 507this account4 404median for 100K–1M

Reach, %20.05%this account1.84%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.66%this account1.47%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	64 507	4 404	14.7×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	20.05%	1.84%	10.9×
Engagement rate	0.66%	1.47%	0.45×

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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

46K31 Jul

148.4K16 Aug

146.3K17 Aug

64.5K18 Aug

202.6K27 Aug

58.2K28 Aug

56.5K3 Sep

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.66%31 Jul

1.24%16 Aug

0.18%17 Aug

0.34%18 Aug

0.21%27 Aug

0.81%28 Aug

0.71%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes68.2%3 454 in total

Reposts4.5%228 in total

Replies3.5%176 in total

Quotes1.2%62 in total

Bookmarks22.6%1 146 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.

Latest posts

zai earnings transcript was a really good read, a list of interesting points (mostly verbatim from the transcript): * Chat → Coding → Agent → Cowork → Autonomous AI * What truly matters is who can continuously bring stronger models to market at a faster pace and at a better 56.5K views · 366 likes · 23 reposts · 12 replies 03 Sep 2026 once you know the tasks you care about, customization >> general https://t.co/MdDbXKXBby 58.2K views · 417 likes · 26 reposts · 22 replies 28 Aug 2026 LLMs with scaffolds have lagged on text-to-SQL, a task that relies on human judgment. By folding expert judgment into every part of RLVR on Tinker, @maxYuxuanZhu and @ddkang (UIUC and Bridgwater) trained the first text-to-SQL model to beat the human mark. https://t.co/JxEQC31rX9 202.6K views · 363 likes · 46 reposts · 5 replies 27 Aug 2026 @thinkymachines at #4. > "The data is real Brex card and Brex bill pay activity from tens of thousands of Brex customers, recency-weighted." 64.5K views · 201 likes · 6 reposts · 13 replies 18 Aug 2026 Our summer fastest-growing vendors list just dropped, and the story is: infrastructure won. Turns out the real AI hype isn't the app, it's what's under it. https://t.co/ckI6f9FadO 146.3K views · 195 likes · 29 reposts · 7 replies 17 Aug 2026 I'm in Hyderabad next week, and I'd love to meet people outside my usual clique and bring them together. Who are the best people in these areas that you know based out of Hyderabad: deep tech, AI product, AI research, GPU whisperers? https://t.co/dijinLuZFc 148.4K views · 1.6K likes · 80 reposts · 97 replies 16 Aug 2026 Our plan keeps open weights and safety compatible with each other. We hope that this will help resolve debates and policies that pit open weights and safety as opposite and incompatible; ensuring a future full of open weights! 46K views · 264 likes · 18 reposts · 20 replies 31 Jul 2026