AI Breakthroughs Imminent; Watch Videos for Insight
I'm hearing the same. That we are in a lull right now and that breakthroughs are coming. I'm uploading two videos with @blevlabs right now. He has one, and there are others. The videos are long, but worthy to see where breakthroughs can come from in the AI industry.
Impending Unitree IPO Could Spark Robotics Investment Boom
A huge robotics bubble forming? Learned last night at the @1x_tech party from an investor that @UnitreeRobotics is preparing a public offering, but that USA investors are being rebuffed. The guy I talked to wanted to put in $200 million and...
Neo Robot Launch Prioritizes Everyday Chores Over Stunts
What is @1x_tech up to later today at 11 a.m.? Launching its Neo home robot. Here's @karpathy who I surprised with my Apple Vision Pro on right after he hugged Neo while teleoperating it in one of the demos at its party...
AI-Driven OS and Home Robots Redefine Tomorrow
Agreed. @flowith_ai's new OS is pretty mind blowing. More later after I play with it more. Just got home from @1x_tech which is launching its home-focused robot tomorrow. I'll have a lot more to say about that shortly. I am...
From Apple IIs to Robots: Tech’s Wild Leap
I just interviewed @karpathy for the first time in my life at @1x_tech. Right after he got a demo. I will have his video up later but turn up the audio and listen to what I have learned. The event here is...
Meet 20‑Year‑Old AI Prodigy Outsmarting Billion‑Dollar Giants
I'm delaying sharing the videos of @blevlabs until tomorrow. They are long. In my house. An intimate look at 20 year old AI genius who has a system that I've seen over and over completely eviscerate results from multi-billion-dollar AI companies....
AI-Driven Knowledge Graph Could Reshape X’s Feed Algorithm
How might the new X algo work? Not the shitty one we have today that's based on a bunch of hard-coded rules, but a more flexible AI-centric one? @bendiken demonstrated the other night a new kind of neurosymbolic machine intelligence. That builds...
AI Video Creation Becomes Instant and Interactive
"Instant, interactive AI video." Boom!
True Tech Expertise Requires Hands‑on Tesla FSD Experience
Good morning. Totally agree with @YunTaTsai1 below where he says robotics researchers shouldn't call themselves experts if they haven't had direct experience with @Tesla's FSD 14. In fact I'd go further. You can't call yourself a technology expert if you...
AI Accelerates Drug Discovery Breakthroughs
AI transforming drug discovery.
Embodied AI Learns From Human Experiences, Not Just Data
In a few hours @IllusionOfLife is having a Holloween party in San Francisco. Mostly for kids. I'm not going. I made a bunch of videos of @okpasquale and his cofounder Kevin Fischer last week and editing them is taking longer...
Experts Warn AI and Robot Futures Arrive Later than Hype
When is the future arriving? This post says that the ML researchers are far more bearish than most who talk on X. Same is true about generalized humanoid robots. Most tell me somewhere around seven years. Even in China. Tesla...
Due Diligence Essential for Unverified AI Speed Claims
If he is right this would bring America back to the top in AI. In a big way. The problem is I can't judge whether he is right. So I'm presenting this as an example of how I judge people who...
Polarity Safeguards Code, Boosts Teamwork in AI Era
Developers: Meet @polarityco which catches bugs and makes your agentic systems better. But deeper, makes your code work in enterprise systems and makes it better for working with a team. Keeps people from getting fired for using AIs to code. And,...
Open‑source Walking Camera Redefines Home AI Assistance
A new kind of moving camera. Think of it as a camera that walks. A little short camera. Disguised as a small humanoid robot. $1,000. Raghu talks about his plans to open source it. Developers will build applications for it like “make a nice...
Exploring SF's AI/Robot Scene: My Truman Show
In San Francisco meeting robot and AI startups and being on my version of the Truman Show. More videos of interesting new tech companies to come. @heidy_dms caught me reading X just now.
AI Revolutionizes Fast Charging and Retail Experience
Electric car fans: How AI is changing our chargers. @ElectricEraTech CEO @QuincyEdmundLee and I cover everything about fast chargers and retail. https://t.co/uz7mL8GvGc
Inside the Mechanics of Autonomous Vehicles
How the robot car works.
61 Curated Tech Lists Beat X’s Flawed ‘
"For You sucks:" If you are in tech and want better feeds, I built 61 of them for you. The most complete lists here on X -- by far -- of tech. It's what I use all day long to see...
AI Will Slash Game Development Costs and Boost Fun
The future of video game development. Exclusive first look at https://t.co/PEmHb9xF8Z with its founder @ThomasTobin3D. It built a world model that develops new worlds with prompts. This shows why AI is about to dramatically reduce the cost to develop games while making...
World Models Advancing Fast—Key for Robotics and Gaming
The innovations in World Models are continuing to drop at a rapid rate. Worth paying attention to, and if you are in robotics, you are probably already using them, or want to use them soon. Tomorrow I will share one that...
Meta Cuts AI Talent, X Snaps Them Up
Meta laid off AI geniuses. X is hiring them.
AI Simulates Expert Coaching for Better Public Speaking
Hey Grok can you simulate Robert Scoble and teach me how to give a great speech? (I gave two so far this week?) Grok’s answer is pretty good: https://t.co/KtiWPVQQNq But the simulation could be better:
Single‑Task Robots Can Feed the World, Not Just Humanoids
The single task robot maker. If we want to automate the world we will need a lot more than humanoids. Andrew @a_andlyu caught my eye in my tours through @fdotinc in San Francisco. He is building a robot and AI to pick up...
Active Inference: The Next Paradigm for AI and Robotics
Active inference. This is how robots and AI agents will work in the future I learned tonight at @rwang0’s conference for enterprise types. Tesla and xAI don’t yet use it, Grok says, but Grok knows all about it and says it is...
AI Agents Turn Hated Tasks Into Fun Automation
Things I hate. A great place to look to use AI Agents is to do things you hate. @genspark_ai has a new agent builder it calls "Custom Agent Builder." All you have to do is ask it to create an...
AI Browsers Offer Power, But Bring New Security Risks
While I love new technology, and I already am using all these AI browsers (already am using OpenAI's new one released today) I go in knowing that I'm taking major new risks. These browsers give very powerful new capabilities to your...
Agentic Platform Race Heats Up with OpenAI Browser
I'm off to @rwang0's enterprise conference today. On the way out @flowith_ai just dropped me a note and a new thing to use that takes their agentic platform a lot further. More coming on Thursday from them. Can't talk about...
OpenAI Launches AI‑first Web Browser for Innovators
OpenAI introducing a new Web browser for AI first thinkers.
AI Video Generator Kling Shines at Cannes MIPCOM
Have you ever been to Cannes? I have. The audience there is the most powerful in the content business, so this caught my eye. @Kling_ai was there for the first time this year, significant because AI video generators haven't gotten that...
AI's Hidden Subconscious Mirrors Human Biases and Creativity
I didn't understand my own subconscious mind until I visited the VR/AR lab at Stanford University and Jeremy Bailenson had me walk the plank. There I learned that my subconscious mind would overrule my rational mind. In our newsletter this...
Vision Action Models Accelerate Real‑Time AI Video and Robotics
AI video is doing same as Tesla Self Driving: upgrading quickly. The robotics entrepreneurs in San Francisco told me about VLAs today. Vision Action Models. The AI can now understand the world in real time. Important for robotics. And same kind of...
Tesla's Self-Driving Beats Waymo, Headlights Upgrade
Holy shit. @tesla Self Driving. Wow. @WholeMarsBlog was right. Even the matrix headlights improved. Waymo is way inferior. https://t.co/FpdBKQlpMB
One Human's System Beats Billionaire AI Teams
Spent the entire day with @blevlabs. My first prompt in his system completely outclassed the results I got from Grok, Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT. Breakthroughs are possible. From a 20-year-old who has been working on his system for seven years. Gave me hope...
Credibility Will Dictate Visibility in the New Grok Algorithm
When Grok takes over the algorithm in a few weeks it will reward people it knows better. Or penalize them, it knows all my sins deeply. Either way it already has everything about me. First tip. It will know whether you...
Layoff Sparks Reassessment of Work, Family Balance
Yesterday my wife @maryamie was laid off. @VMware and @broadcom have been very good to us for eight years. In a way it was a quiet sponsor of what I do, she was very well compensated. I am very grateful for...
Enterprise Virtual Employees: The Future of Workforce
Introducing enterprise virtual employees.
AI Agents Get Self‑Driving Safety Testing with Scorecard
Exclusive first look: I sat down with Darius Ani, @dariusemrani, CEO of Scorecard, a company that’s bringing self-driving car safety logic to the world of AI agents. Darius shared how his experience as an engineer at @Waymo inspired a system...
Free Limited-Time Access to Moondream3 via Luminal Demo
Demo getting praise in AI community. Fast!
Massive GPU Compute Powers Meta’s AI Talent Hunt
They ran 400,000 GPU hours. And that is how Meta recruits hyper-smart AI researchers. Oh, and the pay. :-)
AI Learns Game Rules From a Single Play
Super smart robot breakthrough: I had to ask Grok why this paper is important. Here is its answer: >>> Imagine you're playing a video game, like Minecraft, and you've only played it once. Normally, to get really good, you'd have to play...
Future Jobs: Human Neurons and Stem Cell Computing
What jobs will AI never replace? @BatsouElef asks. Every job I can think of an AI can eventually do. Even being your mom or playing sports. So I'm asking myself "what kinds of jobs will we come up with after AI and...
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World models = holodecks. But @ylecun gives a much more complete and precise answer. :-)
First Hour-Long RL Podcast for Robotics Enthusiasts
An hour of reinforcement learning. If you are listening, like I am, you are my kind of people! Or you might be working at a robotics startup. Which means you are my kind of people anyway. :-)
Discovering Poke: A Powerful Email‑Watching iPhone Assistant
This was a very interesting conversation with @marvinvonhagen founder of @interaction maker of “Poke.” This got me to use it even more on my iPhone. Great assistant that watches emails and more.
AI‑Powered Seedream 4.0 Turns iPhone Shots Into Viral Ads
Marketers: How do you introduce a new product to the world? One that no one knows they want? And you really wanna make it viral? That's my storytelling challenge for Illusion of Life, which has just shipped to its first customers a...
Real-Time World Models Promise Holodeck‑Level Robotics
OK @drfeifei was already near the top of my list of favorite people alive, but this pushed her up to the top. Infinite real time realities in a Holodeck. This work has sped up my expectations about robotics. @adcock_brett told @Benioff...
Even LLMs Can't Answer Simple Emoji Queries
Some questions shouldn't be asked of LLMs. :-)
Top AI Minds Ranked: Who Defines Our Future
All the best in AI are on this list: https://t.co/2dDZtIT7Gf
AI Art Hits Sameness, Lacks Emotional Storytelling
AI is amazing but it isn't good enough yet. @Kantrowitz says, below, AI has a sameness problem. The problem is if you hang out here on X all day long we see the sameness. Look at my AI Artist's feed. If...