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Robotics' End Game: Nvidia's Jim Fan

2026-04-30 · 5 company · 4 thematic
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jim fan

Jim Fan leads Nvidia's embodied AI/robotics research group. He joined as an intern in 2016 when Jensen Huang delivered the first DGX-1 to OpenAI, and has driven the 'great parallel' strategy applying LLM scaling laws to robotics through world models, simulation, and massive RL.

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“Anyone driving Tesla or Waymo here? Anyone? Right? You know, when you're driving, you're actually contributing to the biggest physical data flywheel.”
—jim fan

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