Host invests in Physical Intelligence: general robotic foundation models
Host is an investor because Physical Intelligence tackles the 'scarecrow problem' in robotics — building foundation models that give any physical robot a general-purpose brain, an…
Tesla's robot data flywheel is the model for embodied AI deployment
Tesla doesn't worry about data quantity because their cars are useful enough to deploy at scale, creating a self-reinforcing flywheel: useful product → massive real-world data → b…
Boston Dynamics inspires but demos must serve a mission toward utility
Boston Dynamics' demos (new Atlas) expand imagination of what's possible, but the company's long history of cool demos without commercial utility raises questions. Demos are valua…
OpenAI's research culture empowered pet projects like ChatGPT
OpenAI created an atmosphere where individual researchers could experiment with pet projects (ChatGPT started as John Schulman's side project) without corporate bureaucracy, enabl…