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bill

T1 · high-signal investor

Technical background in VLMs and foundation models (worked at Siemens on time series prediction). Co-founded General Instinct to build infrastructure for running physical AI models (world action models, VLAs) fast on edge devices.

2 calls·2 names·50% bull·last heard 2 months ago·Y Combinator
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$GENERAL-INSTINCTGeneral Instinct

General Instinct founders claim 500ms inference for world action models on Jetson via distillation and architecture changes

Bill and Guanming argue world action models (WAMs) are too slow and expensive for robotics (2GB, 200s, $70K) and have built infrastructure optimizing diffusion transformers, VAEs, and flow matching to achieve real-time edge deployment.

Y Combinator2026-08episode →
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$NVDANvidia

General Instinct founders critique Nvidia Dream Zero as too slow and expensive for production robotics

Nvidia's Dream Zero world action model requires 2GB VRAM and 200 seconds per inference step at ~$70K per unit, making it economically non-scalable for robotics deployment despite strong benchmark performance.

Y Combinator2026-08episode →

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MEDbill·Y Combinator·2 months ago·Why Robotics Still Isn't Solved - But Could Be Soon | YC Paper Club
General Instinct founders critique Nvidia Dream Zero as too slow and expensive for production robotics
Nvidia's Dream Zero world action model requires 2GB VRAM and 200 seconds per inference step at ~$70K per unit, making it economically non-scalable for robotics deployment despite strong benchmark performance.
"one problem that we noticed is that although world action models perform really well, because you're you're still trying to use a diffusion model to try to predict frames, it's re…"
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General Instinct
HIGHbill·Y Combinator·2 months ago·Why Robotics Still Isn't Solved - But Could Be Soon | YC Paper Club
General Instinct founders claim 500ms inference for world action models on Jetson via distillation and architecture changes
Bill and Guanming argue world action models (WAMs) are too slow and expensive for robotics (2GB, 200s, $70K) and have built infrastructure optimizing diffusion transformers, VAEs, and flow matching to achieve real-time edge deployment.
"By using our infra, the word action model can runs 500 milliseconds per chunk, which is 16 actions on Jetson store. And we also wrote a full blog about how we did this on our webs…"
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AI Infrastructuretailwind
World action models need inference optimization infrastructure to run on edge devices
Bill and Guanming show that raw world action models are prohibitively slow (200s, $70K) for robotics, but distillation of VAEs and DiTs, cross-attention between video and action transformers, and flow matching step reduction can achieve 500ms on Jetson, unlocking real-time deployment.