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.

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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.

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HIGHbill·Y Combinator·3 days ago
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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