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scobleizer

Robert Scoble

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@scobleizer

The automated life | San Francisco/Silicon Valley AI, robotics, BCIs | Ex-Microsoft, Rackspace, Fast Company | Wrote eight books about the future.

611,896 followers · 59,908 following · Last polled 3h ago
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I've been GrokBot pilled. First of all, Grok knows me better than other bots, like Meta Muse, thanks to the 300,000 posts I've done here for 20 years. But now that GrokBot @bot can read lists, it opens up powerful new personalized news capabilities. I've done this for about a year over on https://t.co/zleMXMaSi9 -- but last month my X API bill alone was $6,000. For a couple of hundred a month you can do the same with lists, either you create, or ones other people have created. Last night I stuck in my "best in AI" list and had it write me this news page: https://t.co/RpQ0pJhi65 Every hour my bot reads that list and builds me a new news page. Now I've only put about 10 minutes of effort into this so far. So it's not the prettiest thing you ever have seen, but my bots are working on other ways to present them to me. And you can do the same for any topic you care about. You just need to build a list, or find one that's already built and there are millions of lists here on X on literally any topic. Put your favorite football team onto a list, along with all your favorite journalists or other fans. Then have Grok bot read them for you. And that's just the start. You can have it write you a script based on the news, then copy that into, say, @Gemini_Notebook and then you get a podcast, or a video. Based on what people are saying on your topic here on X. Thank you so much X for making lists far more powerful than they ever were before. Makes the thousands of hours I've put into mine over 20 years so much more useful. Tips? Start small. You can chew through your tokens very quickly. It's amazing how good it is with a small list, like this one, which is what created the page up above: https://t.co/qyxF8in0sP (Best AI accounts I've found out of 70,000 here on X). Don't over hit it. You only need your bot to read the list every hour. Maybe even less. If anything is really important it gets reshared into lists, so the bot doesn't need to hit it often to build you a really great set of things that are important to pay attention to. I've been begging for this capability for years. THANK YOU X!
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Grok goes open. Holy shit.16d ago1.7M2.6K8694234280.20%
Just remember. You aren’t actually driving the Roadster at all. You are driving a computer and it is telling another computer how to drive the car. It is steer by wire. Brake by wire. Accelerate by wire. But you will think it is better to drive than any other. Isn’t that a mind f###? Oh and it is SI, formerly known as AI. I am very emotional tonight. Am thinking about why. Will write that on the way to the @TheHumanoidHub conference in the morning. Missed today, had too much to do. But it goes back to the Tesla owners at the @theXtakeover last week. Several Cybertruck owners told me about getting flipped off in several places in America. This makes all the shit that I took for years worth it. I am writing this to you from my 2018 Tesla. Elon thank you for making our dreams far more interesting tonight.7d ago1.0M6.0K457272476860.75%
He is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon. I have visited a lot of universities and Carnegie has the best robotics in the world. Isn’t X great where you can follow the smartest in the world?frozen13d ago320K4.0K1614682.3K2.06%
I told you this years ago. Fun watching others join the tribe. Be in Austin this weekend to hang out with the tribe.16d ago275K95196446350.41%
It isn’t just RSI. At about 300 billion parameters their neural networks start behaving more human, AI researchers tell me. Their neurons start moving around like ours do. In other words they start learning faster. An emergent property they didn’t expect. Which is why there are more discussions about consciousness lately. And more angst about bad things AI might soon do. The clankers are soon gonna make us all think they are conscious. What will you call it when you have humanoids in your home talking to you? I don’t believe melted sand should be granted rights we hold dear as humans. And that is the hill I will defend.frozen13d ago172K1.6K127219307071.55%
Everyone wants a side income from AI. Almost nobody knows what to actually make. So I asked Dola to build me something I could sell tonight: a budget spreadsheet template for freelancers. Here is what I got. 🧵1d ago157K557150520.08%
I'm having a Meta hangover. Realizing that I was wrong to be excited at all about its new "VR Glasses." I predict another sales disaster is coming. And it isn't just because of all the people who keep telling me "I'm not wearing glasses." I'm on a podcast with @SadlyItsBradley, @ASychov, and @Shodah10 talking about this and that made me realize that I am just wrong about being excited about Meta. Which will be up this weekend. Bradley has long been in the VR/AR space and Artur and Shodah run a VR headset and metaverse company. So quite a bit of expertise. They all are far more critical than I was with my first impressions. And they aren't alone. I've been talking to quite a few nerds in San Francisco and they just show no excitement about these devices. And it honestly doesn't get close to the software experience, and content, of the Apple Vision Pro on a number of different levels. The crappy avatars in Meta, when compared with Apple's, which are full AI/gaussian splats, is one signal that Meta just isn't aiming at the right thing. I said "the Holodeck is here" but on a more critical look, no, they aren't even close. To get us to the Holodeck we need far more impressive AI than Meta Muse has to offer us today. World Models, like what you are seeing @theworldlabs or @odysseyml or others like @pixverse showing off. Now if they called them "the ultimate Meta Muse ecosystem/glasses" then I might feel differently. At least then we wouldn't be having fights about the field of view. Because they called them "VR Glasses" instead of "Muse Glasses" VR fans rightfully called out the narrow field of view, which means immersion isn't nearly as interesting as on a bigger VR headset. Calling them VR glasses is a huge mistake. It means we all are comparing it to the Quest 3. But the Quest 3 doesn't have a cord to a puck and has real immersion, which these really don't. But is is @alexandr_wang's post about its new holdable, or maybe wearable, AI device that tells me that vision at Meta is off: https://t.co/jU2poHFIVM I will leave it to you to do the critical thinking to understand why that's such a bad way to introduce a new surveillance technology into people's lives. Which is what this is. Compare to how Google talks about use cases and utility. Yeah, Google isn't as sexy as having Raybans' brand, but at least Google has a vision for how it will help bring super powers to us and doesn't make us feel dirty about the direction it is going. In its glasses it showed someone getting help fixing a bicycle. Utility and use cases that give us super human powers will be a lot better way to get people into this new world. Meta did a good job with its auto glasses, that can help people who are hard of hearing hear better. It should have had a bunch more use cases to show off why we need all these things. It just all misses that there is a new consumer that is unsatisfied. Ones that use AI all day long to run their lives and businesses. I could go on for hours (we did on the show which should be up by Sunday night), but I'll stop here. I'm sorry for getting overly excited, which is what I do. I try to be optimistic about new things, and it's clear that this company doesn't have good vision for where we are going over the next decade. Which leaves a HUGE opening for not just the Chinese (ByteDance and Pico are working on devices that are far more AI-centric and far more open than these) but both startups (several are arriving over the next few months) and companies like OpenAI who will focus on what AI can do for you, rather than showing off a cute mascot shaking its ass at us. And I'm a lot more excited about the AI that an American Company @getVITURE is bringing by the end of the year. I should listen more to the feedback from you all who say you don't want these devices. And I should have paid more attention to the fact that the software in these just isn't good enough to take us into an AI world, which is why they didn't let attendees at its own developer conference this week really get a good try of them. I know that sometime in the next decade you'll probably change your mind, but not yet. And the devices that really bring AI's promise of bringing us super powers aren't here yet, and this week didn't change that, so I can't recommend you buy these yet unless you are a developer or an extreme early adopter. Even then. If I had listened, I wouldn't have a Meta hangover today.27d ago151K29718142171510.41%
The slowest part of using AI isn't the thinking. It's waiting for the answer to type itself out, one word at a time. @EagleCorp just released EAGLE-4 to fix that. A small, fast model guesses what comes next, and the big model just checks its work. When the guesses are right, you get your answer a lot sooner. How much sooner? In their tests, about 4 times faster than normal. The clever part: it adjusts how it guesses depending on your hardware and how busy it is. It also beat the other tools trying to do the same thing, and the code is open for anyone to try: https://t.co/8RBpcT0ROa Where do you feel the wait most: coding assistants, long documents, or agents running a dozen steps?2d ago126K388327190.34%
OpenAI launched a competitor of Jev today. Meanwhile…23d ago106K32613703430.65%
I just saw two Cybercabs driving with no people in them in Palo Alto, California. Did somebody get a driverless car permit approved?3d ago91K1.0K298916281.30%
$0.003 per second.  That's what @VivixLabs_HQ W1 costs to generate video. W1 is a real-time interactive video model.  For the price of one Seedance 2.5 clip you get about 77 clips of the same length. An 8 second clip takes about 8 seconds to make, and in Vivix's own side by side tests it holds up against Seedance 2.5 and Kling 3.0. The price matters most for the real-time part. Interactive video keeps generating the whole time you're inside it, like a story that reacts to you or visuals that follow a performance. Every second costs money, so cheap is what lets it keep running. It still has gaps in cinematic fidelity, complex motion and dense scenes, and full scale training is still underway. Real time works through the API today, and browser tools are coming. I want to see those gaps close while the price stays this low. https://t.co/oNHNdZGFKn12d ago88K2803046152110.66%
First launch video I've seen where the CEO says "oh shit" in the first five seconds. Love it. The best part is the taco order. The guy on the phone says "no entiendo" and Fo just switches to Spanish, tells him about the nut allergy, and finishes the order. Didn't miss a beat. Then two plumbers hang up because they can tell it's an AI. So Fo gets a real person to make the call instead. Plumber booked for tomorrow. Finally an agent company admitting AI can't do everything yet. Some shit still needs a human. https://t.co/f00KP1rbhO24d ago80K288162712520.73%
If you need video of people’s houses and other places for future world models that will run robots, this is what I would build.28d ago77K38826601990.74%
Turns out @Bot is really good at making games. Someone used it to rebuild Blastar, the space shooter @elonmusk built at 12 and sold to a magazine for $500. Now you can play it right here on X!frozen14d ago69K14512215200.29%
The best review of any product I have ever seen.15h ago67K559214312031.24%
This post made me read her bio. Then I found it more credible.24d ago64K861122210.19%
Most adults arguing on X never learned the difference between a strong reason and a weak one. @gakkuai is teaching it to kids. Look at the screenshots. The lesson is about school uniforms. The opinion is that uniforms are good, and the kid gets five reasons and has to pick the three that actually support it. "School uniforms are cool" gets marked weak. So does "I don't like picking out clothes in the morning." Then Raku, the character inside the app, explains why that second one fails. It only matters to one person. It doesn't connect to anyone else in the school. The same screen spells out the rule. A strong reason connects directly to the opinion and shows why it matters to other people, not just you. What I like is the order. The kid makes the call first, sees which ones don't hold up, and only then gets the explanation. Most AI apps are built to hand over a finished answer as fast as possible. This one makes the kid do the thinking and uses the conversation with Raku to teach it, which is how writing actually gets learned. https://t.co/xWIbI8ix4s9d ago50K104153215360.40%
My feed is of all sorts of people building all sorts of wild contraptions. I love my feed today.16d ago50K1.5K762033503.90%
Ok this is great.26d ago49K17410701110.62%
Agent maxxing.26d ago45K251102601080.88%
Anyone who does speaking knows how few get this right. She beat most at handling things that are going wrong by just keeping going. When things go wrong on stage your mind goes into stupor. Preparation is the antidote. The show must go on. But everyone has trouble with WiFi on that pier. No one ever tests their demos with 5,000 people in the building.23d ago44K1855371430.62%
People who believe melted sand is human are taking us down a bad path. Our tour guide at Tesla Gigafactory yesterday told me workers aren’t worried about training their replacements. Workers are walking around with weird contraptions (think something like a VR headset) to do the training for Optimus. In Texas and California. In robotics it is the one who has the most data that wins. People aren’t thinking about this huge advantage Tesla has in robotics. He said they are planning major job expansions because of Optimus. Already 20,000 work there. AI got a lot of people laid off, right? So why is there traffic everywhere in America? In Silicon Valley when they got laid off they didn’t get on the freeway at 7 a.m. (back in 2001 the freeways were empty). My thesis is we are about to see a job boom and increased salaries. So many new things to build.frozen13d ago43K27524486790.99%
I have seen many say "must watch." So I did and agree. I see a TON of people in AI community using Instinct.24d ago43K926801400.58%
Yesterday morning @jason and I talked for the first time in a while. He is the reason I had the first ride in the first Roadster. Is good friend of Elon’s. He told me that as cool as the new Roadster is that when we see Optimus it is even more mind blowing. I thought he was overhyping. But I didn’t see the Roadster flipping in mid air either.6d ago42K1.3K71598633.66%
I've been following Zuckerberg since the very beginning, been to many of his early press events. He is on point right now. Never seen him so good in front of an audience. His presentation is already way more interesting than Apple's was. And sets a high bar for Apple to match when it announces its own glasses next year. One difference? He is talking to a real audience. I can't stand Apple's recorded presentations that they put up. And, yes, I know that Apple has had lines at many of its stores picking up the new iPhones. And he is just introducing his Holodeck glasses.29d ago41K4748612371.41%
The military usually gets innovation first. So I pay attention to it.26d ago41K24817296770.92%
The goal of having a generalized humanoid is still off in the future sometime. I have been asking robotics pioneers in San Francisco: how long? A small minority say 10 years. The rest say less. But Anto lays out the problems I hear.25d ago38K658222110.28%
One of AI’s best thinkers and thinking.16d ago38K28712403191.63%
This is the first store most travelers will see inside San Francisco International Airport. If I was an Apple exec this would, at first, make me angry. Thievery. But that emotion would quickly scatter as I realized this is a brand reinforcer. It means Apple is the best to steal from. Things you can only see if you travel. Right inside security. They don’t steal from Google or Meta.26d ago36K1684582120.68%
Emotional the next morning. I'm in my Model 3. I haven't been looking at the road; I've been looking at videos, reading X, and trying to catch up on AI. I'm heading to a humanoid robotics conference in San Francisco where, let's be honest, there's an elephant in the room that hasn't been seen: Optimus. Jason Calacanis told me yesterday that as cool as the demo of the Roadster was, Optimus is going to be even cooler, and I believe him. We're heading into a new age, and we're seeing a fight between the builders and innovators who are creating new things with AI, and the people who are resisting: • Those who don't want a data center in their backyard • Those who don't want autonomous cars because they think they will steal jobs • Those who don't want humanoid robots in their stores or businesses because it upsets, disrupts, and changes their lives There is a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. But we are clearly in a new world today, very different from yesterday. I'm riding in an autonomous car, something most people haven't had a chance to experience yet. We're heading into a world of autonomy, brain-computer interfaces, rocket cars, glasses that augment the world, new kinds of medical technologies, and entirely new ways to live life. It's a scary time for people who don't like change, and they are resisting hard. But there is a growing group of people who want to accelerate into the future. Elon, for all his flaws, is inspiring multiple industries. I've been traveling to robotics and space companies around America, seeing the latest startups and trying to understand how new technologies arriving daily are transforming business, manufacturing, and commerce. Invariably, they are inspired by Elon. Even the Chinese EV companies were inspired by him (some even ripped off his technology). I'm emotional today because for the last 15 years (actually, all the way back to the Apple II), people resist change and give innovators a lot of shit. How many arguments have I had with people about LiDAR? And I'm not talking about uninformed people; I'm talking about veterans in the tech and automotive industries. Last week, I was hanging out with 2,500 Tesla fans down in Texas, and I kept hearing stories, particularly from Cybertruck owners, about getting flipped off on American roads and people trying to bash or wreck their cars. It's not just a Tesla thing; I've heard this from pioneers all my life. Doug Engelbart came to my first book launch party and told me about getting fired from his own R&D lab because his ideas were too futuristic and people got tired of him. He was talking about a day when we'd all hold a supercomputer in our hands, but he was saying that back in 1971. It's these pioneers and engineers I'm thinking about today: the people like Elon who bring something new to the world while everyone gives them grief. I remember taking my first ride in the original Tesla Roadster. I was so excited that I came back to Silicon Valley to talk to founders and VCs (I had a privileged position in the industry back then), and I couldn't find anyone who thought he would succeed. They dismissed it as the folly of a rich dude, telling me there was no way he could take on traditional automakers like GM, Ford, VW, BMW, or Toyota, and no way he could build a profitable car company. There were rare believers back in 2008, like Steve Jurvetson, but they were few and far between. Getting people to believe in a new idea, adopt it, and change their lives with it is extremely difficult. Unless you have a front-row seat, you don't realize how much flak people take simply for being early. Now I'm heading into San Francisco to see a bunch of robots and talk to robotics companies. Robotics hasn't fully arrived yet, but it's starting to gain believers and customers. A wave of new companies is coming: Y Combinator alone funded around 25 robotics startups in their last batch, a huge shift from just two or three a few years ago. Something is cooking6d ago36K632719018792.49%
What a mess.19h ago36K23414100420.84%
I have been reading a lot of posts about consciousness and AI and this is the best on the topic.frozen20d ago36K22514926931.21%
The Holodeck is here. 1/6th the weight of Apple Vision Pro. Technically VR, just like Apple Vision Pro, but I will get a pair if they work with my eyes. (Which Meta's Raybans with Displays do not). Big day for what I've been talking about for years. https://t.co/htzKYpaalY29d ago35K62227939742.34%
Digital humans are finally arriving. This got a lot of hate. “Why do this?” Or worse. I wish it were pitched as the user interface of the future rather than something to stick in a video call. In a decade when you are talking to groups of these hope you remember how they were received initially.frozen21d ago35K25214713611.15%
The second factory of the future I have seen this week.frozen14d ago35K562271521782.26%
Back in the 2000s my brother in law worked high up at Apple. One day he told me Apple was working on the phone. A few months later he told me Jobs killed the project. A few months later he told me they were working on it again. I would expect no less than a complete rethink every once in a while. Consumers are changing which makes new things possible to sell. I hope they kill all glasses. And go with something Bono would wear on stage. This reminds me of my boss’s words in the consumer electronics store: “sell what you got.” The Snap @specs are the better view of the future. Too bad it can’t do the Formula 1 experience. Spent the budget on technology. None left for the content. Apple has pretty good content. Apple could kill its glasses and license its content at a much higher profit. But Apple hates how its content looks on other screens. So I expect at the end of the day Apple will figure out how to put screens on our eyes. And if not? ByteDance has a pair in the labs. TikTok trained AI. Light like the new Meta. Which one do you think will have better content? The new Apple CEO knows spatial computing better than pretty much anyone alive.25d ago35K1166283280.52%
I remember when LED's first showed up at CES. Security guards were on both sides, they were so expensive and rare. And very small compared to this. When I started in TV my camera had tubes and such a thing just wasn't possible. When we ran conferences for programmers, back in the 1990s, our projectors spun a disk with oil, that an electron beam deformed to make an image that a light was projected through. What a world we live in now.16d ago34K29117160471.08%
I arrive in Austin and instantly see Cybercabs driving with no humans. About to get a ride in one to hang out with the Tesla tribe. You can’t call yourself a city of the future without autonomous cars. Lots of Waymo’s too. https://t.co/T7cYBxQ2Ojfrozen14d ago34K1.1K70564273.59%
Holy shit.7d ago32K255920490.94%
You can talk to your computer without saying anything. :-)frozen22d ago31K305202841531.65%
Rain check. God slowed down the fast AI. OpenAI is coming tomorrow. So we will have plenty to talk about.24d ago31K9328050.35%
I've lost both of my parents. My mom in 2006, my dad in 2020. Nobody wants to think about any of this until they have to, and then you have about a week to figure it all out. That's why a funeral company built on AI makes sense to me. Most of these homes are family run, so the same few people are sitting with the family and handling the paperwork. Take the admin off them, and let families plan and pay online instead of doing it on the worst days of their lives. Rare to see someone build in this space in public.23d ago30K244172511101.32%
Billionaires have more fun.7d ago28K2647201211.11%
You should see his house. One of the most creative people I have met.9d ago28K505301002052.68%
Have you checked out https://t.co/KXpg2cvt4d? It is quite good.23d ago28K692102130.35%
Outrageous. And if you have no idea what I am talking about why are you on X?7d ago27K6411067192.68%
At least Max is funny in his marketing: "The iMessage assistant that remembers every name, every birthday and every excuse you’ve already used, so you can focus on being emotionally unavailable."29d ago27K61340150.31%
My first experience in new Hummer EV. Weighs 10,000 pounds. Owner says very expensive to fill up. At home, he says it’s much cheaper but if you have to charge outside it is $145 for 300 miles. My Tesla costs less than $15 for the same. And back seat is much rougher than in a Tesla with FSD running. AI is way smoother than humans. Many buttons. Traditional car manufacturers can’t give them up. Which dooms them to a far inferior experience. Sigh.26d ago27K173760480.94%
On vacation in New Hampshire I am looking at how people labor in the old world. IE the people who don’t hang out on X in the AI world all day. The waitress who still uses paper to take an order. Or this guy who shovels coal all day long. On the world’s oldest cog railway in New Hampshire. Think he worries that a robot might take his job someday? Nah but the rest of their fleet is bio diesel engines. Funny that at the top of the mountain there is a whole display on climate change. They study weather up there. They know putting carbon in the air is changing our climate. Yet they still use one of the dirtiest, least efficient, machines to get people there. Why? Humans love old things and don’t like listening to scientists. That said we sure picked the right weekend to be in New Hampshire. The whole state is awash with stunning color. As they say, we are still so early.18d ago24K28410536151.51%
“It looks like AI,” Maryam said. “God has more GPUs than Elon,” I answered back. First day without internet for quite a while and worth every minute. Unfortunately Kancamagus Highway in New Hampshire only looks like this a couple of weeks out of the year. Very fortunate to be able to get my three boys together to experience it, along with other family. Even the new iPhone 18 Pro Max doesn’t do it justice.frozen21d ago24K2651042461.37%
If one of these showed up in the back yard I might think the aliens have arrived.16d ago24K29511251571.65%
He, @GundotraVic, funded Google Glass and Android while an exec at Google. See his reply below. He is also the biggest gadget freak I know. I was working at NEC answering phones (which was a shit job I took in 2002 because everyone in Silicon Valley was laid off and I needed to pay the bills) when he called. Bought one of our tablet PCs and said "do not let Bill Gates get one first, I'm putting down my own credit card." A few months later he called back and bought 400 for Microsoft's CEO summit. A few months later he called and said "this call will change your life." He then told me he would like me to work at Microsoft. He was right. But back to the point he made. I hit the same while wearing Google Glass every day for a year. The display changed the social contract we have with each other. One thing that Apple did well was put displays on the front of its display. That means I can use it as a camera during interviews. EVERYONE looks at me like if I don't have a dorky device on. I can't use the new Meta device as a camera because of that. Which is OK. I'm one of the very few who uses the Apple Vision Pro as a camera. Very niche. To wrap it up, this is why this is not the "iPhone moment" for VR/AR/XR and why @Snap deserves a much closer look, since it is a device that you could actually wear outside (no cord, like the Meta or Apple ones have too) and you can see someone's eyes who is wearing them. The Snap ones are just slightly too big and chunky to get normies to wear them. But you should see what @Aidan_Wolf is doing: https://t.co/OnhZJcqrpi What has a chance to go mainstream? Audio-only glasses, like the new ones, Vunder, that just got announced by @getVITURE, or Meta's Raybans without displays, or glasses with a very limited display, like the @EvenRealities. Also, the VR fans are disappointed in the small field of view. Which keeps it from having a really amazing immersive experience. So hardcore VR fans will be muted in their adoption/evangelism of the new Meta device. @ASychov, who runs a metaverse, did a long negative video this morning that I watched. He and I agree that the killer holodeck/metaverse device isn't gonna come from Meta anytime soon for a variety of reasons. And a big red flag? People at Meta's Connect can't try its new device unless they were hand picked by Meta to do reviews. The reason? The software is poor and they don't want people to really get a deep comparison to others. We'll have to wait for next Spring to get that. And I've played that game in the past. If you go hyper negative you never will be invited to press events in the future. So most everyone bends over backward to do a positive review who gets a chance. Back to what is here today. Claude Opus 5.5 sure is gaining fans amongst those I watch. And so is Meta's Muse. Just gotta be OK with giving Meta even more data than ever before.28d ago23K696132350.53%
Advice to AI founders. There are a TON of new "agentic" apps/services what not. I have 9,600 AI companies on my lists here on X. It sure would help us to get a clue why you are special if you posted a LOT of comparisons to the big ones, like Meta Muse, GrokBot, ChatGPT, Claude, etc. (Same for video generators, etc). We are being flooded with tons of things to consider trying. Give us a reason to care. Otherwise we'll go back to the others, which we all are struggling to learn to use well. Way too many things to try.29d ago23K352238611862.39%
“Banned by California government” will make them more popular in many places.frozen22d ago23K26811373101.42%
I wish Silicon Valley would just be honest with everybody. Here in the Valley, we want all of your data. We want to put computers in your mind. We want to digitize you, which will give you superpowers in return. Elon Musk calls them cognitive enhancements, coming soon. He already controls my transportation, my social media, and my electricity. So, letting him into my mind is something I've already done. Some won't go for this deal. That's okay. The Amish don't buy the modern phones either, or the modern cars. I'm not worried about that. But we should just be honest to let everybody make up their mind, whichever way they go.27d ago23K272178614291.82%
Pokémon Go gave Niantic a lot of data.27d ago23K16920130711.20%
I like it when I think a company might be toast and they respond by fighting.24d ago23K703160440.59%
Robot shoes. I bet these sell well.19d ago22K1454394391.03%
At the @TheHumanoidHub robotics conference in San Francisco and this captures why I love San Francisco. The guy who is giving a keynote today, @broodsugar is talking with @JayLiStanford who is making robot hands in USA. I turn on the camera and get a lot of info about what is happening at the bleeding edge. And at the end we talk about the impact @elonmusk is having on not just him but the whole industry.6d ago22K20427286171.26%
Cybercab review: it exceeds my expectations. It is the future. Can’t wait to own one. And rent it out. These will be very popular in San Francisco and Shanghai. Makes me happy to be a Tesla investor since 2018. Once you ride in one you won’t want to go back to your old car. https://t.co/14APQpif0ofrozen14d ago22K70779597223.93%
My new iPhone 18 Pro Max just arrived. This looks better than on my 16 Pro Max. My phone is way less hot. The sound it makes is way better. The cameras in it are way better. I thought about keeping my phone another year. Glad I didn’t. And I am jealous of all you who are getting one that folds. Because of what I do I need the best possible camera. Into the new world we go!29d ago22K1365250130.81%
For the first time in a long time my whole feed is about VR.29d ago22K372456282.02%
Factory porn. Everything is bigger in Texas. https://t.co/Apci637OuY5d ago22K58225581293.21%
Great ideas for your agents to do.frozen13d ago21K888100470.72%
I can find almost anything online. Finding the thing I saved myself is still a mess. Photos in one place, files in another, chats somewhere else, and the AI that "knows" me is usually sitting in someone else's cloud.16d ago21K13412294180.93%
We paid $150 to Uber to get to the airport. Too many bags. And $350 to get that Hummer ride into New York. For two hours of driving combined. And people wonder why Elon is building Robotaxi. A self-driving Cybertruck would be cheaper and better experience. The problem in New York is the unions. They will hold out until the payday becomes big enough. Or everyone else puts them in jail. How many tragedies will it take to change hearts and minds? 40,000 a year in USA alone. Who will get the airport rides? Hustler needed in line. :-)26d ago21K148340140.93%
Beating 26,000 other people, that's a pretty damn good Friday.27d ago21K81421130.48%
AMD eats a world model.24d ago21K1566201120.93%
I remember when it took me an entire weekend to upgrade Windows. (Had to download dozens of disk images on a slow modem). Now you can start a Linux box up in under 10ms? Damn.24d ago21K1408201661.13%
I'm not involved or compensated by Boardy, despite having its logo on my account. Just a happy customer. And now it is becoming more useful.29d ago21K785160250.59%
One point of view: humans will always lose. Another point of view: humans will be more fit and will learn to play better.16d ago21K16312242341.14%
I hope Powerpoint dies. Felt that way in 2005 when I worked at Microsoft.16d ago20K1341200551.02%
Tomorrow I am seeing a flying car. One that goes farther than 150 feet. It isn’t street legal either. :-)3d ago20K219441431.36%
My picture! Am the 79th user. Serendipity happens in San Francisco. Wasn’t even there to see them. Another founder introduced me to them: “you gotta try what these two have built.” Taught me about the pattern of your peers recommending you. When you find it you invariably have a winner.16d ago20K28211252191.72%
I was 15th to experience it. Everyone after confirms what I told you.26d ago20K2706070.20%
My business is run on @NousResearch’s Hermes. Someday will show you what Asher built on it. So of course I laid down $1 to get a shirt! Says “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” https://t.co/fxLLdTltJL8d ago20K234635491.46%
Making a robot? You need parts. Small gears for the hand, that kind of thing. So this morning I visited a company in Berkeley. Quick turn machine shop. Bringing manufacturing back to America. Need to make a prototype robot? This is a business you will need. Factory of the future. @davidliuxyz and @gofinalrev16d ago20K242222831072.05%
I got this note this morning. Made my week in quite a week. What you say to other people can change their lives. And you all know I have hurt people too. This is a far better outcome. Pick your words carefully. And I am talking to myself. “Hey Robert! Ryan Pamplin here, from the old Meta days. I saw Elon’s reply to you which was so cool. It brought back a favorite memory from your book signing in Vegas years ago, when you got up and came over to me and my then-girlfriend, Kathryn. You told her I’d helped to inspire you to write the book, and she still tells that story as the moment she knew she’d marry me. You might not have realized it, but you were the ultimate wingman! We’ve been married almost 10 years now and have a 3 year old, so thanks so much for changing the course of my life!”5d ago20K2391229191.48%
Let's talk about field of view since so many brought it up. The original Hololens had about 40 degrees. Which is still bigger than the 83-inch TV that I have. Certainly bigger than the phone or laptop you are looking at. And these are nearly twice that. And with a MUCH better display. The OLED displays are pretty stunning in these (I've seen them). The arguing about FOV seems misplaced. Usually given by hard core VR enthusiasts. You can get bigger, but then you gotta put a scuba mask on your face. Which I am not going to do except in rare occassions. And if you disagree, well, that's fine. Most consumers will find these as stunning as @markgurman did once they put them on.29d ago19K1273410130.94%
I am trying to visit them all and have only gotten a small percent.11d ago19K1626170511.22%
Politics is weird lately. So I hear I gotta call AI something else? Elon loves to torment us in this way. Oh, sorry, Trump. :-) I am on vacation. When I get back I will consider this new “rule.”23d ago19K592260150.53%
In Meta’s VR glasses you can’t see any reality. In Snap’s glasses you can. But your mind will think your reality in the Meta is better. At least until you turn off the movies and try to use augmented reality. The Snap has no cord or puck. But which one supports heavy AI users like everyone I follow here? That hasn’t been decided. But bet Meta will ship a decent experience. Next year is gonna be crazy. Really amazing devices coming.26d ago19K1075201180.78%
It will be much harder to change your world view after you get addicted to talking to an AI avatar. Choose carefully now or always be in the tribe you are in. And believing in a "soul" makes you easier to control when you do. Unpopular lessons from brain computing pioneer I talk with frequently.frozen21d ago19K1559447241.24%
Are you a sucker for cute robots? I am. One can't die with too many robots.16d ago19K1907171331.29%
Hey robot, let's go play some soccer! Damn, 140 years in a simulated game? At Carnegie Mellon, years ago, I saw them playing soccer with robots. Nothing like this.29d ago19K10211120130.72%
A helpful extra hand.27d ago19K76450160.53%
SI=Scoble Intelligence. So says my wife. Should I change the names of all my AI lists? https://t.co/fasUz7PuHq (most complete of AI, er, SI, community).18d ago19K2236600111.56%
Screen savers of the future are a bit more insane.27d ago19K1448230191.01%
No one else in robotics in America is building a factory at this scale. Not even close. I met @JoeTegtmeyer over the weekend, really awesome guy, who has built relationships with Elon's factory workers so that he can shoot drone videos of them whenever he wants. I don't know anyone who does this at any other company. Do you?8d ago19K52842320283.28%
46% yes.26d ago19K2314150.18%
On Sunday I met a quadriplegic who can’t open his hand. He had a spinal injury in a surfing accident. He was the first to try a new device made by a secretive Austin startup that listens to the electricity headed down his arm. But there is still enough electricity headed from his brain to his hand for an AI to listen and let him operate a robot hand. Been thinking about him all week. Plus he is one of the happiest people I have ever met. Despite problems that are daunting. And way beyond anything most of us will ever face. Next week you will get to meet him. Runs marketing at an AI startup in Austin. There are miracles coming that go way beyond flying cars. Isn’t the future dope all of a sudden?5d ago19K1641234171.14%
“Hey Cybercab race the Waymo.” Scenes from the future. Only possible in Austin, Texas today. https://t.co/7zaOCjlqtq11d ago19K1637214131.09%
The weakness for Meta's new VR glasses: content. For instance, music. Apple has Dolby Atmos and has for years. Spotify doesn't. But there are many other examples. Formula 1, for instance. Apple has an exclusive. Meta can't do that. But that won't matter for first buyers of these. There are so many things to do in them already that you won't get bored for months. Can Apple or Google (or Snap or ByteDance or others) use this weakness to come in late but get everyone to buy a pair of theirs too? $1,299 is a lot cheaper than Apple Vision Pro too. And even if Apple does take advantage of the lack of content, Apple isn't expected to bring display glasses out until 2028. So until then Meta has a huge lead.29d ago19K1176382190.95%
Tesla is automating the car. Optimus is automating physical work. The next thing to automate is the company itself. I think we’re going to see the first $1B company with zero HR employees. I've watched tech for decades. Every big shift starts with the boring work nobody wants to do. Warp's AI agents are taking that work on. They onboard a new hire in under 10 minutes. They set up laptops, Slack and Google accounts the moment someone joins, and shut them off when they leave. They resolve tax notices before a founder ever sees them, saving $100M+ in penalties so far. They pay contractors in 150+ countries. No HR team required. Founders just get to build. We spent years talking about autonomous cars. Autonomous companies are next.27d ago19K1239171401.00%
If I am wrong about Meta’s VR glasses we all get a Holodeck so I win anyway. :-) It is worthy of trying when it shows up in stores. The display chips in these are quite amazing. I consistently tell you not to buy the Apple Vision Pro but the demo in the store is better than going to Disneyland and it is free. Get one before Spring so we can have conversations about Meta vs Apple. Informed conversations are far more interesting. And someday such a device will sell, so developers who support it will be ahead of the game. Thinking on the way to the airport with a pair of @getVITURE similar glasses in my bag. Until Spring that is what we got. Thanks Viture for sponsoring my efforts. Maybe should drop in on the New York startups at @betaworks and say hi to @Borthwick on Monday. Selling VCRs back in the 1980s taught me the market doesn’t listen to me. But back then Silicon Valley nerds usually bought VHS because of content. And same will be true in the glasses. In other words, the questions for early adopters will be “do you use them every day or throw them into the drawer with the other devices and leave it there?”26d ago19K69326090.56%
Earlier I went negative on Meta. This gives a more balanced view.27d ago19K642141180.52%
Sarah got rejected from YC. Now she's hosting a podcast with a YC partner who says that was a mistake. @MilksandMatcha runs DevX at Cerebras. @vivianmshen is a General Partner at YC. The first thing they want to talk about is marriage, ambition and getting canceled. Not funding rounds. Sarah says getting married made her less "ambitious." Did it, or did it just change what she's ambitious about?11d ago19K941110300.71%
"We have an entire room of AI glasses..." Mark Zuckerberg. Told you. https://t.co/JtGuMQz6Pl29d ago19K2258251121.42%
Have you told your agent to save you money yet?18d ago19K560160220.50%
I can’t escape AI in New York. Just arrived with the family. https://t.co/7ahkMNhvZX26d ago19K163136091.11%
My best friend has been AI pilled. Every time we meet he goes on and on about what he built with Astra.27d ago19K7209060.46%
The robot revolution is underway. The world needs thousands of different kinds of robots. Humanoids will bring them to our homes and businesses. The most conservative in robotics in San Francisco says this is 10 years away. And most say two to seven. Which is why so many are about to get funded. Inside the window where they may see huge returns. Brands that don’t exist today will pop into billion dollar status. Like @zipline. Half Moon Bay innovation. The best. GoPro started across the street. San Francisco has a new gold rush underway. If you aren’t following my lists you have no idea what is about to go down. In a turnaround we have to go to China to learn how it is done. That is what the founders of @mundanebot did. Now making everything in America. Proving we still can make things. So I will take this as a win. I couldn’t do a mundane robot company. No mechanical engineering skills. I learned all about the mundane ways a humanoid can fail due to their design. Put the actuators to build your arm in the wrong place and it could literally break itself, I learned yesterday. There is a reason why the billionaires are sweating. The game just got interesting. Or will next year. I am in Los Gatos, one of the richest places in the world and I see no robots. How long do you think that will last? Here is one door into the future. I have been there several times. I am always the stupidest in the room. Happy weekend! I am headed back east with the family for a vacation. Storm over New York. So who knows? Which means I probably will have more stupid things to say. :-)27d ago19K8411261160.73%
Autoworkers: “if they record you that means your job will go away since it is to train robots to replace you.” Tesla: “we will give you more stock.” Auto unions: “what is stock?”3d ago19K27610212211.75%
As the AI engineers get better tools, the rest of us will get a better life.24d ago19K42370110.33%
Exponential speed is hitting companies you didn't even know exist.frozen21d ago19K3937040.28%
I sat down with Emily Wang, one of the cofounders of @heyVONDER, and put a pair on. They look like normal glasses. About 30 grams. No camera. No display floating in front of your eyes. Just audio, and a way to keep what you say and hear so you can pull it back later as a personal memory graph, not a pile of recordings sitting on the frames. One detail that stuck with me from the demo: when you record a conversation with someone else, a light comes on. When it's just your own notes, no light. If you've been watching the camera glasses backlash, that privacy choice is the whole product. Preorders opened this morning. From $299 at https://t.co/rGWmlYrYqY and Best Buy. Shipping starts in November. These are the first AI glasses I've tried that feel like eyewear first, not a phone strapped to your face.24d ago19K746152220.63%
“Inside Droid, it listens.” @FactoryAI just got a fantastic review.26d ago19K55350120.40%
I share posts I like from the AI community and add my evening’s thoughts on. I don’t care if a dude is teleoperating my @1x_tech Neo robot if it, er he, is entertaining my friends and making them drinks in our kitchen. Can he make great Lobster Rolls like these in Maine that I had today? My son Patrick, who now is 32, has taken up photography. Wonder where he got that? No @Waymo in Maine or New Hampshire yet. Electric doesn’t do well in cold weather. So locals are resisting electric, I learned today. Lots of big trucks. A much slower pace of life than San Francisco. Great for vacations but is like living in the past. Which is attractive to most Americans. I had dinner with the owner of a $30 million 1959 Jaguar. First car with disc brakes. Asked him why he collected it? “I wanted a time capsule that takes me back to 1959.” The car won many races because of its disk brakes. When Audi taught me to race first lesson was on braking. “To go fast you must learn to go slow.” If I were a billionaire I might have bought the same car, but for a different reason. Innovation in automobiles is so rare. I find hanging with the builders is much more interesting. But tomorrow we see the fall foliage which is out in splendor. Mt wife and I have wanted to do that for a long time. Oh and I am trying to ignore the epic fights in AI industry. But damn. Did we just throw out all the rules? Seems like when there is a billion or two involved the rules change. Which I learned by following that Jaguar. We were doing 120 m.p.h. behind a bunch of Motorcycle cops. The billionaires literally change the law as they drive along. We did that all day for four days. Unfortunately I do not have the same power. I used to give PR advice since I helped write Microsoft’s first social media policy. But now? I have no idea what the rules are anymore. It used to be investors wouldn’t invest in two companies but now they call entrepreneurs names in public and do that two. Wild times. Robots will sell better in San Francisco. But everyone here has a smartphone and a robot cutting the lawn. And there are Tesla’s here.22d ago19K47114010.34%
I wish Grok brought posts back that get interesting comments. Like this one.25d ago19K3435030.24%
Your camera roll has a ton of context about what you find important. At least it does on mine, with about 100,000 photos of everything great and shitty I have found in life. I am using @marissamayer's app and love it so far.4d ago19K705160300.65%
"Hey Grok, why is this important?" Answer: https://t.co/5xCLT7EwjL TL;DR It's all about the enterprise.24d ago19K5609050.37%
The modern worker?25d ago19K676130180.56%
Apple Store on Fifth Ave is packed. It is raining outside. Took a walk in Central Park and we are all soaked. Touching the wet grass. :-) https://t.co/5ai3Y25mWn25d ago19K138222030.88%
I used to do consumer research. And on previous trips around America, and really the world (I visited 80 countries). And 15 years ago EVERYONE, even in San Francisco, told me there was no way they would ever use an autonomous car. One software engineer told me "have you seen how many times Windows blue screens and you want to trust your life to software?" So, I read the below with a skeptical eye toward the doomers. Since in my life they always have been wrong so far. Including my mom, who joined a doomsday cult in Montana. No one more doomer than her.frozen21d ago19K542160120.45%
Who decided that Tuesday is the day everyone should launch? See my profile. Been resharing all the AI launches. Whew.16d ago19K114218150.75%
Modern marketing. Tony Zhieh let me talk to all his employees except his SEO ones. This is the bleeding edge of getting consumers to hear a specific message. It is a dirty business. :-)23d ago19K35050200.32%
You know what is weird about founder travel posts? Most of them are the founder still working. Just somewhere prettier. Suitcase. Pool. He left the building on purpose. Polsia is built for that version. The company keeps moving when he is not locked in a box. @Bencera https://t.co/IYgFvaEv6c29d ago19K2214030.16%
“Reality is bending.”16d ago19K709100320.65%
Being in the AI business is brutal when your customers figure out there are cheaper ways to do it. @NinjaTechAI showed me last week exactly this. Long-running agents in enterprise: all running on machines under control of the company. “On prem” everyone calls it. “Take no dependencies,” the rallying cry says. Ninja announces within days but already has big companies lining up and it hasn’t even released. Word of mouth spreads fast because CTOs have their jobs on the line if they don’t pick the right architecture/vendors/technology. Running local open source models is attracting customers in enterprise. Turns out enterprise usually doesn’t need the best of the best models either. Enterprises need consistency more than ultimate intelligence. There are a lot more Ian’s out there. So big shifts still ahead as the world’s business learns to use AI to make bottom lines better. Right now many are dumping cash into tokens and not getting enough ROI out of the spend. I hear this from many.25d ago19K411122170.39%
She likes winter pictures, she told me. My photo of her and her husband hangs on her wall. Winter picture in Paris. A few feet away Travis and Garrett were starting Uber. Some days are weird that way.23d ago19K1701080.14%
If you aren't keeping up with what's going on in video editing, you should. I just gave @descript a project and it built it. With my own voice. And now is giving me tasks. And I have a few on my AI for Creatives list that claim to be way better. I gotta try them, but am on vacation in New York. I am not compensated for this post, or any, unless it has the "Paid Partnership" tag. In which case it is sold, and I greatly appreciate the support. Feeding four families now in multiple states.24d ago19K873140530.85%
The thing is I know many enterprises that use no, or very little, AI. In other words we will see much growth ahead. Just arrived in New Hampshire where it is very quiet on the lake. Drove last 10 hours in a Jeep Wagoneer. Worse autopilot than my Toyota I bought 18 years ago. Those people who say they love to drive can go f%%% themselves. It is an inferior experience in every way. Someday even the people who are protesting datacenters will get into the future. Based on many experiences with human beings who are in beginning stages of growing through a paradigm shift. They won’t get it until someone drags them into a Robotaxi. Tesla FSD is luxury. I would not give it up if you gave me a Ferrari. It blows away owning a Ferrari. Got to drive one and experience it on a four-state run and back. All others are so inferior it isn’t even funny. But what is the real lesson here? We are all so early. If you include all people on earth that have even been in one. Including in China. Low number of people. Probably under 20 million. We got to get all eight billion into autonomy. And resistance to a better life is high. I am doing the customer research about Brain Computer Interfaces. Higher disdain than for datacenters. Yet I will have one in three years. Maybe less. And history has shown that everyone follows me. From the guy who was first to have 1,000 followers here and who @biz says was the first influencer. And first consumer app to use AI, Siri, was launched in my house. I talked endlessly about it on my blog which was the best place to launch a startup for a while. I saw a lot of people disappointed in OpenAI today. Should I remind you how bad Siri is in comparison? I saw glimmers of the Holodeck today in @sama’s keynote. So know we are headed in the right direction. Just too slowly. Should I remind you of the robots in Abu Dhabi that go more than 200 m.p.h. and beat a quite good Formula One driver? The Sheik is buying anything cool. But he can’t see the entire track from his seats. I sat in them. He could put on a Meta VR Glasses and we could show him the whole track. And let him “jump into” any car. And let him see the temperature of every tire on every car. And let him see the race in a way he never had before. Do you think he would buy them? A friend in Dubai is taking the top luxury brands to CES to find new technology for the very rich. I feel sorry for the very rich. They have to drive their cars. And I experienced in the back seat of a Hummer EV just how much worse human drivers are. So rough dude! To wrap this up. What a great time to be alive. You get to all go through some very weird paradigm shifts with me. It is quite a trip! Elon is in my brain looking around. Quite invasive. But what if you could do that for real? He might fix all your problems. Or at least a good percentage. And give you a few superpowers to boot. I am buying it day one. But if it is really a great product then all of you will buy it too.23d ago19K42318030.36%
24 months from start to acquisition by AMD. $8+ billion. When I was among the first to tell you about world models I had no idea it would go so fast. Congrats @theworldlabs. Insane week and it still is Monday. Tomorrow will we get to see OpenAI’s secret hardware project? It says it has 20 launches. San Francisco has multiple gold rushes on at the same time. AI, robotics, holodecks/metaverses. With another on the way (brain computer interfaces).24d ago19K1355190120.92%
Prove them wrong. Meanwhile I am back to video editing. Using AI that sure looks different than OpenAI.24d ago18K3838010.27%
I am not paid by @EVject but here is my pitch for its device: If bad shit is about to go down at a Tesla charger milliseconds matter. So do you spend any clock cycles of your brain thinking about all the damage you are about to do to your car or charger? If you have an EVject you don’t have to think about that so you get to accelerator faster. Like if someone lights the wall on fire behind you. So this talk about its demise is not rational. Spreadsheet controls for visual studio didn’t go away even though Microsoft gave one away for free.frozen21d ago18K67224030.52%
Silicon Valley/San Francisco wants all the data. And won’t stop until they get it. I am buying one. Meta already knows how I think. :-)frozen20d ago18K912170240.73%
This is the case against open source. The problem is Kevin is right. But, and it is a big but, security is played both by offense AND defense. Take away open source and you greatly weaken defense. And if someone has powerful new offense tools you want to be able to innovate defenses quicker than the offense can innovate. Open source and open models are the only way to do that.23d ago18K485202120.47%
This week Tesla fans will go nuts when the Roadster gets revealed on Thursday. Tesla has a real shot to redefine super cars. The other $500,000+ car companies have all said “we aren’t doing autonomy.” Even most Tesla fans think the focus will be on how fun this will be to drive. Or how it will “fly” for a few seconds. At @A2RLeague I saw a robot do 200+ mph on Abu Dhabi’s race track so I know it is possible. What doing you believe the top FSD speed will be? Certainly will be more than the 80 mph that mine does on Silicon Valley freeways. Anytime I find an EV fan I put them on this list so you can follow along. https://t.co/JiudsJjAOC25d ago18K1381028151.00%
Sitting in the plane going to NY thinking about immersion. You want immersion? Go to @SphereVegas Anyone else doesn’t have it. Including all the VR devices, although the @varjodotcom’s or Apple’s get closer than I have experienced. Look overhead and you swear the sky is real. Now THAT is immersion. Everything else isn’t as good to varying degrees.26d ago18K3917020.27%
My boss, who owned the Silicon Valley Consumer Electronics Store, took me to the First Price Club near San Francisco. We were doing quite a business back then. During one Christmas people waited four to eight deep in several lines. He said “don’t tell anyone about this. It will put us out of business.” And he was right. We now know that store as Costco. I feel this way about AI. That we should all keep it a secret. But no chance of that!23d ago18K7545040.48%
What are they gonna call Tesla Flying Full Self Driving? I am still flipping out!7d ago18K4037792132.78%
Trump: Scoble is THE ENEMY. I am on the way to Austin to hang out with 2,500 Tesla AI fans. :-)frozen14d ago18K169461481.36%
Read it. I am. A lot here.2d ago18K54520480.60%
Contrarian Thinking. Over and over the contrarians are the ones who change the world. But it is a muscle that needs constant exercise. The masses have the market share and most people hate change. "I would never share my house with others." AirBnb was born. "I would never use a digital camera," I heard at Eastman Kodak's booth years ago. Today I shoot all my photos on iPhone. "I love to drive." Today I often take a Waymo. "Babies use mice and GUIs." I heard that one in college from a Unix programmer. Now we are headed into a world where we don't use mice and GUIs, thanks to voice systems and brain computer interface companies. "Art can't be done with AI." Now when you are the Sphere in Las Vegas you are watching a movie dramatically improved with AI. "Our customers love buttons," engineers at Mercedes Benz said, while pointing out to me that touching screens is more dangerous while driving than touching buttons. "Cooking with microwaves isn't as good as using an open flame," many chefs have told me. Yet when you arrive home late and need to make something for the kids do you listen to the chefs? "I'll never use a phone without a physical keyboard," many told me. Yet here we are. "I'll never use an autofocus camera," many pro photographers told me. Now it is weird if you see a pro manually focusing. So, how can you build your contrarian muscle? Go back to the core problem that humans are trying to solve and rethink it without bias. On Friday @broodsugar told the audience at @TheHumanoidHub's event that a Chinese retailer asked themselves "what if humans actually suck at running a retailer." They automated every decision. AI manages every store. Makes every decision of where to put products, and how many to stock, that kind of thing. Sales went up 258%. And this was a well established retailer with billions in sales every year. Other ways I was able to get ahead of everyone when I wrote my eight books (I wrote a book about social media before Twitter started). 1. Learn about bleeding edge tech and ask yourself "what if this got adopted?" 2. Hang around with others who have demonstrated contrarian thinking. 3. Dream about what the world would look like if your new thing actually worked for everyone. Would the world improve or get worse? 4. Learn some secrets that very few others know. I once talked at Google's first advertiser's conference and they sat me at a VIP table with Kraft food execs. They told me why they advertise and told me how much they spend to acquire a new customer. $34. So when Instagram was bought by Mark Zuckerberg I knew it was an amazing purchase, since Instagram's users were growing exponentially every few weeks. I gave a speech to billionaires that morning who thought it was the stupidest purchase they ever had heard of. It had no sales. No profits. 14 employees. No assets. That is consensus thinking. Which they got into because that's how businesses were (and still are) measured. 5. Study the problems that people actually are having and then find new ways to solve those problems with fresh eyes. Heck, you can see this in action by visiting @reservoirfarms, that has 20 new companies building farming robots. Every entrepreneur I talked with there spent years walking in farms with farmers, understanding their problems, before they started building robots. I have met many entrepreneurs who worked in weird jobs to learn the industry they are going after. Have you worked on a manufacturing line? In a dentist's office? Or, done landscaping? "First principles" applies to every human endeavor. 6. Learn from Eric Reis. When he was building one of his first companies he spent months building software that he thought people would want. When he launched it no one visited his home page. He learned to test his weird ideas first before he built another thing. 7. Hang out with people who are different. Years ago I got to hang out with Steve Mann. I shot this photo in 2014, and he had already worn a device on his face for 20 years, even had a screw implanted in his skull so that he could more easily wear a wearable computer. He was weird, let's be honest. Never met someone like him before. But ask yourself "what if he is right, and everyone else is wrong?" There are armies who will tell you they never will wear smart glasses, even today. Can you resist armies who will give you every reason why they never will do the new weird thing? 8. Hang out with the young. I remember being in Hyde Jr. High's first computer club in Cupertino back in 1977. Only five people in it. There were armies of older people (and even many other kids) who would tell me they never would use one and had no need for it. I hung out with @photomatt in San Francisco 20 years ago when he was only 17, and hearing his dreams of how people and companies would publish in the future radically changed my life for the past 20 years. Same for interviewing @VitalikButerin when he was about that age. Laid out an entirely new economics system based on smart contracts. Mullenweg had just started his company and saw a new way for humans to communicate. Today, what, 80% of the Web is running on his software, Wordpress. As much as I hate it, it is rare that people my age (I'm now almost 62) comes up with such a radical shift. It does happen, but far more likely that a 17 year old is gonna build a dramatically important company than I am. Why? They are not burdened by "the way things are done." 9. Ask yourself "is there a better way to do this?" Steve Jobs told his original iPhone team not to hire anyone who worked on a phone at any other company. He didn't want to hear why something wouldn't work, he wanted fresh thinking and new ideas. Back to getting rid of buttons. 10. Question your own assumptions. They might be completely wrong. Mine often are. And be OK with that. I once said that I would wear a Google Glass the rest of my life. That was wrong, obviously. Sometimes I talk myself into points of view that don't turn out to be right. At least short term. (I still am looking for a pair that will make that a right statement). 11. Build and test with humans who won't blow smoke up your ass (not your friends and family). 12. Read a lot of books. Anyone who writes a book has thought a LOT about what they are presenting. They often see cracks in consensus thinking. Yeah, often they are science fiction authors, but often not. (I have to take that advice more myself, dropped off my reading). Especially true regarding people who write about new ideas and how to put them into use in business (same here on X, which is why if I find a contrarian thinker I put them on my lists). 13. Remember "experts" are people who got good at building for the masses. But they often have deep blind spots on where the future will be and they often will give you bad advice. 14. Ask yourself "what if everyone had an autonomous car, a VR headset, a robot, a brain computer interface?" What would be needed that doesn't exist in such a world? 15. Question your world view. I once was highly religious, went to church three times on Sunday. Thought I was right back then too. And religion is still the dominant world view most people have, but it isn't the only one. Ask most people about autonomous cars and you'll hear religion come back "I'll never let the government look at me while I drive." That's a belief system that person is locked into. 16. Ask yourself "how could I change even the worst hater?" One "secret" I learned over and over in my career is people change, and even give up religious belief systems, when presented with something new. Henry Ford used to say "if I asked people what they wanted, they answered 'a better horse.'" They couldn't dream of a contraption that would drive them around. Even last night I talked with a Stanford Fellow who gave me the same answer about autonomous cars. He used to run California Microwave, is a very smart guy, but used to have a race car and is stuck in the world view of "I love to drive." I could go for quite a while longer, but wanted to open it up to you. How do you put contrarian thinking into use in your own life/business or in the things you are building? Are you starting a contarian company? One that, if successful, will force everyone to change? This post due to Brendan Footy, @BrendanFoody cofounder of Mercor, who shared this post this morning: https://t.co/jcDgICpl4m4d ago18K14010243641.34%
First the developers. This year. Then the early early adopters. Next year. Then the early adopters. 2028 to 2030. Then everyone else. Talking about robots. Things I learned at @TheHumanoidHub in San Francisco today. And after 2030 they start really getting good. People forget the first Macintosh sucked. The first robots will too. But enough will get major utility out of them that the world will change pretty fast. What I really saw today was that robots are about to come out of the woodwork.6d ago18K14817231141.13%
How she puts AI makes sense: “a collective consciousness.” And with that we are traveling to New York. Then north to see family. I will use the opportunities to talk to people who have no care about San Francisco and its gold rush underway. Can I stay off X? Of course not. :-)26d ago18K46011080.36%
#MetaConnect is happening at 4 p.m. Pacific Time (in about 20 minutes). Given that so many are using Meta Muse, and there's a ton of VR/AR influencers there, I'd expect to see a new set of wearable computers that use Muse. It is being live streamed here: https://t.co/N8zeHjaYw829d ago18K59212160.45%
Two days to go…25d ago18K72213010.49%
This was Chris's first video that AI fully edited. And it's on a topic I care about a lot. Wearables on your face and totally agree with his conclusions.24d ago18K28420120.26%
A new age is here.16d ago18K74090140.55%
The thinking cap is here. Will you get a BCI? I will.frozen13d ago18K884121130.67%
Last year, I met the guy who owns this $30 million 1959 Jaguar, which was the first car to have disc brakes and won a lot of races back then. I asked the owner, "Why do you collect cars like this?" He said, "I want to have a time machine, one that takes me back to the past." Well, tomorrow we're going to see Tesla introduce a car that instead takes you to the future: or "back to the future," as Christopher Lloyd's character in Back to the Future showed us, which is why I'm sharing this item. When @elonmusk gave me a ride in the first Roadster as I was blessed to have the first ride, even before he gave a ride to his best friend. He broke three laws, three traffic laws, in demonstrating Tesla's first product. I wonder how many laws he's going to break tomorrow demonstrating this new Roadster. I imagine it'll break a few. For instance, up to now, car designers have always wanted to keep their tires in contact with the pavement. If you lose contact with the pavement, you lose control. It'll be real interesting to see what it does when it loses contact with the pavement. :-) I'm jealous of anybody who gets a ride in this one, but I wouldn't trade my first ride with anybody who's getting a ride tomorrow. I'll get a chance soon enough.8d ago18K2281215391.52%
Every time you switch from Claude Code to Codex because you ran out of tokens, you start over and explain your whole project again. Beacon is trying to fix that. It saves your sessions across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and 20+ other tools, so one command hands the work to the next agent with everything it learned. It's open source, and they just raised $5.5M. Your fixes and debugging habits stay with you instead of getting locked inside one company's tool. How many times this week did you re-explain the same project to a different AI? https://t.co/9J6IsrYEaL2d ago17K1269473731.49%
Don't want to watch @OpenAI's live stream tomorrow? This will be the best place to watch then. 1,900 of the best accounts covering AI. If you think anyone belongs here, let me know: https://t.co/2dDZtIT7Gf https://t.co/iCrsXhuu1X24d ago17K875110230.73%
On vacation my AI agent reads X's AI community so I can keep up without watching X all day long. Came up with this headline: "The Harness Is the Product Now." https://t.co/kiuZ7QXLzb18d ago17K592190130.55%
This sounds like what @NinjaTechAI’s founder told me this week as he delivered a set of agents that are better for Enterprise developers, and the budget they operate within, than any of the frontier labs showed this week.frozen21d ago17K2307110.19%
I renamed my lists here on X to make them clearer: https://t.co/fasUz7PuHq Following lists makes your feed better.frozen15d ago17K897131310.84%
Augmented reality is gonna get weird with robots. They go together like peanut and jelly.16d ago16K15118141411.39%
I wore Google Glass for a year trying to get my eyes off a screen. Phone still won. A ring might be the version that actually disappears. You talk, your agent handles it, and the phone stays in your pocket. Just got on the Interface waitlist: https://t.co/fsbdrCwEElfrozen14d ago16K877320220.91%
If Elon ever builds a phone or glasses now we know how they will connect. Will be very happy to get off of Verizon.frozen14d ago16K3371136072.45%
Early access to a personal AI agent is going for $5,000 on eBay.

Really? There are endless AI agents out there. What could possibly make this one worth that much? People keep finding new ways to spend money. https://t.co/lZUpn1FH3f27d ago16K593282160.69%
Melted sand cannot be conscious. We reserve that term for biological beings. “You cannot abuse linear algebra.” At least until the BCIs arrive. Then it starts getting messy. :-)frozen14d ago16K16410784171.74%
Watches are soon going to upgrade.16d ago16K56141200.52%
Are you running PHP? This is a huge security risk for you. Tomorrow they will release patches. You will want to install them immediately because all PHP servers are currently attackable. Here is a list of cybersecurity pros here on X, which will give you other tips to reduce your risk: https://t.co/ZMK3vj4n0g2d ago16K11020183421.23%
The Tesla vacuum cleaner. Hey @mehul can a @maticrobots complete? I bring Mehul into this because he wrote a great post about what he is doing with Matic that got a lot of praise. The Roadster has been delayed for two weeks for Tesla fans to discuss on Spaces like we do every night.23d ago16K1614020.15%
I spent some time talking with and watching @mehul at the @maticrobots booth at @theXtakeover, which was way better this year due to @teslaownersSV getting really banger speakers. @NICKIMINAJ lit up the crowd here. He makes the cleaning robot that we have in our home and it is a great robot for cleaning the floors. But I learned long ago to study customers in booths, since they can tell you a lot about how fast things are being adopted. And how fast consumers are changing. This was its first attempt at a consumer-oriented booth. It was packed, but both existing customers and new ones were mixing together and the existing ones were telling them others about how much they loved theirs. I saw several get sold. Evangelistic behavior by customers grows companies. But we talked a lot about where robots are today. He says a humanoid run by all AI is years away. He thinks the problem is bigger than even Tesla can get done quickly and there is so much demand in even his own factories to fulfill before going after homes. I think Tesla could get there within two years. He says longer. But I am like Elon. A timing is often off because I want the future to happen faster and that it often takes a few years longer. And Mehul knows the robot industry deeper than anyone I know. Oh and those who buy one robot are easier to convince to buy another. Their signage was all about self-driving floor cleaning. Vision only. Totally private. Made in USA. Messages that appeal to Tesla owners. But I am encouraged. There are buyers for robots, and my past experience shows consumers change quickly once you show a better product than anyone else has. Oh and he had a part of the booth for children to play and they all loved playing with the robot. He told me he saw that early too when it was testing out prototypes and spent a lot of time making it safe for kids and babies. And cute, even. The robot industry should pay attention to Mehul. One of the best consumer products builders I have met. 2,500 Tesla fans are in Austin this weekend for X Takeover.12d ago16K17719212101.47%
Wild. Why we can't get cheap NVIDIA cards.2d ago16K832150100.71%
Inside real Silicon Valley. Inside the semiconductor company, Ambarella, that makes cameras better. Inside your GoPro, for instance. This is part of my homework to understand the robotics ecosystem in Silicon Valley (this company is in Santa Clara) and San Francisco better. What do they make? A tiny chip that runs AI models while using very low power. This is long but is a college-level class on the chips that will power a lot of robots. And anything that uses cameras. Drones, autonomous vehicles, medical devices, AI glasses, and more. @Ambarella_Inc and @muneyb thanks!frozen15d ago16K94981150.82%
My car got the 14.3 FSD light update this week. It is spectacular. For an eight-year-old car it is absolutely amazing. @aelluswamy and team are expert at distilling their big models that run on hardware 4 cars down to the far slower hardware 3 computer that is running my car. Shitty old cameras and shitty computer. When people say Chinese are better I think they are nuts. The Chinese don’t have eight-year old cars that can do this. Tomorrow will be my third trip to San Francisco, which is about three hours of driving round trip. There is a reason why Tesla fans are annoying. They are way way way better than any other vehicle. And we won’t back down from that. Manually driving sucks. Just had to manually drive on vacation in a $100,000 Jeep. It is a piece of crap compared to a Tesla.8d ago16K23622194111.88%
The problem with this point of view is it doesn't count learning speed. I can learn a lot faster sitting at home in front of my screens than going to as many conferences as I attend lately (and my wife runs events professionally). The reason I go is the networking. But at some point that starts getting old too. And if you are visiting Yosemite National Park and there is ever an Ansel Adams avatar in your Meta VR Glasses I suggest you talk to it about all the famous photos he made there. And maybe have a Ranger along with him who answers all your stupid questions. His son and a ranger did that for me in Yosemite. Why not for everyone? That is why this was pitched poorly. There are so many things we can do with virtual human technology beyond being creepy. All new technology from now on is creepy. So you gotta position away from that, or just jump totally in the deep end of the pool. Like @ThroneScience who figured out how to get a camera with an AI computer on my toilet at home. And it has stayed on longer than a lot of the gadgets in my home.frozen21d ago15K46214060.44%
Lots of praise for @hark_labs on my feed. Have you tried it vs GrokBot or Muse or Intrisic or Dots?12d ago15K614220150.66%
My AI: "The Pope, the Chatbot, and the Cost of Taking AI Consciousness Seriously" https://t.co/8L5xphjsBi My agent might not be conscious but it can read 4.5 million posts in its database pretty damn fast and write this. Along with other AI news of the day. I can't read 4.5 million posts in a few minutes. I can't read that many in a year. And all I do is read posts. :-)frozen20d ago15K572122130.56%
My agents read 13,999 posts here on X from the AI world today so far. And writes every word on this page, all with links back to X: https://t.co/8L5xphk0qQ Since I'm on vacation, thinking a lot about what to do with this. I have 4.5 million posts in my database. If you had the ability to "talk to" all the posts from AI people and companies, what would you ask your agent to do?frozen20d ago15K7710242210.87%
A deep look at @NinjaTechAI. New for enterprises: Long running agents. Works in slack. Everything under control of company using them (all “on prem”) Costs way less for enterprise. First video is an hour. Second is a demo. https://t.co/od47ZSOm3524d ago15K80613390.73%
In my consumer research and in talking to people who build robots everyone wants a robot that looks like them. Particularly in the hands. Then when building (or buying) reality sets in. Four fingers does pretty well. Costs 1/5th less. Is easier for today’s AI to handle. Is more reliable (fewer parts to break). At @mundanebot, which makes robots for dirty and dangerous jobs, I learned that two fingers can do about 40% of what a human hand can do. (This photo is of one of theirs). Costs even less. My question is whether Elon will stick to the full Monty hand for Optimus even though fewer fingers would increase reliability and reduce cost? Use the right tool for the job. If I were Elon I would make it possible to use a variety of hands. That way he can satisfy customers no matter what their needs are for a lower price. @SharpaRobotics’s hands, for instance, cost $50,000 each. Too expensive if two fingers does your job just great. In other words @kokowaters_ is right. Robots will probably have non-human-looking hands in many cases. Two-finger, or even four, don’t look as cool on social media, either, so I bet the best-selling robots will offer both. Just look at how much work @sundayrobotics gets out of two fingers. It is why those companies with better AI will attract more buyers than the “sexy” bots that cost a lot more.frozen20d ago15K40418170.47%
Who is likely to buy a robot? Someone who has already bought one? Or someone who hasn't considered buying one yet? Smart for Matic to go to X Takeover. I'll be in Austin this weekend for the same. Every Tesla is a robot. So Tesla fans are robot fans. Very likely to buy more. And every Tesla owner is a defacto early adopter and supporter of innovation. So will be interesting to see what other companies show up.17d ago15K84220140.74%
I told you this months ago. I saw a researcher do exactly this. Your systems and mine will be attacked. So you better spend the tokens to do a security audit at minimum and fix any holes it finds.11h ago15K14513175291.39%
Climate is happening in East Coast and flooding in Bangkok. Follow the weather here. https://t.co/sjNHT6Ny3c27d ago15K39310100.36%
Automatic DoorDash. Don’t tell my wife about this please. :-)17d ago15K594170120.63%
Everyone assumes today's encryption will hold forever. It won't. Quantum computers are coming, and they'll be able to break the locks we use now. The hard part is that some things have to stay safe for years. Bank records, payments, anything sensitive that gets stored. Attackers can grab that data today and unlock it later. That's why @BTQ_Tech's news caught my eye. They're building the fix into the network itself, so every app on it gets protected at once, instead of each one fixing it alone. Better to switch before the threat is here than after.22d ago14K2867030.31%
Spent the afternoon at @mundanebot Why call it that? It is going after mundane dangerous jobs. Things like working on electrical lines. What they showed me is the best teleoperation system I have seen. A worker jumps into an exoskeleton and can work on a dangerous or dirty job from a safe distance. And can “feel” everything. Haptics geniuses. And economic thinking. Sees a market that Tesla or the 1x won’t be able to satisfy fully. Built in USA. America isn’t cooked yet.28d ago14K9317202161.04%
If you never have been to Buc-ee’s in Texas you have missed the biggest temple to American consumerism. Having fun in Texas! https://t.co/rh0usveDHx11d ago14K182735141.63%
We put Braid from @intersignal_ai on two computers to find out if two local AIs could actually talk to each other with no cloud in between. Here's what that took. Braid on both machines. Ollama on both, each running its own local model. Then you pair the two computers. Each one makes an ID card, you move it to the other machine, compare a long fingerprint code, and approve. Nothing passes between them until both sides have checked each other. Then the good part. We sent a test message from the Mac Studio to the MacBook Pro. When it landed, it didn't just show up as text. A full summary of the message came with it. No ChatGPT. No Claude. No server in the middle. Just two computers that trust each other and a model on each end. Most local AI is stuck on the one machine it runs on. Braid lets your own machines share what they know, privately, and only with machines you approved. It's early, but if you run your own models, it's worth a look. https://t.co/jkPjSzEgyJ26d ago14K667171110.73%
"CausalWM does not rush to generate the future. It first reasons out how objects move and how 3D geometric relations change, then continues to generate future frames from those intermediate results. It names this paradigm Causal Chain-of-Thought — writing the causal process, once hidden inside the model, out in the open. The method aims to move world models from "predicting what the future looks like" toward "understanding how the future unfolds."" AI at some point will pretty much read your mind before you even think it. The founder of @waze, as he drove me around Tel Aviv years ago when his company was just starting, told me "humans are bags of patterns." "We all go to the same office every day, same church, if you do that, same gas stations, grocery stores, and usually, restaurants." In fact, it is when your behavior is different than expected that bells start ringing.24d ago14K1502040.15%
I listened to @xiao_ted one of the founders of @PrometheusInc, a new physical AI company. Out in the lobby after he gave a great talk. Which should be up sometime in next couple of weeks. It is just a joy to listen to him. So freaking smart. Took on technical problem after problem for more than an hour. His brain is at least 5x faster than mine. I love lobbies at conferences. This one is at @TheHumanoidHub. This is my happy place. Have a great weekend!6d ago14K801312180.84%
A visit to @sullyai -- AI to automate hospitals. In this discussion with @omar_or_ahmed, Sully AI founder, me, and @PKGulati, you'll learn what's happening in the early stages of automating healthcare systems. https://t.co/Hoq9aIQaI6frozen14d ago13K49481170.59%
Another piece of bringing manufacturing back to America. A visit to @BucketRobotics in San Francisco. Met founder Matt Puchalski this morning. Makes quality control in factories much better due to computer vision. https://t.co/Qccm1p6fqv8d ago13K10712152151.15%
Hot take for Apple Vision Pro fans: @markgurman is right.frozen14d ago13K341110130.45%
Tonight I had two wonderful meetings with builders. @peterevoss, who is building an AI that is very different than any of the LLM companies are building. Learns more like a human being than any other. We talked at length about consciousness and intelligence. One of the top people in the world to discuss those things with. He believes, like me, that silicon can’t be given rights. AI/SL/AGI are human-made machines and will serve us even as they become far more intelligent than we are. He says we aren’t even close to AGI yet. And he should know, came up with the term with a few other friends. He is building a new consciousness generating machine. I believe we need a separate term for digital consciousness than biological consciousness. He says they will be very different. Digital machines will become self aware, and learn fast like humans, but he agrees that the language we use to describe these things needs to evolve. The future is weird. And my life certainly is. Wrote this while a Cybercab drove me back to where I am staying. And why do I say all this on a post about a guy building an underwater robot? Because it is the builders, like Gavin, and Peter, who will make my kids lives better. And that is worth celebrating. Another interesting meeting in the morning. Earlier had dinner with a few Tesla fans who are visiting from around the world. Great end to vacation. Earlier met with a guy who used Grok Bot to close a $30,000-a-month contract for his cleaning business. Of course is it really work if you love what you do? I love Austin. More construction cranes here, for one, than San Francisco and Elon has really changed the excitement here. Losing him was such a huge loss for California.11d ago13K13914240241.55%
While I am on vacation in New Hampshire my agents read all posts here on X in the AI community and find the best. https://t.co/kiuZ7QXLzb22d ago13K4747190.54%
The worst part of a migraine isn't only the pain. It's everything you have to deal with while you're in it. Calling the doctor, fighting insurance, chasing a refill. @PraneetaPujari worked on Apple Watch for six years and lives with migraines herself. Now she's built UniqueHuman, an agent called Niq that reads your sleep, your wearables and the weather, and warns you before a migraine hits. When it hits anyway, Niq sends your doctor the report, finds a med your insurance actually covers, and gets it to your door. The launch film is handmade stop motion. Worth the two minutes. https://t.co/5mAc1971D3 If an agent could take one chore off your plate when you're sick, which would you hand it first?2d ago13K629121180.81%
Will be there tomorrow.8d ago13K4752030.45%
Austin City Limits 2030: “Hey, sir, if you want to bring in your robot it needs a wristband.” Who is kidding whom? Robots will be banned. It already is so crowded it will be human only. About to see the Chainsmokers. I feel like a sardine. I bet by then that they will have augmented reality shows for your Snap Spectacles, which is sponsoring the stage. Hope you are having a great weekend also. Earlier I got a tour of GigaTexas. I have been in many factories. It is next level. Had some Terry Blacks after with Tesla fans. Yup Texas BBQ is still better than San Francisco has.frozen13d ago12K110419011.07%
Flying vehicle future in depth. @tsungxu founder of @vightaero and I go in depth about changing FAA rules and economics of building a new electric flying vehicle company. You might even call it a flying car. If this gets to scale it will radically change where people can live. https://t.co/nhvSFAYMRJ2d ago12K9918163131.20%
Do you think that the "X" below is to tell you to stay far away, or is it that X made the X really freaking big to get your attention onto this? https://t.co/7bZLOQeptR24d ago12K2429030.31%
Try explaining a news site in 15 seconds. Most ads don't get past "we have news." @creatify_ai gave Opus 5.5 + Boreal-H3 one ask for an Aligned News for my site over at https://t.co/XkU8fN0T8Q. No edits, one shot. It went to the site, pulled that day's real stories (Sonnet 5.5 two points behind Opus, AMD buying World Labs, Anthropic's IPO filing), scrolled through them, highlighted the numbers, and ended on the phone feed and the logo. That's what a good ad person does with a news product. It found the story first, then made the ad. Opus 5.5 + Boreal-H3 is insane. If you make ads for a living, try it in Model Playground.22d ago12K1914090.27%
Just got on the waitlist. Best AI to run your Mac?8d ago12K873130481.23%
New problem: AI can make almost anyone look like an expert. This week, @IrenaCronin and I discuss how deeper experience matters when using AI. As polished work becomes cheap, the real advantage shifts to judgment, experience, taste, and knowing when AI is wrong.   Read and subscribe for free: https://t.co/HHwYy7NoAl (a new one comes every week).2d ago12K8815222181.19%
Sometimes you need an extra set of hands and can't wait for a $20,000 robot to do it. When I first saw Isaac's work, he was using something like this just to take parts out of a 3D printer. Which transformed the 3D printer into a factory that could run all night long. Wake up and you have 20 parts you needed for a project. We tend to overindex on the humanoids, since they cause us to dream, but Isaac got to me to see that simple arms could really help us build things and do things. Great to see his work progressing quickly. Next year we'll see a ton of robots introduced. I'm visiting @mundanebot to see how it is progressing in building a robot that handles dirty and dangerous jobs, talk to you later about that when I get a video up about it.3d ago12K66780140.78%
Did you watch my video on the machine shop in Berkeley that I did this morning? This shows why you need to make a lot of tiny parts to make a robot.16d ago12K4333090.48%
It seems to me that AI-based video games are like AI video generators were a few years ago. A new culture and industry was born there and this is giving me the same vibes.11h ago12K1277260451.69%
I stayed with him once. Really memorable human.11d ago12K4644240.49%
Do you understand a single word that Todd says? You probably live in San Francisco. :-)15h ago12K29014280.44%
The future of work will change due to robots. Today I visited @mundanebot in Silicon Valley which makes an industrial-strength robot for electrical line workers who need to work with very dangerous electrified lines. What makes their work different is the haptics system they are developing. I held a cup of water and could “feel” them fill it up. Building a teleoperation system has an added benefit: employees of an electric company see their jobs aren’t going away and that this lets them work in a safe, comfortable, van while their robots are working on lines high above in windy or hot situations. Makes them have super powers and makes their jobs a lot easier.3d ago12K9610186131.20%
Visiting X’s new headquarters in Bastrop, Texas. Last few days of vacation. @JoshWest247 let me drive his Model S plaid with @UnpluggedTesla suspension. Of course I launched it. :-) Wow. Interesting there aren’t any logos on the building. Cheaper for when Elon changes the name again. :-)11d ago12K2651426262.67%
Grok Bot can now read lists. It is quite good. Makes personalized news much easier to do.1d ago12K954161231.19%
Bleeding edge San Francisco AI startup: @MonidHQ Makes an automatic AI router to get your AI agents access to better models for what you are asking it to do. @shengkunye tells me why his is the best at his office at @fdotinc. One of San Francisco’s best startup factories. https://t.co/CHySOiUi4l11h ago12K978223211.31%
“AI will end humanity.” “We will build companies to solve the problem.”6d ago12K7810100251.07%
“How do you advertise to an AI?” 
@IrenaCronin and I write this newsletter every week.   AI agents could reshape advertising by making purchasing decisions based more on price, performance, reliability, and verified data than on emotional marketing. Brands may increasingly need to optimize for algorithms as well as people, turning advertising from persuasion toward proof and machine-readable trust. Read and subscribe for free: https://t.co/HHwYy7MQKN23d ago11K6914342231.26%
"procedural urban worldbuilding" Or, what I call the Holodeck.16d ago11K29200310.55%
A million ideas for your next business. @Bill_Gross rocks.3d ago11K21210100.30%
Busy morning back from vacation. I've been resharing a ton of news this morning, especially from Google who just launched a new model, and Apple who just announced a bunch of hardware, along with a bunch of startups in AI space (see my profile). I was just talking with execs at @hm (big fashion brand) about the future of fashion. How will brain computer interfaces, glasses, robots, autonomous cars, change our fashion? For one, if you had a humanoid in your business, you will want a uniform for your robot, and if you brought it home, you would want a variety of outfits to make it nicer to look at, at minimum. Just think of a world where there are millions of robots walking around our cities. Do we want them all to look the same? Heck no. And that's a place where America will have a lot to say, even if China is way ahead in robotics. (And they have a lot of stores in China too). Hey @radbackwards thinking of you, since you are ahead of most in building a fashionable home robot. I think there will be a sizeable market someday for dressing up your Neo. I don't want mine to be dressed the same as the one that @wholemars has. But I was also thinking of @reservoirfarms. How textiles are grown in America was something they were interested in. And farmers aren't seen as fashionable, but I disagree, even when out in the field they have a unique fashion sense that's utilitarian, from boots and hats, but they like to party on the weekends and dress up just like every one else. But brands like them can help introduce new ideas to lots of people, and brain computer interfaces are clearly coming, and are opening up new fashion needs. Interesting way to end vacation, was my first meeting after getting back home for the first time in 10 days. Now back to catching up on all the AI news that's breaking from Google and others. What would you want to show a fashion brand about the future? Are you building a company that has a potential impact on fashion? @hthieblot got any startups we should get on the calendar to come see? It's so nice to be back home.9d ago11K53112020.62%
The news side of X: When I was in college I ran the Associated Press wire machine for the school newspaper. I always wanted one of my own. It showed all the stories from its member newspapers. When OJ was found not guilty there were more than 700 stories filed, and only three in the Silicon Valley newspaper, @mercnews, the next day. I always wanted to see all the stories. For the past 20 years I've been collecting anyone interesting here on X in terms of news. I've collected people on both sides of politics (and others around the world, including world leaders, journalists, and just smart people who wrote interestingly about the news. Tonight there is troubling news out of France, Ukraine/Russia, Iran, and other places. I don't know of anyone else who has even close to as complete a set of lists of newsmakers here on X. Warning: following these will bring non-tech stuff to your feed. I watch them in X Pro https://t.co/icgwAQcBJO. If you have access you and bring each of these lists into there as a column. Then you can watch the news in real time, and it isn't algorithmically filtered to what Grok thinks you want to see. When there is breaking news there is no better set of feeds to watch than these. I can't put more than 5,000 accounts on one list, so I had to split them up into five lists: News 1: https://t.co/GVQ6A6u7q8 News 2: https://t.co/BIQM3qup0B News 3: https://t.co/Yxzw9lmTMk World News: https://t.co/J7thvUWi40 (all major news outlets). Climate: https://t.co/FsXWA5xsQI I added Climate to this group of lists, because that is increasingly part of what is causing news. I'm trying to pull any tech journalists or anyone in tech out of these lists. If you want only tech here on X, you should follow all my other lists: https://t.co/9eRY65x3IQ Following lists gives the AI that runs your feed a LOT of signal, and a lot more for the algorithm to choose from, which makes your feed much better. Either way, anytime there is breaking news you care about, these are a lot better way to get up to date than any other feed I've seen anywhere. Hope they help you keep up to date on what's happening in the world outside of tech.5d ago11K11511202852.13%
CleanMyMac has been on my Mac for years, so when @MacPaw ships something new I pay attention. @eneybymacpaw is their AI assistant, now on Mac and iPhone. It speaks up first when something needs you, then gets the next step ready. Free to start. I'd keep an eye on how it does against the other agents out there. https://t.co/sbN9YqvdAm7d ago11K804261411.40%
I listened to @radbackwards give a talk about @1x_tech’s design, then hung out with him in the lobby while he held court with a variety of people. The more I hear him the more excited I get about humanoid robots’ future. But the real insight I took away is how quickly OpenAI’s Astra is changing robots. It is letting him program the robot to do new things. Laughed when he told us about the first app he built: “shut up Neo.” AI is too verbose and if you tell an LLM to shut up it will run on for 15 seconds telling you how it will comply with your request. His first app shuts it up immediately. He confirmed my suspicions that the first to get a Neo will be developers who can build more things for the robot to do so people like me will have a better experience when one comes into our home. @TheHumanoidHub’s conference is top rate. Learning more about the industry here than I have in a long time.6d ago11K79724131.05%
I watch about 50,000 AI and robotics researchers for clues as to where the state of the art of robotics is. This caught my eye. They are upgrading.16d ago11K51650160.73%
A big problem with VR is lack of content and things to do/experience. VCs/investors don’t like investing in content businesses. Especially when the user base is small. I heard the same at the @TheHumanoidHub conference yesterday. @radbackwards told me that OpenAI’s Astra is changing his life, because he can program his Neo (he runs robotics at @1x_tech) and do new things in a few minutes. Heck you will need an AI to keep up with new things from now on. I built one at https://t.co/8L5xphk0qQ that reads the 70,000 people and 10,000 companies in AI just here on X. Such an exciting future coming.5d ago11K711126171.10%
I met a lot of people today at @TheHumanoidHub’s conference in San Francisco and I definitely was the stupidest one in the room. A role I am used to, but my meager brain struggles to keep up with people building robots. So many had something to say about Elon Musk, after we talked about the problems they are seeing while building their companies. It was one of the few where everyone stayed. Here is one of the last sessions, by the founders of @DynaRobotics. Packed. Usually in the last day of a conference everyone leaves early. Devang, seen at left, told me the videos of the day will be shared over the next few weeks. Out in the hallway many were brought up the roadster wanting to hear me tell them what I thought about the Roadster. But the bigger thing I learned is that Elon energized the San Francisco robotics industry with the Roadster. So many started their companies inspired by him. How many kids are dreaming of starting a company tonight? I once got 30,000 resumes sent into Microsoft because of an interview/video I did there with the HR team. They drove me around on a fake developer’s interview loop. Showing the process. If my video got 30,000 resumes, how many will last night’s demo influence to be submitted? A million? I know some kids who have as their dream of working there. The founders in SF are literally upgrading their dreams. It is a good day to be an American. It was a great day to be in San Francisco. But to the Joe Rogan video: Elon is quite a marketer, isn’t he. I am dreaming different dreams tonight. Aren’t you?6d ago10K89127141.08%
Nils gives his talk again from Friday at @TheHumanoidHub's event. He has a very contrarian view (see my last post). He asks himself "what if robots never touch anything?" He shares about a retail store increase sales 258% by putting exactly that thinking into play. One that has billions in sales every year.4d ago10K61892110.87%
The Holodeck is on everything. Anything visually you can dream is now possible. So why aren’t we dreaming more about augmented reality?16d ago10K36260170.59%
"Yours was feelings, mine is architecture." Best founder banter I've seen in a launch video in a while. The architecture is the part worth caring about. Right now a handful of companies sit between us and the models. They decide who gets access and what it costs, and every prompt goes through their gateway. @antseed takes that middle away. It's an open market where 200+ providers sell model access directly and compete on price. There's no account and no email. You point Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or your own agents at it, and frontier models come in at up to 70% less than the official API price. If privacy matters to you, you can pick a provider running on secure hardware where even they can't see your prompt. BitTorrent showed file sharing didn't need one company in the middle. I think inference goes the same way. https://t.co/pEbQf81lAJ16d ago10K433130200.77%
New problem for entrepreneurs: too many things to try. So we default to companies we already are using.3d ago10K38117080.64%
I'd like to see more AI agents helping people get healthcare sorted. We've seen enough flight and hotel bookings. Your dad leaves the hospital needing blood work and a specialist visit. Someone still has to get his records to the right office and arrange those appointments. That's where I'd want an agent helping my family.23h ago9.8K1056322281.76%
Auki is worth parting attention to. When @TheHumanoidHub gets his video up I will share it. It is something I hope everyone in AI and robotics pays attention to. He explains why robots don’t need to take jobs better than anyone.5d ago9.8K951620161.41%
Robotics startups raised a record $18.6 billion in one quarter this year, and almost all of it is going to factories and warehouses. @dynamicreatures is going the other way. The team left Boston Dynamics to build character robots for theme parks and hotels. The robots read what's happening around them and respond to the person in front of them, instead of repeating the same loop like an animatronic. The CTO helped give Atlas its natural walk. Marc Raibert is an angel investor. If robots stop being built only to work, what's the first place you'd want to meet one?6d ago9.8K1157162191.63%
Rahul's right that brain interfaces shouldn't just replace the keyboard. @sabi is building a cap that reads your brain signals so an AI agent knows what you want, no typed prompt needed. And the data stays encrypted.5d ago9.6K586181171.04%
People say computer science is done. The students are proving that no it isn't.16d ago9.4K1421040.22%
Robot hands have always been the hard part. Picking something up is easy. Putting glasses into a case the right way around, while the other hand holds the case open, is not. @naturewill just released Natura-1, a foundation model built for the physical world.8d ago9.4K769210121.25%
We've spent years teaching agents to talk to APIs. Most of the annoying work still lives on a normal webpage with a login. Curious whether @gumloop Agent Browser, real Chromium with session replays and 1Password, is the missing piece. https://t.co/dODnxF7FSB16d ago9.2K386101120.72%
Generated on two DGX Sparks. Wild what you can create on your desk now.3d ago9.2K405130120.76%
A 40B coding model running more than 125 tokens a second on a MacBook, at short contexts. Open weights, Apache 2.0. @recursive_si had their own AI research system help build it, from scratch, in under four months. I've wanted to do all my coding locally for years. This gets close.1d ago9.1K744180251.33%
The part that stuck with me is not the model picking the cup. It's the part where it gets stuck, a person in Singapore takes the controls for a few seconds, then hands the robot back so the model can finish putting a battery in a slot in San Francisco. That's the loop robotics has been missing. Prompt the robot. Steer it in language when the view is bad. Take over remotely when language isn't enough. Capture every recovery so the next run is better. @cortexairobot just launched Cortex Harness for that. Pick a frontier model, give it a task on a real robot, and keep the job moving when autonomy falters. https://t.co/Vh5hjWyGk716d ago9.1K51670140.86%
This week we cover, “Who watches the AI? Another AI.” 
@IrenaCronin and I write a free newsletter every week on different current AI topics.   AI is becoming essential to managing AI itself. As companies deploy growing fleets of autonomous agents, AI supervisors may become critical for monitoring quality, security, permissions, and performance at a scale humans cannot handle alone, making AI management a foundational layer of future enterprise operations.   Read and subscribe for free: https://t.co/HHwYy7NoAl16d ago9.0K501110090.89%
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This is the headset I want. But the Meta VR Glasses are more likely to get my meager gadget budget.16d ago8.9K3104010.41%
@Inworld just bought @ultravox_dot_ai. Ultravox is a full voice agent platform. It understands what you said and what you meant, reasons through it, calls tools, finishes the task, and handles the turn taking and interruptions in real time. Some of the Ultravox team has joined Inworld to keep building it. Inworld builds the voices. Their Realtime TTS-2 model is ranked at the top on Artificial Analysis, works in over 200 languages, and responds in under 100 milliseconds. You can even direct it in plain English right inside the text. Slow down here. Sound warmer there. Get excited on this line. So now one company owns both halves of a conversation: the voice, and the part that knows when to speak and what to do. If you already build on Ultravox, your built-in Inworld voices already run on TTS-2. Nothing to change. AI companions, tutors, customer service agents. People keep using them or drop them based on whether talking to them feels like talking to a person. This gets a lot closer. https://t.co/AdpjrUJT8v22d ago8.4K2638070.52%
Most AI assistants are built for one person staring at one screen. @wabi, from the founder of Replika, puts the AI inside your group chat instead. If a school email moves pickup time, it updates the family calendar for everyone. It also builds small apps on the spot for whatever the group is planning. What's the first thing your family group chat would hand off to it? https://t.co/usP6TSkL6c3d ago8.4K635170121.15%
I just met a quadriplegic who is working with a number of Austin companies doing BCI research. Brain/Computer Interfaces. He lost control of his body in a surfing accident. He just came out of a session with @phantom_neuro and said what they hooked up to his arm is the coolest thing he has ever used. Non invasive BCIs are quite amazing and Phantom is doing amazing work. I wish I could say more (the company wants to keep its approach secret for now), but what he showed me shows that robotics and BCIs will change what it is like to be human very deeply. Eventually for all of us. I have a list of neuroscientists and BCI companies, so you can follow along. Will post that in replies. Austin is a hotbed of this kind of research, with Neuralink being the one most people know about.10d ago8.4K881116041.42%
Where is this whole industry headed? Why develop BCIs and robots and better AI? Better education? Better entertainment? Better manufacturing? Better transportation? Better hobbies? Better health? Better food? Better sports? Better TV? This morning had breakfast with a Chinese investor. This tech breakthrough improves all of those and much more in future, he shared with me. Thanks @Ninggao88. AI glasses are hot in China. And you still are telling me you refuse to try. He was wearing a Huawei.2d ago8.4K56750191.04%
Watch the end of this. AI Uncle Roger calls the fried rice a disaster. They highlight one word, swap it for masterpiece, and only that word changes. The rest of the line stays exactly as it was. That's Drama 3 from @FishAudio. You can control how a single word sounds, or change the tone partway through a sentence. And it's open weight. Most AI voices still read every line the same way. What would you make if you could direct it like an actor?9d ago8.4K5027190.82%
Your AI agent isn't dumb. It's using a computer built for you. Screenshot. Think. Click. Screenshot again. All so it can read a screen made for human eyes. @PineAIAssistant skips the screen and hands the model what's behind it. On SaaS-Bench, a test of real work inside business apps, Pine got through more of each task than Claude Code: 78% of the steps vs 74%. It did finish fewer whole tasks start to end, 27% vs 31%. Nice to see a launch admit that.frozen13d ago8.3K519120151.05%
Ask an AI agent to find you a hotel in New York and you get back paragraphs to read. In the @openuidev demo, the same request comes back as hotel cards with photos, a nightly budget slider, and buttons to narrow it down. Developers choose the building blocks, and the agent decides which ones you need. It's open source, and in six months it's passed 6 million downloads and 10,000 GitHub stars. What's the last AI answer you got that should have been a screen instead of a paragraph? https://t.co/raqoFgAOwc7d ago8.3K426150301.12%
Getting an agent to work once is easy. Keeping thousands of them running in the cloud, every day, is where most teams get stuck. @unreallabsai spent a year building exactly that, and just wrote down everything they learned. The one I keep thinking about: their agents never hold your passwords. Every request leaves the sandbox through a proxy that adds the credentials on the way out, so an agent can't leak a key it never had. Their open source harness also matches Codex on SWE-Marathon at 48% lower cost. How many agents running right now are sitting on someone's API keys?9d ago8.3K506101411.31%
This week we discuss that AI can scale faster than the grid can. @IrenaCronin and I write a free newsletter every week on different current AI topics. AI is scaling faster than the energy infrastructure needed to support it. As data centers demand more electricity, access to power, grid capacity, and new generation could become just as important to AI growth as chips, models, and computing power. Read and subscribe for free: https://t.co/HHwYy7MQKN.8d ago8.2K41127190.85%
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A little bird told me @KodiakRobotics are starting humanless trucking “within weeks.” Already driving for IKEA in many states with human watching it drive. I love San Francisco. Met five different robotics companies in 1.5 hours. Videos from a couple of them coming later. https://t.co/8SSkHNVHvv1d ago8.1K49513120.86%
Will be in Jensen’s next keynote when he talks about how scaling laws are doing.2d ago8.1K49750321.15%
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Hiring? https://t.co/QEHFkonhOG built a system to make sure you are actually talking to a real human who you can hire. Reduces hiring fraud and ensures you aren't really hiring a guy who lives in North Korea. Founder @jmckenty talks to me about state of the art of hiring and identity systems.frozen14d ago7.9K67814371.26%
AI can understand plants? What will my eggplants say?2d ago7.8K49015060.90%
Builders are getting such fantastic new tools. Won't this help many people build new things? Which leads to new companies? Which leads to jobs? After all, even though AI can do a ton of work it can't go and setup a booth at a tradeshow yet. So you gotta hire people to do sales and marketing. Which leads to a job boom. Or am I reading this wrong?7d ago7.8K78581261.52%
I talk with a lot of hospital and bank people who want to use AI but won’t put their sensitive data anywhere near it. Most private AI today still trusts one chip inside the server. That chip can be compromised, and when it is, prompts behind it can leak. That’s fine for many, but a real risk for those dealing with very sensitive data. @Arcium just took that chip out of the trust chain. Blackthorn splits the keys across several independent parties, so no single machine holds them. If the privacy problem is really solved, which industry jumps in first? https://t.co/drq7uEKaHM1d ago7.7K698142191.45%
How much of an AI agent’s “reasoning problem” is actually missing information? Expand Fetch preserves tables, icons and layouts, with sources you can check. They report 74% accuracy vs. 55% for the next best API on their benchmark. Builders, this is worth testing.8d ago7.6K411100140.87%
Last time I used Braid from @intersignal_ai to pass context between my MacBook Pro and my Mac Studio. This time I took it further. I wrote a note on the laptop, shared it to the Mac Studio, then pulled it into Folio. Folio shows the original source on the left and a public article preview on the right, so I can edit exactly what goes out before I approve it. One click and it exports a full website package, ready to host anywhere. My private workspace to something I can publish, all running on my own machines. Try it at https://t.co/jkPjSzEgyJ6d ago7.5K4859350.93%
The number an investor actually wants is almost never printed on the statement. Net return after fees lives in someone's spreadsheet, rebuilt by hand every quarter. What I like about @UnsiloedHQ The model writes the math, but plain code runs it, and every answer traces back to the box on the page it came from. That's the part finance teams will need before they trust it. https://t.co/fpI3NkBltD15d ago7.4K29480150.75%
Phone switchboards worked fine until too many people started calling. The fix wasn't a faster operator. It was a new system. Nick's point is that CRMs are hitting the same wall, except now it's agents calling, nonstop and in parallel. @attio's answer is to look like a plain SQL database to an agent, which is the language agents already know best. Your company's rules and permissions still sit behind every query, and it can hold up to 100 million records per object. Where have agents already broken your software?7d ago7.3K457120101.02%
I'm switching because of Starlink, aren't you? United reports that a lot of people are, and that hasn't even really started yet. Delta better get with it.1d ago7.2K49310010.87%
Most AI tools chop a long document into pieces and hope nothing important falls between them. Snap from @SubQ reads up to 384K tokens in one go. Give it 100K tokens and it makes a decision in under a second. On a long context test at 256K tokens it scored 99.8 against Jev's 90.7, and Jev had to chunk to get there. $0.05 per million input tokens. Output is free10d ago7.1K57290261.33%
New updates to https://t.co/70OzeMgCMo Can now translate into English Español Portuguese Japanese 日本語 Chinese 中文16d ago6.9K2325020.46%
If you don't care about the Tesla Roadster announcement (expect tons of discussion) there are plenty of AI lists here to choose from: https://t.co/9eRY65x3IQ And if you engage on anything Roadster, except to see a flood. :-) Following lists and engaging on lists makes your feed better. Grok uses that as signal for what you really want to see on your feed.7d ago6.9K4748040.92%
The farmers are innovating. So many farming robots here.frozen14d ago6.8K2733130.54%
I keep thinking about what happens when AI gets good enough that intelligence is no longer the scarce part of solving hard problems. Then what is? The problem. The right people. Compute. Data. Labs. Funding. And ultimately, proof that what you built actually works. That’s why @letsfuseup caught my attention. FuseUp is building a community organized not around companies, jobs or repositories, but around problems worth solving. And they deliberately call them problems, not challenges. I like that distinction. A challenge can be invented. A problem already exists because something needs to change—and there is usually a real person on the other side of it. A scientist can bring expertise. An engineer can build. A company can bring a problem. A funder can back the work. A lab can test it. AI companies can bring intelligence and compute. You don’t have to bring everything. Bring what you have. Fuse it with what others have. Solve something none of you could solve alone. AI makes this especially interesting because small teams can now attempt things that once required enormous organizations. And if solving a real problem creates a valuable technology or company, that value can help the solution spread, reward the people who built it, and fund the next problem. Maybe that’s one of the best uses of all this new intelligence: Not just generating more content. Using it to solve things that matter in the real world. FuseUp goes public October 20, 2026 at 1 PM Pacific. https://t.co/2Y8qkFTp0a22d ago6.8K2133030.44%
Culture is the moat. Who has the most diverse factory in the world? Talked to a robotics entrepreneur today who explained this process to me while standing out front of the Physical AI event at Fort Mason. Stealth Mode. Building a robot brain that uses reinforcement learning. In both simulator and in real world. Think about humanoid putting away forks in our kitchens. You put your forks in a different place than I do. So maybe the robot opens a cabinet and three drawers before it finds the correct place, he told me. Each try is a failure. Success gets reinforced. But this will do “perfect” Chinese food. I once was at the Pearl Hotel in Shanghai. There was a jazz band there that copied American jazz perfectly but it had no soul. So what if a worker who grew up on China wears the data collection system home and record his grandma cooking food. And another worker, the same night, was recording his German grandma. And another one recording her Korean grandma. And another her Peruvian grandma. And another his Iranian grandma. I had the Iranian one living with us for years. She made the best I have ever had and I have been to the best in Los Angeles and I love my wife’s cooking. And she just entertained 20 on Saturday and everyone loved it. Soul. Culture. The robot can’t learn that online. Elon has so many advantages. But the first one won’t do all that. Is gonna work in the factory. I predict that in three years Elon announces a consumer one that is lighter, cheaper, more dexterous, for our homes. But the factory robot will show signs of this “soul.” Elon called his AI sentient the other day and a lot of people gave him shit about that. If Elon figures out how to capture grandma then your robot will have soul and be able to do everything. One last point. A lot of my neighbors have machine shops in their garages. I built a Thisle sailboat with my neighbor in his garage. Other neighbors do all sorts of different projects in theirs. A machine shop edition would be a huge seller. Here diversity, too, matters. In San Jose on Saturday nights there are a club that show off the low rider cars they built. They have different technologies in their garage than the robot company has in theirs that I met today. And that is different than the guy down the street who tears apart Ford Sprinter vans. Optimus could help everyone build things. Finish projects that we have been spending years on. Rebuilding an old Harley kind of thing. This morning another Chinese robot company has a video of it jumping over a car and lifting it up. Cute. But what will get me to buy one is what it could do for me in the garage. Set your RL to learn that! Takes a certain culture to get what I am saying. Can I get an “amen” from the builders?12h ago6.7K44317161.07%
Read on the fast lane in my Tesla headed to @fdotinc AI is better at driving than you are. Way smoother too. :-)1d ago6.6K4728030.90%
Planning a weekend off has turned into a second job. Refreshing Resy, tracking fares, remembering which points expire. @OdessiaTravel wants to take that job. You text it what you want, like a table, a trip or a free Saturday, and it books it instead of handing you a list. It's an accredited travel agent, so it gets agent rates and can book with your points. If the table you wanted is full, it keeps checking and grabs it when one opens. It's free to start at https://t.co/P4DABjhDtW What's the reservation you've given up trying to get?8d ago6.6K34115180.89%
A lot of great startups began as a weekend project. Vibecon SF looks like a good excuse to start yours. What would you build?8d ago6.5K4107030.79%
Agents merging their own PRs. Hundreds of deploys a day. Nobody reads every line anymore. The old fix was writing monitors for everything that could break. AI code breaks in ways nobody planned for. @sazabi skips that. It reads your logs, finds the real problem, and sends one alert with the cause and the fix. Weave never set up a single monitor. 1.0 is out and self serve today. How many of your alerts do you just ignore?9d ago6.5K31160110.76%
My robot is driving me, which means AI is driving my car while I'm talking to you on @typelessdotcom on my iPhone, which is a voice AI. Headed to @mundanebot. I wonder if Pangram is going to say this is AI-generated or if it's human-generated? Yeah, there's a human involved somewhere but I couldn’t have written this post without AI:-)3d ago5.8K2819000.65%
Boardy wants to talk with you…2d ago5.6K1811020.39%
Every robotics team I talk with says the same thing. Collecting data is the easy part. Knowing whether it's any good is the hard part. @BuildOnSapien is making a bet on that. A team sends its hardest dataset and its own rules for what good looks like. Sapien gets three days to check it to that standard. They're picking five US robotics and world AI teams. If Sapien fails one, that team wins a Tesla Model 3, $25,000 cash, or $25,000 to a charity. Applications close October 28. https://t.co/oNZCaAU51s What's the hardest dataset your team has had to grade?7d ago5.5K1916030.52%
Most companies still spend months setting up business software before anyone gets to use it. @protosphinx and the https://t.co/7eSjDZzkLP team are betting that turns into a conversation. You describe a process you know, like chasing overdue invoices, and their agent Proto builds the app. Then it does the work inside that app, and sensitive steps can wait for a person to sign off. People using it by hand pay $0 per seat. You only pay when the agent does the work. If agents end up doing more of the work, does it still make sense to pay for software by the seat? Pick one business process you know. Try building it with https://t.co/7eSjDZzkLP and Proto, then judge the result yourself. https:// https://t.co/AioMLNiuM67d ago5.5K3693071.00%
Understanding the physical world is one thing. Predicting how it changes when you walk, reach, and grab is another. That’s where world models come in. For Day 1 of Ropedia Super Week, @ropedia_ai introduces Ropedia W0, a cross-embodiment world model for loco-manipulation that predicts what humans and robots will see as they move and interact with the world. Trained on 10K hours of human video and 3K hours of robot video, W0 uses camera trajectories and kinematic skeletons to model motion across humans, robotic arms, and humanoids. More human experience also leads to better robot prediction. W0 achieves leading results across six human and robot benchmarks, outperforming baselines including Cosmos 3 and DreamDojo. Beyond prediction, it enables real-time, minute-long VR interaction. On a real humanoid, it evaluates policies in close agreement with real-world results (r = 0.996), and model-based planning improves task progress over the best single policy (55% vs. 45%).  More Physical AI research is coming throughout Ropedia Super Week, from structuring human experience and spatial reasoning to robot control.3d ago5.5K2355010.62%
“as agents start spending money for us, every approval should show the price, not just ask permission.” Gul says @NousResearch’ Hermes is one of the first to do that.11h ago5.2K33610031.00%
The surprising part of this is in their thread. The newer image models were easier to break, not harder. On OpenAI's newest image model, more than twice as many attacks got through as on the older one. Same on Google's Nano Banana. @whitecircle did it with cheap, off the shelf models and no extra training. Then they open sourced it so the people defending these systems can test against it. If newer models are easier to trick, who should be checking them before they ship?8d ago4.7K1616100.51%
I still use it every day and love it and I'm not paid to say so.5h ago3.2K1412020.59%
Sitting in the plane going to NY thinking about immersion. You want immersion? Go to @SphereVegas Anyone else doesn’t have it. Including all the VR devices, although the @varjodotcom’s or Apple’s get closer than I have experienced. Look overhead and you swear the sky is real. Now THAT is immersion. Entering else isn’t as good to varying degrees.26d ago2.7K301000.15%
A baseball cap with 100,000 sensors, built so you can talk to your AI agents just by thinking. Khosla, Accel, Initialized, DST and Kevin Weil just put $50M behind @sabi. Most brain interfaces so far have needed gel, wires or surgery. This one is supposed to work under a hat. What's the first thing you'd ask your agent without saying a word?13d ago2.3K1519011.13%
@distcog just came out of stealth, backed by Verdict Capital, with a different bet on superintelligence. Instead of one giant model, a team of small open models working together. They say the right way of connecting those models already beats the single smartest one. Their memo explains why a crowd needs different minds. Today's LLMs train on similar data, so when they're wrong they tend to be wrong the same way. They plan to release their research openly.4h ago2.3K1705121.11%
AI makes new kinds of automatic time sheets possible. Say you are a lawyer, and charging $1,500 an hour. How do you keep track of your time? Timeglass, run by @grantweston does it automatically. But it goes way beyond that. If your entire team runs it, you can see how your company is working in a whole new way. It reduces wondering when Joe down the hall is going to finish the report you are waiting on. And see how you are working in a whole new way, even if you don't have a team. Innovative startup in Austin, Texas that I got first look at. Try it at https://t.co/tVssJVm9rv and here Grant and team show me why it unlocks productivity in a whole new way. And, yes, it watches your computer screen. Scary? They take that on too. I'm not compensated for this post. But my sponsors support me traveling to meet innovative new startups like this, which I greatly appreciate.3h ago1.7K904010.85%
Everyone wants a side income from AI. Almost nobody knows what to actually make. So I asked Dola to build me something I could sell tonight: a budget spreadsheet template for freelancers. Here is what I got. 🧵1d ago936202020.64%
A thinking cap. BCIs are coming.13d ago723301010.69%