Daniel Mika

Proud to share that the U.S. Army, 1st Cavalry Division, has reached a deployment agreement with Hippos. 1CD one of the most storied combat divisions in American military history. Phase 1 and 2 deployment begins this year, with a pathway toward 2,000-unit ($2M) division-wide procurement in 2027. As a 21-year-old, all I could have asked for was a place where I could freely dream the impossible, a team to build shoulder to shoulder with, and a purpose greater than myself. America gave me all three. This is the beginning of paying back a debt of gratitude I will carry for life. 🇺🇸

Really great idea! You should apply

@agapalka_ Congrats, the growth is crazy

WE JUST CROSSED 6,000,000+ VIEWS ON GRANITE WAVES PILOT Feels PHENOMENAL. Love from so many types of Ryuu users that I got to meet in last weeks: from electrical and aerospace engineers, to athletes, writers, artists, florists, doctors, nurses, teachers, IT’S NUTS how cool are the people who are coming onto Ryuu to watch our vertical anime shows. I wish I had time to celebrate beyond fixing app bugs, onboarding users, creators and running tens of network-effect-style marketing campaigns all at once but hey, as my ex used to say: you’ll get a good night’s sleep in the coffin Congrats team @GraniteWaves by @tezeze_art

It is funny to me how often people see 100k views on a video and they call it viral. If you want to see what going viral means check out what Aga is doing, most of the content they publish repeatedly hit +500k, some +5M on Instagram/TikTok/YT

@arian_ghashghai Definitely not humanoids. This is close, but still not right

Home robots will look like this, not humanoids (may have narrowly missed out on being first check in, but still intent on being customer #1!!)

@rohanpaul_ai how is that going...

Brett Adcock, CEO of Figure AI: "we're working until midnight every night... we are here every weekend. By end of 2026, we'll be able to put a robot into home and be able to do fairly long horizon work."

@arian_ghashghai @EarthlingVC I don’t know ofc what company you have in mind but do you think it is a correct move for them to go into YC?

A first-check I wrote in Q3 also just got into YC Not a sentence I expected to write, but alas (incidentally first @EarthlingVC portco to do YC post-investment)

@theisaacmed I think i know which dudes you mean

There are ai accounts being run by polish dudes who outperform these numbers. Also I had no idea that YC accepted agencies now.

@gabriel1 Kurwa

what is your favorite swear word

@eastskykang Dongho, fantastic work! Is there a code available for this method?

Introducing my recent collaboration work, "Spatio-Temporal Motion Retargeting for Quadruped Robots" co-authored with Taerim Yoon, Seungmin Kim, Minsung Ahn, Stelian Coros, and Sungjoon Choi. terry97-guel.github.io/STMR-RL.github…

@0xSigil @gabriel1 Love all the points and the energy, showing you can do things is most important really

The most capable individuals are learning and shipping 1000x faster using AI. I sat down with Gabriel Petersson (@gabriel1) - a high school dropout who self-taught Math & ML with AI and is now an AI Researcher at OpenAI. We deep dive into the most important traits to thrive in the age of infinite leverage: – How to learn hard skills insanely fast with AI – Dropping out in Sweden → America on the O-1 @extraordinary visa - How to get hired by the best when you are a nobody – How to turn prompting into a daily habit – Why America is still the launchpad for ambitious builders - Breaking down Gabriel's most iconic tweets Curiosity + Agency + AI will take you further than any legacy credential Timestamps: 01:12 - Swedish high-school dropout → OpenAI research scientist 03:04 - First startup & sales hacks: door-knocking, instant A/B tests 05:28 - Couch-life grind & learning to code under pressure 08:16 - Learning by doing: top-down vs bottom-up; what schools miss about AI 12:10 - Recursive learning with ChatGPT: ELI5, intuition, gap-filling 16:20 - Prompting habits, make AI your always-on tutor 22:16 - Research workflow: papers, code inserts; “shortcuts to foundations” 27:13 - Feedback obsession, elite code reviews, AI as reviewer 33:12 - Path to the US🇺🇸 Midjourney, getting the O-1 @extraordinary visa, shipping demos that signal skill 39:29 - bypass recruiters via proof of work, risk-free trials & academia hot takes 55:06 - why San Francisco; visas & how to move; final pep talk

The backlash isn’t just about the tools. It’s also a rejection of the content (“soulless AI slop”) and the people (“not real artists”). We’ve seen this before. Every creative revolution starts with an awkward “slop era.”New medium, new tools, immature taste. Over time, the tools improve, the work matures, and the new creator class gains legitimacy. Photography was dismissed as “mechanical imitation”, YouTubers were “kids in bedrooms”. Today most AI art still carries that unmistakable “AI sheen”. The people are too perfect, the colors are too saturated, the camera motion is too smooth. But as the tools evolve to allow better blending of real human thought and performance with AI-conjured worlds, creators will infuse more of themselves into the work. Then the medium will find its soul. Wrote about slop eras here: x.com/jesskah/status…

@scottbelsky @agapalka_

knowing how something was made greatly appreciates the value for it. in an era where so much can be generated, i suspect we’ll get more glimpses into the craft behind seemingly innocuous moments.

@kevin_zakka I would love to try it out

An almost identical reward setup works for the quadruped (turned off 1 reward). We get a beautiful symmetric trot gait without explicitly optimizing for it.

Coming to mjlab today! This is vanilla RL, no motion imitation/AMP. Natural gaits emerge from minimal rewards: velocity tracking, upright torso, speed-adaptive joint regularization, and contact quality (foot clearance, slip, soft landings). No reference trajectories or gait patterns. Walking, running, and arm swing emerge purely from optimizing these simple objectives. Oh and training time? Just 1 hour.

@agapalka_ Let’s count number of huntrix cosplays for Halloween shall we?

Why will you hear about anime 28476827 more times this month? 🧵(1/5)

The reality? without AI narrative we can't get even close to GDP growth needed to deal with debt (it is our chinese housing for computers since we have fewer people...) so if everyone is kinda colluding believing the story, so be it. tomorrow's MOL

@materzynska @AIatMeta Awesome, I will reach out!

I am looking for motivated students to join my team at @AIatMeta FAIR for a summer internship. If you have experience with motion modeling / diffusion models and/or social AI please feel free to reach out! 🤖✨

buildinginpublic (beta weekly update) → 578 weekly active users (not 578k, yet) → 15.4% weekly retention → 1,951 user facts collected → 21,700 movie facts collected Early beta numbers that got 3 new VCs to reach out. What happened at TasteRay this week: 🧵

HOSTING THE HOTTEST SFTW CLOSING PARTY this friday. insane dj line up. already 1,000 people signed up. highly curated, top founders and investors only. don’t miss out! sign up below 👇👇👇