Alex Gaysinsky

The AV industry is hitting a "Data Wall." Brute force training on petabytes of data is hitting a dead end. The better the models get, the harder they are to improve. At Helm.ai, we bypassed this wall with Factored Embodied AI—achieving Zero-Shot autonomous steering with just 1,000 hours of driving data. Here is how we broke the barrier: 🧵

Big news: Helm.ai has entered a multi-year joint development agreement with @Honda 🎉 Together, we’ll accelerate Honda’s next-gen self-driving capabilities, including its Navigate on Autopilot (NOA) platform. See thread for details 👇 #ADAS #AutonomousDriving #AI

Introducing GenSim-2: Helm.ai’s latest generative AI model for video editing in autonomous driving development! GenSim-2 enables automakers to create and modify video data. The model supports dynamic weather and lighting adjustments (e.g., rain, fog, snow, glare, day/night), object customization (e.g., road surfaces, vehicles, pedestrians, buildings, vegetation), and ensures realism across multi-camera perspectives. GenSim-2 enables the creation of fully AI-generated video scenes and augmented reality modifications of real video footage at up to 696x696 image resolution and up to 30 fps, supporting rare and complex corner case scenarios critical for testing and validation. Trained using our proprietary Deep Teaching™ methodology, GenSim-2 generates highly realistic video data tailored to specific requirements. From enriching datasets to resolving rare corner cases, it’s a scalable, cost-effective solution for autonomous driving development. Learn more in the the thread below ⬇️

Today, Helm.ai is featured in @nikkei Mobility! The article highlights our approach to autonomous driving technology development, including in-vehicle software and simulation technology based on generative AI and Deep Teaching, and explains how our offering enables various automakers to more easily incorporate AI throughout the AV stack. OEMs have recognized that software is the key differentiator for vehicle sales in the coming years and the path to high margins. However, they don't have large software-defined fleets already in market to support machine learning development, nor are they positioned to solely rely on fully end-to-end AI systems due to validation and interpretability challenges. We enable OEMs to accelerate their roadmap and reduce costs by bridging the gap between simulation and real data with AI-powered virtual fleets, and we employ a hybrid approach that leverages modularity in our AI stack along with end to end technologies. Full article (in Japanese): nikkei.com/prime/mobility…

@therealarkin They have $$$ and a solid ML team. If this is to replace existing search functionality embedded into different meta properties -- it does not sound too crazy.

How do you think this will pan out? theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

@JuliaHB1 I think you are incredibly brave. Stay strong.

I thought I'd share a small selection of the responses to this video I've received from pro-Palestinian accounts. Apologies for the language ⬇️ 1/

@therealarkin They are not making $ from their gov salary. Or put this way, either public pays politicians or somebody else does.

I find this mindblowing! VPOTUS Annual Income: $218K E4 Engineer (1-2 years our of college) at Facebook: $324K

@therealarkin This is not to say parents were against it. Most of them supported. I kinda like it — you get exactly what you vote for.

@therealarkin You get what you pay for. Or at least what Sacramento pays for.

How come computer science, and physics aren't mandatory in 9th grade (or entirely through high school) in California, but “ethnic studies” is?

@SupahKaz @PotaroResearch @growing_daniel It was a sarcasm. But it is missed by some exactly for the right reasons.

@cssasha @PotaroResearch @growing_daniel This is not true. The dictionary definition deals with Palestinian struggle against Israel. And that cause has explicitly called for the elimination of Jews (see Hamas, which has 80% support there). Giving an old cause a new coat of paint doesn’t make it something new.

Feels like the campus pro Hamas protest movement is this era of leftism jumping the shark. Like does anybody support them? It just feels like a weird circus to working people.

Like teacher, like student

Israeli universities are offering spots to people in US universities who don’t feel safe. This is circulating at @MIT right now. People will certainly take them up on the offer. There is a Jewish brain drain going on elite US universities. We should all be concerned about the future of technological innovation in this country when some of our greatest minds are being pushed off campus for being Jews.

@SenSchumer Senator @SenSchumer you need to fight antisemitism in your own party. Anything short of this is not good enough.

For many Jewish people, this feels like a matter of survival, informed once again by history—in this case, very personal history. Today, in my address on the dangerous and disturbing rise of antisemitism in America, I told the story of my own family on the Senate floor.

Told ya

Say what you want to say but X community notes is the best news feature out there. People entitled to their opinions but thorough and educated ones should matter (much) more.

This is Avigail Idan. She’s a three year old American citizen. She is being held hostage for 45 days and counting by the same monsters who murdered her parents in front of her.

@JakeWSimons it is not a crisis of credibility. it has 0 credibility. no idea why bother talking to these clowns.

@rooteruditorum @antoniogm Israeli government is defining the policy, IDF only implements it. You have a clear & single address. Israel signed multiple piece treaties in the past incl. with Jordan and Egypt. If you have time on your hands you can learn how these have been implemented and enforced.

@cssasha @antoniogm The IDF and Israeli government kill Palestinian civilians at multiples of the reverse , so by your logic , who is going to control and enforce on the Israelis ?