Henry Lien

@alexshander03 @JudgmentLabs 🚀🚀🚀

We’re launching @JudgmentLabs today and announcing $32M in funding. As AI agents take on more of the work that creates economic value, they generate massive amounts of production data: the clearest record of how they behave with users, software, and the real world. Judgment builds infrastructure for improving AI agents from production data.

Beyond proud of the team at Judgment. They have scaled from three cofounders into a machine of 20+. They move with intent and intensity and are the most honest and humble team to work with. It has truly been a pleasure to watch them grow and right now there is nothing that can stop them. 🚀🚀🚀

Actor has raised a $4M seed round. I am excited to show a snapshot of what our deployed robot models can do in the real-world. We're incredibly grateful to be supported by investors from Eniac Ventures, Hyperion Capital, Hummingbird VC, 2048 Ventures, Nova Fund, Vanderbilt Alumni, and many incredible angels. If you are interested in deploying machines with us, contact me : )

@FarroYossi Was an honor

Just wrapped Tefillin with @Henrymlien He’s a 20-year-old Stanford dropout who helped raise a $150 million fund, and today he wrapped Tefillin for the first time in his life.

(1/5) Great to be at @sequoia to give a sneak peek of one of our research directions! TL;DR one path to data-efficiency may be to “abuse GPUs like they’ve never been abused before”

We’ve raised 75m in new funding from Sequoia and Spark Capital—partnering with @sonyatweetybird, @MikowaiA, and @YasminRazavi, all of whom are deeply supportive of our long-term mission. We’ve also brought on angels & advisors including @karpathy, @tszzl, and @_milankovac_. ----- Our early results with FDM-1 moved computer use from a data-constrained regime to a compute-constrained one; this latest round of funding unlocks several orders of magnitude of compute scaling for that work. With the FDM model series we have a path to scale agentic capabilities through video pretraining, and we expect to achieve superhuman performance on general computer tasks in the same way that current language models have superhuman performance on coding tasks. We’re also now able to invest in the blue-sky research necessary to our long term mission of building aligned general learners. To realize the civilizationally transformative impacts of AI, models must generalize far out of their training distributions, actively exploring and building skills in new environments. This capability represents a substantial shift from the current paradigm of model training. We believe that current alignment techniques are insufficient to predictably and safely steer a model with human-level learning capabilities, and so we’re doing work to study small versions of this problem in controlled environments to develop a science of alignment for general learners. We’re a team of 6 people in San Francisco. We’re hiring world-class researchers and engineers to help us achieve our mission. If that’s you, please get in touch.

@richzou @xai Big things ahead 🚀

I just left @xai It was not an easy decision. The past three months were an absolute blast - I've been in many trenches in my life and can say this was by far one of the most intense warzones. I love fighting. Especially being in the trenches with my friends, working on problems that will actually advance humanity. But the current environment wasn't serving my growth. And that's a really hard thing to admit - I've always looked up to Elon, and I genuinely believe xAI will win. I still do. One thing I'll say: don't stay somewhere just because of the name. If you're unhappy, and you know you can't grow 100x where you are - it's the right call to leave. What's next? Get some sleep back. Then find the next trench worth fighting in. I'll always be meeting exceptional people - that was never because of a recruiting title. I just love finding smart people and helping however I can. Many more side quests to come!!!

I'm extremely excited to announce that we've successfully inferenced π0.5 on our excavator! We've collected a massive corpus of real-world data with natural language labels from operators in the industry and are using it to create some really cool policies. Here's our first demo of it successfully completing a task with just 200 trajectories. More on the way :) Read our blog post: labs.actor/research/vla-e… @physical_int

@thewildstevenp @menemazarakis @markkhrapko Bullish 🚀

A 10-minute application for $100,000. A free, no-strings-attached prize for builders, scientists, operators. Introducing the Eigenprize. ↓ run by @menemazarakis, @markkhrapko, & yours truly :)

Computer use models shouldn't learn from screenshots. We built a new foundation model that learns from video like humans do. FDM-1 can construct a gear in Blender, find software bugs, and even drive a real car through San Francisco using arrow keys.

@novaholdings is just like us---young, scrappy, trying to change the world. they are incredible partners and we truly honored to have them as significant investors. remember the name ✈️

Announcing Flapping Airplanes! We’ve raised $180M from GV, Sequoia, and Index to assemble a new guard in AI: one that imagines a world where models can think at human level without ingesting half the internet.

Announcing @terraindustries $11.7M round led by 8VC, the VC by Palantir founder @JTLonsdale Alex Moore, Board Director at Palantir, also joins Terra’s board @Max_Sengu & I started Terra to give Africa the technological edge needed for resource protection & counterterrorism (1/3)

@wesgriffin07 @Avanika15 @JonSaadFalcon Legend

Intelligence per watt: the metric that matters for getting AI out of data centers and into every device. Absolute privilege working on this with @Avanika15 and @JonSaadFalcon

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We made a $25k grant for the builder with the coolest builder portfolio! My friends and I grew up hacking projects together with scraps. And we feel like you shouldn't have to. So we made this! No strings attached — money to make stuff! duct-tape.build

Beyond proud to back @kolelee_ and the @vigillabs team as they build the future of trading. Kole is one of the most determined founders out there and is paired with a top class team to match. We at @novaholdings are thrilled for what is to come! Vigil 🚀