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been heads-down on this. finally shipping. 🤖 meet GI Ego1 — an all-in-one egocentric headset for collecting the data that trains robotics foundation models. no phone. no laptop. no tether. strap it on, capture all day. → stereo 1080p wide-angle, 63mm IPD (matched to human eyes) → hardware-synced cameras + IMU on a shared clock → on-device H.265, MP4 out the bottleneck for embodied AI isn't architecture anymore. it's data. so we built the hardware to collect it at scale. #robotics #embodiedAI #physicalAI @gi_labs gilabs.xyz/products/ego1

Data Collector uses our @gi_labs UMI grippers to do welding at a construction site ( video credit: @GeorgiZlatarev )

Most robotics models use VLMs as the base model not because VLMs are ideal for robotics — but because we still don’t have a good enough world model. Robotics needs less language data and way more vision, physics, and real-world interaction data.

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack. Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords. LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm. Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks. Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages. Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.

had a good chat with the gemini robotics folks about using our data. It’s supposed to be a whole team, but everyone’s booked back-to-back 😅 team lead goes: “we used to have no-meeting fridays… not anymore.” google evolution is real lol.

I’m treating my job search like a growth problem, and I’ve got 45 days to crack it. Instead of sending a resume, here's a 50-second video of my work. If you’re looking to grow your product through storytelling and filmmaking, let's talk?

@parcadei @steipete This feels right lmaooooo

@steipete You’re absolutely right! This strategy is what separates you from the others, what makes you a true visionary! Want to explore this further?

Every day I block people who use AI for auto-replies. It’s a smell. Makes them look weird/silly. I wonder if that strategy really works?

1/4 For years, we've dreamed of decentralized social: user-owned identities, creator-first economies, no gatekeepers. Today, @masknetwork is thrilled to share that we step in as the new steward of @LC, to advance our mission of taking decentralized social to the mainstream🌐

We've been running @radixark for a few months, started by many core developers in SGLang @lmsysorg and its extended ecosystem (slime @slime_framework , AReaL @jxwuyi). I left @xai in August — a place where I built deep emotions and countless beautiful memories. It was the best place I’ve ever worked, the place I watched grow from a few dozen people to hundreds, and it truly felt like home. What pushed me to make such a hard decision is the momentum of building SGLang open source and the mission of creating an ambitious future, within an open spirit that I learnt from my first job at @databricks after my PhD. We started SGLang in the summer of 2023 and made it public in January 2024. Over the past 2 years, hundreds of people have made great efforts to get to where they are today. We experienced several waves of growth after its first release. I still remember the many dark nights in the summer of 2024, I spent with @lm_zheng , @lsyincs , and @zhyncs42 debugging, while @ispobaoke single-handedly took on DeepSeek inference optimizations, seeing @GenAI_is_real and the community strike team tag-teaming on-call shifts non-stop. There are so many more who have joined that I'm out of space to call out, but they're recorded on the GitHub contributor list forever. The demands grow exponentially, and we have been pushed to make it a dedicated effort supported by RadixArk. It’s the step-by-step journey of a thousand miles that has carried us here today, and the same relentless Long March that will lead us into the tens of thousands of miles yet to come. The story never stops growing. Over the past year, we’ve seen something very clear: The world is full of people eager to build AI, but the infrastructure that makes it possible is not shared. The most advanced inference and training stacks live inside a few companies. Everyone else is forced to rebuild the same schedulers, compilers, serving engines, and training pipelines again and again — often under enormous pressure, with lots of duplicated effort and wasted insight. RadixArk was born to change that. Today, we’re building an infrastructure-first, deep-tech company with a simple and ambitious mission: "Make frontier-level AI infrastructure open and accessible to everyone." If the two values below resonate with you, come talk to us: (1) Engineering as an art. Infrastructure is a first-class citizen in RadixArk. We care about elegant design and code that lasts. Beneath every line of code lies the soul of the engineer who wrote it. (2) A belief in openness. We share what we build. We bet on long-term compounding through community, contribution, and giving more than we take. A product is defined by its users, yet it truly comes alive the moment functionality transcends mere utility and begins to embody aesthetics. Thanks to all the miles (the name of our first released RL framework; see below). radixark.ai

We are pleased to announce a US$100 million convertible note facility with a leading institutional investor, featuring a 0% coupon and no mark-to-market provisions, with 90% of proceeds allocated to acquiring ETH. 🧵⤵️

that's how I work LOL

We have been working on something special behind the scenes. The first piece drops open source tomorrow 👀 Stay tuned. cc @HominLuo @dysfunctorial

Could this remind you what's build in public? youtube.com/watch?v=YD1rlE…

Cloudflare today launched their own Email Sending service VERY cool, because by default every email service we use for sending for our websites gets acquired by private equity or IPOs and goes to shit It happened to MailChimp, then SendGrid, then Postmark It's just the nature of the beast, it's not a good business to be in, but it's essential for any website to be able to send emails @Cloudflare is so big ($75B) that for them it can just be a service as part of their general offering Because in 2025 maybe email sending should just be a feature, not a company P.S. please let me use Cloudflare Email with a basic JSON API, preferrably SendGrid/Postmark-compatible

Blockchain is the next-generation technology that will empower the future of stocks. Stocks began as paper certificates. Last century, we moved to computerized systems, where shares were registered in databases controlled by brokers. Next generation of stocks will be on the blockchain, enabling transparent governance, automated dividend distributions, programmable unlocking schedules, and 24/7 trading. It has the potential to become the most ideal and legally robust framework for equity.

RARA x Mask wouldn’t have happened without @lwsnbaker. Sharp, fast, and always keeping things moving. Total clutch player.

I've been in crypto for over 10 years and I’ve Never been hacked. Perfect OpSec record. Yesterday, my wallet was drained by a malicious @cursor_ai extension for the first time. If it can happen to me, it can happen to you. Here’s a full breakdown. 🧵👇

@ChloeTalk1 @HesterPeirce 加密妈妈要去Coinbase旋转门了，屁股决定脑袋，祝她前程似锦

@JanLiphardt @OpenAI congrats!

Machines are getting extremely smart, extremely quickly. My kids do their math homework with Bits, a robot dog controlled by @OpenAI's  o4-mini and 6 other models. AIs, when given full control of highly mobile physical shells, can explore the world, learn, interact, chase squirrels, and help blind people. Let’s make this new world open and durably aligned with humans. This means (1) open software and (2) modular brain architectures that allow humans to inspect, understand, trust, and debug thinking machines. I started @openmind_agi because all of this needs to happen now, today, and not tomorrow or next year. Thank you to all our supporters. Now, we build. We’ll have autonomous, multilingual quadrupeds (four legged robots) in homes, parks, and schools in the Bay Area this fall - say hello and join us for some math, chess, or simply, to play fetch!