Sebastian Thrun

We just raised a $7M Seed round co-led by @MenloVentures and @haystackvc with participation from @Shakti_VC, @conviction and @upfrontvc 🚀 We're honored to have the support of incredible angels including @ericschmidt, @SebastianThrun, @sarahookr Join us: alphaxiv.org/careers

Trying to help the German Government how to regulate AI. The question came up: What if all of Europe became one country (United States of Europe)? — they would then be the second largest economy in the world. Crazy? What do people think?

Nexar’s real-world data just built the best incident prediction model — Meet BADAS 1.0. 🔥 It beat state-of-the-art models by learning from 10B+ real miles and 60M+ real events, not simulations. 🚀 Discover what it can do for you: nexar-ai.com #BADAS #AI #ADAS #AutonomousVehicles #RoadSafety

So humbled!

So very excited to see these news: wsj.com/lifestyle/cars…

Incredible honor to have made this list in 2007. time.com/7323640/25-ico…

20 years ago the @darpa Grand Challenge changed history: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Gra…. Congratulations to everyone involved. PBS/Nova made this amazing documentary: youtube.com/watch?v=vCRrXQ…

@dmitri_dolgov @NYC_DOT Congratulations, Dmitri, Tekedra, and Team Waymo! You are changing the world!

The Waymo Driver is generalizing well, showing strong performance in Manhattan. Excited and grateful to have our autonomous-testing permit extended by @NYC_DOT !

Wow deep fakes on steroids with #Sora2

@nnnnicholas Excellent yes. Great idea. Likely would give membership fee back to users for purchasing. Thank you Nocholas.

@SebastianThrun makes me think once user trust is built, introduce a subscription option so you don’t even need to open the app you just get ai clothes

Exciting news: Self-driving shopping apps.apple.com/us/app/gold-th…

Looking for engineers for an exciting agentic AI startup in San Francisco. Contact me at sthrun@gmail.com

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Some breakthroughs in technology don’t just change the game; they reset the playing field. Our latest ad was built in-house, in 5 weeks, 100% powered by AI—from scripting to video generation and voices. It’s a glimpse of what’s possible when #AI is fully embraced.

@elonmusk @xai Amen

This false nomenclature of “researcher” and “engineer”, which is a thinly-masked way of describing a two-tier engineering system, is being deleted from @xAI today. There are only engineers. Researcher is a relic term from academia.

“If you go back to the beginning of homo sapiens, 300,000 years, give or take, invention came by thousands of years, tens of thousands of years. And now inventions come by the minute.” @SebastianThrun, founder of GoogleX, @Waymo, @udacity, and Kitty Hawk, talks about why he thinks we’re living through an exceptional moment in human history. Hear why he believes the future of transportation will be in the sky, how robotics will move health diagnoses to your home, and how AI is accelerating the pace of innovation to an exponential curve. youtu.be/Sx7wKbF6wh8

If a LLM hallucinates, we shrug. If a self-driving car hallucinates, it might run a red light and kill a person. These different error tolerances might explain why progres on AI agents has been slower than expected.

Why is the trade deficit with China such a bad thing? It seems we are trading our new iPhones and laptops for stacks of (imaginary) paper. Bad?