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Will physical AI be general-purpose or specialized? We think it's both. There's a major debate in robotics right now about whether generalist models and humanoids will outperform verticalized solutions. Our view is that the industry is converging toward a different outcome: 🧠 Intelligence will become increasingly shared 🤖 Embodiments will remain highly specialized Why? Because industrial customers don't buy versatility. They buy ROI. A food manufacturer doesn't need a robot that can fold laundry. They need a robot that can portion food accurately, operate in 32°F cold rooms, survive daily washdowns with caustic chemicals, and run reliably at production scale. The same logic applies across construction, logistics, agriculture, manufacturing, and healthcare. Different industries have different environments, economics, and performance requirements. One embodiment won't fit them all. In our latest blog, we make the case that the future of physical AI will consist of shared intelligence layers combined with verticalized embodiments, proprietary data, and domain expertise. Or put differently: the future may look a lot more like 𝘞𝘈𝘓𝘓-𝘌 than 𝘐, 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘵. Read the full post: chefrobotics.ai/post/the-case-… #PhysicalAI #Robotics #AI

De-extinction is about reviving species and preserving the ones we still have. But it’s also about inspiring the next generation with hope, and reminding them that there are still ways to help heal our planet and all the life it holds.

"It started with a simple publish to a subject… and now there's this massive system behind it." -Christopher Coco of Verrus on building at the OT/IT convergence with NATS.

The Unexpected Challenge of Hiring "Experienced" AI Pharma Talent "Many experienced hires have been living in a bubble and got used to being unproductive." In AI drug discovery, the real gap isn't credentials, it's the ability to actually produce. We don't need more press releases or research papers; we need drugs that work. It's time to burst the "unproductive bubble." #AlexZhavoronkov #InvestingTips #PharmaAI #BiotechReality #VentureCapital

This giant egg looks like a prop from a dinosaur movie. But it’s real. Inside the Kaikōura egg are secrets about giant moa, ancient DNA, Māori history, prehistoric dad behavior, and why we had to build an artificial egg to bring these birds back. This one gets wild. (1/10)

📽️ The 4 Common Mistakes in AI Biotech Investing "Proprietary data and elite scientists don't guarantee a drug." Many investors are blinded by compute and algorithms, forgetting the true goal of AI: speed, cost, and novelty. If a company has no clinical assets after years, its tech might just be PR. Time to use AI to stress-test your portfolio. #InsilicoMedicine #AlexZhavoronkov #InvestingTips #PharmaAI #BiotechReality #VentureCapital #DeepTech

In finance, latency is money. Reliability is survival. Trading platforms, payment rails, settlement networks, real-time risk — all sitting on infrastructure that can't blink. Engineers from @eToro, @Checkout, @StateStreet, and @jumptrading are joining us at RethinkConn 2026 to talk about how they're building the next generation of it. If you ship anything with money on the line, you should be there. Join us for a virtual half-day 👉 #register" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">synadia.com/lp/rethinkconn… #RethinkConn2026 #FinTech #FinancialServices #LowLatency

We’re excited to welcome Steve Van Der Hoeven to Chef as a Senior Staff Software Engineer! Steve brings over two decades of software engineering experience from companies like Google and Optimizely. He most recently worked at Zeromatter, where he built a CI/CD and validation platform for robotics stacks. At Chef, Steve will help our growing team of robotics and software engineers bring robots into real production environments across over a dozen customer sites. If this sounds interesting to you, see our open roles at chefrobotics.ai/careers! #robotics #ai #hiring

fine-tune LFM2.5-8B-A1B for your tasks and let it cook! 🧑‍🍳 huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.…

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"NATS at the Edge" workshop @ RethinkConn 2026: You'll leave with a working leaf-node setup that survives simulated network drops. Led by the people who built leaf nodes. June 4, virtual, free. Register:#workshops" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">synadia.com/lp/rethinkconn…

NEW Video 📽️ Curing Aging: The Ultimate Solution to Everything When we solve aging, we will have the time to solve everything else. That is the North Star of Insilico Medicine. By leveraging AI for faster, cheaper, and more novel drug discovery, we aren't just treating diseases, we are buying time for humanity.⏳ #InsilicoMedicine #AlexZhavoronkov #Longevity #AI #HealthTech #Innovation #SpaceX

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Congrats to Aime!! He said his left forearm is basically broken 😂 Final scores: → F.03: 12,732 packages (2.83 seconds/package) → Aime: 12,924 packages (2.79 seconds/package) This is the last time a human will ever win

Chef robots can now deposit scoopable ingredients into small compartments and inserts with higher accuracy. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 For depositing finer, stickier ingredients like shredded cheese, small compartments leave little margin for deposit error. After picking, cheese tends to cling to the outer portion of the utensil and get stuck between utensils, and when the robot moves to the next deposit, the leftover ingredient falls into the wrong compartment. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 deposit assist 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 Deposit assist is a hardware attachment that our customers can add directly to Chef's utensils. It introduces two mechanisms: → As the deposit assist is a physical funnel, it guides the deposit toward the center of the target compartment as the utensil opens, even when the compartment is small or irregularly shaped. The funnel can be customized to match the compartment size, utensil size, and number of utensils used across different tray formats and SKUs. → Before each deposit, the robot shakes the utensil multiple times over the pan, driven by a food-safe, NSF-certified air cylinder actuator, dislodging any leftover ingredient stuck between the utensils before moving to the deposit location. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁 Food manufacturers reduce spillage into adjacent compartments and achieve consistent deposits across a production run without changes to existing production line infrastructure. Read more on our blog: chefrobotics.ai/post/chef-intr… #foodmanufacturing #foodautomation #mealassembly #foodrobotics

We’re entering Day 7! We’ve been running close to a week 24/7 and fully autonomous We’ve sorted over 180,000 packages and have been running continuously, without failure, for 144 hours

🔥 Introducing PandaClaw: The AI Agentic Core 🐼 PandaClaw is powered by a state-of-the-art autonomous AI agentic core that handles the entire scientific journey - from complex planning to flawless execution and critical review. By interpreting simple natural language prompts, PandaClaw integrates advanced #bioinformatics workflows to give you fully vetted, comprehensive results. Whether you are querying public knowledge bases or bringing your own datasets, #PandaClaw automates highly sophisticated tasks.​​​​ Get started today: pharma.ai/pandaomics #NewLaunch #AIAgents #PandaOmics

Artificial Wombs! Love the work of @BenLamm and the Colossal team. rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

"It's like we have superpowers — and our superpowers just keep getting stronger." Read more from Will Borthwick of @boldcapitalvc on the democratization of capability, and why he's more optimistic about innovation than ever. Check out our latest Meet a VC spotlight: nvca.org/will-borthwick…

"Just count it." Famous last words in distributed systems. Rate limits, billing, leaderboards, view counts — every product runs on +1. At scale, one hot shard decides if your dashboard is lying.