Michael

Lol what?! Meta has been cooking! These benchmarks are really freaking good holy!!

Not everything people do has a reason. Sometimes, they just enjoy it. That's why asking "why?" doesn't always make sense. 🤷

@archiexzzz Interested

if you're interested in VLAs, robotics, building foundational models for the next layer of physical and spatial intelligence, and you're in blr - dm me. i'm building an "exclusive, high-quality group of physical engineers" to get together and learn from each other.

Hard truth people don’t like to accept. Doing nothing meaningful is easier than doing something that matters. That’s why most people don’t start. Add to the list

One of China’s massive training labs. And people still think their jobs are safe. The next revolution is already being trained.

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@MilksandMatcha I’m working on autonomous navigation for aerial robotics in a GPS-denied, dynamic obstacle environment. I have a Codex Plus free trial that is about to expire. Having this offer will significantly increased my productivity and iteration speed.

Giving away 5 Codex Pro plans Each person will get 3 months of free Codex Pro (highest tier). Winners will be selected from comments in 48 hours, comment below why you want it.

@aaronistan @bySyncere I've been doing some work on autonomous navigation. Would love to understand how you are tackling it here. I will send an email.

About six months ago, I left Stanford to build a robotics company for the home. At the time, humanoid hype felt like it was getting ahead of its promises but no one had really shown an alternative. So we’ve been building one. Excited to share more soon.

@charmcgi Goodluck!

tomorrow is my last day at my job! i’m going spend the next 3 months exploring my interests full time: robotics, embodied ai, and information theory + physics

A HARVARD psychologist says: “if you’ve achieved nothing by 25, you’ve avoided the most destructive illusion of youth” > In 2021, a Harvard psychologist surprised a lecture hall with an unexpected statement: “If you haven’t accomplished much by 25, you may have escaped one of youth’s biggest illusions.” At first, the room laughed. She wasn’t kidding. > The illusion of early success. In your early 20s, the brain seeks quick proof of worth ~status, attention, rapid achievements. But psychologists warn that chasing recognition too soon can lock people into roles or paths they never consciously chose. They decide too early… and spend years trying to undo it. > The exploration phase. Research on career development suggests that people who explore more before 30 often build stronger long-term directions. Testing ideas. Making mistakes in public. Changing course. At 25 it looks like confusion ….but by 35 it often turns into clarity. People who feel “behind” in their mid-20s frequently gain something others miss: Perspective. Patience. And a clearer sense of what truly matters to them. That foundation often leads to better decisions later on. At the end of the lecture, the psychologist left the students with one final thought: “You’re not meant to have life fully figured out at 25.” “You’re meant to discover who you’re not.”

OpenAI is backing Isara, a new startup founded by two 23-year-old AI researchers that coordinates thousands of AI agents to solve complex problems, like using ~2,000 agents to forecast gold prices. The company just raised $94M at a $650M valuation and plans to sell predictive modeling tools to finance firms first.

@DraperVC Building autonomous fire detection drone with actionable insight. drive.google.com/file/d/1lHKdG_…

If other VCs have called you “too fringe”, “too crazy”, “too weird” Call us. At Draper Associates, we're doubling down on the stuff that makes traditional investors uncomfortable. We're funding: 🤖 AI, Robotics & Automation 🧬 Healthcare & Biotech 🚀 Space & Aerospace ₿ Crypto & Blockchain We want the wild, weird, and unconventional. We want the ideas that everyone calls too crazy. We want the problems everyone thinks are impossible to solve.

@Zeeskylaw Interestingly, you might never be able to tell.

I love AI and ML, but my bank needs to learn I never want to speak to an AI customer agent please. Connect me to a human fast, and let's move on.

@hthieblot Autonomous fire detection drone. In the video, the implementation was broken down into navigation (first part) and perception. Got real market for this. drive.google.com/file/d/1lHKdG_…

Looking for obsessed builders. I invest up to $250K first checks in: • Robotics, drones, space • Applied AI/ML, models • Dev tools and infra • Manufacturing & logistics, and more... DMs open or just reply here what you are building. Early > polished.

@Johnsontaiwo_ ROADMAP

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@mukadammh Congrats Mustafa! I’m currently working on autonomous drone navigation in dynamic, GPS-denied environments. Always excited to see breakthroughs in robotics autonomy and dexterity, would love to connect and share some of my work.

I’ve joined the Amazon's Industrial Robotics Group (IRG) to lead dexterity Multi-fingered hands, tactile sensing are table stakes; Work in the vein of DexGen, Sparsh, NeuralFeels, plus research in VLAs, continual RL, WMs Push the frontier of dexterous manipulation with us 🔗👇

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@jjuulliiaallii @ycombinator @michaelque22 YC

been getting a lot of dms asking how to get into @ycombinator startup school as a person that was: > not highly technical > did not have much startup experience > didn’t have impressive labels or achievements just one year ago, i doubted myself a lot while applying to startup school. whether I was qualified enough and always assuming my background was not strong compared to other applicants regardless, I applied & got in. for anyone who is currently overthinking whether they are ready: reply “YC” and I’ll share with you my successful yc ai startup school application :) 📸: @michaelque22 thanks for dming :)