Max Braun

Over the past twelve months, I’ve been incredibly lucky to work with a group of insanely talented people on something new and different. This is Jony and Sam discussing what we’re up to.

New data shows that the Waymo Driver continues to make roads safer. Over 14.8M rider-only miles driven through the end of March, it was up to 3.5x better in avoiding crashes that cause injuries and 2x better in avoiding police-reported crashes than human drivers in SF & Phoenix.

@hausman_k Congrats and good luck!

🚨 Big news 🚨 Together with a set of amazing folks we decided to start a company that tackles one of the hardest and most impactful problems - Physical Intelligence In fact, we even named our company after that: physicalintelligence.company or Pi (π) for short 🧵

@danielgross Paging @sdamico

Figure-01 has learned to make coffee ☕️ Our AI learned this after watching humans make coffee This is end-to-end AI: our neural networks are taking video in, trajectories out Join us to train our robot fleet: figure.ai/careers

@adcock_brett @Figure_robot Chain of Code is also very cool. Significant reasoning improvement for LLMs in general. The paper evaluates on robotics tasks too. twitter.com/ChengshuEricLi…

@Figure_robot That's it for this week's Robotics x AI breakdown. I'll be sharing what I read every week, follow me @adcock_brett for more. If you found this valuable, consider a like/retweet to spread the word. twitter.com/adcock_brett/s…

Huge week in the world of AI x Robotics. Significant developments from Google DeepMind, Figure, Meta research, UC San Diego, AMD, xAI, Microsoft, Inflection AI, and more. Here's everything you need to know:

Sperm whales have equivalents to human vowels. We uncovered spectral properties in whales’ clicks that are recurrent across whales, independent of traditional types, and compositional. We got clues to look into spectral properties from our AI interpretability technique CDEV.

@decruz @karpathy The 15M model runs at ~2.5 tokens/s, which is quite reasonable. The quality of the output really depends on the application and whether a constrained dataset makes sense.

@maxbraun @karpathy This is darn good. Is the performance feasible for real use?

Hack of the day: Llama on a microcontroller 🦙🔬 Details and source code at github.com/maxbbraun/llam… Thanks to @karpathy, whose llama2.c inspired this!

@altustro @karpathy 4sure

@maxbraun @karpathy are you for real?

Meet Figure 01

NYC Pixorama mod by @maxbraun & @katrmnv 🍎

The rise and fall of popular transformer architectures 📈 One pro of having a lot of transformer architectures implemented in transformers & hosted on the @huggingface Hub is that one can see the evolution of popularity of different models 👀

It's fun to see the evolution with the exact same prompts. This is Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, with apologies to Edward Hopper.

@beaudjango @ivankutil @brilliantlabsAR It came already assembled

Monocle by @brilliantlabsAR

Best combination climbing gym / co-working space / coffee bar / library in an old church this side of the Seine

Nice to see a familiar robot on the front page! 🤖 Congrats to the team for publishing RT-2 and everyone who contributed to the dream of learning robots over the years at @GoogleAI, @GoogleDeepMind, and everydayrobots.com. nytimes.com/2023/07/28/tec… robotics-transformer2.github.io

A paper in @Nature presents a benchmark for assessing how well large language models can answer medical questions. The study, from Google Research (@GoogleAI), also introduces Med-PaLM, an LLM specialized for the medical domain. go.nature.com/3NRU9Lj

@jon_barron You know what to do, Jon

Someone talk me out of buying this kid's shirt off ebay ebay.com/itm/1140866488…

I was surprised to learn today that the original "nerf" logo (the balls, not the radiance fields) had NeRF's camel-case capitalization.

@olcan @brilliantlabsAR 🥸

@maxbraun @brilliantlabsAR had lasik done recently … i guess i could get a fake pair to try this out