Michelle Lee

if you’re an ai researcher you should really consider working on bio pretraining is great: data sets are big enough for interesting stuff but not so big you’re spending all your time on weird cluster optimization post training is in the age of research: the lab is the only true validation, but it’s expensive so figuring out the limits of what we can do for evals in silico is still very open question existing stuff kind of works: we have proof of life for the ability of ai to accelerate bio but there is a long way to go it feels a lot like computer vision after imagenet or nlp after the first transformers started really working if your idea works, you might get to help improve the human condition. way cooler to talk about at parties than “we pushed benchmark X for chat model Y up by 3 point”

WARNING: Robotics is not for the faint of heart. There are no silver bullets here. It is tiresome, unglamorous, and at times brutal work. The only way out is through, and the way through is unknown. But on the other side awaits insatiable demand and unimaginable opportunity.

People often forget an exponential slope is flatter than a linear one at the beginning

One of the big changes in venture that Bennett and Kevin discussed is needing to understand a new type of founder -- researchers, which historically didn't always make for great founders but are obviously a huge part of the AI era. "You have to listen so carefully...every word from a great founder will have so much meaning and intention about what they're gonna build."

This is innovation. I’m taking my 9-9-6 to a 9-9-7 until the US has a comparable product offering.

Unitree Unveils: GD01, A Manned Transformable Mecha, from $650,000 👏 The world's first production-ready manned mecha. It can transform. It's a civilian vehicle. It weighs ~500kg with you inside. Please everyone be sure to use the robot in a Friendly and Safe manner.

networking is dead. but the art of bringing together cool people for cool events will never die. not enough people can actually bring together the top 1% that don’t usually go to events.

You guys aren't going to believe this (I had to double check it was real). Unitree has made an actual mecha like Gundam, the GD01.