David Hirsch

Runway 🤝 Vera Rubin Excited to continue working with @nvidia on frontier models and frontier compute

Uber, @wayve_ai and @Nissan have announced a new collaboration to launch robotaxis in Tokyo beginning later this year. The future of mobility is here with the new Nissan LEAF, and it's going to be safety-first from the start. 🇯🇵

Nissan, Uber, and Wayve will collaborate to develop robotaxis, with a pilot program using Nissan Leaf EVs planned for Tokyo by late 2026 reut.rs/4b8SLAE

@danprimack @JoshKadden Feels like "islamaphobia". Good news, 2 empty seats for diner tonight at Gracie mansion.

Wayve, @Uber and @NissanMotor have signed an agreement to collaborate on the development and deployment of robotaxi services. Work will now begin on planning a pilot deployment in Tokyo for late 2026, using the Nissan LEAF powered by the Wayve AI Driver, and available to riders through Uber. Read the full announcement 👇 wayve.ai/press/wayve-ni…

Announcing our collaboration with @Qualcomm to integrate @wayve_ai with Snapdragon Ride™ platform. This brings our end-to-end embodied AI driving intelligence together with a mature, safety-certified automotive compute stack, ready for automakers around the world. Excited to partner with @cristianoamon, @nakulduggal, @anshuman_saxena 🙌 More details here: wayve.ai/press/qualcomm…

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“Autonomy for everyone, everywhere. Wayve will deploy in 100 cities, not one.” That was literally the opening line of our first investor deck. You can read it in my new blog below. When we started @wayve_ai in 2017, few thought this would ever be possible. After securing $1.5 billion in new capital last week, it feels within reach. A contrarian approach has always been part of Wayve’s DNA. From day one, we chose to face the hardest problems head-on. We focused on teaching an AI system to make safe decisions in the open world without relying on expensive hardware and rule-based systems. We pioneered end-to-end learning when it was widely dismissed. We prioritised generalization over optimisation in a single domain. We started in dense urban environments like London. Why? Because it forced us to be novel, ambitious, and persistent - traits that are guiding principles of Wayve to this day. These technical decisions have now enabled us to take a contrarian approach to our business model. It is one that is vehicle-agnostic, built for scale. Importantly, it is one that means our total addressable market is different by orders of magnitude to those who choose to tie autonomy to their own cars or robotaxi fleets. This latest funding is a huge validation of our contrarian approach, with major investors, global automakers and technology partners backing deployment of our AI driver and acceleration towards our next phase of firsts: 🥇 to integrate autonomy into OEM production vehicles without retrofitting hardware 🥇 to deploy autonomy with multiple global OEM partners at the same time 🥇 to generalise autonomy across different sensor and computing architectures 🥇 to deploy robotaxi services in multiple countries 🥇 to deploy autonomy in 100 cities These firsts shape Wayve’s vision for the next decade. Autonomy for any vehicle, anywhere. Read more in my new blog: wayve.ai/thinking/the-p…

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@shaunmmaguire @Mr_Andrew_Fox Good thing we enabled him w proper medical attention when needed :)

@Mr_Andrew_Fox Sinwar: Brave as a lion Dumb as a brick

Behold. The worst military strategist in modern history. The man whose decision to launch 7th October led to the destruction of Gaza, the shredding of Hezbollah, the fall of Assad, and now maybe the fall of the Iranian regime.

@MiSunKw @c_valenzuelab @agermanidis Congratulations @MiSunKw

I’ve had the immense privilege of working closely with @c_valenzuelab, @agermanidis, and Alejandro the last 5 years. I’ve also gotten the chance to wear many hats over that period, now as COO. Since I started at Runway, my focus has always been on the 1 or 2 core priorities the business is facing at that point in time. Today, that focus is on the Enterprise. In order to meet the immense demand we’ve see on the commercial side of the business, we’re looking to scale up our GTM and Enterpise teams. We’re hiring for Sales, BDRs, Deployment, Partnerships, and API. The best time to have joined @runwayml was 5 years ago. The second best time is now. Check out runwayml.com/careers to learn more.

slide from our last AGM this will only accelerate and increasingly execution will be the defining factor that determines who wins (hint: many of the names below will never again make a new ath)

Congratulations @alexgkendall & whole @wayve_ai team. Now the fun and hard part bringing Wayve tech everywhere... agnostic of vehicle type. Reminds me of old school @BASF ad campaign. "we don't make a lot of the products you buy. We make a lot of the products you buy better." Excited for autonomy ubiquity !!

New Post: The Fickleness of Scaling Laws Nothing has defined tech in the last 5yrs. "Bigger = better" was applied to every field possible But very few other teams in any other field has demonstrated them. And almost no one actually knows what drives them and their preconditions

I learned early at @CompoundVC to give @mhdempsey ball control and get out of his way. This talk led by Dan Nathan @RiskReversal will give you a glimpse on how we see the world and build financial product around that future . open.spotify.com/episode/7GNgT8…

Introducing Lab: A full-stack platform for training your own agentic models Build, evaluate and train on your own environments at scale without managing the underlying infrastructure. Giving everyone their own frontier AI lab.

Congratulations cris and team !! Excited for what's to come

@tmrohan Show me your incentives and I'll tell you your outcome

VCs earn more with a $1B fund that returns 2x (poor) than a $200m fund that does a 5x (exceptional). That is the root of everything that is wrong with VC today.

Life relationship coach @mhdempsey "The gap between knowing the current thing is broken and not yet seeing the next thing clearly is where a lot of talented people are sitting right now, somewhat frozen...... You can feel the old thing losing its pull before the new thing has revealed itself"

"The capital you take becomes a statement about who you are, and people will start to treat it that way"