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Founder @Figure_robot (AI Robots), @Cover_thz (Weapon Detection), @ArcherAviation (NYSE: ACHR), Vettery ($100M Exit)
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Mar 30 15 tweets 6 min read
Another huge week of AI and robotics news.

So, I summarized everything from Google, OpenAI, Figure, Qwen, Ideogram, Reve, Microsoft, Perplexity, Tencent, DeepSeek, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Google released its most intelligent AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental

The new thinking model ranks #1 on the LMArena and delivers SOTA performance across coding, math, science, and more

Also supports visual reasoning with a 1M token context window
Mar 23 16 tweets 6 min read
Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week.

So, I summarized everything from Nvidia, Anthropic, OpenAI, Baidu, xAI, Mistral, Roblox, Google, Boston Dynamics and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: At GTC 2025, Nvidia announced:

—DGX Spark: The world's smallest AI computer with 128GB memory
—DGX Station: 20 petaflops with 72 CPU cores for data scientists & researchers
—Next-gen GPUs: Blackwell Ultra (2025), Vera Rubin (2026-27), and Feynman (2028)
Mar 16 18 tweets 7 min read
Another huge week of AI and robotics news.

So, I summarized everything from Google, OpenAI, Figure, Scout AI, Reka, Vexa Robotics, UCSF, Tencent, Dobot, Luma Labs, and more

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Google dropped two AI models to advance robotics with interactivity, dexterity, and generalization:

—Gemini Robotics, a VLA model, handles unfamiliar tasks like spelling words with scrabble tiles
—Gemini Robotics ER brings enhanced spatial reasoning
Mar 15 5 tweets 2 min read
Today I'm excited to introduce: BotQ

BotQ, Figure's manufacturing facility, is the highest volume humanoid production line in the world

Initially designed to produce 12,000 robots/year, it will scale to support a fleet of 100,000
The Figure hardware & manufacturing team has been hard at work designing this for the last 8 months

We’ve integrated automation and high-volume manufacturing techniques to design a high-rate production line

This is hardcore engineering at its finest
Mar 9 17 tweets 6 min read
Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week.

So, I summarized everything from Microsoft, Manus, Boston Dynamics, Anthropic, Perplexity, Cortical Labs, Sanctuary AI, Alibaba, ASLP Labs, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Microsoft launched 'Dragon Copilot', an AI assistant for healthcare

It merges voice dictation with ambient listening to handle clinical documentation and surface relevant information

They're claiming it's already saving clinicians ~5 min/patient
Mar 2 18 tweets 7 min read
Another huge week of AI and robotics news.

So, I summarized everything from Figure, OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Physical Intelligence, Apptronik, Georgia Tech, Inception Labs, Nomagic, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: With our in-house end-to-end robotics AI Helix, Figure enabled its second customer use case (logistics-focused) in just 30 days

We also announced sport mode, which boosts execution speed by 50%
Feb 23 18 tweets 7 min read
Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week.

So, I summarized everything from Figure, xAI, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Meta, Clone Robotics, Perplexity, Humane, Stanford, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: First, a quick update on these threads:

Starting today, I’ll be excluding all robot updates that are TeleOperated by a human with the intention of tricking you it’s autonomous

It's misleading for the general public and not fair to those making real end-to-end progress
Feb 20 10 tweets 4 min read
Introducing Helix, our newest AI that thinks like a human

To bring robots into homes, we need a step change in capabilities

Helix can generalize to any household item 🧵
We've been working on this project for over a year, aiming to solve general robotics

Like a human, Helix understands speech, reasons through problems, and can grasp any object - all without needing training or code

In testing, Helix can grab almost any household object!
Feb 16 17 tweets 7 min read
Another big week of AI and Robotics news.

So, I summarized everything announced by Booster Robotics, Adobe, OpenAI, Figure, ByteDance, Google, Perplexity, Apptronik, Humanoid, Mentee Robotics, and more

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: China's Booster Robotics shared its T1 robot's shock test

The 4ft-tall T1 can be seen moving unfaltered after hammer, bottle, and wooden stick blows

They use high-strength metal and plastic to withstand impact here
Feb 9 15 tweets 6 min read
Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week.

So, I summarized everything from Nvidia, OpenAI, ByteDance, Google, Figure, Mistral, Replit, Borg, Apple, Meta, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Nvidia and Carnegie Mellon researchers debuted ASAP, an AI framework that lets humanoids learn complex moves from simulations

In tests, ASAP enabled Unitree G1 to recreate APT dance and iconic moves of LeBron James and Cristiano Ronaldo
Feb 2 16 tweets 6 min read
Tons of AI and robotics news this week.

So I summarized everything from DeepSeek, OpenAI, Figure, Unitree, Google, Microsoft, BridgeP, Alibaba, Mistral, Meta, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Chinese startup DeepSeek dropped an open-source image-generation model, Janus-Pro

It tops DALL-E 3 and StabIe Diffusion in image quality and accuracy benchmarks

Another big move for open source, regardless of the R1 controversy
Jan 30 7 tweets 2 min read
Excited to share: Figure has signed our 2nd commercial customer

We now see potential of shipping 100,000 humanoid robots

Next steps 🧵 Image We have 2 focuses internally: Commercial Market & the Home

On the commercial side, our strategy is to stay focused on a small number of clients

Early on, it’s more efficient for us to grow vertically within a few clients than to spread out across many
Jan 26 14 tweets 5 min read
Huge week of AI and robotics news.

So I summarized everything announced by OpenAI, DeepSeek, Google, Perplexity, Deep Robotics, Lumos Robotics, Unitree, ByteDance and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: OpenAI launched Operator, an AI agent that uses the web to complete everyday tasks

It uses 4o's vision with advanced reasoning and is available as part of ChatGPT's $200/mo Pro plan

OpenAI's first big step in the agentic era
Jan 19 13 tweets 6 min read
A ton of great progress in AI and Robotics this week.

I summarized everything from Unitree, OpenAI, Mirror Me, Microsoft, Physical Intelligence, Luma, Sakana AI and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Unitree upgraded its G1 Bionic humanoid with agility and stability

It can now move smoothly and run on various surfaces, including uphill/downhill tracks, stony paths and stairs
Jan 12 13 tweets 5 min read
Tons of AI and robotics news this week.

So I summarized everything from EngineAI, Adobe, Samsung, Microsoft, NeuroXess, Cover, xAI, and Nvidia at CES 2025.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Chinese robotics firm EngineAI posted new footage of its SE01 humanoid walking outside the company’s office in Shenzhen

Many thought this video was CGI at first - but it was confirmed to be real by a few reliable sources
Dec 22, 2024 16 tweets 6 min read
So much progress made in AI and Robotics this week.

As usual, I summarized everything announced by OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Genesis, Figure, Stanford, Apptronik, Nvidia, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: OpenAI announced 'o3', the next iteration of o1 that surpasses it across all benchmarks

Pretty incredible to see o3 topping 85% on the ARC-AGI benchmark

It's currently only available in preview to safety and security researchers Image
Dec 15, 2024 18 tweets 6 min read
Another huge week of AI and robotics news.

I summarized everything announced by OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Microsoft, Figure, Cognition, GM, Midjourney, Tesla, Replit, and Meta.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: OpenAI officially launched Sora, the startup's high-quality AI video generation model

ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers can access through sora .com

It also comes with several new editing features like Remix, Storyboard, Blend, Loop, and Style presets
Dec 8, 2024 20 tweets 7 min read
What a week for AI and Robotics.

As usual, I summarized everything announced by OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Amazon, Microsoft AI, Tencent, ElevenLabs, Meta, xAI, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: OpenAI announced the immediate launch of their latest o1 and o1 pro reasoning models on day 1 of 'shipmas'

They also introduced a new $200/month Pro tier with unlimited access to their existing model fleet and 01-pro
Dec 7, 2024 9 tweets 3 min read
Last year, I started an AI security company called Cover

Our AI hardware detects guns underneath clothes and bags

And I’m currently funding $10M into it

Here’s why this technology is critical and a 12-month update: Image @cover_thz Company Overview:

Cover is designing concealed weapon detection imaging scanners, similar to airport scanners, but with 10x higher frequencies and up to 4-meter stand-off distances

It’s as safe for human bodies as home Wi-Fi Image
Dec 1, 2024 13 tweets 5 min read
It was a huge week of AI and robotics news.

So I summarized everything announced by Anthropic, Amazon, Luma, Runway, Tesla, Neuralink, dev/agents, Nvidia, Zoom, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Anthropic released Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting AI systems to external tools + data

The system includes pre-built connectors for popular platforms, allowing for access to multiple sources through a unified protocol
Nov 24, 2024 15 tweets 6 min read
A ton of great progress made in AI and Robotics this week.

So I summarized everything announced by Microsoft, Figure, H Company, OpenAI, Perplexity, MIT, Arc Research, Mistral, and Google.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Microsoft introduced a suite of new specialized AI agents for Microsoft 365 at its annual Ignite Conference

New agents include a Self-Service agent for HR / IT tasks, a SharePoint agent for document search and insights, a meeting note taker, and a few more