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!

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

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

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

Excited to share: Figure has signed our 2nd commercial customer

We now see potential of shipping 100,000 humanoid robots

Next steps 🧵 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

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

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

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

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

https://x.com/polynoamial/status/1870172996650053653?s=46

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

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

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: @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

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

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

https://x.com/Microsoft/status/1859680156052312318/video/1

UPDATE: Figure x BMW

Figure 02 is now an autonomous fleet, 400% faster with 7x higher success rate

We’re committed to delivering millions of useful robots to companies and homes worldwide

Details in thread: As background, we unveiled Figure 02 robot ~3 months ago

F.02 robot is our 2nd generation humanoid robot which is designed for commercial customers and the home

Humanoid robots in everyday life will make it feel like living 30yrs in the future

Another huge week of AI and robotics news.

I summarized everything announced by OpenAI, Stanford, Anthropic, Figure, John Hopkins, DEEP Robotics, Stripe, Nous, Google, MIT, NVIDIA, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: ChatGPT can now access some desktop apps

OpenAI released desktop app integration for ChatGPT on macOS, allowing Plus and Team users to connect with VS Code, Xcode and Terminal apps

Enterprise and Education users will get access in the coming weeks

It was a huge week of AI and robotics news.

So I summarized everything announced by Nvidia, XPENG, OpenAI, Hume, CMU Robotics, Microsoft, Anthropic, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Nvidia unveiled new updates to Project GR00T, it's comprehensive humanoid robot development suite

It includes environment generation with 2,500+ 3D assets, motion learning, and advanced dexterity training

All trained in sim, deployable to real robots

Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week.

Big developments from Etched, Runway, Figure, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Boston Dynamics, ElevenLabs, Osmo, Physical Intelligence, Meta, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Etched and DecartAI introduced Oasis, which is the first playable fully AI-generated game (Minecraft)

They built a real-time, interactive world model and open-sourced the architecture, weights, and research

Most of the internet will be AI-generated soon

https://x.com/Etched/status/1852089772329869436

It was a huge week of AI and robotics news.

So I summarized everything announced by Anthropic, Ideogram, Figure, Genmo, Runway, Microsoft, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, UCLA, Apple, Clone Robotics, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Anthropic announced Claude can now use computers through direct screen interaction (in public beta)

The AI model can move cursors, click, and type by analyzing screenshots - reaching 14.9% on OSWorld benchmarks, double the next-best AI model

Significant progress in AI and Robotics this week.

Big developments from Archetype AI, NVIDIA, Boston Dynamic, Toyota Research, Google, Adobe, OpenAI, Mistral, Tesla, Meta, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Archetype AI published a new paper demonstrating how an AI model can encode and predict physical behaviours.

Newton, the startup's ‘Large Behavior Model’, can learn complex physics principles directly from raw sensor data, without any human guidance.

It was a huge week of AI and robotics news.

So I summarized everything announced by Meta, Harvard, Engineered Arts, Tesla, Leju Robotics, OpenAI, Zoom, Agility Robotics, and Amazon.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it: Meta unveiled Movie Gen, calling it the "most advanced media foundation models to to-date."

Movie Gen Video generates high-quality images and videos from text.

Movie Gen Audio adds high-fidelity audio synced to the video.