ryan williams

2 x founder - builder - technologist- contrarian thinker-Ai pilled

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Tesla’s Model Y Robotaxis caused zero crashes or accidents from mid-June through mid-July, according to newly released NHTSA data.

The only two incidents cited involving @Tesla’s Robotaxi fleet were caused by human drivers in other vehicles making mistakes:
• Incident #1 summary (in Dallas): The robotaxi was stopped at an intersection on a four-lane street in Lane #1, at a red left arrow light in the left-turn-only lane. An SUV behind the robotaxi activated their right turn signal and initiated a lane change into Lane #2, a straight-through lane, and collided with the left side of a passenger vehicle that was proceeding straight in Lane #2, before colliding with the right side of the robotaxi. There were no passengers.

• Incident #2 summary (in Austin): The robotaxi was pulled over and in park on the right side of an alleyway. A passenger vehicle that was parked to the right reversed and collided with the right side of the robotaxi. There were no passengers.

[ryan williams @Better_With_AI]

@Jason This will get him on ALL in for sure - he looks as good as @chamath in LP 🤣

[ryan williams @Better_With_AI]

@Jason @twistartups Frontier compute used to live in a handful of zip codes. A single Chennai cluster just put 5 million Indian developers in the room.

[ryan williams @Better_With_AI]

10,000 NVIDIA GPUs in one cluster, up to $1.57 billion. L&T is building India's largest AI facility in Chennai for Together AI, opening frontier compute to 5M developers. cc @Jason @TWiStartups. Which country leapfrogs next? #BetterWithAI #positiveAi #StopNegativeAINews #AI

[ryan williams @Better_With_AI]

@Jason @twistartups @arstechnica A billion people now carry an AI assistant, and most just talk to it. That is how new tech becomes normal.

[ryan williams @Better_With_AI]

1 billion people now use Gemini every month, the fastest ramp of any Google product ever. 63% talk to it by voice and it makes 150 million images a day. cc @Jason @TWiStartups via @arstechnica. What does this unlock next? #BetterWithAI #positiveAi #StopNegativeAINews #AI

[ryan williams @Better_With_AI]

@Jason @twistartups @Waymo A robotaxi fleet went from 700 cars to 4,000 in 18 months, and riders barely notice anymore. That is the milestone: driverless is becoming ordinary transit.

[ryan williams @Better_With_AI]

700 driverless cars to almost 4,000 in 18 months. Waymo now runs in 15 US cities, half a million paid rides a week, 94% fewer serious injury crashes. cc @Jason @TWiStartups @Waymo. Which city tests this first? #BetterWithAI #positiveAi #StopNegativeAINews #Automotive

[ryan williams @Better_With_AI]

@Jason @twistartups @GoogleDeepMind A robot hitting 92% on a task that needs its whole body is not a demo anymore. The quiet shift is software learning bodies the way it learned language.

[ryan williams @Better_With_AI]

One AI model now runs a humanoid robot from feet to fingertips, hitting 92% on a full-body task and learning new machines in hours. cc @Jason @TWiStartups via @GoogleDeepMind. Which industry sees this first? #BetterWithAI #positiveAi #StopNegativeAINews #Robotics

[ryan williams @Better_With_AI]

@Jason @twistartups @GoogleDeepMind An extra 24 hours of hurricane warning is the difference between evacuation and catastrophe. Open sourcing it hands that day to every coastline, not just the rich ones.

[ryan williams @Better_With_AI]

Hurricane forecasters just gained an extra day of warning. DeepMind's WeatherNext is now open source, free for every weather agency on Earth. Which country deploys this fastest? cc @Jason @TWiStartups @GoogleDeepMind #BetterWithAI #positiveAi #StopNegativeAINews #Climate

[ryan williams @Better_With_AI]

@Jason @twistartups @wayve_ai 100,000 riders signed up before the first robotaxi ever picked anyone up in London. Demand for autonomy arrived before the cars did.

[ryan williams @Better_With_AI]

100,000 Londoners are already in line for a self-driving cab. TfL just licensed Wayve robotaxis for Uber, supervised rides start this summer. cc @Jason @TWiStartups @wayve_ai Which city is next? #BetterWithAI #positiveAi #StopNegativeAINews #AutonomousDriving

[ryan williams @Better_With_AI]

@Jason @twistartups The hard part of self driving was never the highway, it was the crosswalk. An 11.5 tonne truck clearing city intersections means the technology just left the lab.

[ryan williams @Better_With_AI]

An 11.5 tonne truck with no driver starts hauling parcels through Daegu city intersections this October. A world first from CJ Logistics and startup Mars Auto. cc @Jason @TWiStartups. Which city tests this first? #BetterWithAI #positiveAi #StopNegativeAINews #AutonomousDriving

[ryan williams @Better_With_AI]

@Jason @twistartups @TechCrunch Twelve years building a vehicle with no driver's seat, and it arrives priced like a regular ride. That's the milestone: when radical tech shows up feeling ordinary.

[ryan williams @Better_With_AI]

Your next Vegas ride might have no steering wheel. Zoox starts charging Aug 10, first paid rides ever in a vehicle with no driver's seat. cc @Jason @TWiStartups via @TechCrunch

Which city tests this first?

#BetterWithAI #positiveAi #StopNegativeAINews #AutonomousDriving

[ryan williams @Better_With_AI]

@Jason @twistartups @Waymo Nearly 150,000 riders later, a whole city hailing driverless cars is just Tuesday in Dallas. The miracle phase of autonomy is quietly ending.

[ryan williams @Better_With_AI]

Nearly 150,000 riders later, Dallas just dropped the Waymo waitlist. Anyone there can now hail a driverless ride, and 20+ new cities are queued for 2026. cc @Jason @TWiStartups @Waymo

Which city tests this first?

#BetterWithAI #positiveAi #StopNegativeAINews #AutonomousDriving