Jason Fox

Founder at Noumenal Labs. Building Physical AI.

[Jason Fox @JasonGFox]

@chr1sa Do any of those run on Jetson-class hardware (with the exception of Thor or high memory AGX)?

[Jason Fox @JasonGFox]

@leothecurious Damn. The working title of our new paper is LeWHAM. I think we'll change it.

[Jason Fox @JasonGFox]

@burny_tech AGF? Artificial general fusion?

[Jason Fox @JasonGFox]

Excited to share these early results in which we combine our harness with a VLA and a frontier model to resolve tasks without the latency and cost of relying on it completely. We have more in the works on this front, so follow @noumenal_labs and stay tuned!

[Patrick Huembeli @PHuembeli]

LLMs can drive robot arms now. So why don’t you just ask Astra?

On the same task, same robot, the LLM alone needs ~120 calls and 22 minutes. π0.5 with our harness needs 3.5 calls and under 2 minutes. π0.5 alone fails.

A thread about what we have done @noumenal_labs

[Jason Fox @JasonGFox]

@bayeslord beliefs I don't like or agree with

[Jason Fox @JasonGFox]

What a great day. Amazing companies building real robotics products for agriculture, sharing their experiences with the industry. We need more of this. @bernsteinres and @reservoirfarms are clearly onto something special here. Looking forward to next year!

[Danny Bernstein @bernsteinres]

6AM of Ruggedize. Quiet for another hour.

Soon the farm fills and ANYTHING in agriculture starts to feel possible. Resilience feels possible. Automation feels possible. Upskilling feels possible. Cutting the chemicals we put in the ground feels possible.

Thank you to our new community, and to the Reservoirians and partners who built this.

cc @westerngrowers @johndeere @reservoirfarms

[Jason Fox @JasonGFox]

All of this

[arian ghashghai @arian_ghashghai]

imo if you're starting a robotics company and you're not taking a straight shot at either 1) owning the hardware or 2) owning the labor (or ofc owning both), you're pretty cooked from day 0

software-only dev tool type products: 1) solve mostly pretty menial, low-pri problems for companies actually trying to deploy hardware (but they sound cool!) 2) have a smaller addressable market today than the robotics hype train wants you to believe, and in practice you'll end up having to sell to more "old school" big manufacturers to get your business to work (which comes with it's own problems / unlikely to work from an ivory tower in SF)

[Jason Fox @JasonGFox]

@Trace_Cohen One likely downstream effect is that the pool of amazing serial founders that execute, exit and re-invest into the venture ecosystem will shrink, not grow, without a new class every few years. Many of them start with smaller upside companies.

[Gill Verdon @GillVerd]

the first demo of thermo robot brains ever?

[Gill Verdon @GillVerd]

Our friends @noumenal_labs strapped an XTR-0 to an agriculture bot and used it as the brains 😁

Not how I imagine how people would use the desktop form factor but very cool!

This is why we are creating Z1 m.2 sticks, which will be far more compact and 100k× more pbits than X0

[Jason Fox @JasonGFox]

Very important updates from @extropic. Their hardware will open up a host of sampling-based control routines for Physical AI and we’re here for it!

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Major update from us @extropic

Announcing Torx and Thermalizers, basically our version of PyTorch + kernels, but for Thermo hardware

Also: Z1 is now taped out and in fabrication! Will be available on 0.5M pbit sticks, and 4M pbit PCIe cards

+1 more thing at the end... enjoy!

[Jason Fox @JasonGFox]

This was fun little detour from a build out with @PHuembeli. To my knowledge, the first robot in the world with thermodynamic hardware in its control loop. Powered by @extropic.

[Jason Fox @JasonGFox]

@JasonrShuman Legs are useful in environments built around humans and that can’t change. Autonomous factories in the future won’t have this constraint, so wheels win in terms is speed, efficiency, stability and cost.

[Jason Fox @JasonGFox]

@ID_AA_Carmack but was it load-bearing?

[Jason Fox @JasonGFox]

@JasonrShuman It’s a great strategy for getting your product out there doing real work and kicking off the virtuous cycle of data collection -> model improvement. Deployed robots are the internet of Physical AI.

[Jason Fox @JasonGFox]

@jrpowers @jamesoniam @drivewithchip I came in to same the same. Looks great 👍

[Jason Fox @JasonGFox]

@michellelsun Deployed robots == the internet for Physical AI. We believe the best pipelines will be fed with real-world data collected on deployed robots. We're building a deployment & data collection platform that powers our own robots today with broader community deployment later this year.

[Jason Fox @JasonGFox]

@zanehengsperger Love this and honestly, I don't believe upcoming generations will have a choice (including my kids). The white-collared bloat of the past 30+ years will systematically be erased by those who build.

[Jason Fox @JasonGFox]

@claudeai Cat's out of the bag. To remain competitive, just leave it as a part of paid subscriber plans going forward.