Labib Tazwar Rahman

life shouldn’t be too simple. you need to be friction maxxing.
adjunct faculty @ stanford | cofounder @ voltai

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Pax Silica, one of the finest initiatives to drive multilateral alignment on securing the silicon supply chain, thanks to @jacobhelberg

Great to witness here in DC.

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@vsikka Congrats!

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@jubayer_hamid awesome blossom @jubayer_hamid and @ifdita_hasan

[Liam Donovan @LPDonovan]

I do not yet know what VOLTAI is or does but bless them.

[Rich Pluta @Rich_Pluta]

VOLTAI chartered a yacht for their happy hour at Reindustrialize. This is how you do it.

[RAISE Summit @RaiseSummit]

Designing a single advanced chip can take years, thousands of engineers and billions of dollars. Voltai is building AI to change that.

Congratulations to Voltai on being named one of the @wef 2026 Technology Pioneers, a cohort of 100 early-stage companies selected worldwide for their work at the frontier of technology across AI, energy, space, and biotechnology.

Founded out of a @Stanford AI research lab, Voltai develops AI models and agents that learn to design semiconductors and electronics, reasoning across hardware, software and manufacturing to push design beyond human limits.

It is a hard, foundational problem that sits beneath almost everything the AI era depends on, and one that will be explored under the Foundation Track at @RaiseSummit .

This recognition is well earned, and we are proud to have Voltai joining us as an Official Partner at RAISE Summit this July 8-9.

💡 Learn more about the 100 companies selected for the 2026 Technology Pioneers community: https://t.co/hl7rcT4ySW

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@zacharylipton @thinkymachines @OpenAI you’re my favorite shitposter on x this weekend

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@googrish congrats girish ying hang thariq and angel

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The difference between a billion and a trillion dollars is pretty much a trillion dollars.

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@landay @drfeifei Congratulations, James!

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if we truly want models to do scientific discovery, we have to train them to not repeatedly attempt known ideas but be *exploratory*. they must search over vastly diverse, performant strategies under optimism and creative leaps of faith.

@jubayer_hamid and i had a lot of fun chats when this was being conceptualized. glad it’s finally out. cc: @ifdita_hasan

our RL pipelines should incorporate this in frontier agent training.

[Jubayer Ibn Hamid @jubayer_hamid]

Exploration is the lifeblood of learning from experience. An agent must search broadly to uncover successful behaviors. It should continue exploring to expand its capabilities by learning distinct strategies to complex problems. Threading this needle between exploration and exploitation is critical for solving unsolved problems at test-time.

An algorithm should encourage (1) optimistically exploring reasoning strategies, and (2) achieving a synergy between exploration and exploitation. Towards that end, we develop Poly-EPO: a method for training LMs to explore and reason. Work with @ifdita_hasan (co-lead), Shreya, @ShirleyYXWu, @HengyuanH, @noahdgoodman, @DorsaSadigh, and @chelseabfinn. 🧵

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@heeney_luke math 175?

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@percyliang haha, congrats!

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@typesfast Sec Lutnick is a funny guy

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we’re in the middle of a Cambrian explosion of new RL algorithms. this excellent (and extremely timely) work unifies many of their desirable properties.

s/o to my childhood friend @fahimtajwar10 & team for setting a new direction in RLVR.

[Fahim Tajwar @FahimTajwar10]

Are we done with new RL algorithms? Turns out we might have been optimizing the wrong objective.

Introducing MaxRL, a framework to bring maximum likelihood optimization to RL settings.

Paper + code + project website: https://t.co/j9BCBF7K3R

🧵 1/n

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Link to our WSJ article: https://t.co/uLAsr5TlHg

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Announcing our $35 Billion Project Concord 🇺🇸🇰🇷

Excited to unveil Project Concord with our first project: a $35 billion “Living Data Center” in South Korea — where AI designs, optimizes, and orchestrates the full stack, from silicon to systems to the entire site.

Voltai is partnering with Stock Farm Road, an investor group founded by Brian Koo, the grandson of LG founder Koo In-hwoi, and Amin Badr-El-Din, founder of UAE Offsets Group, which spawned Mubadala, UAE’s sovereign wealth fund. Like Voltai, it also counts Alphabet Inc. (parent company of Google) Chairman John Hennessy as an advisor, alongside former Vice-President of the European Commission and Salesforce Board Member Neelie Kroes. Voltai and Stock Farm Road are the primary partners of Project Concord.

This initiative aligns with South Korea's push to scale AI infrastructure. President Lee Jae Myung just announced plans to triple government AI spending in next year's budget.

Project Concord marks the first time AI will serve as architect, manager, and operator of AI infrastructure that is fully vertically integrated, from silicon to rack to the whole facility.

We're building the playbook for how AI infrastructure scales for the future of AI.

News covered by The Wall Street Journal

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@AshwinRamaswami gg

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@laserboat999 clutter. picks up and drops off at your house albeit slightly $$. dm - happy to cover.