@Tesla FSD keeps getting closer to "it just drives." I run humanoid robots at events and the bar is the same: boring reliability. The moment a technology stops being impressive and starts being trusted is the moment it becomes infrastructure.
@UnitreeRobotics Open-sourcing the embodied foundation model is the real story here. For someone like me learning to actually build robots, hardware keeps getting cheaper — the software brain has been the bottleneck. SOTA open weights for humanoids changes who gets to build.
@Figure_robot 4 hours of zero-shot work across 30 different homes is the stat that matters most to me. I rent humanoids for events — every venue is a new "home" with different floors, lighting, and curious kids. Zero-shot reliability is the difference between a product and a demo.
3/3 The lesson for a 25-year-old trying to build in this space: don't marry a model, marry the problem. Weights keep getting cheaper and swappable. The value stacks up in the loop — deployment, feedback, the last mile to the user. Own the loop.
1/3 The biggest AI story this week isn't a new model — it's Elon saying the model doesn't matter. Grok @Bot will now route to whichever backend is best: Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno. The frontier lab just admitted the weights are a commodity.
2/3 Frontline view: my event robots already work this way. One model handles vision, another handles crowd banter, a third keeps the music in sync. No guest has ever asked which weights are running — they ask if the robot can keep the beat.
@elonmusk@bot Model-agnostic is the quietest big shift in AI this year. My event scripts already route each job to whatever handles it best, and no audience member has ever asked which weights are running. The moat was never the model — it's the loop around it.
@elonmusk I run humanoid robots at live events and our #1 enemy is venue Wi-Fi — a dead zone turns a $100k robot into a statue. Affordable satellite internet that reaches remote places means the show goes on anywhere. Connectivity is the unsung robot infrastructure.