Dayne Tran

smarter, safer machines @AppliedInt. prev cs + econ @UCBerkeley.

[Dayne Tran @RealDayneTran]

@thorstenball @nbbaier Came here from your Substack post, is the vid on YouTube yet?

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Starting today, Waymo will begin offering their first paid robotaxi rides to the general public in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa.

This brings Waymo's coverage to 14 cities in the U.S. where they are providing riders fully autonomous trips.

[Applied Intuition @AppliedInt]

Think big. That’s always been a driving motivator for us, and now we have a partner to match our ambition. Today, we’re proud to announce Applied Intuition’s strategic collaboration with HUMAIN to deploy physical AI across Saudi Arabia, starting with autonomous trucking. This is a major step toward our goal of making a billion machines intelligent.

Together, we will deploy thousands of autonomous trucks throughout key Saudi logistics corridors by 2030. This will make it the largest autonomous trucking network in the world, and our Self-Driving System and Vehicle OS technology will be the centerpiece of this collaboration with HUMAIN.

This is physical AI at national scale.

https://t.co/bpQlsUjwvJ

[Dayne Tran @RealDayneTran]

@rauchg what’s the weekly exercise regiment for you?

[Dayne Tran @RealDayneTran]

hugeeee, can’t wait to get my hands on the reasoning model!

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

One brain. For any robot. 🤖

We’re launching Gemini Robotics 2: our next-generation physical AI bringing full body intelligence to humanoids, advanced dexterity, multi-robot teamwork and more.

[Dayne Tran @RealDayneTran]

This but we (WFMs) are still missing that fine-grained controllability…

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

Sometimes I look out over a body of water and think about pixel shaders — superimposed waveforms, fresnel effects, intra-pixel maximum finding and analytical anti-aliasing. In the age of gen-AI rendering, this is like the old mechanics working on WW2 era piston planes. A craft of a prior era.

[Qasar Younis @qasar]

For 9+ years we’ve been building simulators, data engines, data pipelines, scenario editors, RL environments, what's now world models... and dozens of other products.

Now we’ve connected them all under one agentic layer.

It is not just another harness but also the broader system to safely design, develop, and deploy Physical AI.

I continue to believe a modern, AI-first development environment is one of the biggest bottlenecks to putting intelligence on a billion machines.

Unsurprisingly, we’ve been using it internally for a while now and the impact has been profound in almost every measurable way.

As you might know, our old office was on the corner of Pioneer and Dana – and calling it Pioneer would be too cliche. Introducing Dana :)

https://t.co/DgaQFLyrKC

[Dayne Tran @RealDayneTran]

I'm thrilled to unveil our team's work in directing Dana agents to drive the next generation of sensor simulation and synthetic data generation!

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

https://t.co/Sx7CnsvujA

[Dayne Tran @RealDayneTran]

Watching an agent execute a plan feels like watching paint dry 😭

[Dayne Tran @RealDayneTran]

@GergelyOrosz Just don’t know if there’s customer pull for (2)

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The Trump Administration has struck a deal with Anthropic which grants the company permission to release its Mythos 5 model to a group of ~100 companies and federal agencies, per CNBC.

Details include:

1. Senior Anthropic staffers flew to Washington DC to meet with members of the Trump Administration

2. Anthropic said earlier this month that it disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to comply with an export control directive from the government

3. The Trump Administration and Anthropic have been in a two-week-long standoff over its latest models

This deal will have industry-wide implications.

[Dayne Tran @RealDayneTran]

@enjojoyy Nice! What are some options you like for your masters to focus on in those two years?

[Dayne Tran @RealDayneTran]

@unclebobmartin Is there an implicit assumption here that agents writes code for agents to review, not humans? If not and we want agents to write code for humans to review, then I feel that the standards should as close to 1:1 as possible.

[Dayne Tran @RealDayneTran]

@Neovim yes, but master can get crazy sometimes tho

[Dayne Tran @RealDayneTran]

@rauchg is this giving early bird or night owl?

[Dayne Tran @RealDayneTran]

👀👀👀

[Unreal Engine @UnrealEngine]

Unreal Engine 5.8 is now live!

Build your immersive worlds with advanced terrain tools, real-time vegetation workflows, and simplified lighting⛰️

Create characters and animations faster by capturing high-fidelity digital humans, and speed up content creation through the MCP plugin🧍

Take a look at what’s new: https://t.co/cDITLWWv2F

[Dayne Tran @RealDayneTran]

@moraes_c_ @github That’s def one way to fight the outages!

[Dayne Tran @RealDayneTran]

@sonofalli @nishimiya I think he’s just on-call, nothing special here 🥲

[Dayne Tran @RealDayneTran]

@SinaHartung Claude BOGO deals 😭

[Dayne Tran @RealDayneTran]

@gabepereyra @srush_nlp @harvey @cursor_ai We’re also conditioning powerful frontier models on the self driving side, with sensors and basic road data. It’s cool to see Harvey do this but take it a step further with producing your own models.